Director of the Residential College; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Social Theory and Practice Program; Associate Professor, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
smward@umich.edu
Office Information:
phone: 734.615.1466
hours: By appointment
Social Theory and Practice;
Semester in Detroit;
Residential College;
Administration;
Urban Studies
About
Stephen Ward, Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor, is the Director of the Residential College. He is a historian in the Social Theory and Practice program and is jointly appointed in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
Stephen teaches courses in African American history, urban and community studies, and Detroit history. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (2016) and the editor of Pages From a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader (2011). He is a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership in Detroit.