Charisse Burden-Stelly
Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. A scholar of critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, she is the co-author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History (ABC-CLIO, 2019), the co-editor of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings (Verso, 2022), and the co-editor of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State (University of Mississippi Press, 2022). Burden-Stelly’s singled-authored book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, will be published with University of Chicago Press in 2023. Her next book project, Mutual Comradeship: The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Radical Blackness, is under contract with the University of California Press. The guest editor of the 2021 “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality, Burden-Stelly’s scholarship appears in peer-reviewed journals including Small Axe, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, and CLR James Journal and in popular publications including Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, The Nation, Teen Vogue, Black Perspectives, and Black Agenda Report. She has presented more than fifty invited talks, public lectures, and conference papers and has been the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and travel awards. She is also a member of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Research and Political Education Team.