Martha Biondi is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History. A scholar of 20th century African American history, Biondi’s teaching and research focus on social movements and Black politics. Her University of California Press book, The Black Revolution on Campus, tells the story of the Black student movement of the late 1960s and the rise of Black Studies and affirmative action on college campuses across the country. It won the 2012 Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association for the best book on some aspect of the history of the African Diaspora. She is also the author of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City, published by Harvard University Press. It charts the northern origins of the modern Civil Rights Movement, uncovering a grassroots movement for jobs, open housing, equal education, and defendants’ rights that fell victim to the anticommunist upsurge of the Cold War era. Harvard University Press awarded To Stand and Fight the Thomas J. Wilson Prize as the best first book of the year. Professor Biondi is currently writing a book on Black politics and gun violence. As a member of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, she participated in the campaign to win a 2015 Chicago ordinance awarding reparations to survivors of Chicago police torture. She first taught at Stateville in 2016 as part of the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project.