Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is the 2020-2021 Visiting Scholar in the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago. She is currently an assistant professor of Africana studies and political science at Carleton College. A scholar of critical Black studies, political theory, political economy, and intellectual history, Burden-Stelly is the coauthor, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History.