Stephen Ward

Stephen Ward a historian and Black Studies scholar who teaches courses on black social movements and black radical thought, the history of student activism, the transformation of cities and black communities within them, the emergence of grassroots, community-driven visions of urban life, Detroit history, and the history of Hip Hop. He is jointly appointed in the Residential College, where he serves as Associate Director for Faculty. He is also the Faculty Director of the Semester in Detroit Program. A central focus of his scholarship is examining the lives, ideas, activism, and legacies of Detroit-based activists James and Grace Lee Boggs. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (2016), and editor of Pages From a Black Radical’s Notebook: A James Boggs Reader (20121). He is a member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership in Detroit.