Kellie Carter Jackson is an American academic scholar, author and broadcaster researching history of slavery, abolitionists, violence and black women’s history.

[1][2][3][4] Jackson is Historian-in-Residence for the Museum of African American History in Boston[5] and co-host on the Radiotopia podcast, “This Day in Political Esoteric History”[6] with Jody Avirgan and Nicole Hemmer and creator of “Oprahdemics: The Study of the Queen of Talk” with Leah Wright Rigueur.

In 2022 Oprahdemics changed its name to "You get a podcast"[7] after Oprah Winfrey's company sued to prevent confusion over her support for the show.

She was a Fellow in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University and is the Michael and Denise ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.

[2][10][11] Jackson's book Force & Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence (University of Pennsylvania Press)[12] was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize,[13] and winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize given by SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)[14] Reconsidering Roots[15] is a collection of articles reconsidering the politics, scope and impact of Alex Haley's Roots in the 1970s.