Kellie Carter Jackson

Kellie Carter Jackson is a historian of African American History in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Carter Jackson's research focuses on slavery and abolition, historical film, and black women’s history. Her manuscript, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, is the first book-length project to address the politics of violence through the lives, ideologies, and extraordinary leadership of black abolitionists in the United States.  She is also co-edited a book with Erica L. Ball on "Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics & Memory" (UGA Press. 2017).  She earned her Ph.D at Columbia University working under the tutelage of Eric Foner. She has published an essay in the American Historical Association's Perspectives on History magazine and a chapter, "'At the Risk of Our Own Lives': Violence and the Fugitive Slave Law in Pennsylvania" in The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience, which won the American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit in 2014. As a public intellectual, her essays have been featured in The Atlantic, Quartz, The Conversation, Boston’s NPR Blog Cognoscenti, and the AAIHS (African American Intellectual History Society) blog. Carter Jackson also sits on the board for Transition Magazine where other essays of hers have been published.
She currently resides in Wellesley, MA. For more information please see: www.kelliecarterjackson.com