Kellie Carter Jackson

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

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

Career

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

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.

Works

  • Ball, Erica; Jackson, Kellie Carter (2017). Reconsidering Roots. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5083-7.
  • Jackson, Kellie Carter (2019). Force and Freedom. Philadelphia: America in the Nineteenth Cent. ISBN 978-0-8122-5115-9.
  • Jackson, Kellie Carter (2024-06-04). We Refuse. Seal Press (CA). ISBN 978-1-5416-0290-8.[16][17]

References

  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.
  16. ^ "Is Nonviolent Resistance Past Its Prime?". New York Times. June 2, 2024.
  17. ^ "Kellie Carter Jackson explores the history of Black resistance in new book". www.wbur.org. 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2024-09-08.