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Kellie Carter Jackson

Kellie Carter Jackson

Kellie Carter Jackson Biography

Kellie Carter Jackson is the Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Her book Force and Freedom was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. She is the cohost of the Radiotopia podcast This Day in Esoteric Political History. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and three children. 

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