Eric Arnesen teaches history at The George Washington University, where he is also the Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in its Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. A specialist in the history of race, labor, politics, and civil rights, he is the author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality and Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 (Oxford University Press, 1991), and editor or co-editor of five other books. He currently co-chairs the Washington History Seminar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars.