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Carol M. Swain (born March 7, 1954) is currently Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University.

Early life and education
Swain was born in Bedford, Virginia, one of twelve children. A high school dropout who married at sixteen, Swain went on to earn an A.A. in Business Merchandising from Virginia Western Community College in 1978, B.A. in criminal justice from Roanoke College in 1983, and an M.A. in political science from Virginia Tech in 1984. In 1989, Swain earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2000 was awarded a M.S.L. from Yale Law School.

Awards
Swain has received numerous awards and accolades. In 2007, she received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Virginia Tech. In 2006, Swain received a Booker T. Washington Legacy Award from the Heartland Institute. The James Madison Society, an International Community of Scholars, recognized her contributions in 2005. In 1994, Swain's book, Black Faces, Black Interests won the D.B. Hardeman prize given to the best scholarly work published on the U.S. Congress during a biennial period; the Woodrow Wilson prize given to “the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs”; and the V.O. Key Award given to “the best book published on southern politics”.

Associations
Swain serves as a member of a number of boards and committees including the Planning Committee of the National Faculty Leadership Conference; Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; National Endowment for the Humanities; Teen Challenge International; and Roanoke College Board of Trustees.

Books

 * Carol Swain, Debating Immigration (Cambridge University Press, 2007). (edited volume)
 * Carol Swain, Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995). Reprinted 2006 (University of America Press).
 * Carol Swain & Russ Nieli, Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
 * Carol Swain, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2002)