Charisse Burden-Stelly

Charisse is an Associate Professor of African American Studies. She is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History, and the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State. Burden-Stelly’s writings appear in peer-reviewed journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, CLR James Journal, and American Communist History. In 2021, she guest edited the “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality. Her public scholarship can be found in publications such as Essence Magazine, The Nation, Monthly Review, Teen Vogue, Boston Review, Black Perspectives, and Black Agenda Report. She is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and Community Movement Builders and the co-chair of Wayne State's Black Studies Faculty Enhancement Initiative steering committee.