About

Andrew Curran is a fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques.  He has received grants and fellowships from the French Government, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). His most recent fellowship is an NEH public scholarship fellowship for his biography on Denis Diderot. 

Professor Andrew Curran received the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ James L. Clifford Prize for best article (2011) and an NEH Public Scholars award (2016). An ardent humanist, Professor Curran has a deep admiration for the thinkers of the French Enlightenment and much like Diderot, upholds that skepticism is the first step toward truth.  He also believes that studying the great minds and lives of the past can help improve and enrich the lives of people in the present.

Born in Long Island and raised in Queens, Professor Curran has spent many years in France. Today, he and his wife Jen reside in Connecticut with their two children.