Carrie Archie Russell is the assistant dean of undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University’s College of Arts & Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College in Memphis, her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Russell serves as a Vanderbilt Visions leader, faculty adviser for the Undergraduate Moot Court team and Intercollegiate Legislature and the Vanderbilt pre-law society. She teaches public law and public policy courses. Russell’s research interests include public law, judicial politics and race and public policy. Before earning her Ph.D., she worked as a judicial clerk for Davidson County Tennessee’s 20th Judicial District.
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