Demetrius L. Eudell, currently the Dean of the Faculty and a Professor of History at Vassar College, specializes in nineteenth-century U.S. history, intellectual history, and the history of Blacks in the Americas. In addition to a number of essays and articles on Black intellectual and cultural history, he is the author of The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South, editor of We Must Learn to Sit Down and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonising Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter and co-curator/co-editor (with Dominik Hünniger) of Lichtenbergs Menschenbilder: Charaktere und Stereotype in der Göttinger Aufklärung. Eudell is also the Principal Investigator of the Mellon Foundation’s “Humanities for all Times” Grant, Carceral Connecticut: The History of Race, Violence and Capitalism in the Connecticut River Valley.
