Sylvie Laurent is a cultural historian and a lecturer in American Studies at Sciences Po, Paris. She was previously a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, where she was later also a fellow in the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute. Laurent's publications include Homérique Amérique (2008), Martin Luther King: Une biographie intellectuelle et politique (2015), La couleur du marché: Racisme et néolibéralisme aux États-Uni (2016), King and the Other America: The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality (2019), and La Contre-révolution californienne (2025).
