Shaun Armstead is a multidisciplinary historian of 20th-century Black women’s international activism. She completed her dissertation at Rutgers University-New Brunswick on the National Council of Negro Women, one of the largest African American women’s organizations in the twentieth century, and their collaborations with South Asian, African, and other African-descended women to realize a more just world. Her book project,  Imagined Solidarities: Black Liberal Internationalism and the National Council of Negro Women’s Journey from Afro-Asian to Pan-African Unity, 1935 to 1975, is under advance contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and Brown University. Armstead has also received funding offers from the American Council of Learned Studies and the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. She is currently the vice president of the African American Intellectual History Society and an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.