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Alex Lichtenstein

Social Sciences · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Race, History, and American SocietyAmerican History and CultureLabor Movements and UnionsSouth African History and CultureColonialism, slavery, and trade

Publications

131

Citations

1,468

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

35

Publishing since 1991

Research summary
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Alex Lichtenstein is a historian who studies labor movements, race, and social change, with a strong focus on comparing the histories of the United States and South Africa. Much of the recent work examines workers' struggles, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and how societies remember difficult pasts such as lynching and forced convict labor.

Labor history and workers' movementsSouth African history and apartheidRace and American societyHistorical memory and memorialsComparative US–South Africa history

Publication activity has been steady over the past decade, averaging a few outputs per year with a notable peak in 2024.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 6 publications6242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • The American Historical Review×4
  • Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas×4
  • Social History×2
  • Indiana University Press eBooks×2
  • Labor History×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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