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Annelise Orleck (born 22 January 1959) is an American historian and professor at Dartmouth College. Her work primarily focuses on the working class and Jewish-American experience, with notable publications including Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 and Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. In 2024, she was involved in pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, leading to her arrest and temporary ban from Dartmouth College.
Much of her work has focused on the working class and American Jews experience. Her first book, Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965, focuses on four Jewish-American women activists, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich, and Pauline Newman. Her book Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty examined how African-American women on Welfare spending fought for their rights and against negative stereotypes.
During the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, riot police arrested 90 people at Dartmouth College, including Orleck. Orleck was banned from Dartmouth as a condition of bail, but Dartmouth later announced that it would not enforce the ban. Later that week, her bail conditions were "corrected" to temporarily banning her from only specific sites on campus instead of the entire campus.
In 2025, she was the president of the Dartmouth College chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
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