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Alexander Stephens studies the Americas in the twentieth century with a focus on racial and social inequality, migration, policing, and law. His current book manuscript, Excludable: Policing Citizenship in Cuba and the United States, centers on a group of Cubans who spent time in carceral institutions in both countries. Excludable employs archival documents from each side of the Straits of Florida and a unique set of private legal records to produce a transnational history of urban poverty, criminalization, and migration control grounded in the lives of individuals deemed unfit for citizenship virtually everywhere they went. Writing drawn from this research has appeared in both scholarly and popular outlets, including Anthurium: A Journal of Caribbean Studies, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy.

 

Alexander is also dedicated to community-engaged research and collaborative public history practice. He is co-editor of, a series of legal information materials produced by the Immigrant Justice Lab and Michigan Immigrant Rights Center for people facing deportation without the help of an attorney. He is co-producer of, a podcast series about the evolution of segregation in Athens, GA, since the 1960s. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, where he served as Coordinator for Immigration & the Carceral State Initiatives with the Immigrant Justice Lab and Carceral State Project. Prior to joining the Center for Presidential History at ������ý, Alexander was a Visiting Fellow affiliated with the History Department and Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.