Caroline Elkins is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Her subsequent book, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2022. She is Professor of History at Harvard University, the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, an Affiliated Professor at Harvard Law School, and the Founding Oppenheimer Director of Harvard’s Center for African Studies.