Carolyn Renée Dupont is a professor in history at Eastern Kentucky University. Her research focuses on American religion and African American history. She is the author of Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 and serves as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Southern Religion. Distorting Democracy: The Forgotten History of the Elector College—and Why it Matters Today, her most recent book, was published in September 2024.