The African American Intellectual History Society has launched a new academic journal, Global Black Thought. The journal will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press and led by editor-in-chief Keisha N. Blain of Brown University.
Global Black Thought is dedicated to the study of Black intellectual tradition. It aims to publish original, innovative, and thoroughly researched essays on Black ideas, theories, and intellectuals authored by a wide-range of scholars, historians, and social scientists in the United States and throughout the African diaspora. Global Black Thought is overseen by an editorial board of more than 30 experts from around the world.
A Brown faculty member since 2022, Dr. Blain currently serves as a professor of Africana studies and history, as well as an affiliate faculty member in American studies and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. A former columnist for MSNBC, she has published several books, including the best-selling Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (One World, 2021). Her next book, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights, is set for publication by W. W. Norton & Company in September 2025.
Before joining the Brown faculty, Dr. Blaine taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Pittsburgh. A magna cum laude graduate of Binghamton University in New York, she holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in New Jersey.
