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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).
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