Amsale (Amy) Alemu is a social theorist and historian of political thought at Scripps College's Department of History, formerly at Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. She is currently writing a book 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.

Alemu's research and teaching interests include anticolonial political thought, social movement history, Black transnationalism, and critical theory. She also has interests in digital design and multimedia practice, having co-taught a yearlong workshop at Harvard’s History Design Studio. Amy’s work has been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Fulbright-Hays Program, and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships.

Amy earned an A.M. in history from Harvard University and an honors A.B. in history and economics from Harvard College, where she received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly research. Her work is forthcoming in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and an edited volume, The Global Ethiopian Diaspora.