Carol Anderson

From growing up wondering and worrying about a brother serving in Vietnam to watching her neighborhood descend into a place the 6 o’clock news would repeatedly describe as “on the near eastside today. . .” Professor Anderson grasped early on that policymakers and activists were at work shaping our world. She set out to find out how and why and then grapple with the consequences. "Anderson adeptly highlights both that past and the tenacious grip race holds on the present. There is a handful of writers whose work I consider indispensable. Professor Anderson is high up on that list." Professor Anderson’s role as a public scholar has found her serving on working groups dealing with race, minority rights, and criminal justice at Stanford’s Center for Applied Science and Behavioral Studies , the Aspen Institute , and the United Nations and as a member of the U.S. State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee . She is currently on the Advisory Board of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative . She has appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show , PBS NewsHour , ​ The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Democracy Now! , as well as providing commentary for the Huffington Post , The Guardian , New York Times , and Washington Post . Her op-ed in the Washington Post on Ferguson was the most shared for the newspaper in 2014. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science (International Relations) and a bachelor’s in history. She earned her Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University.