| Tressie McMillan Cottom is an award-winning author, researcher, educator, and cultural critic whose work has been recognized nationally and internationally for the urgency and depth of her incisive critical analysis of technology, higher education, class, race, and gender. She was recently named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.
The foundation for McMillan Cottom’s first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, was formed by dissertation research for her doctorate from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School. In Lower Ed, she questions the fundamental narrative of American education policy.
In 2019, McMillan Cottom released Thick: and Other Essays. The collection has been described as “essential,” and the Chicago Tribune calls her, “the author you need to read now.” Thick was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award. |
