Robert Jefferson

Robert F. Jefferson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of 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. His research and teaching interests include the intersections of race, gender, and military studies in Twentieth Century United States history. He is currently writing a book on the history of the Army’s officer candidate schools in World War II.