Meredith Roman who received her Ph.D. from our department in 2005, has just published Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 with the University of Nebraska Press. Meredith was part of what she refers to in her preface as the “vibrant Comparative Black History program,” and was supervised by Lewis Siegelbaum. She is now Associate Professor of History at SUNY-Brockport.
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Opposing-Jim-Crow,674990.aspx.