Carolyn Renée Dupont is professor of American history at Eastern Kentucky University. She is the author of Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975 (NYU 2013), which won the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize from the American Society of Church Historians. She holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Kentucky.

Dupont lives in Jessamine County, Kentucky. She co-leads a group of local citizens from diverse political perspectives who come together to dialogue, find common ground, and work toward mutual understanding.