Carson Eckhard

Carson Eckhard, from Tampa, Florida, is pursuing a PhD in history at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, and a JD at Stanford Law School. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in history and English. Named a University Scholar and a Dean’s Scholar, Carson won the Rosengarten Prize for the most outstanding honors thesis in history and the Samuel Huntington Award for Public Service. Following graduation, Carson served as a founding board member and vice chair of the Liberation Foundation, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that supports incarcerated Pennsylvanians. She also worked as the Supreme Court practice assistant at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, D.C. As a 2023 Marshall Scholar, Carson studied history at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge, where she is currently a Prize Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics.