Dr. Nico Slate

Biography

Nico Slate is a Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on historical social movements in the United States and India. He has authored six books, including 'Art and Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Making Modern India' (HarperCollins India, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024) and 'Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race' (Temple University Press, 2023). His notable works examine the interplay of democracy and colonial legacies in 'Lord Cornwallis is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India' (Harvard University Press, 2019) and explore the philosophy of diet through 'Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating, Diet, and the World Mind' (University of Washington Press, 2019). He also edited 'Black Power Borders' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and co-edited several volumes on Indo-US relations and historical perspectives. Dr. Slate is currently researching a collective biography detailing the lives of individuals who survived the 1918-19 influenza pandemic and the civil rights movement through the lens of the Highlander Folk School. As the faculty director of LEAP, he inspires high school students passionate about the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Slate was born in Los Angeles and raised in California's Mojave Desert, and he earned degrees in Earth Systems and Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities from Stanford University, Environmental Change Management from Oxford University, and completed his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University.

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