Mab Segrest, professor emeritus of gender and women’s studies at Connecticut College, is the author of the soon-forthcoming Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum and 1994’s Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, reprinted in 2019 with a new introduction and afterword (both volumes from The New Press). A longtime activist in social justice movements and a past fellow at the National Humanities Center, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.
