Currently in its 15th printing, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s much-lauded
Thick(The New Press), eight incisive essays about navigating the world as a Black woman, was a National Book Award nonfiction finalist, won the Brooklyn Public Library’s 2019 Literary Prize, and was named one of Lit Hub’s top 10 essay collections of the decade. Her critically acclaimed 2016 book on for-profit colleges (she once was a recruiter for two of them),
Lower Ed, was based on dissertation research for her PhD from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School in sociology.
McMillan Cottom is an associate professor in the iSchool at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, senior research fellow at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (UNC), faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.