Charisse Burden-Stelly
Associate Professor
2023-2024 Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
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Department
Charisse Burden-Stelly
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, political and historical sociology, intellectual history.
Education
- M.A. in African American Studies, University of California-Berkeley
- Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies, University of California-Berkeley
News mentions
- Opinion: America is demolishing antiracism five years after the George Floyd uprisings
- 'Focus: Black Oklahoma': real change, moral courage, new 'Culture and Music' series
- Analyzing Trump: aberration and continuity
- Banned Scholars Project hosts residency to combat attacks on academic freedom
- Spotlight on the News: Black History Month – African Americans and Labor
- Writing the Dark Testament – Black History
- Sankofa: inspiring change through discussion and reflection
- 'No empire lasts forever': Here's what gives these ESSENCE 'Black futures now' honorees hope for our future
- Black Scare / Red Scare with Charisse Burden-Stelly
Selected publications
- Author, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
- Co-editor, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing (Verso, 2022)
- Co-editor, Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State (University of Mississippi Press, 2022)
- Co-author, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
Courses taught by Charisse Burden-Stelly
Fall Term 2025 (future)
- GSW3350 - Black Women and Labor from the 'Nadir' to Black Power
- ELR3350 - Black Women and Labor from the 'Nadir' to Black Power
- AFS2210 - Black Social and Political Thought
- AFS3350 - Black Women and Labor from the 'Nadir' to Black Power