Robert Chase Named Co-Director of Historians Against Slavery

Now the director of Historians Against Slavery, Chase has also published two books.

Robert Chase (Ph.D., 2009, Advisor: Gary Gerstle) has been named co-director of Historians Against Slavery, a national organization that fellow History alumni Matt Mason once headed. He also published two books, the first an anthology Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance (UNC, 2019) and a monograph (which grew out of his dissertation at UMD), We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America (UNC, 2020). We Are Not Slaves has won three awards this year: The Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book (International Latino Book Award;) The Best Book in Critical Criminology and Social Justice (American Society of Criminology); and Honorable Mention for the Betty and McClung Lee Book Award (Humanist Sociology Association.