Kali GrossNational Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American StudiesChair

Kali Nicole Gross is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (OAH). An interdisciplinary scholar, her primary research explores Black women’s historical experiences in the U.S. criminal justice system, and her expertise and opinion pieces have been featured in press outlets such as TIME, The Washington Post,  The Root, and BBC News. She has appeared on venues such as C-Span, MSNBC, and NPR.

She is the author of three award-winning books, and her latest monograph, Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times, was published by Seal Press on September 24, 2024. Her grants and fellowships include the Carnegie Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Scholar-in-Residence Award, the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she was a Public Voices Fellow for The Op-Ed Project.

Her newest work examines the historical experiences of Black women and capital punishment in the United States.