Meredith Roman

Meredith Roman is the author of Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 (University of Nebraska Press), which examines the history of studying and exploiting American race relations among officials in Moscow. Her work on Soviet anti-racism and the African American struggle for human rights has appeared in edited collections and academic journals including The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Race & Class, International Labor and Working-Class History, Critique: A Journal of Socialist Theory, Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, and Cold War History. She is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York (SUNY), College at Brockport, and her current research compares dissent and state repression in the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War.