Carleton Opening Convo with Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson | September 11, 2023

Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson is the Michael and Denise Kellen ’68 Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Her research focuses on slavery and abolitionists, violence as a political discourse, historical film, and Black women’s history. Most recently, she has written and spoken on political threats to academic freedom. She is the author of the award-winning book Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, which won the James Broussard Best First Book Prize, was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the Museum of African American History Stone Book Prize, and was listed among 13 books to read on African American History by the Washington Post. Her essays have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, among many others. She has also been featured in Apple TV’s highly acclaimed docuseries Lincoln’s Dilemma as well as other documentaries for Netflix, MSNBC, and PBS. She is the host and executive producer of You Get a Podcast! The Unauthorized Study of the Queen of Talk and co-host of the Radiotopia podcast This Day in Esoteric Political History. Carter Jackson serves as a Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American History in Boston and is commissioner for the Massachusetts Historical Commission. Her next book, The Remedy: A Forceful History of Black Resistance to White Supremacy, will be out in spring 2024 with Basic Books. Learn more about Carleton Convos at go.carleton.edu/convocations