Scott Ellsworth
Scott Ellsworth is a historian and bestselling author who teaches at the University of Michigan.
He first encountered the Tulsa Race Massacre as a twelve-year-old in Tulsa, which led to his senior thesis at Reed College and later his groundbreaking 1982 book Death in a Promised Land.
A former historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he has written extensively about American history for major publications including the New York Times and Washington Post.
His book The Secret Game won the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
He currently chairs Tulsa's physical investigation committee, working to locate unmarked massacre victims' graves.
