Alex Lichtenstein was the editor of the American Historical Review from 2015–16 and 2017–21. He is professor in the Department of History and professor and chair in the Department of American Studies at Indiana University. His work centers on the intersection of labor history and the struggle for racial justice in societies shaped by white supremacy, particularly the US South (1865–1954) and 20th-century South Africa. His first book, Twice the Work of Free Labor, examined the role of convict leasing and chain gangs in the remaking of the American South in the half century after the Civil War. Subsequently, Alex has written extensively about race relations in the US labor movement, interracial agrarian radicalism, early civil rights struggles, and the impact of anticommunism on the labor and civil rights movements, in both the US and South Africa. He has recently published two books: Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid and Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory, a collaboration with my brother, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein. His current research projects focus on South African labor history: one examines the history of Black workers and industrial relations in 20th-century South Africa, and is tentatively entitled Making Apartheid Work; the other is a short study of the 1973 Durban strikes.