Caroline Elkins

Caroline Elkins is a Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her work focuses on colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, particularly examining the British Empire's decline and counter-insurgency operations in 20th-century Kenya, Palestine, Malaya, Cyprus, and Nyasaland.

• Recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
• Subject of the 2002 BBC documentary Kenya: White Terror, which won the International Committee of the Red Cross Award at Monte Carlos Film Festival
• Contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and The New Republic

Her research spans colonial violence, amnesia in post-independent Kenya, and British counter-insurgency strategies. She teaches courses on modern Africa, East African protest movements, African human rights, and British colonial violence.

Notable affiliations include Harvard University's History Department and African and African American Studies program. She has been featured in media outlets such as NPR's All Things Considered, BBC's The World, and PBS's Charlie Rose.