Carol Anderson is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Professor Anderson’s research and teaching focus on public policy; particularly the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice, and equality in the United States. She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955; and Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960. Her most recent work, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide, was a New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Editor’s Pick. In March 2017, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. She was recently awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. 

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