Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which was awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards. Her latest book, published by Cambridge in 2014, is Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960. 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 History. She earned her Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University.