Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University, an affiliated professor at Harvard Law School and the founding Oppenheimer Director of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. She has taught at Harvard since 2001. A contributor to publications including The Guardian and Time, Elkins’ books include “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire,” one of The New York Times’ Notable 100 Books of 2022, and “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. She’s currently working on a book on creativity in the age of AI. Elkins received the 2024 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize for literary narrative nonfiction.