Anastasia Mann is a historian of the 20th-Century US (PhD, Northwestern, 2003). Her work – teaching, writing, service and organizing -- has two main dimensions: understanding how structural forces manifest opportunity for some communities while building roadblocks for others and what we can learn from and about the creative and energetic community-led movements that challenge such structures.
At Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, Mann is the Inaugural Director of SPIA in NJ. This transdisciplinary project operates at the lively intersection of academia and public service. Under its auspices, students and faculty join together with policymakers, advocates, analysts, and elected officials to conduct research and highlight best practices consistent with multi-racial democracy.
Mann is also Lecturer at the Lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs where her teaching focuses on the (historic and ongoing) harm of racialized capitalism and explores promising inroads – through tax and budget, mutual aid and reparations – for transitional justice in the US and beyond. She is Faculty Fellow with the Service Focus project of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement where for three years she has worked with students on the theme of Race, Migration and Belonging.
Mann is a member of Solidaridad and Princeton Mutual Aid. She serves on the board of directors of New Jersey Policy Perspective. For fun, she reads, hikes, gardens, and bakes.
