Demetrius L. Eudell received his B.A. in French from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Stanford University. In addition to a number of essays and articles on Black intellectual and cultural history, he is the author of The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South, editor of We Must Learn to Sit Down and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonising Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter, and co-curator/co-editor (with Dominik Hünniger) of Lichtenbergs Menschenbilder: Charaktere und Stereotype in der Göttinger Aufklärung. Eudell is also the principal investigator of the $1.1 million Mellon Grant, Carceral Connecticut: The History of Race, Violence and Capitalism in the Connecticut River Valley. 

Before joining The Cooper Union as its inaugural vice president of academic affairs, he was professor of history at Wesleyan University, where he also served as the dean of social sciences.