Nico Slate
TITLE: “The Borders of Democracy: China, India, and the United States”.
Monday, December 2, 2019
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Ostermayer Room, SCC
Nico Slate is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of four books: Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, 2012), The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (University of Washington Press, forthcoming in 2019), and Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2019). Born in Los Angeles and raised in California’s Mojave Desert, Dr. Slate earned degrees from Stanford University and from Oxford University before completing his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University.