CAROL ANDERSON
Professor and Author
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of several books: White Rage, The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
Carol focuses her research on how policy is made and unmade, how racial inequality and racism affect that process and outcome, and how those who have taken the brunt of those laws, and how these individuals and groups have worked to shape a framework that dismantles the legal and political edifice used to limit their rights and their humanity.
Carol Anderson grew up wondering and worrying about her brother serving in Vietnam, watching her neighborhood descend into a place the news would describe as “on the near eastside today”. Professor Anderson grasped early on that policymakers and activists were at work shaping our world. Carol has made it her goal to find out how and why and then grapple with the consequences.
Her research has garnered an array of grants and fellowships, including sponsors such as the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, and Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center. Carol was recently awarded with a 2018 fellowship in Constitutional Studies by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Carol Anderson has appeared on PBS NewsHour, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Guardian, New York Times, and Washington Post.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate from Miami University, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science and a bachelor’s in history. Carol Anderson also earned her Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University.
On May 26 2021, Carol Anderson participated in Voting Righting and American Democracy with Michael Waldman.
