Kellie Carter Jackson

Ph.D., Columbia University

Kellie Carter Jackson is a 19th century historian of African American history. Carter Jackson's research focuses on violence as a political discourse, slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World, historical film, and black women’s history. Her manuscript, Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, examines the political and social tensions preceding the American Civil War and the condition and that led some black abolitionists to believe that slavery might only be abolished by violent force. Before coming to Hunter College, she was a Harvard College Fellow in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University. She has published an essay, "Violence and Political History," 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 edited collection, The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience (2013). She is also a contributor to Cognoscenti, WBUR's ideas and opinion page (Boston's NPR news station) and The Conversation, an online magazine in Australia, which features the latest ideas and research. Her article, “Is Viola Davis in it?: Black Women Actors and the Single Stories of Historical Film” was published in Transition Magazine, Issue 114. She is currently co-editing a book with Erica L. Ball on Reconsidering Roots: Observations on the 40th Anniversary of a TV Mini-Series that changed the Way We Understood American Slavery. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Website:www.kelliecarterjackson.com

Awards:

Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2014
ABLConnect Learning Innovator Prize for Teaching Fellows, Harvard University, 2014
Black & Brilliant Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard College, 2013
Massachusetts Humanities Scholar, 2013
Harvard College Fellowship, Harvard University, 2012-2014
The Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, 2010
Ford Foundation Honorable Mention, Dissertation Fellowship, 2009
Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellowship, 2004
National Visionary Leadership Project Fellow, 2003-2004
Ronald E. McNair Scholar, 2002-2004