Caroline Elkins (born 1969) is a professor of History at Harvard University. She studies the colonial encounter in Africa during the twentieth century. In 2006, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book on British treatment of the Kikuyu in Kenya, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya.
She is currently Policy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Pol...
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Caroline Elkins (born 1969) is a professor of History at Harvard University. She studies the colonial encounter in Africa during the twentieth century. In 2006, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book on British treatment of the Kikuyu in Kenya, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya.
She is currently Policy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, U.S..
Caroline Elkins graduated summa cum laude with a major in History from Princeton University. She received her Master's and Doctoral degrees in History from Harvard. She teaches courses on modern Africa, protest in East Africa, human rights in Africa, and British colonial violence in the 20th century.
Elkins's work was criticized by historian Lawrence James in The Sunday Times as being a one-sided account of the Mau Mau Uprising. In an article in The Guardian, James, in turn, was criticized for "whitewashing the...
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