About Rick Halpern Rick Halpern is the Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies and a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively about race and labour in a number of national and transnational contexts. Books by Rick Halpern Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid by (author) Alex Lichtenstein & Rick Halpern Inventing Collateral Damage Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire edited by Stephen J. Rockel & Rick Halpern