Professor Risa Faussette received her Ph. D. in American History from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She specializes in African American history, the formation of the black diaspora in the Americas, and race relations in the United States. Since her arrival at the College of Saint Rose in 1999, Professor Faussette has taught courses on African American history, Caribbean Colonialism, New York State History, and the Atlantic World. She is the author of “Race, Migration and Port City Radicalism: West Indian Longshoremen and the Politics of Empire.” The thematic focus of her work is on the exploitation of black labor and the political activism of the dispossessed. She is a member of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association. Risa Faussette is currently completing a research project on the radical political culture of southern black and Afro-Caribbean dockworkers in New York City during the Progressive Era.