George and Ann RichardsCivil War Era Center

Biography:

Alex Lubin is Professor of African American Studies and History. He is the author of Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1956 (UP Mississippi), Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary (UNC Press), and Neverending War on Terror (UC Press). He is the editor of Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left (UP Mississippi) and the co-editor of American Studies Encounters the Middle East (UNC Press) and Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso Books). Lubin recently co-edited Duse Mohamed Ali’s Pan-African novel, Ere Roosevelt Came: The Adventures of the Man in the Cloak (Pluto).  Lubin is currently working on a history of the African American expat community experience in Cairo, Egypt at the height of the Third World Movement.  He is on sabbatical during AY 25-26, during which time he will complete his book manuscript, “Third World Ensemble: African Americans in Cairo between the Suez and Six-Day Wars’ (University of California Press).  During AY 25-26, Lubin is the President of the American Studies Association.