Dr. Clayborne Carson
Dr. Clayborne Carson
Professor
Ronnie Lott Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of History
B. A., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 1967
M. A., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 1971
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 1975
About
Professor of American History & Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
During his undergraduate years at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dr. Carson was a participant in and observer of African-American political movements. Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975, he has taught at Stanford University. Dr. Carson has also been a visiting professor at American University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Emory University as well as a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
