Professor Curry holds a Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Curry was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and an Affiliate Professor in the Program in Africana Studies at Texas A&M University.  

Professor Curry integrated testimonies from the Visual History Archive into his graduate seminar on Black male death and dying. He spent his week of residency at the Center exploring testimonies related to sexual violence against men and boys during the Holocaust and Armenian genocides. Curry discovered that while men are usually thought to be only targeted for death during genocide, the testimonies reveal that sexual violence plays a substantial role in their oppression as well. He plans to introduce these testimonies in his class when discussing the sexualization and sexual abuse of black men and boys during slavery and the Jim Crow era. “They're heartbreaking stories. It's tragic,” Curry said. “But at the same time, they’re stories that I think deserve to be heard so we can have accounts that give a broader scope of genocidal violence (against men) beyond simply the extermination of men and boys.”