Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. She is the recipient of the “Black Futures Now” Essence Inaugural Award for Black History Month.
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly obtained her Ph.D., African Diaspora Studies, University of California- Berkeley and her M.A., African American Studies, University of California- Berkeley.
Her research interests include coloniality, economic development, and cycles of accumulation in the United States and Anglophone African Diaspora; the Black radical intellectual tradition; feminization of poverty and labor; alternatives to Neoliberalization through South-South/tri-continental relations; and anti-Blackness and anti-communism. She is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States and the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. Co-editor, with Dr. Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State with Dr. Aaron Kamugisha and Dr. Percy Hintzen. She was the Guest Editor of the “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality.
Her published work appears in journals including Small Axe, Monthly Review, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, CLR James Journal, and American Communist History. Her words are featured in popular venues including Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, Teen Vogue, Jacobin, The Nation, and Black Agenda Report. She has I done interviews on podcasts, radio shows, and news shows including The Real News Network, Breakthrough News, Black Myths, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, The Red Nation, AJ+, Bad Faith, The Katie Halper Show, Revolutionary Left Radio, Guerilla History, Upstream and the New Books Network. Dr Burden-Stelly is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and Community Movement Builders.