Anastasia Mann

Anastasia Mann is a historian of the 20th-Century United States. Mann’s work focuses on 1) structural forces that manifest opportunity for some while creating roadblocks for others and 2) the community-led movements that have, since the nation’s founding, sought to expand the American creed “of, by, and for” the people. At Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), Mann is the Inaugural Director of SPIA in NJ, a transdisciplinary project operating at the lively intersection of campus and public service. Projects include the Garden State Fellowship, the Second Chance project, an annual Policy Collab with the New Jersey Policy Lab at Rutgers, and numerous research and service initiatives with partners statewide. Mann is also a Lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. Mann’s career spans academia (Northwestern, Princeton, and Rutgers), research-driven nonprofits (the Russell Sage Foundation, New Jersey Policy Perspective), and the civic sphere (Princeton’s Human Services and Civil Rights Commissions, and the New Jersey Commission on New Americans). Her publications include contributions to The Encyclopedia of Working Class America, Flunking Out: New Jersey’s Support for Public Higher Education Falls Short, Garden State Dreams: In-State Tuition for Undocumented Kids, and Middlesex County, New Jersey: Crossroads of the World. At Rutgers, she served as Director of the Eagleton Program on Immigration and Democracy and received her doctoral degree from Northwestern. A member of Princeton Mutual Aid, Mann serves on the boards of directors of New Jersey Policy Perspective and The Fund for New Jersey. For fun, she hangs out with her friends and family, reads fiction, hikes, and bakes.