Carol B. Stack is an esteemed Urban American anthropologist renowned for her specialized research in African American networks, minority women, and youth. Her scholarly contributions have significantly impacted social sciences.

As a dedicated educator, Stack became Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic journey included tenures at Boston University and Duke University before she took on the role of Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at Berkeley.

Stack's literary legacy includes the influential works All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community and Call To Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South. Her critical insights and research have been recognized with numerous accolades, including the Prize for Critical Research in 1995, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and Russel Sage Fellowships.