Kristin Waters is professor emerita at Worcester State University and resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She is author of Women and Men Political Theorists: Enlightened Conversations and coeditor of Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, which received the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. This award-winning book was also named to the list of 50 Recommended Reads on Black Feminism (https://blackfeminisms.com/books-black-feminism/). She also curated the exhibition Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Rare Book Collection at Bard College, which was incorporated into a permanent online exhibition and teaching resource on the following website: http://omekalib.bard.edu/exhibits/show/abolition-resistance--works-fr.
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