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Willie Mack is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research interests focus on race, immigration, the Cold War, and the carceral state in twentieth-century United States. His manuscript, tentatively titled, Transnational Carceral Regimes and Punitive Anti-communism: Haitian Immigrants, Race, Empire, and Policing in New York City and Haiti, 1915-2000, takes a transnational approach to the development of the carceral state in Haiti and the U.S. through the lens of Cold War politics, race, and immigration. Will has had articles published with “Black Perspectives” the blog for the African Americans Intellectual History Society, the Society for U.S. Intellectual Society, and “Next Chapter,” the digital forum for the University of Chicago’s Race and Capitalism Project. He has also won the Organization of American Historians’ 2022 John Higham Research Fellowship Award for graduate students writing doctoral dissertation in American History.