Dr. Willie Mack
Willie Mack is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Willie 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.
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.
Contributor to the ACLS Mapping Inequality Project, University of Richmond, “Race and Redlining in Brooklyn, NY” (July 2022), https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/40.655/-74.104&city=brooklyn-ny&adview=full
“The Success of the Valley Road Community: A History of Nassau County’s African American and Indigenous People,” Preservation Long Island Blog, Preservation Long Island (May 2022), https://preservationlongisland.org/the-success-of-the-valley-road-community-a-hidden-history-of-nassau-countys-african-american-and-indigenous-people/
“Haiti and U.S. Policing,” Black Perspectives Blog, African American Intellectual History Society (September 2021), https://www.aaihs.ord/haiti-and-us-policing
“‘Traitors in Our Midst’: Race, Corrections, and the 1970 Tombs Uprising,” Gotham: Blog for Scholars of New York City History, Gotham Center for New York City History (Oct. 1, 2020), https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/traitors-in-our-midst-race-corrections-and-the-1970-tombs-uprising
“A Time for Change: Power and Policing in New York City,” Black Perspectives Blog, African American Intellectual History Society (March 2020), https://www.aaihs.org/a-time-for-change-power-and-policing-in-new-york-city/