Kellie Carter Jackson
Kellie Carter Jackson is an American academic scholar, author and broadcaster researching history of slavery, abolitionists, violence and black women’s history.
Career
Jackson is Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American History in Boston and co-host on the Radiotopia podcast, “This Day in Political Esoteric History” 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" after Oprah Winfrey's company sued to prevent confusion over her support for the show.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.
Research
Jackson's book Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize given by SHEARReconsidering Roots is a collection of articles reconsidering the politics, scope and impact of Alex Haley's Roots in the 1970s.