In addition to a PhD from the University of Toronto, she holds an MA in History from the University of Western Ontario and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History, also from Western. Dr. Carson’s doctoral research, supported by a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Award and a Fulbright Award (at Columbia University), explored the working and organizational activities of African-American women laundry workers in the first half of the 20th century. She currently is working on a book-length manuscript on the same topic.