Marek D. Steedman is assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. He received a PhD in political theory from the University of Michigan. Dr. Steedman’s research is on the relation between race and the liberal and republican traditions in American political thought. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, he is particularly interested in the challenges posed by industrialization to both existing social hierarchies and traditional conceptions of democratic practice. Publications include “Resistance, Rebirth, and Redemption: The Rhetoric of White Supremacy in Post-Civil War Louisiana,” Historical Reflections 35:1 (2009);”How was Race Constructed in the New South,” Du Bois Review, 5:1 (2008); and “Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1879,” in Gender and Slave Emancipation in The Atlantic World, Diana Patton and Pamela Scully, eds., (Duke University Press, 2005).