Denise Lynn is Professor and Chair of History, Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana. She is the editor of the journal American Communist History. She completed her Ph.D. at Binghamton University, State University of New York in 2006. She serves as the Vice-President of the Historians of American Communism; she wrote a regular blog for Black Perspectives, a publication of the African American Intellectual History Society. Her research focuses on gender and race in the American Communist Party.
She is the author of several books, including Claudia Jones: Visions of a Socialist America and Women March for Peace: Black Radical women’s Anti-Korean War Activism.