Alex Lichtenstein

 


lichensteinEDUCATION
Ph.D. American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1990
B.A. Yale University, 1984

BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH INTERESTS


Professor Lichtenstein is an Associate Professor in the History
Department and is affiliated with FIU's Center for Labor Research and Study.
He specializes in the history of modern America , with a focus on African
American, labor and southern history. He is the author of Twice the Work of
Free Labor, a book dealing with the history of prison labor in the U.S.
South, and introductions to several historical documents, including  REVOLT
AMONG THE SHARECROPPERS and WARTIME SHIPYARD. He has also written
extensively about race relations in the labor movement, agrarian radicalism,
civil rights, and anticommunism. His current research examines the interplay
of the civil rights and labor movements in Florida during the 1940s, with a
focus on the infamous "Red Pepper" senatorial campaign of 1950. In 2000 he
went to South Africa on a Fulbright Fellowship, where he became interested
in comparative U.S./South African history, and he continues to teach and
write about the history of South Africa . He has lectured on the history of
U.S. race relations at universities in China , Serbia , and South Africa .

In 2007-2008 he taught a graduate seminar on the Cold War and the civil
rights movement. In Spring 2009, he will teach a research seminar on the
South African liberation movement.

AWARDS

NEH Fellowship

American Philiosophical Society Fellowship
Fulbright Fellowship

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Editor, "Rethinking Agrarian Labor in the U.S. South," a Special
Issue of Journal of Peasant Studies, forthcoming 2009.

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.

"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.

"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.

"Ned Cobb's Children: A New Look at White Supremacy in the Southern
US," review essay on The Rural Face of White Supremacy, by Mark Schultz,
Journal of Peasant Studies 33(January 2006): 124-39.

CONTACT INFORMATION  

LC317

305-348-1535

lichtens@fiu.edu