#  Caroline Elkins Wins NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize  

 





June 24, 2024

 

 

 Faculty Associate Caroline Elkins, professor of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University and the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is the recipient of the 2024 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize. The award, established by the Axinn Foundation in partnership with NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, “honors an American writer of artistic literary narrative nonfiction whose published book or books are of exceptional quality and societal import.” Elkins is the author of *Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire* and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning *Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya*.



 

 

 



 

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