2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture with Tressie McMillan Cottom

2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize recipient, Tressie McMillan Cottom, will give a reading on Tuesday, September 30 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on UNC-CH campus.
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science and principal investigator with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NY Times columnist, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Her work has earned national and international recognition for the urgency and depth of its incisive critical analysis of technology, higher education, culture, media, class, race, and gender. Recent accolades include being named the 2023 winner of the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University for her “critical perspective and analysis to some of the greatest social challenges we face today,” the 2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize, and a 2025-26 National Humanities Center Fellow. Her most recent book, THICK: And Other Essays was just listed as one the 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years by the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Two books are forthcoming with Random House Books.