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Stephanie Athey is a Professor of Cultural Studies at Lasell University in Newton, Massachusetts, and serves as the Director of the Honors Program. She specializes in community-based partnerships for intercultural, experiential learning and empowerment, with a research focus on structural oppressions, human rights, and critical global studies. Her work examines the intersections of torture, colonialism, and U.S. empire-building, integrating insights from security studies and critical race theory.
- Ph.D. in American Literature, University of Minnesota
- B.A. in English, Denison University
Her scholarship includes foundational works like Torture in the National Security Imagination, which recontextualizes torture as a colonial legacy and systemic component of U.S. empire. She also edited Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance and Writing, a transnational feminist volume addressing armed struggle and cultural resistance. Her guest editorship of the Prose Studies special issue "Revaluing the Human: The Moral Economy of Human Rights" further underscores her interdisciplinary approach. Athey’s essays explore topics such as eugenics, racial capitalism, and the moral economies of state violence.
As a former Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she has engaged with leading academic institutions. Her leadership roles include Research Associate at the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture and presidency of the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. She co-directs an educational partnership in Coatepec, Mexico, with María del Refugio López Cruz, and is Executive Director of the nonprofit Niños de Veracruz.
