Amsale (Amy) Alemu is a Lecturer on Social Studies. Having completed her Ph.D. in African and African American Studies at Harvard, she is currently working on a book project that examines the history of Ethiopian revolutionary thought with attention to relationships among U.S.-based Ethiopian student activists, anti-imperialism, and the Black Power left in the 1960s and 70s. She holds an A.M. degree in History from Harvard University and an A.B. Honors degree in History and Economics from Harvard College. Her teaching and research interests include international race and ethnicity, global Black politics, U.S. empire, comparative anticolonial thought, integrative approaches to African and African American studies, and digital and multimedia scholarship.

For more information, visit https://socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu/people/amy-alemu.

• Ph.D. Harvard University, African and African American Studies
• A.M. Harvard University, History
• A.B. Harvard College, History (secondary field Economics)