Meredith L. Roman is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport, specializing in African American history, Soviet history, and transnational studies of race and racism. Her scholarship examines the intersections of race, politics, and international relations during the twentieth century, with particular focus on how global perspectives shaped understandings of U.S. racial dynamics. She is the author of Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928–1937 (2012), a widely cited work that explores how the Soviet Union used racial injustice in the United States to critique American democracy and promote its own ideological agenda.