Robert F. Jefferson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.  He is the author of Fighting for Hope: African Americans and the Ninety-third Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), Brothers in Valor:  The Battlefield Stories of the 89 African Americans Awarded the Medal of Honor (Lyons Press, 2018), and the editor of Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America: Closing Ranks (Lexington Books, 2019).  In 2019-2020, he was a Fulbright scholar in Denmark, where he was the Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark at Odense.  In 2023-2024, he was a History and Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, disability, war and society studies in Twentieth Century United States history. He is currently completing a social history of the women and men who participated in the Officer Candidate Schools of the Second World War and a book about Mercer Cook and the American Society of African Culture during the Cold War.