Nico Slate

Nico Slate is Professor of History and Head of the Department of History at CarnegieMellon

University. His research focuses on the transnational history of socialmovements in the United

States and South Asia, with a particular focus on the history of strugglesagainst racism and

imperialism. 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 ofCedric Dover

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet:Eating with the World in

Mind (WashingtonUniversity Press, 2019); and Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for

Democracy in the United States and India (Harvard UniversityPress, 2019).