• Anna Duensing
  • Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies
  • School: UVA—Charlottesville
  • Anna Duensing is a historian who specializes in African American history, transnational social movements, and the evolving global politics of white supremacy in the twentieth century. She received her Ph.D. in history and African American studies and a master’s certificate in public humanities from Yale University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia, where she is working on her first book, Fascism Is Already Here: Civil Rights and the Making of a Black Antifascist Tradition.
    Abstract: “‘We Should Have Had a 'Nuernberg' After the Civil War’: Black American Holocaust Reckoning and the Evolving Politics of Analogy, 1945-1951

  • Person Type: Panelists