Gregory LaskiGregory Laski is the author of Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery (2018), which won the American Literature Association’s 2019 Pauline E. Hopkins Society Scholarship Award. Formerly a visiting faculty member at Crnegie Mellon University, Laski is currently a civilian Associate Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. A Mellon Fellow at the Newberry Library in 2021–2022, he is at work on a new book project: an intellectual history of revenge in the long Reconstruction era. An overview of the study’s primary argument appeared in the December 2019 number of American Literature; this article was awarded the journal’s Norman Foerster Prize for best essay of the year as well as the 1921 Prize, given annually by the American Literature Society. Read More Read Less