Caroline Elkins is professor of History and of African and African American studies at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard\'s Center for African Studies.
She lives in Watertown and Marion, Massachusetts..
She has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including NPR\'s All Things Considered and BBC\'s The World .
She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The New Republic .
Her first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain\'s Gulag in Kenya , was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Caroline Elkins is professor of History and of African and African American studies at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard\'s Center for African Studies
