Carole M. Watson | |
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| Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities Acting | |
| In office 2013–2014 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jim Leach |
| Succeeded by | William Drea Adams |
| In office 2009 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Bruce Cole |
| Succeeded by | Jim Leach |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kansas |
| Alma mater | Pittsburg State University (BA) Saint Louis University (MA) George Washington University (PhD) |
Carole McAlpine Watson is an American academic who served twice as acting Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, first in 2009 and again in 2013 to 2014. Watson studied African American literature and authored Her Prologue, a scholarly bibliography of novels by African American women published between 1859 and 1965.[1]
- ^ Watson, Carole M. (1985). Her Prologue: The Novels of Black American Women. Greenwood.