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Lichtenstein--1
August 2017
ALEX LICHTENSTEIN
Professor of History, Indiana University
Department of History
Ballantine 742
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47401
812-855-7504; 305-972-0468(cell)
[email protected]; [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
Indiana University, August 2011-
Professor of History and Director, Global Living-Learning Community
Editor, American Historical Review, August 2017-
Interim Editor, American Historical Review, 2015-2016
Associate Editor, American Historical Review, 2014-2015
Florida International University, August 2007-June 2011
Associate Professor of History
Rice University
Associate Professor of History, 2002-2007
Florida International University
Associate Professor of History, 1997-2002
Assistant Professor of History, 1990-1997
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Visiting Fulbright Lecturer in American History, May-December 2000
Visiting Lecturer, University of Cape Town, July-August 2009
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania, M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1990, American Civilization.
Yale University, Magna Cum Laude, B.A. with Honors 1984, American Studies.
BOOKS
Andrew Lichtenstein and Alex Lichtenstein, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography
of American Memory (West Virginia University Press, forthcoming 2017).
Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern, Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid in
South Africa (Indiana University Press 2016).
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South
(Verso, 1996).
EDITED BOOK
Christian G. de Vito and Alex Lichtenstein, eds., Global Convict Labour (Brill, 2015), a
collection of essays based on a conference we organized at the International Institute of Social
History, Amsterdam.
EDITED JOURNALS
Editorial Coordinator, “Special Double Issue: South African Photography,”,Safundi: The
Journal of South African and American Studies 15, 2-3(April-July 2014).
Co-Editor (with Lisa Brock and Van Gosse), “The Global Anti-Apartheid Movement,”
Radical History Review 119 (Spring 2014).
Editor, “Rethinking Agrarian Labor in the U.S. South,” a Special Issue of Journal of Peasant
Studies 35(October 2008).
BOOK INTRODUCTIONS
Introduction (co-authored with Eric Arnesen) to reprint edition of Katherine Archibald,
Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity (1947) (University of Illinois Press, 2006), pp.
9-53.
Introduction to reprint edition of Howard Kester, Revolt Among the Sharecroppers (1936)
(University of Tennessee Press, 1997), pp. 9-66.
Introduction to reprint edition of Robert Burns, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain
Gang!(1932)(Beehive Press, 1994), pp. 3-32.
ARTICLES
“Rick Turner, Participatory Democracy, and Workers’ Control,” Theoria: A Journal of Social
and Political Theory 64(June 2017):47-57.
“’We do not think that the Bantu is ready for labour unions’: Remaking South Africa’s
apartheid workplace in the 1970s,” South African Historical Journal 69(June 2017): 215-235.
“Challenging the Law of the Firm: Gender Relations and Shop Floor Battles for Union
Recognition in Natal’s Textile Industry, 1973-1985,” Africa 87(1), (Jan/Feb. 2017):
“Rick Turner and South Africa’s ‘Sixties’,” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
19 (December 2016): 447-466.
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“'A Measure of Democracy': Works Committees, Black Workers, and Industrial Citizenship
in South Africa, 1973-1989,” South African Historical Journal, 67 (June 2015): 113-38.
“Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration: Towards a New Political Economy of
the Postwar Carceral State,” Journal of American History 102(June 2015): 113-125.
Co-authored with Christian De Vito, “Writing a Global History of Convict Labour,”
International Review of Social History 58(August 2013):285-325.
"The Other Civil Rights Movement and the Problem of Southern Exceptionalism," Journal of
the Historical Society 11(September 2011): 351-377.
“A `Labor History’ of Mass Incarceration,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the
Americas 8(Fall 2011): 5-14.
“Introduction: Rethinking Agrarian Labor in the U.S. South,” Journal of Peasant Studies 35
(October 2008): 621-35.
“From Personalism to Contractualism: A Review of the Freedmen and Southern Society
Project’s Latest Documentary History of Emancipation,” Journal of Peasant Studies
35(October 2008): 636-52.
Co-authored with Eric Arnesen, “The Problem of Social Unity During World War II:
Katherine Archibald’s Wartime Shipyard in Retrospect,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class
History of the Americas 3(Spring 2006): 113-46.
“Ned Cobb’s Children: A New Look at White Supremacy in the Southern US,” Journal of
Peasant Studies 33(January 2006): 124-39.
“Making Apartheid Work: African Trade Unions and the 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of
Disputes) Act in South Africa,” Journal of African History 46(July 2005): 293-314.
“In the Shade of the Lenin Oak: ‘Colonel’ Raymond Robins, Senator Claude Pepper, and the
Cold War,” American Communist History 3(December 2004): 185-214.
“‘The Hope for White and Black’?: Race, Labour and the State in South Africa and the United
States, 1924-1956,” Journal of Southern African Studies 30(March 2004):133-55.
"The Past and Present of Marxist Historiography in South Africa: An Interview with Martin
Legassick," Radical History Review 82(Winter 2002): 111-30.
“The Private and the Public in Penal History,” Punishment and Society 3(February 2001):
189-96, reprinted in David Garland, ed., Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and
Consequences.
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"Proletarians or Peasants?: Sharecroppers and the Politics of Protest in the Rural South, 1880-
1940," Plantation Society in the Americas 5(Fall 1998):297-331.
"Putting Labor's House in Order: Anticommunism and Miami's Transport Workers' Union,
1945-1949," Labor History 39(Winter 1998): 7-23.
"Was the Emancipated Slave a Proletarian?," Reviews in American History 26(March 1998):
124-45, reprinted in Louis Masur, ed., The Challenge of American History.
"Right Church, Wrong Pew: Eugene Genovese's Defense of Southern Conservatism," New
Politics, Summer 1997:59-68.
"In Retrospect: George Rawick's From Sundown to Sunup and The Dialectic of Marxian
Slave Studies," Reviews in American History 24(December 1996):712-25.
"Chain Gang Blues," Dissent 43(Fall 1996):3-7.
"Chain Gangs, Communism, and the `Negro Question': John Spivak's Georgia Nigger,"
Georgia Historical Quarterly 79(Fall 1995):633-58.
"`A Constant Struggle Between Interest and Humanity': Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of
the New South," Labor's Heritage 7(Fall 1995):62-75.
"Racial Conflict and Racial Solidarity in the Alabama Coal Strike of 1894: New Evidence for
the Gutman-Hill Debate," Labor History 36(Winter 1995):63-76.
"Black Labor and Technological Change at a National Historic Landmark: Birmingham's
Sloss Furnaces," Radical History Review 56(Spring 1993):119-26.
"Engine of Injustice: Black Labor and Technological Change at the Sloss Furnaces," reprinted
in Federal Archaeology 7(Summer 1994):30-36.
"Good Roads and Chain Gangs in the Progressive South:`The Negro Convict is a Slave',"
Journal of Southern History 59(February 1993):85-110.
"In Retrospect: Industrial Slavery and the Tragedy of Robert Starobin," Reviews in American
History 19(December 1991):604-617.
"'That Disposition to Theft With Which They Have Been Branded': Moral Economy, Slave
Management and the Law," Journal of Social History 21(Spring 1988):413-440.
BOOK CHAPTERS
With Christian De Vito, “Writing a Global History of Convict Labour,” in Andreas Eckert,
ed., Global Histories of Work (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), 49-89 (reprint).
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With Christian G. de Vito, “Editors’ Preface,” in Christian G. de Vito and Alex Lichtenstein,
eds., Global Convict Labour (Brill, 2015), pp. vii-xvii.
With Christian G. de Vito, “Writing a Global History of Convict Labour,” in
Christian G. de Vito and Alex Lichtenstein, eds., Global Convict Labour (Brill, 2015),
“The End of the Southern Strategy?: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race,” in State and
Democracy, ed. Milan Podunavac (Belgrade: University of Belgrade, Fakultet Političkih
Nauka, 2011), pp. 630-641.
“`We at Last Are Industrializing the Whole Ding-Busted Party’: The Communist Party and
Florida Workers in Depression and War,” in Florida’s Working-Class Past, ed. Robert
Cassanello & Melanie Shell-Weiss (University Press of Florida, 2008), pp. 168-97.
“The Private and the Public in Penal History,” in David Garland, ed., Mass Imprisonment:
Social Causes and Consequences (London: Sage Publications, 2001).
“Exclusion, Fair Employment, or Interracial Unionism: Race Relations in Florida’s Shipyards
during World War II,” in Glen Eskew, ed., Labor in the Modern South (University of Georgia
Press, 2001), pp. 135-57.
"Was the Emancipated Slave a Proletarian?," in Louis Masur, ed., The Challenge of American
History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
"`Scientific Unionism' and the `Negro Question': Communists and the Transport Workers
Union in Miami, 1944-1949," in Robert Zieger, ed., Southern Labor in Transition (University
of Tennessee Press, 1997).
“The Fortress Economy: The Economic Role of the U.S. Prison System, “ with Michael Kroll,
in Elihu Rosenblatt, ed., Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis (South End Press,
1996).
"Industrial Slavery and the Tragedy of Robert Starobin," in Stanley Kutler, ed., American
Retrospectives: Historians on Historians (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
"Theft, Moral Economy, and the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the American South,"
in Stephan Palmie, ed., Slave Cultures and the Culture of Slavery (University of Tennessee
Press, 1995).
"Twice the Work of Free Labor?: Labor, Punishment, and the Task System in Georgia's
Convict Mines," in Gary Fink and Merl Reed, eds., Race, Class, and Community in Southern
Labor History (University of Alabama Press, 1994).
"`Through the Rugged Gates of the Penitentiary': Convict Labor and Southern Coal, 1870-
1900," in Rick Halpern and Melvyn Stokes, eds., Race and Class in the American South Since
1890 (Berg Publishers, 1994).
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REVIEW ESSAYS
“Choosing to be Free in South Africa: The Radical Thought of Rick Turner,” Against the
Current, no. 185, Nov./Dec 2016, 40-42.
“Harold Wolpe and the Labour Question,” Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies
41(3), 2015: 597-601.
“Marikana, Part III: Democracy’s Sharpeville,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 9,
2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/marikana-part-iii-democracys-sharpeville
“Marikana, Part II: Looking For Answers to a South African Massacre,” Los Angeles Review
of Books, January 4, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1285
“The Politics of Impunity: Human Rights in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe,” Los Angeles Review of
Books, November 23, 2011.
http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/13203832188/zimbabwe-and-the-politics-of-impunity
"Ancestors, Children, and Exiles: New Studies of the Black Atlantic," Clio: A Journal of
Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 40(Winter 2011): 151-66.
“Stories of Scottsboro: The Global Anti-Imperial Imagination,” review of From Scottsboro to
Munich, by Susan D. Pennybacker and Remembering Scottsboro, by James A. Miller,
Safundi: The Journal of South African & American Studies 11(October 2010): 447-55.
“L’altro movimento per I diritti civili” [The Other Civil Rights Movement, trans. Ferdinando
Fasce], review of Sweet Land of Liberty, by Thomas Sugrue, Contemporanea 13(April
2010):399-413.
“Remembering Joe Turner,” review of Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas Blackmon,
Dissent, Fall 2009.
“The Sunbelt Synthesis: Five New Histories of the Conservative Ascendancy in the United
States,” Historically Speaking 9(Jan.-Feb. 2008): 35-38.
“Up From Redemption: A Biography of Max Yergan,” review of Max Yergan: Race Man,
Internationalist, Cold Warrior, by David Henry Anthony III, Radical History Review 99 (Fall
2007): 267-71.
“Always Be Closing,” review of Fraser, Every Man a Speculator, Sandage, Born Losers, and
Lears, Something for Nothing, Labour/Le Travail 57(Spring 2006): 193-99.
“Looking Beyond the Walls,” review of three books on American prison history, Punishment
& Society 8(January 2006): 117-23.
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“Breaking From the Pack,” review essay about the new historiography of animals, Houston
Chronicle (Zest Magazine), July 3, 2005.
“Seizing Opportunity by the Throat,” review of three books on American business history and
the film “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” Houston Chronicle (Zest Magazine), May
15, 2005.
“The Roots of Black Nationalism?,” review of A Nation Under Our Feet, by Steven Hahn,
American Quarterly 57(March 2005): 261-69.
“One Struggle,” review of Race for Sanctions: African Americans Against Apartheid, 1946-
1994, by Francis Njebi Nesbitt, Safundi: The Journal of South African & American
Comparative Studies 15(June 2004): on-line review.
“City of Angles,” review of Writing Los Angeles, ed. David Ulin, Cite: The Architecture and
Design Review of Houston 59(Winter 2004): 33-34.
Review of When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African
Cultures, by Sheila Smith McKoy, Safundi: The Journal of South African & American
Comparative Studies 12(October 2003): online review.
“Globalizing Civil Rights,” review of Cold War Civil Rights, by Mary Dudziak and The Cold
War and the Color Line, by Thomas Borstelmann, Chicago Tribune, July 28, 2002.
"The CIO in Black and White," review of Divided We Stand: American Workers and the
Struggle for Black Equality, by Bruce Nelson, Radical History Review 83(Spring 2002):203-
10.
Review and organizer of symposium on The Challenge of Interracial Unionism, by Daniel
Letwin, Labor History 41(February 2000):63-68.
“Jailcell Journalism: Writing from the South’s Prison-Industrial Complex,” review of Prison
Writing in Twentieth-Century America, ed. H. Bruce Franklin, Southern Exposure 27(Summer
1999): 63-64.
"The Cold War and the Negro Question," review of C.L.R. James on the Negro Question,
Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era, by Patricia Sullivan, and Race
Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, by Penny Von Eschen,
Radical History Review 71(Fall 1998):184-93.
Review Essay: Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District, by W. David Lewis,
Alabama Review 51(April 1998):107-13.
"`The Only Salvation People had was to Organize' or Quiescence on the Installment Plan?,"
review of Like Night and Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town, by Daniel Clark and
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What Do We Need a Union For?: The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955, by Timothy Minchin,
Reviews in American History 25(December 1997):653-58.
"Middle Passages," review of Songs of Zion: The AME Church in the U.S. and South Africa,
by James T. Campbell, Transition 6(Winter 1996):136-46.
"Against Essentialism," review of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness,
by Paul Gilroy, Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and Science 5(Spring 1996):173-80.
"Coercion Had Its Limits," review of Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge, by
Charles B. Dew, Reviews in American History 23(March 1995):20-25.
"Origins of a New Synthesis," review of The Promise of the New South, by Edward L. Ayers,
Reviews in American History 21(June 1993):231-38.
RECENT SHORT REVIEWS
Review of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict labor in the New South, by Talitha
LeFlouria, Social History 41(April 2016): 226-28.
Review of Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa, by James Neff, Washington Post,
July 19, 2015.
Review of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South
Florida, by N.D.B. Connolly, Journal of Southern History 81(Nov. 2015): 1010-1012.
Review of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History,
by David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch, Indiana Magazine of History (September 2013):280-
82.
Review of Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities (Featured Review), by Carl
Nightingale, American Historical Review 118 (June 2013): 802-04.
Review of Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in
Postapartheid South Africa, by Franco Barchiesi, Labour/Le Travail 69 (Spring 2012): 252-
55
Review of Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from
Reconstruction to Globalization, by Mary Frederickson, American Historical Review
117(June 2012): 853-54.
Review of Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: The Epic Defeat of Claude Pepper in the 1950
Florida Senate Campaign, by James Clark, Journal of American History 99 (Sep. 2012): 653-
54.
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“What’s Left: Reflections on Michael Kazin’s American Dreamers,” The Nation (website),
January 6, 2012.
Review of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American
Penal State, 1776-1941, by Rebecca McLennan, Labour/Le Travail 64(Fall 2009):251-54.
Review of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, by Rosemary Feurer, Journal of the
Study of Radicalism 3(Spring 2009):180-82.
Review of White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa, by Jeremy
Krikler, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5(Summer 2008): 152-54.
Review of A Life Up Front: Bill Mauldin, by Todd DePastino, Chicago Tribune, March 15,
2008.
Review of Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins, by Martin A.
Dyckman, H-Florida, August 22, 2007.
Review of Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis that Shocked the Nation, by Elizabeth
Jacoway, Chicago Tribune, January 14, 2007.
Review of Global Perspectives of Industrial Transformation in the American South, ed.
Michelle Gillespie and Susanna Delfino, American Historical Review 111(Oct. 2006):1137-
38.
Review of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White
Resistance in Florida, by Paul Ortiz, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the
Americas 3(Winter 2006): 83-85.
Review of Steel-Drivin’ Man, by Scott Nelson, Houston Chronicle, October 22, 2006.
Review of Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, by Richard D. White, Jr., Chicago Tribune,
April 23, 2006.
Review of Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the
Nineteenth-Century Americas, by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, on-line review for H-Atlantic,
posted March 14, 2006.
Review of An Economic History of South Africa, by Charles H. Feinstein, Economic History
Review 59(February 2006): 253-54..
Review of Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace, by Nancy
MacLean, Chicago Tribune, March 12, 2006.
Review of Death in the Haymarket, by James Green, Houston Chronicle, April 16, 2006.
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Review of Sprawl: A Concise History, by Robert Bruegman, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 5, 2006.
Review of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink, by David
Margolick, Chicago Tribune, Oct. 16, 2005.
Review of American Congo, by Nan Woodruff, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of
the Americas 2(Summer 2005): 150-52.
Review of Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, by Mitchell Zuckoff,
Chicago Tribune, March 13, 2005.
Review of Civil Rights Unionism, by Robert Korstad, Peace and Change 29(July 2004): 597-
600.
Review of Victory at Home, by Charles Chamberlain, Labor History 44(Nov. 2003): 542-44.
Review of Race on the Line, by Venus Green, Business History Review 77(Autumn 2003):
535-38.
“California Nightmare,” review of Dead Cities, by Mike Davis, Cite: The Architecture and
Design Review of Houston 57(Spring 2003):32.
Review of The Color of Race in America, by Matthew Pratt Guterl, Journal of Southern
History 69(August 2003): 726-28.
Review of Confronting the New South Order, by Clifford Kuhn, Journal of American History
(December 2002):1088-1089.
Review of Machonochie’s Gentlemen: The Story of Norfolk Island and the Roots of Modern
Prison Reform, by Norval Morris, Chicago Tribune, Sep. 8, 2002.
Review of The Politics of Whiteness, by Michelle Brattain, Georgia Historical Quarterly
86(Summer 2002): 494-96.
Review of Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts
From Reconstruction to the New Deal, by David Bernstein, Labour/Le Travail 50(Fall
2002):340-42.
Review of Workers, War & the Origins of Apartheid, by Peter Alexander, Labor History
43(Aug. 2002): 374-75.
Review of Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South,
by Janet Irons, Alabama Review 55(July 2002):229-30.
31 Book Reviews between 1992 and 2001 appeared in Journal of American History(2), Labor
History(3), Journal of Southern History(3), Georgia Historical Quarterly(5), International
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Labor and Working Class History(2), Journal of Social History(2), American Journal of
Legal History, Southern Cultures, Law and History Review, Hispanic American Historical
Review(4), North Carolina Historical Review, The Journal of Mississippi History, Florida
Historical Quarterly, In These Times(3), and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
OTHER WRITINGS
“Comment: Is Birth of a Nation a Western?,” Black Camera, forthcoming.
“Five Questions for Alex Lichtenstein – Interim Editor American Historical Review,” Storia e
Futuro: Revista di Storia e Storiagrafia On Line, Numero 41, Giugno 2016.
“The Radical Historian: Martin Legassick, 1940-2016,” on “Africa is a Country” blog, April
11, 2016.
“Mass Incarceration has Become the New Welfare,” Atlantic Monthly website, Sep. 16, 2015.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/mass-incarceration-has-become-the-new-
welfare/404422/
“Noble Intentions: Can Dual Enrolment be Reformed?,” AHA Perspectives, September 2015.
“Using US Prison Labour to Make Crime Pay,” in “Beyond Trafficking and Slavery,” a special feature on OpenDemocracy website, April 22, 2015. https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/alex-lichtenstein/using-us-prison-labour-to-make-crime-pay “`Patriotism May Require Opposing the Government at Certain Times’: Howard Zinn’s
Antiwar Speech at Indiana University, December 1, 1967,” Indiana Magazine of History
110(June 2014): 162-80.
Remembrance, Robert H. Zieger, LAWCHA Newsletter, 2013, p. 12.
“Editors’ Introduction: The Global Antiapartheid Movement, 1946-1994,” with Lisa Brock
and Van Gosse, Radical History Review 119 (Spring 2014): 1-5.
“The Dutch Antiapartheid Movement: An Interview with Sietse Bosgra,” Radical History
Review 119 (Spring 2014): 24-51.
“The Political Worlds of Nelson Mandela,” A Tribute to Nelson Mandela, published on
Taylor & Francis Online, March 10, 2014,
http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/pgas/nelson-mandela.
“Debate: The future of the workers' movement in South Africa,” participant, “Africa is a
Country,” Feb. 20, 2014.
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“The Political Worlds of Nelson Mandela,” guest column, Bloomington Herald-Times, July 9,
2013.
“The Voortrekker Monument and the `Many Mistakes’ of the South African Past,” blog essay
on “Africa is a Country,” March 13, 2013, http://africasacountry.com/2013/03/13/the-
voortrekker-monument-and-the-many-mistakes-of-the-afrikaner-past/
“Poll Tax by Any Other Name Still is Wrong,” op-ed essay on Voter ID laws, Bloomington
Herald-Times, October 15, 2012.
“What Went Wrong at Marikana?,” LA Review of Books, Sep. 1, 2012 (on line).
“Consensus? What Consensus?,” comment in roundtable on the Long Civil Rights Movement
and Communism, American Communist History 11(April 2012): 49-53.
“1001 Ways to Freeload,” op-ed essay on Right to Work legislation, Bloomington Herald-
Times, January 23, 2012.
“Memory and Forgetting: Labor History and the Archive,” Southern Labor Studies
Association Newsletter 2(Spring 2011):3-4.
“Padrone del destino: Mandela e la nazione sudafricana” [“Master of His Destiny: Mandela
and the South African Nation,” review essay on the film “Invictus”, trans. Ferdinando Fasce],
Contemporanea 14(January 2011): 127-33.
“Labor and Empire,” in Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor
History, ed. Leon Fink (Oxford University Press, 2011).
“Trials of the New South,” in The American South: A Reader and Guide, ed. Daniel Letwin
(Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
Co-authored with Richard Follett, Rick Halpern, and Alison Bambridge, “Documenting the
Louisiana Sugar Economy, 1845-1917: An on-line Database Project,” Journal of Peasant
Studies 35 (October 2008).
“Southern Identity: A Dissent,” Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies
9 (July 2008): 311–317.
“Coalition of Immokalee Workers Targets Burger King after Taco Bell and MacDonalds
Victories,” LAWCHA Newsletter, Spring 2008, p. 17.
“Herbert Hill and the `Negro Question’,” essay in symposium on Herbert Hill and his Legacy,
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 3(Summer 2006): 33-39.
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Commentary on Melanie Shell-Weiss, “Coming North to the South: Migration, Labor and
City-Building in Twentieth-Century Miami,” Florida Historical Quarterly 84(Summer 2005):
112-16, 120-21.
Review of the Texas Prison Museum, “Exhibitions” section, Journal of American History
91(June 2004): 197-99.
"Antiliberalism and the Politics of Working-Class Nostalgia," Comment in symposium on
"Southernizing the American Working Class," by James N. Gregory, Labor History 39(May
1998):158-61.
Report on "Ball and Chain: An International Conference Exploring the Boundaries of
Freedom and Coercion," International Labor and Working Class History 52(Fall 1997).
CURATORIAL WORK
Curator, “Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” 1) Mathers Museum of World
Cultures, Indiana University, Aug-Dec. 2013; 2) Museum Africa, Johannesburg, Jan.-April
2014; 3) Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, April-May, 2014;4) Durban Art
Gallery, June-July 2014.
Co-curator (with Jonathan Mogul), "Women’s Work / Men’s Work: Labor and Gender in
America," Wolfsonian Museum/Frost Art Museum Teaching Gallery inaugural exhibit,
Florida International University, January 20-April 25, 2010.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Entries in Encyclopedia of Labor and Working Class History, ed. Eric Arnesen (Routledge,
2007):
▪ “H.L. Mitchell” (1000 words)
▪ “Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union” (2000 words)
▪ “World War II” (4000 words)
▪ “National War Labor Board” (1000 words)
▪ “No-Strike Pledge” (750 words)
▪ “New South” (750 words)
“Georgia Nigger,” in The New Georgia Encyclopedia (University of Georgia Press, 2005 on-
line), www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org. [Reprinted in Hugh Ruppersburg and John Inscoe,
eds., The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature (University of
Georgia Press, 2007), pp.221-24]
“The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union,” in The Oxford Companion to United States History,
ed. Paul Boyer (Oxford University Press, 2000).
“The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union,” in Encyclopedia of Civil Rights, ed. P. Sullivan and
W. Martin (MacMillan, 2000).
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WRITINGS FOR CHILDREN
“A Long Struggle”(with Elizabeth Tenney) and “A High Point?: The 1963 March for Jobs
and Freedom,” Cobblestone: American History for Grades 5-9 (Feb. 2013).
“Malcolm X in Africa” and “Malcolm X in Prison,” Footsteps, a magazine of African
American history for children (Mar/April 2006).
“A Ring for All (African-American Boxers)”, Footsteps (May/June 2005).
“Oscar Micheaux”, Footsteps (Nov/Dec. 2004).
“Black Codes” and “Civil Rights Acts: 1866 and 1964”, Footsteps (Sep/Oct.2004).
PAPERS
“Subjects, Citizens, and the Making of Durban's Working Class under Apartheid,”
Paper presented at European Conference on African Studies, Basel, 30 June 2017
“Shop Floor Citizenship: African Workers, the National Manpower Commission, and the
Industrial Court in Apartheid South Africa,” paper presented at the XIth International
Conference on Labour History, Association of Indian Labour Historians, Delhi, March 23,
2016.
“Opening Pandora’s Box: The Apartheid State, Employers, and Black Labour in South Africa
during the 1970s,” paper presented at “Global Labour and the Crises of High Capitalism:
Rethinking the 1970s,” at Re:Work, the International Research Center on Work and Human
Life Cycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 28-29, 2015.
“’We do not think that the Bantu is ready for labour unions’: Employers, the Apartheid State,
and the Aftermath of the Durban Strikes in South Africa,” paper presented at workshop on
“Africa during the Global 1970s,” Boston College, April 9-10, 2015.
“Citizens, not Subjects: Spatial Segregation and the Making of Durban’s African Working
Class (a Critique of Mamdani)”, Paper presented to the 2014-2015 Mellon Sawyer Seminar,
“The Ghetto: Concept, Conditions, and Connections in Transnational Historical Perspective,”
Carnegie-Mellon University, November 13, 2014.
“The Struggle for Industrial Democracy in South Africa: Shop Floor Battles for Union
Recognition in Natal’s Textile Industry, 1980-1983,” paper presented at 4th International
Toyin Falola Annual Conference, Durban, South Africa, July 4, 2014.
“From Wiehahn to Marikana: the origins of Dualism in South African Labour Relations,”
paper presented at “Twenty Years Later: South Africa and the Post-Apartheid Condition”,
Emory University, April 17th – 19th, 2014.
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“Black Workers and the Wiehahn Commission Reforms in Late Apartheid: Corporatism or
Shop-Floor Power?,” Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association, Baltimore, Nov. 22, 2013
“From Durban to Wiehahn: Black Workers, Employers, and the State in South Africa during
the 1970s,” paper presented at “"Grèves et conflits sociaux. Approches croisées de la
conflictualité (du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours)", May 15-17, 2013, Maison des Sciences de
l'Homme, Université de Bougogne, Dijon, France.
"Dualism in South African Industrial Relations: Corporatism or Shop-Floor Power?," paper
presented at the University of Johannesburg's Center for the Study of Social Change, March
1, 2013.
"From Durban to Wiehahn: Black Workers, Employers, and the State in South Africa during
the 1970s" paper presented at the Witwatersrand Institute of Social and Economic Research,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Feb. 25, 2013.
“Trying to Tame the Shop Floor: Black Workers, Employers, and the State in South Africa,
1977-1985,” Labor History Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, February 2, 2013.
“Taming the Shop Floor: The 1979 Wiehahn Reforms and Black Workers,” paper presented
at “CAS@50: Cutting Edges and Retrospectives,” Centre for African Studies, University of
Edinburgh, 6-8 June 2012.
"The End of the Southern Strategy? Barack Obama and the Politics of Race," paper
presented at “Reset: Russian-American Relations in the Age of Obama,” at the Russian-
American Academic Center Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, April
12, 2012.
“From Detroit to Durban: Writing a `Global’ Labor History of the U.S. and South Africa,”
paper presented at “Working in the Ottoman Empire and in Turkey: Ottoman and Turkish
Labour History Within a Global Perspective,” 18-20 November 2011, Bilgi University,
Istanbul.
“From `Spontaneous Upheaval’ to Shop-Floor Power: Works Committees and the Struggle
for Industrial Citizenship in South Africa, 1973-1979,” paper presented at “Labor and Human
Emancipation: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Histories,” the Kemp Symposium, Bowdoin
College, May 6, 2011.
“Works Committees and the Struggle for Industrial Citizenship in South Africa, 1973-1979, ”
Paper presented at Labour Histories from the Global South: International Seminar,
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, October 25-28, 2010.
"Citizens or Subjects?: The Durban Strikes and the African Working Class,” Paper presented
at Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa, April 7-10, 2010.
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"From Liaison Committees to Trade Unions: The Struggle for Industrial
Citizenship in South Africa, 1973-1979," paper presented at the South African and
Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar, Center for Humanities Research, University
of the Western Cape, 18 August 2009
“Origins of the Southern Strategy: Race, Class, and the Defeat of Claude Pepper in the 1950
Florida Democratic Primary,” paper presented at the University of Florida Department of
History, February 9, 2009
“The End of the Southern Strategy?: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race,” paper presented
at “State and Democracy,” the 40th Anniversary Conference of the Faculty of Political
Science, University of Belgrade, 28-29 November, 2008.
“Building a Mass Movement: The NAACP in Florida, 1944-1950,” paper presented at the
Social Science History Association meeting, Miami, FL, October 26, 2008.
“The End of Southern Liberalism: Race, Class, and the Defeat of Claude Pepper in the 1950
Florida Democratic Primary,” paper presented at the center for the Study of Work, Labor, and
Democracy, University of California at Santa Barbara, September 26, 2008.
“Works Committees or Trade Unions? The Struggle for Industrial Citizenship in South
Africa, 1973-1979,” paper presented at “Labour Crossings: World, Work and History,”
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 5-8 September 2008.
“Works Committees or Trade Unions?: South African Industrial Relations in the Wake of the
Durban Strikes, 1973-1979,” paper presented to the History and Social Sciences Seminar,
University of Pretoria, September 3, 2008.
“Works Committees or Trade Unions? The Struggle for Industrial Citizenship in South
Africa, 1973-1979,” paper given at 7th Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa, Burlington,
VT, April 13-15, 2007.
“Wages, Productivity, and the African Working Class: The 1973 Durban Strikes and the
Crisis of South African Capitalism,” paper presented at the Tamiment Library Seminar in
Labor and Cold War History, New York University, Nov. 2, 2006.
“`Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation’ [Matthew 12:25]: Governor
LeRoy Collins and the Florida Sit-In Movement,” George Pozzetta Lecture Series, University
of Florida History Department, March 23, 2006.
“Towards a Transnational History of Labor in the U.S. and South Africa,” paper presented at
the American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2006.
“How Red Was Red Pepper?: Labor, Civil Rights, and Anticommunism in Florida Politics,”
paper presented at the Southern Historical Association meeting, Atlanta, November 2005.
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“In Search of Charles Smolikoff: Trade Union Communist or Communist Trade Unionist?,”
paper presented at Workshop on Real Socialism and the Second World, Centre for Russian
and Eastern European Studies, University of Toronto, May 1, 2004.
“Making Apartheid Work: African Trade Unions and the 1953 Native Labour(Settlement of
Disputes) Act,” paper presented to the Historical Association of South Africa Meeting,
Stellenbosch University, South Africa, April 2004.
“Making Apartheid Work: The Administration of the 1953 Native Labour(Settlement of
Disputes) Act,” paper presented to the Houston Area African Studies Group, October 2002.
“Making Apartheid Work: The Administration of the 1953 Native Labour(Settlement of
Disputes) Act,” paper presented to South African and Contemporary History Seminar,
Department of History and Institute for Historical Research, University of the Western Cape,
October 2000.
"`The Hope for White and Black’?: Race, Labor and the State in South Africa and the U.S.,”
paper presented to the History and Social Sciences Seminar, Univ. of Pretoria, May 2000.
“The Public and the Private in American Punishment,” paper presented at Conference on
Mass Imprisonment, Institute for Law and Society, New York University Law School,
February 2000.
“How Red Was Red Pepper?: Labor, Civil Rights, and the 1950 Florida Senate Primary
Campaign,” paper presented at the First Biennial Allen Morris Conference on Florida and the
Atlantic World, Florida State University, February 2000.
“Company Unionism and Race Relations in a World War II North Carolina Shipyard,” paper
presented at the 11th Southern Labor Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 1999.
"Sharecroppers: An American Peasantry?", paper presented at "The Segregated South:
Tulane-Cambridge Atlantic World Studies Program Conference," Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge University, March 1999.
"Proletarians or Peasants?: Sharecroppers and the Politics of Protest in the Rural South, 1880-
1940," paper presented at Colloquium Series for the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale
University, September 1998.
"Cross-Border Organizing: The Case of Florida/Puerto Rico in the 1940s," paper presented at
the Third International Network for Transformative Employment and Labor Law (INTELL)
Conference, Miami, March 1998.
"Exclusion, Fair Employment, or Interracial Unionism?: Race Relations in Florida's
Shipyards During World War II," paper presented at "Labor in the Twentieth-Century South:
a Festschrift in Honor of Gary M. Fink," Georgia State University, Atlanta, March 1998.
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"Black Workers and the FEPC in Florida," paper presented at University of Miami School of
Law, December 1997.
"`We Will Be Given Better Consideration Through the Union': Black Workers and the FEPC
in Florida," paper presented at the Southern Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta,
November 1997.
"`We Will Be Given Better Consideration Through the Union': Black Workers, the FEPC, and
the CIO in Florida During World War II," paper presented at the 10th Southern Labor Studies
Conference, Williamsburg, VA, September 1997.
"`We Will Be Given Better Consideration Through the Union': Black Workers, the FEPC, and
the CIO in Florida During World War II," paper presented at "Racializing Class, Classifying
Race: A Conference of Labour and Difference in the U.S., Africa, and Britain," Oxford
University, July 1997.
"`It Savors Too Much of Slavery Times': The North Carolina Chain Gang and the U.S. Office
of Public Roads," paper presented at "The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions: A
National Policy History Conference," Bowling Green State University, June 1997.
"Exclusion, Fair Employment, or Interracial Unionism?: Race Relations in Florida's
Shipyards During World War II," paper presented at the History Department, University of
Oregon, January 1997.
"The American Left and the Problem of Slavery: The Jamesian Connection," paper presented
at the African-American Studies Department, Yale University, December 1996.
"Chained and Unchained: Convict Labor and Mobility in the American South," paper
presented at "Ball and Chain: An International Conference Exploring the Boundaries of
Freedom and Coercion," University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 1996.
"Putting Labor's House in Order: The Transport Workers Union and Southern
Anticommunism, 1944-1954," paper presented at the Center for Recent U.S. History, seminar
on "Radicalism, Reaction, and Reform: The Transformation of Postwar Political Culture,
1945-55", University of Iowa, April 1996.
"The Sloss Furnace National Historic Landmark: Industrial History or Labor History?," paper
presented at "Building History and Labor History," the Eighth Symposium of the George
Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, MD, Feb.1996.
"Inter-American Solidarity in the Early Cold War: The Transport Workers Union in Miami,"
paper presented at the 9th Southern Labor Studies Conference, Austin, Texas, October 1995.
"Sloss Blast Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama: A Proposed Site for the National Labor
History Landmark Theme Study," paper prepared for the Dr. William M. Scholl Center,
Newberry Library, May 1995.
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"Labor Radicalism, Race Relations, and Anticommunism in Miami during the 1940s," paper
presented at Organization of American Historians Meeting, Washington, April 1995.
"Trouble in Paradise: Labor, Communism, and Race in Miami in the 1940s," paper presented
at the Newberry Library Seminar in American Social History, Chicago, April 1995.
"Racial Conflict and Racial Solidarity in the Alabama Coal Strike of 1894: A Contribution to
the Gutman-Hill Debate," paper presented at the Southern Labor Studies Conference,
Birmingham, Alabama, October 1993.
"Theft, Moral Economy, and the Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the American South,"
German Association for American Studies Conference, "Slave Cultures and Cultures of
Slavery," Amerika-Institut, University of Munich, Feb. 1993.
"Convict Labor and Racial Ideology in the New South," paper presented at the Southern
Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, November 1992.
"Twice the Work of Free Labor?: Convict Labor in Georgia's Coal Mines," paper presented at
the Organization of American Historians Meeting, Atlanta, April 1992.
"`Through the Rugged Gates of the Penitentiary': Convicts and Southern Coal," paper
presented at the Commonwealth Fund Conference, University of London, February 1992.
"Labor, Punishment, and the Task System in Georgia's Convict Mines," paper presented at the
Southern Labor Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 1991.
"Bad Men Make Good Roads," paper presented at the Southern Historical Association
Meeting, Louisville, November 1989.
PANELS AND CONFERENCES
Commentator, “Genocide: From Lemkin and Paul Robeson to BLM.” panel at “Crises of
Liberal Democracy: Political Economy, Social Integration, Law and Identity,” a symposium
honoring the work and career of David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law. March
3-4, 2017.
“The South African Passive Resistance Campaign,” talk presented at “Passive Resistance,”
workshop held at IU India Gateway, March 17-19, 2016.
Co-Organizer, “Labor, Migration, and Sovereignty,” symposium, IU Europe gateway, Berlin,
March 11, 2016.
Commentator, “Capitalist Transformation and the Commons,” symposium on “History after
E.P. Thompson” University of Michigan, Nov. 16-18, 2015.
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Commentator, “Labor and Power in the Nineteenth Century,” panel at the Southern Historical
Association Meeting, Little Rock, AR, Nov. 14, 2015.
Commentator, “National/Transnational in Historical Time,” panel at From Cinematic Past to
Fast Forward Present: D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation-- a Centennial Symposium,
Indiana University, Nov. 12, 2015.
Co-Organizer, “Global Labour and the Crises of High Capitalism: Rethinking the 1970s,”
workshop convened at Re:Work, the International Research Center on Work and Human Life
Cycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 28-29, 2015
Commentator, “The Role of the Left in 1930s Activism,” panel at the “Fighting Inequality”
Conference, Labor and Working Class History Association, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, May 28-31, 2015.
Organizer and Chair, “Revisiting a Classic: Cayton & Mitchell’s Black Workers & the New
Union: A Classic Revisited,” Southern Labor Studies Conference, March 6-8, 2015,
Washington, DC.
Commentator on the panel on Convict Labor, “Conference on Penal regimes in Global
Perspective, 1800-2014,” Wetherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University,
March 6-7, 2015.
Commentator on the panel “The Science of Empire,” at the Conference on Labor and Empire,
University of California, Santa Barbara, November 13-15, 2014.
Roundtable panelist, “Abolitions et esclavages : Historiographies et regards croisés,” École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 13, 2013.
Roundtable panelist, “Rethinking Resistance,” North American Labor History Conference,
Wayne State University, Detroit, Oct. 18-20, 2012.
Co-Organizer/Co-Convenor, Workshop on “Global Convict Labour,” International Institute of
Social History, Amsterdam, June 13-14, 2012.
Moderator, panel on “Transformations,” at “Florida at the Crossroads: Five Hundred years of
Encounters, Conflicts, and Exchanges,” University of Miami Center for the Humanities, Feb.
9-11, 2012.
Commentator, “Freedom and Unfreedom in Capitalist Development,” Conference on
“Workers and the World Crisis,’ Sep. 23-25, 2011, Georgetown University.
Commentator, “The Freedmen and Southern Society Project after 25 Years,” Southern Labor
Studies Conference, April 8-10, 2011, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Commentator, “Rethinking Emancipation,” Annual Meeting of The Historical Society, June
3-5, 2010, Washington, DC.
Round-table participant, “Forced Labor in the South After Slavery,” After Slavery: Race,
Labor & Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas, College of Charleston, March 11-13,
2010.
Commentator, “Political Economy and Historical Possibility after the End of Slavery,” After
Slavery: Race, Labor & Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas, College of Charleston,
March 11-13, 2010.
Commentator, “Race, Labor and Incarceration in Early Twentieth-Century American
Culture,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 7-10,
2009.
Commentator, “Globalization, the `Crisis’ of Capitalism, and the Obama Presidency,”
symposium sponsored by African & African Diaspora Studies, Florida International
University, Oct. 30, 2009.
Commentator, “The Politics & Economics of Mass Incarceration in Recent US History,”
Labor and Working Class History Association Conference on “Race, Labor and the City,”
Chicago, May 28-31, 2009.
Commentator, “Civil Rights on the Cell Block,” Manuscript Workshop, Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, February 14, 2009.
Commentator, “Eric Arnesen’s Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: A Retrospective,”
Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, Oct. 10-12, 2008.
Commentator, “Coerced Labor,” Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: The Newberry
Conference on Labor History Across the Americas, Chicago, Sep. 18-20, 2008.
Facilitator, “Transnational Labour, Transnational Methods,” Global Labour History Summer
Institute, University of Toronto, June 8-14, 2008. Included presentations on “Unfree Labour
and Global Capitalism” and “Caste and Race in American Social Science.”
Chair and Commentator, “Workers’ Struggles for Freedom,” 29th North American Labor
History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 18-20, 2007.
Commentator, “The Hacienda & the Plantation: Historical, Political, and Cultural Legacies,”
Rice University Humanities Research Center, March 23-24, 2007.
Participant, Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, July 26-August
2, 2006, Tepoztlán, Mexico.
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Chair and Commentator, “20th Century US: Best and Worst,” Florida Conference of
Historians Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, May 5-6, 2006.
Roundtable organizer and participant, “From Comparative to Transnational History: South
African and American Perspectives,” 6th Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa, Burlington,
Vermont, April 22-24, 2005.
Commentator, First Biennial Southern National Bank Symposium on Southern History, “The
Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century,” Rice University, Houston, Texas,
February 26, 2005.
Chair, “Class in the Atlantic World II,” panel at conference on “Class and Class Struggles in
the Atlantic World,” Montana State University, September 2003.
Commentator, "The Economics of Louisiana Sugar: New Tools and New Paradigms," panel
at the Southern Historical Association Meeting, New Orleans, November 2001.
Commentator and Chair, “Class Consciousness and African American Politics After the Great
Depression,” 21st Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State
University, October 1999.
Commentator, “Prison Labor: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” 11th Southern
Labor Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 1999.
Commentator, "Rural Workers and Agrarian Transformation," 1999 Commonwealth Fund
Conference, University College London, “Two Souths: Towards an Agenda for Comparative
Study of the American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno”, January 1999.
Commentator, "Comparisons and Connections: South Africa and the United States,"
Organization of American Historians Meeting, April 1998.
Commentator and Chair, "Make `Em Work: A Comparative Perspective on the
Criminalization of Poverty," 10th Southern Labor Studies Conference, Williamsburg, VA,
September 1997.
Commentator, "Prison History From the Inside Out," Organization of American Historians
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 1997.
Commentator, "African-American Workers in the New South," 9th Southern Labor Studies
Conference, Austin, Texas, October 1995.
Commentator, "Race, Labor, and Power in the New South," panel at the Southern Historical
Association Meeting, Louisville, November 1994.
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PUBLIC LECTURES, INTERVIEWS AND PRESENTATIONS
“The Durban Moment: South Africa’s 1968,” talk given to the Nineteenth- and Twenteith-
Century History Colloquium, Bielefeld University, Germany, July 21, 2017.
“Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: Memorial Culture and Racial Trauma in Comparative
Perspective,” talk given at “After the Election: Antisemitism and Racism in the U.S.,” Indiana
University Europe Gateway, Berlin, June 15, 2017.
“Migrants, Commuters, and the Apartheid City,” talk presented at Colloquium on Global
History, Free University, Berlin, May 22, 2017.
“What Was Apartheid?: A Comparative Perspective,” lecture given at University of Tel Aviv,
Faculty of Humanities, April 4, 2017.
“Negotiating Without a Union: Workplace Safety in Apartheid South Africa,” lecture given at
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, September 28, 2016.
"A Visual History of South African Apartheid Through American Eyes: Margaret Bourke-
White, 1950" , talk given at ‘Africa at Noon,” African Studies Department, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, October 6, 2016.
Interview on “Interchange” with Douglas Storm, WFHB Bloomington, on Margaret Bourke-
White and South Africa, July 19, 2016.
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” talk given at History Workshop,
University of the Witwatersrand, June 14, 2016.
Panelist, “Freedom Summer,” Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, July 10, 2015.
Panelist, "Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle," Indiana State Museum,
Indianapolis, January 29, 2015.
“The Making of Mandela,” keynote lecture at the commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s Life
and Legacy, University of Southern Indiana, December 4, 2014.
“The Durban Moment: Non-Racialism and the Trade Union Movement,” presentation given
at the Johannesburg Workshop on Theory and Criticism, Durban, South Africa, July 4, 2014.
Gallery Talk on Margaret Bourke-White and South Africa, Durban Art Gallery, July 2, 2014.
“Making Apartheid Work: Black Workers and Industrial Relations in South Africa, 1948-
1994,” presentation given at Re:Work, International Research Center on Work and Human
Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 18, 2014.
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“Historicizing a Photographic Archive: Curating Margaret Bourke-White’s South Africa,”
talk given at The Centre for Curating the Archive, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of
Cape Town, April 2, 2014.
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” presentation and workshop, Michaelis
Galleries, University of Cape Town, March 28, 2014.
“Margaret Bourke-White, South Africa, and Human Rights,” lecture given at Museum Africa,
Johannesburg, March 19, 2014.
Guest on “Jamaica Speaks” with Professor Trevor Munroe, Hot 102 FM, Kingston, Jamaica,
to discuss South Africa after Mandela, December 17, 2013.
Interviews on “The Midday Briefing with Tim Farley,” Politics of the U.S., SiriusXM Radio,
on death and funeral of Nelson Mandela, Dec. 10, 2013, Dec. 16, 2013.
Interview on the Peter Boyles Show, KNUS-AM, Denver, on death of Nelson Mandela, Dec.
6, 2013.
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” talk given at the African Studies
Center, UCLA, October 25, 2013.
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” presentation, Center for Research on
Race and Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University, Sep. 6, 2013.
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” presentation, gallery opening, Mathers
Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Sep. 6, 2013.
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” presentation and workshop, Museum
Africa, Johannesburg, Feb. 25, 2013.
“Making Apartheid Work: Black Workers, South African Labor Law, and the Struggle for
Racial Justice,” talk given at the Center for Law, Society and Culture, Maurer School of Law,
Indiana University, Oct. 4, 2012.
‘Taming the Shop Floor in South Africa: Black Workers and the Struggle against Apartheid,
1973-1985,” talk given at Michigan State University’s “Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives”
series, Sep. 21, 2012.
Interview/Podcast, Episode 66 of “Africa, Past and Present:The Podcast About African
History, Culture, and Politics,” on South African Labor History and the Marikana Moment,
Sep. 21, 2012.
Interview on “African Diaspora Today,” WVON Radio, Chicago, on South African labor
crisis, Sep. 15, 2012.
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Interview on WDEL Radio, Wilmington, DE, on the shooting of striking miners in South
Africa, August 17, August 20, and Sep. 4, 2012.
“In Search of Charles Smolikoff: Writing the Life History of a Communist Trade Unionist in
the U.S. South,” talk presented at Leeds University American Research Seminar, March 26,
2012.
“Trade Unions, National Liberation, and the State: The South African Case,” talk presented to
seminar on Historia da Trabalho e Trabalhodores, SINPRO, Rio de Janeiro, October 23, 2010.
“Il Lavoro della Donna/Il Lavoro degli Uomini: Immagini di Lavoro e di Genere in America
al Galleria Insegnamento al Wolfsonian-FIU,” lecture given to the Fondazione di Cultura,
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, May 7th, 2010.
Visiting Lectures on U.S. History and Literature (Civil Rights; Ralph Ellison & Black
Politics; Walt Whitman and Antislavery), University of Genoa, April-May 2010.
"Citizens or Subjects?: The Durban Strikes and the African Working Class--A Critique of
Mamdani," talk to University of Stellenbosch History Seminar Series, Stellenbosch, South
Africa, Sep. 1, 2009.
“Forty Acres and a Mule: The Land Question in the Post-Emancipation U.S. South,” talk to
the Program in Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, August 26, 2009
“Citizens, not Subjects: The Durban Strikes and the African Working Class (Towards a
Critique of Mamdani)," talk to University of Cape Town History Seminar, August 19, 2009.
Radio interview about America as a “superpower”, the Joe Bartlett Show, WOR Radio (New
York), July 4, 2009.
Panelist, “My President is Black, So What?,” sponsored by Black Law Students Association,
FIU College of Law, February 19, 2009.
Interview about the inauguration of Barack Obama, Union Radio with Eli Bravo, WNMA
1210 AM, Miami, FL, January 20, 2009.
“Three New Deals: A Conversation with Wolfgang Schivelbusch,” Wolfsonian Museum,
Miami Beach, November 20, 2008.
Interview about the election of Barack Obama, Union Radio with Eli Bravo, WNMA 1210
AM, Miami, FL, November 6, 2008.
“Was there a Southern Strategy?: Race, Politics and Conservatism,” Keynote Lecture,
Homewood-Flossmoor Teaching American History Consortium, Newberry Library, Chicago,
September 24, 2008.
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Visiting Lectures on U.S. History, Center for the Study of the U.S., Faculty of Political
Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, April 11-25, 2008.
“Union Summer: Labor History, Then & Now,” lecture at AFL-CIO Union Summer
Orientation, Washington, DC, June 5, 2007.
Visiting Lectures on U.S. History, Institute of American History and Culture, Nankai
University, Tianjin, China, May 14-25, 2007.
“When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Hitler: Wartime Sacrifice and Propaganda,” public
lecture given at Montgomery College, North Harris Community College, Houston, TX, Feb.
22, 2007.
“A Working-Class Hero for Black History Month: Commemorating John Henry,” talk given
at North Harris Community College, Carver Center, Houston, TX, Feb. 5, 2007.
“South Africa Twelve Years After Liberation,” talk given to the Deerfield Progressive
Forum, Deerfield Beach, FL, March 11, 2006.
“When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Hitler: Wartime Sacrifice and Propaganda,” public
lecture given at Miamintelligence, Miami, FL, November 1, 2005.
“Jews on the Left” and “Jews on the Right,” lectures in the Adult Education Program, Temple
Bet Breira, Miami, FL, Sep. 7 and Sep. 14, 2005.
“Teaching Race Relations, 1830s-1960s,” 2-day Workshop for AP high school teachers in
U.S. History, Rice University School of Continuing Studies, June 2005.
Interview about the history of convict leasing, “Starkraven”, CRFO, Co-op Radio, Vancouver,
BC, May 2, 2005.
“Teaching South African History Through Literature,” Workshop for High School Teachers
in the International Baccalaureate Program, School of Continuing Studies, Rice University,
March 2005.
“Why Study History at Rice,” Vision Panel for Minority Student Recruitment, Rice
University, February 2005.
Interview about the history of prison labor, “Critical Resistance Radio,” KPFA, San
Francisco, February 22, 2005.
“History and Social Security,” interview on KTRU radio, Houston, February 14, 2005.
“Me and American Studies, or Theory Means Having Nothing Left to Lose,” talk given to
Purdue University Department of History and Program in American Studies, February 2004.
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“Popular Front Culture, International Solidarity, and the Spanish Civil War,” talk given in
conjunction with showing of “The Spanish Earth,” Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, November
2002.
"'Land to the Landless': The Roots of a Peasant Revolt in the Plantation South," talk given to
Rice University History Department, December 2001.
“Labor in the New South Africa,” talk given at the Deerfield Progressive Forum, Deerfield
Beach, Florida, February 2001.
“Trade Unions vs. Neoliberalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” talk given at the Center for
Labor Research and Study, Florida International University, February, 2001.
“Trade Unions and the Liberation Movement in South Africa,” talk given to
History/International Relations Colloquium, Florida International University, January 2001.
“Making Apartheid Work: The Administration of Labour Relations Law for African Workers
in South Africa,” talk given at History Department Seminar, University of Cape Town,
October 2000.
Interviewee, “Histories Mysteries: The Chain Gang,” documentary produced by The History
Channel, first aired in July 2000, shown in many repeats thereafter.
“Organized Labor and Internationalism in Historical Perspective,” talk given at the Deerfield
Progressive Forum, Deerfield Beach, Florida, December 1999.
"Sharecroppers and the Neo-Plantation South," talk given to the Hunter College History
Department, March 1999.
"Two, Three, Many `Kronstadts': The New Left and the New York Intellectuals," talk given in
conjunction with showing of "Arguing the World", Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, February
1999.
"`It Sure is Tough Being a Marxist These Days'," talk given to the University of Arizona
History Department, February 1999.
"The Documentary Vision of Pare Lorentz: Social Environmentalism or Environmental
Determinism?," talk for Wolfsonian Museum's "Public Works" exhibit, Miami, January 1998.
Radio show with Charlie King and Michael Stock on Labor History and Labor Songs, "Folk
and Acoustic Music," WLRN-FM, Miami, November, 1997.
"Trouble in Paradise: Labor, Communism, and Race in Miami in the 1940s," Martin Weiner
Lecture, Brandeis University History Department, October 1997.
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"`We Will Be Given Better Consideration Through the Union': Black Workers and the CIO in
Florida During World War II," talk presented at University of Miami History Department
Lunchtime Colloquium, November 1995.
"Race Relations in Florida's Shipyards During World War II," talk presented at Center for
Labor Research and Study, Florida International University, Workplace Issues Forum,
October 1995.
"Race Relations in Florida's Shipyards During World War II," talk presented at the Newberry
Library Colloquium, Chicago, August 1995.
"Convict Labor on the Prussian Road," talk presented at the Newberry Library Colloquium,
Chicago, October 1994.
"Black History Month: Its Meaning for Blacks, Its Meaning for Whites," Black Heritage
Festival, Florida International University, February 1992.
"Mythology or History: Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and Lynching in Historical
Perspective," lecture sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, Florida International University,
November 1991.
TEACHING
Academy for PhD students on “Labour, Politics, and Safety,” IGK Work & Human Life Cycle in
Global History (re:work) and the History Department of the University Eduardo Mondlane in
Maputo, Mozambique, Sep. 23-30, 2016.
Indiana University, 2011-
History of South Africa
Junior Seminar: The Scottsboro Case
U.S. Labor History
H106: American History II
Graduate Colloquium in US History: 20th Century Political Cultures
Graduate Colloquium in Comparative History: The US and South Africa
“Reacting to the Past” Seminar, The Struggle for Civil Rights
University of Cape Town, Visiting Lecturer, July-August 2009
Modern South African History
Rice University, 2002-07
Graduate Seminar: Race, Labor & Region in US History
Graduate Research Seminar in Southern History
Graduate Research Seminar on Antiliberalism
Graduate Readings Seminar in Southern History: Civil Rights
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar
The United States, 1877-present
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U.S. Labor History
Comparative History: The U.S. and South Africa
The New Deal and World War II
History of American Radicalism & Dissent
Freshman Seminar: Southern Rebels
Rice University, special seminar on American History & Culture for visiting Chinese scholars
(co-taught with Professor Terry Doody), Summer 2006.
University of the Western Cape, 2000 (Fulbright Lecturer)
Race, Class, Democratic and National Consciousness in 20th Century South Africa
(co-taught with Martin Legassick and Mohammed Adhikari)
Florida International University, 1990-2002, 2007-11
Undergraduate Courses
South African History (both regular and on-line)
Modern American Civilization (U.S. Survey)
Democracy in America, 1835-1965
Origins of Modern America, 1877-1919
The Great Depression and World War II
African-American History
U.S. Labor History
Approaches to History: The Scottsboro Case
Senior Seminar: Historiography of Slavery
Senior Seminar: Race, Class & Politics in Modern U.S.
Senior Seminar: Liberation Movements in Southern Africa
Graduate Seminars
The Cold War and Civil Rights
Readings in Atlantic Civilization & the Black Atlantic
Emancipation
Comparative Slavery and Emancipation
Historiography of Slavery
The 1930s
Comparative History: The United States and South Africa
Historical Methods
American Political Cultures, 1890-1980
University of Miami, History Lecturer, Summer 1988
U.S. Survey, 1876-1984
Yale University, College Seminar Program and Department of American Studies, Visiting
Lecturer, Spring 1987.
Emancipation and its Legacy, 1790-1980.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Research Consultant, American Friends Service Committee, 200th Anniversary of the
Penitentiary Project, Philadelphia, Summer 1987.
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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center on Work and Human Lifecycle in
Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, March-July 2017.
IU Overseas Study Program Development Grant, Office of the Vice-Provost of International
Affairs, to develop study abroad class in South Africa, 2015. $3000
Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center on Work and Human Lifecycle in
Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, May-July 2014.
U.S. State Department Grant-in-Aid, South African Embassy, for support of exhibit
“Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid,” 2013.-2014. $3000.
Directeur d’études invité, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, May
2013.
Mellon Innovative International Teaching and Research Grant, Indiana University, for
“Photographs in Black and White: Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid in
South Africa,” museum exhibit in South Africa, 2013-2014
Mellon Short-Term Faculty Research Fellowship, Indiana University, for “Photographs in
Black and White: Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid in South Africa,”
museum exhibit in South Africa, 2013-2014
New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Grant, Indiana University, for “Photographs in Black
and White: Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid in South Africa,” museum
exhibit, 2012-2013
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-2014, 2003-2005
Fulbright Senior Specialist, Department of History (DISMEC), University of Genoa, April
25th-May 7th, 2010.
Andrew W. Mellon Infusion Grant, The Wolfsonian Museum, to develop gallery material on
American labor history, fall 2009.
Fulbright Senior Specialist, Center for the Study of the U.S., Faculty of Political Science,
University of Belgrade, April 2008.
Aluka Award for Innovative Teaching on Southern Africa, 2008-2009.
Visiting Scholar, University of Miami School of Law, 2005-2006.
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, Spring 2006
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Boniuk Center for the Study of Religious Tolerance, Rice University, Research/Writing
Grant, Summer 2005.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Writing Stipend, Summer 2005.
Florida International University Foundation Summer Research/Provost's Grant, June 2002.
Fulbright research/teaching award for South Africa, May–December 2000, University of the
Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
Claude Pepper Foundation Research Grant, Winter 2000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer 1998.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Fellow,
Newberry Library, Summer 1997.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent
Scholars, 1994-95.
Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant, 1995.
Florida International University Foundation Summer Research Grant, 1992.
Faculty Development Research Minigrant, Florida
International University, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000.
NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1992.
Archie K. Davis Research Fellowship, North Caroliniana
Society, 1989, 1991.
Andrew Mellon Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1988-1990.
William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1984-1988.
Pincus Award for Innovative Teaching of Writing, University of Pennsylvania, 1985.
Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1984.
EDITORIAL SERVICE
Editor, American Historical Review, August 2017-
Interim Editor, American Historical Review, August 2015-July 2016
Associate Editor, American Historical Review, 2014-2015
Co-Editor, Safundi: A Journal of Comparative American and South African Studies, 2014-15
Book Review Editor, H-SAfrica list, 2011-2013
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Editorial Collective, Radical History Review, 2011-2017
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Peasant Studies, 2006-2008
Editorial Associate, American Communist History, 2002-
Editorial Associate, Safundi: A Journal of Comparative American and South African Studies,
2000-2013, 2015-
Editorial Committee, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2013-2015
Contributing Editor, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2015-2018
Contributing Editor, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2003-2004,
2006-2013
Contributing Editor, Labor History, 2002-2003
PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY SERVICE
Testimony before the Indiana Advisory Commission to the US Commission on Civil Rights,
“The School to Prison Pipeline: A Historical Perspective,” Feb. 17, 2016.
Congressional Staff Briefing on Mass Incarceration, National History Center, Washington,
DC, October 9, 2015.
“The Fair Minimum Wage Bill and Civil Rights,” testimony given to the Bloomington
Commission on the Status of the Black Male, Sep. 11, 2013.
“Incorporating Information Fluency into the US History Survey,” talk given to Indiana ACP
history teachers, July 18, 2013.
Panel Chair, IU African Studies Graduate Student Conference, March 26, 2013.
“Race Relations and To Kill a Mockingbird,” Cardinal Stage Company, Mockingbird Study
Guide: A Student Companion to the Cardinal Stage Production of To Kill A Mockingbird,
August 2012.
“Do we have a moral obligation to defy unjust laws?,” a panel discussion for Black History
Month, Miami-Dade Community College, Carrie Meek Center, Feb. 23, 2011.
Oral histories conducted for “Coral Gables Memory – Talking Book”, a project sponsored by
the FIU Library, http://coralgables.fiu.edu/talking_book/oral.htm.
Keynote Speaker, Third Annual Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Initiative Luncheon,
City of Opa-Locka, Florida, August 20, 2010.
Co-Director, Teaching American History Program for Miami-Dade County Public
Schoolteachers, 2007-2010
Member, Miami-Dade County Commission Living Wage Board, 2009-2011
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Faculty Representative to Executive Committee, Cooperative Africana Materials Project
(CAMP), Center for Research Libraries, 2012-14
Academic Advisor, “The History of Now,” Proposed NEH Media Project, 2015.
Consultant to PBS documentary film project, “Slavery by Another Name,” tpt productions,
2010-11
Consultant to documentary film project, “From Convict Lease to Chain Gang,” submitted for
NEH and Southern Educational Media Fund grant (received the latter).
Consultant, the History Channel, “Histories Mysteries: The Chain Gang,” 2000
Consultant on Birmingham's Sloss Furnaces for the Newberry Library's American Labor
National Historic Landmark Theme Study, 1995.
Member, Program Committee, Southern Labor Studies Conference, 2015
Member, Program Committee, “Labor and Empire” Conference, UC-Santa Barbara,
November 2014.
Co-Chair, Program Committee, Southern Labor Studies Conference, 2010-2011
Member, Board of Directors, Southern Labor Studies Conference, 2007-2010
C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2007-08
Organizing Committee, 3rd German-American Frontiers of the Humanities Symposium, 2006
Program Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2003
Chair, Program Committee, 12th Southern Labor Studies Conference, 2001-2002
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2002
Program Committee, 10th Southern Labor Studies Conference, 1997.
Member, NEH Fellowship Panel, Summer Stipends, 2015
Member, Reader Committee, Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders,
IREX, 2014
Member, NEH Fellowship Panel, Summer Stipends, 2010
Member, American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship Committee, 2007
Member, NEH Fellowship Panel, Collaborative Research, 2007.
Evaluator, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Awards, 1999.
Evaluator, NEH Collaborative Research Program, 1996, 1998, 2001.
Evaluator, Conference of Southern Graduate Deans Master's Thesis Award, 1992.
Reader, University of Kentucky Press, Fall 2006
Reader, University of Chicago Press, Summer 2006
Reader, University of Georgia Press, Fall 2003, Spring 2007, Spring 2015
Reader, Oxford University Press, Fall 2002
Reader, University of Tennessee Press, Fall 1995, Spring 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2010.
Reader, University of North Carolina Press, Spring 1999, Fall 2013, Fall 2014.
Reader, University Press of Florida, Fall 1998, Summer 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2003, Fall
2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Summer 2010, Spring
2012
Reader, Blackwell Publishers, Spring 1998.
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Reader, University of Virginia Press, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 2011, Spring 2012.
Reader, University of Illinois Press, Fall 1997, Summer 2001, Fall 2004.
Reader, NYU Press, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
Reader, University of Witwatersrand Press, Spring 2012
Reader, University of Wisconsin Press, Fall 2016
Referee, American Communist History, 2002-12
Referee, American Historical Review, 2011-12
Referee, American Quarterly, 2007
Referee, Enterprise and Society, 2004, 2005
Referee, Florida Historical Quarterly, 1999, 2002
Referee, The Historian, 2006
Referee, International Labor and Working Class History, 1998
Referee, Journal of American History, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2006-2008
Referee, Journal of American Studies, 2013, 2017
Referee, Journal of Appalachian Studies, 1995, 2000
Referee, Journal of Civil and Human Rights, 2014
Referee, Journal of Labor Studies, 2002, 2007
Referee, Journal of Southern History, 1992-95, 2000, 2002, 2004-06, 2009, 2011, 2013
Referee, Labor History, 2001-03, 2007
Referee, Labor: Working Class History of the Americas, 2003, 2004, 2007
Referee, Left History, 2003
Referee, Photography and Culture, 2013
Referee, Punishment & Society, 2007
Referee, Proteus: A Journal of History, Culture, and Ideas, 1995
Referee, Race, Class & Corporate Power, 2013, 2014
Referee, Radical History Review, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Referee, Safundi: A Journal of Comparative American and South African Studies, 2005-2010,
2016
Referee, Social Dynamics, 2014
Referee, South African Historical Journal, 2009, 2011
Referee, Southern Cultures, 2000
Referee, Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict, 2012-13
Reviewer, “The American Journey,” US History textbook, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2011
Reviewer, Bedford Books “Critical Thinking Modules” web site, 2006
Reviewer, "Kaleidoscope of Labor," labor history text outline and proposal, Blackwell
Publishers, 1997
Reviewer, "Citizens of America," U.S. history textbook outline and proposal, Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1996
Reviewer, "Readings on the Modern African-American Freedom Struggle" text outline and
proposal, D.C. Heath Publishers, 1993
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Illinois, 2017
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Case Western Reserve University, 2016
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Kennesaw State University, 2016
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Reviewer, National Research Foundation, South African Research Chair Initiative, 2014,
2015
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Babson University, 2015
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Old Dominion University, 2015
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Wisconsin--Green Bay, 2015
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Princeton University, 2014
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Toronto-Scarborough, 2013
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of West Georgia, 2013
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Florida Atlantic University, 2013
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Western Australia, 2012
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Rowan University, 2012
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Binghamton University, 2008
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, Auburn University, 2008
Reviewer, Research Output Evaluation, National Research Foundation, South Africa, 2007,
2010
Reviewer, Thuthuka Fellowship Programme, National Research Foundation, South Africa,
2010
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Texas, Permian Basin, 2007
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, College of William & Mary, 2006
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2004
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2004
Reviewer, Tenure and Promotion, City College/CUNY, 2001
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Indiana University:
Director, Advance College Project for American History, Indiana University, 2013-2017
US History Field Chair, History Department, 2015-2016
Member, Graduate Faculty Council, Indiana University, 2015-2016
Member, Faculty Board of Review, Bloomington Faculty Council, 2015-2016
Member, CAHI Fellowship Committee, 2015-16
Member, Grant-in-Aid Committee, 2015
Member, College Graduate Hearing Board, 2014-15
Member, History Department Tenure and Promotion Committee for Pedro Machado, 2014
Member, Ad-Hoc Committee for FTE transfer for Cara Caddoo, 2014
Member, McNutt Lecture Committee, 2014-2015
Member and Co-Chair, Themester Committee, 2014-2015
Member, Mellon Short Term Faculty Fellowship Review Committee, 2013, 2014
Member, Provost’s Strategic Planning Team for Graduate Education, 2013-2014
Member, American Studies Advisory Committee, 2012-2014
Member, Political and Civic Engagement (PACE) Advisory Board, 2012-15
Member, Scholarly Commons Advisory Board, Wells Library, 2012-14
Member, Bloomington Faculty Council Library Subcommittee, 2013-14
Campus Review Committee, Fulbright Fellowships in Africa, 2012-14
Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, History Department, IU, 2012-14
Member, General Education Social and Historical Subcommittee, 2012-15, College of Arts &
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Sciences, Indiana University.
Member, US Graduate Field Committee, 2012, Indiana University History Department
Member, Terminal MA Admissions Committee, 2012, Indiana University History Department
Member, Ad-Hoc Library Committee, 2012, Indiana University History Department
Florida International University, 2007-2011:
Director of Graduate Studies, African & African Diaspora Studies Program, Florida
International University, 2009-2011
Member, FIU School of International and Public Affairs Research Working Group, 2010-11
Tenure, Promotion, and Personnel Committee, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida
International University, 2008-2010
Member, Search Committee in Twentieth Century US History, FIU, 2009-2010
Review Committee, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum 2009 Fellowship Program
Graduate Committee, Florida International University History Department, 2007-2010
Member, Search Committee in Early American history, Florida International University, 2007
Rice University:
Member, “Americas Colloquium” Steering Committee, Rice University, 2004-2007
University Admissions Committee, Rice University, 2004-2005
Chair, Search Committee in U.S. History, Rice University History Department, 2004-05
Chair, Search Committee in U.S. History, Rice University History Department, 2003-04
Graduate Committee, Rice University History Department, 2002-07
Prize Committee, Rice University History Department, 2002-03
John Gardner Dissertation Prize Committee, School of Humanities, Rice University, 2003
Mellon Foundation Minority Fellows Advisor, Rice University, 2002-03
Florida International University, 1990-2002:
Tenure and Promotion Committee, History Department, Florida International University,
1999-2000, 2001-2002
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Florida International University, 1997-99
Review Committee, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum 1999 Fellowship Program.
Undergraduate Advisory Committee, History Department, Florida International University,
1995-97
Coordinating Committee for African-New World Studies Certificate Program, Florida
International University, 1993-1997.
Provost's Search Committee for Director of African-New World Studies, 1996
Acting Chair, Search Committee in African-American history, Fall 2001
Search Committee for position in Modern Europe, Florida International University, 1999
Search Committee for position in Caribbean history, Florida International University, 1998.
Search Committee for positions in U.S. history, Florida International University, 1997.
Search Committee for a senior U.S. historian, Florida International University, 1996.
Search Committee in African-American History, Florida International University, 1995.
Search Committee in 20th Century American History, Florida International University, 1993.
Search Committee in Modern European History, Florida International University, 1991.
Search Committee for McKnight Minority Fellow, Florida International University, 1991.