Kellie Carter Jackson is an academic scholar, author and broadcaster researching history of slavery, abolitionists, violence and black women’s history.[1][2][3][4]

Dr
Kellie Carter Jackson
Alma materHoward University, Columbia University
Occupation(s)Historian, scholar and broadcaster

Career edit

Jackson is Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American History in Boston[5] and co-host on the Radiotopia podcast, “This Day in Political Esoteric History”[6] with Jody Avirgan and Nicole Hemmer and creator of “Oprahdemics: The Study of the Queen of Talk” with Leah Wright Rigueur. In 2022 Oprahdemics changed its name to "You get a podcast"[7] after Oprah Winfrey's company sued to prevent confusion over her support for the show.[8][9]

Jackson holds a B.A. from Howard University, a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She was a Fellow in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University and is the Michael and Denise ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.[2][10][11]

Research edit

Jackson's book Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press)[12] was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize,[13] and winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize given by SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)[14]

Reconsidering Roots[15] is a collection of articles reconsidering the politics, scope and impact of Alex Haley's Roots in the 1970s.

References edit

  1. ^ "Kellie Carter Jackson - Historian - Interviewees - Kunhardt Film Foundation". www.kunhardtfilmfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  2. ^ a b "Kellie Carter Jackson". Wellesley College. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  3. ^ "Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching about the Politics of Power and Resistance | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  4. ^ "Kellie Carter Jackson". Kellie Carter Jackson. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  5. ^ "About the Museum of African American History | Boston and Nantucket". www.maah.org. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  6. ^ "This Day In Esoteric Political History". Radiotopia. 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  7. ^ "You Get A Podcast! from Radiotopia". You Get A Podcast! from Radiotopia. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  8. ^ Stempel, Jonathan (2022-08-10). "Oprah Winfrey's company sues over 'Oprahdemics' podcast". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  9. ^ Brittain, Blake (2023-05-08). "Oprah Winfrey's company settles trademark lawsuit over 'Oprahdemics' podcast". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  10. ^ "Kellie Carter Jackson | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  11. ^ Jackson, Kellie Carter. "Kellie Carter Jackson". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  12. ^ "Force and Freedom – Penn Press". University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  13. ^ "2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists". The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  14. ^ "SHEAR Announces the Winners of the 2020 Book, Dissertation, and Article Prizes". The Panorama. 2020-08-14. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  15. ^ Ball, Erica; Jackson, Kellie Carter, eds. (2017). Reconsidering 'Roots': race, politics, and memory. Since 1970, histories of contemporary America. Athens: The University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5082-0.