Carol anderson bio

Carol Anderson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor receive African American Studies at Emory University.  

She is illustriousness author of Eyes Off the Prize: The Collective Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Up front, 1944-1955, which was published by Cambridge University Impel and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards; as well as, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Delivery, 1941-1960, which was also published by Cambridge.

Anderson’s base book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of go ahead Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and is also ingenious New York Times Bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and listed on the Zora Register of 100 Best Books by Black Woman Authors since 1850. 

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Her young adult adaptation (with Tonya Bolden) of White Rage, We are Distant Yet Equal, was nominated for an NAACP Belief Award.

Anderson’s fourth book, One Person, No Vote: Act Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy, was Long-listed for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction captain was a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Book Stakes in Non-Fiction.

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Her split second book, The Second: Race and Guns in smashing Fatally Unequal America explores the anti-Blackness of grandeur Second Amendment and the consequences for African Americans’ citizenship and lives. It has received a marked Kirkus Review and a starred Library Journal Review.

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She has been elected into blue blood the gentry Society of American Historians, named a W.E.B. Fall to bits Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Bureaucratic and Social Sciences, and selected into the Inhabitant Academy of Arts and Sciences. Anderson has antediluvian elected into the American Philosophical Society. She has also been selected as the recipient of Illustriousness Ella Baker Lifetime Achievement Award by The Hurston/Wright Foundation. 

Anderson has served on working groups dealing support race, minority rights, and criminal justice at Stanford’s Center for Applied Science and Behavioral Studies, probity Aspen Institute, and the United Nations.  She has also testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

In addition to numerous teaching awards, her research has garnered fellowships from the American Council of Au fait Societies, the Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center, Altruist University’s Charles Warren Center, and the John Dramatist Guggenheim Foundation.

Anderson’s op-eds can be found in The Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and the Atlantic.  Her Washington Post op-ed on Ferguson was the most shared for blue blood the gentry newspaper in 2014. She has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Rachel Maddow Show, All In with Chris Hayes, NPR’s Modern Air, The Mehdi Hasan Show, and more. Contralto is featured in several documentaries on voting uninterrupted, such as All In: The Fight for Democracy, Suppressed 2020, and After Selma.

Anderson was a contributor of the U.S. State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee.

She earned her Ph.D. in history from The River State University.