ELIZABETH VICTORIA FAUE

Department of History 1810 Avondale Avenue3094 Faculty/Administration Bldg. Ann Arbor, MI 48103Wayne State UniversityDetroit, MI 48202

Work: (313) 577-2525 Home: (734) 717-2993Email: Email: evfaue@gmail.com

Education:

PhD University of Minnesota, History, 1987 M.A. University of Minnesota, History, 1985A.B. University of Minnesota, Summa Cum Laude, English, 1979

Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Summer 1978

Administrative and Academic Appointments:

2015 (July)- Chair, Wayne State University, Department of History

2002-present Professor of History, Wayne State University, Department of History

2010- 2015 Director of Graduate Studies, Wayne State University, Department of History

2007-2009 Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Wayne State University

1993-2002 Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Department of History

Summer 1993 Visiting Faculty, University of Washington, Center for Labor Studies,Summer Program in Comparative Labor History

1990-1993 Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Department of History

1988-1990 Susan B. Anthony Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women's Studies, University of Rochester, Department of History and Women's Studies Program

1986-1988 Lecturer, University of Minnesota, History and Women's Studies Fall 1987 Visiting Lecturer, Macalester College, Department of History

Publications: Books

Rethinking the American Labor Movement. New York/London: Routledge, 2017. Reviewed in Journal of Working Class Studies.

Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Hard cover and paperback. Reviewed in American Historical Review, American Quarterly, Business History Review, Gender and Society, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Journal of American History, Journalism History, Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Minnesota History, Social History/Histoire Sociale, Western Historical Quarterly.

Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945. Gender and American Culture series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Hardback and paperback. Reviewed in American Historical Review, American Quarterly, American Studies International, Annals of Iowa, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, Journal of American History, Journal of American Studies, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Urban History, Labor History, Labour/Le Travail, Minnesota History, Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society, Social History.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues:

The Emergence of Modern America, 1900-1930. Volume 7. Editor. Encyclopedia of American History. General editor, Gary Nash. New York: Facts on File, 2003. (Authored 80 entries). Revised edition. New York: Facts on File, 2010. (Authored 100 entries).

The Working Classes and Urban Public Space. Editor, special issue. Social Science History 24:1 (Spring 2000); editor's introduction, 1-6.

Gender and Labor History. Guest editor, special issue. Labor History 34:2-3 (Spring/Summer 1993); "Gender and the Reconstruction of Labor History," editor's introduction, 169-77.

Articles and Chapters:

“Radical Experience and the Surveillance State,” Reviews in American History 45:1 (March 2017) 136-144.

“Ghost Marks and Rising Spirits in an Industrial Landscape: Communication and Imagination in the Rebirth of Labor,” in Labor Rising, Daniel Katz and Richard Greenwald, eds. (New York: New Press, 2012), 227-236.

“Re-imagining Labor: Gender and New Directions in Labor and Working-Class History,” in Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays in the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009, Donna Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz, eds., (New York: Continuum Press, 2010), 266-288.

“United States of America,” Histories of Labour: National and Transnational Perspectives, Joan Allen, Alan Campbell, Malcolm Chase, John McIlroy, eds., Society for the Study of Labour History (London: Merlin Press, 2010), 164-195.

“’Methods of Mysticism’ and the Industrial Order: Michigan Labor Law, 1870-1940,” The History of Michigan Law, eds. Paul Finkelman and Martin Hershock (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006), 214-237.

“Shifting Labor’s Loyalties: Redefining Citizenship and Allegiance,” in Philip Abbott, ed, The Many Faces of Patriotism (Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), 111-27.

“Gender, Class and History.” The New Working Class Studies. John Russo and Sherry Linkon, eds. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), 19-31, 237-42.

“Revolutionary Desire: Redefining the Politics of Sexuality among American Radicals, 1919-1945,” co-authored with Kathleen A. Brown, in Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past, Kathleen Kennedy and Sharon Ullman eds, (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003), 273-302.

“Gender and Generational Change in the US during the Great Depression and World War II: A Speculative Essay on how Crisis Breeds Generational Change.” In Through Depression and War: the United States and Australia. Peter Bastian and Roger Bell, eds. Fulbright Symposium, Papers, La Trobe University, October 2001. Published by Australian-American Fulbright Commission and the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, 2002. 82-92.

“Retooling the Class Factory: United States Labour History after Marx, Montgomery, and Postmodernism,” Labour History 82 (May 2002), 109-119.

"Social Bonds, Sexual Politics and Political Community on the U.S. Left, 1920s-1940s," coauthored with Kathleen A. Brown, Left History 7:1 (Spring 2001) 7-42.

"Reproducing the Class Struggle: Class, Gender and Social Reproduction in U.S. Labor History." Amerikanische Arbeitergeschichte Heute, edited by Irmgard Steinisch, Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts fur soziale Bewegungen (Bochum: Ruhr Universitaet, 2001), 47-66.

"Community, Class, and Comparison in Labour History and Local History," Labour History 78 (May 2000), 155-62.

"Women's History in the New Millennium: A Conversation among Three Generations." With Anne Firor Scott, Sara Evans, and Susan Cahn. Journal of Women's History 11:1 (Spring 1999), 8-30, and 11:2 (Summer 1999), 199-220. Reprinted in part in Hokulani K. Aikau, Karla A. Erickson, and Jennifer L Pierce, eds., Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 87-108.

"Riffs on a Politics of Destination." Social Science History 22:1 (Spring 1998), 39-45.

"Anti-Heroes of the Working Class: A Response to Bruce Nelson." International Review of Social History 41 (December 1996), 375-88.

"Blurred Subfields: Irving Bernstein and the History of the Worker as United States History." Labor History 37: 1 (Winter 1995-96), 77-83.

"`Amnesiacs in a Ward on Fire': Gender and the Crisis of Labor--The View from the 1930s." Industrial Relations Research Association Proceedings. 46th. (Madison: IRRA, 1994), 122-28.

"`Outfoxing the Frost': Gender, Community-Based Organization, and the Contemporary American Labor Movement." Working Papers in Labor Studies No. 4 (January 1994). Comparative Labor History Series. Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.

‘Paths of Unionization: Community, Bureaucracy, and Gender in the Minneapolis Labor Movement, 1935-1945,’ in Baron, ed, Work Engendered: Toward a New Labor History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), 296-319; reprinted in Lynd, ed, `We Are All Leaders': Essays on Alternative Unionism in the 1930s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 172-98; "Gender and Community in the Minneapolis Labor Movement," in Gordon, ed, Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1999), 356-63.

"Women, Family and Politics: The Farmer-Labor Women's Federation and Social Policy in the Great Depression." In Women, Politics, and Change in Twentieth Century America. Edited by Louise Tilly and Patricia Gurin. New York: Russell Sage, 1990. 436-456.

"The `Dynamo of Change': Gender and Solidarity in the American Labour Movement of the 1930s." Gender and History 1:2 (Summer 1989), 138-158.

"`Blessed Be the Tie That Binds': YWCA Extension Work among Women Wage-Earners, 1900-1920." In Susan N.G. Geiger, ed. The Sex/Gender Division of Labor. Minneapolis: Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, 1984. 41-51.

Review Essays:

“Invisible Power or Lost Opportunity? The Limits of Labor Feminism.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2:4 (2005), 51-54.

“Labor History on the Line,” Reviews in American History 31 (March 2003), 80-86.

“Class and Cultural Citizenship.” Labor History 39:3 (Summer 1998), 311-14.

Work in Progress:

Work and the Body Politic: Gender, Workplace Risk, and the Health of Democracy. A study of occupational safety, health, and risk at work in the late twentieth century.

Pieces of Time: A Family Memoir in Seven Documents. A memoir of the Midwest that combines family memories with reflection on the meaning and writing of family history.

Encyclopedia and Reference Articles:

“Karen Nussbaum,” coauthored with Amanda L.Walter, in The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, ed. Robert S. Rycroft. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2017).

“Labor Journalism” and “1934 Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), vol. 1: 429-31, 520.

“Working Class Life and Society,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, eds. Lynn Dumenil, et al, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 532-538.

“Women’s Movement: 1920-1945,” in Encyclopedia of American Political History, vol. 5., Robert Zieger, ed (Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 2010).

“Citizenship: Comparative History,” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, B.G. Smith, et al, eds, vol. 1, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 389-392.

“Service Sector,” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, B.G. Smith, et al, eds., vol. 3, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 678-82.

“Emily Dickinson,” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, B.G. Smith, et al, eds, (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Veterans Benefits,” Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, ed. John P. Resch, vol 3, (New York: Macmillan Reference USA; Thomson Gale, 2005), 191-193.

“Vera Buch Weisbord,” Notable American Women—A Biographical Dictionary: Completing the Twentieth Century, Susan Ware ed. (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2005), 674-675.

“Women in Public Life,” Women in American History, volume 3, ed. Joanne Goodwin, (New York: ME Sharpe, Inc, 2002), 6-9.

“Working Class Life and Culture,” Oxford Companion to United States History, Paul Boyer, et

al., eds., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 838-40.

“Eva McDonald Valesh,” American National Biography, vol. 22 (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1999), 141-42.

“Labor and War,” Oxford Companion to American Military History, John Whiteclay Chambers II, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 376-78.

“Veterans of Foreign Wars,” Oxford Companion to American Military History John WhiteclayChambers II, ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 754-55.

“Marxist-Feminism,” Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, Cathy Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin, et al, eds., (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 549-551.

Book Reviews:

American Historical Review 102:2 (April 1997), 532-33; 104:3 (October 1999), 1327-28;106:2 (April 2001), 591-92; 116:4 (October 2011), 1125-26; forthcoming.

American Studies 51:3/4 (Fall/Winter 2010), 206-207.Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 527 (May 1993), 202-203.Business History Review 88:4 (Fall 2014), 849-851; forthcoming.Canadian Journal of History 49:3 (Winter 2014), 557-559.CHOICE 2:12 (August 2015), 2085; (forthcoming).Histoire Sociale/Social History 27:54 (November 1994), 490-92.H-Labor Discussion List, October 1995.International Labor and Working Class History 42 (Fall 1992), 148-50.Journal of American History 79:3 (December 1992), 1208-09; 81:2 (September 1994), 830-31;

82:4 (March 1996), 1612; 83:3 (December 1996), 1034-35; 97:4 (March 2011), 1151-52.Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive History 11:4 (Fall 2012), 621-23.Labor: Studies in Working Class History 1:1 (Spring 2004), 141-43; 15:1(March 2018), 133-34;

14:1 (2017), 92-94; (forthcoming).Labor History 50:3 (August 2009), 365-67.Labour History (Australia) 98 (May 2010), 262-63.Minnesota Daily (April 21, 1980), 13; (January 21, 1980), 10; (October 1, 1979), 14; (July 17,

1979), 9; (April 9, 1979), 14; (February 19, 1979), 10, 13; (January 21, 1979), 10;(January 15, 1979), 16; (October 20, 1978), 13.

Minnesota History 52:2 (Summer 1990), 79.Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 2 (1986), 336-38; 8 (1992), 517-19. New England Quarterly 71:2 (June 1998), 329-31.Pittsburgh History 73:3 (Fall 1990), 140-41.Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 15:2 (Winter 1990), 391-94; 20:1 (Autumn

1994), 184-88.Social History 37:1 (2012), 94-96.

Social History of Medicine 28:1 (Fall 2014), 209-210.Western Historical Quarterly 23:3 (August 1992), 386-7.Women's Review of Books 9:8 (May 1992); 11:5 (February 1994).

Public Scholarship:

“Veterans’ Day and the Debt We Owe,” Detroit News, November 11, 2012.

“Commentary: The History of Labor Day,” Detroit News, August 30, 2012.

“Justice or Just-Us?” Review of Steve Early, The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers’ Movement or Death Throes of the Old?, dissent (online), August 20, 2012; accessed: http://dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=623.

“My Dad, Floyd B. Olson, and the 1951 School Janitors’ Strike,” Minneapolis Labor Review, July 26, 2007.

“The Stories of the Workers Are Different,” Minneapolis Labor Review, May 24, 2007.

1“Declaring ‘Submission to Wrong is Not Patriotism,’ Local Telephone Workers Went on Strike in 1918,” Minneapolis Labor Review, April 19, 2007, 7-8.

“What Working Class is About,” in Paul Lauter, ed, Class, Culture and Literature, (New York: Longman's, 2000), 467-68.

“Cowboys on Streetcars? Public Spurned ‘Bread Stealers’ Who Tried to Run Streetcars during 1889 Strike,” Minnesota Union Advocate, December 8, 1997.

“Joan of Arc for St. Paul's Working People: Eva McDonald Valesh, Labor Organizer and Journalist,” Minnesota Union Advocate, February 24, 1997.

“Journeying,” How We Are Called: A Meditation Manual, eds Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones, (Boston: Skinner House Books, 2002).

Editorial Experience:

Consulting Editor, International Labor and Working Class History, 1996-present.Contributing Editor, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2003-2006,

2009-2012, 2015-2018.Editorial Advisory Board, Workers of the World: International Journal of Strikes and Social

Conflicts, e-journal (University of Campinas, Brazil), 2012-present.International Advisory Board, Labour History (Australia), 1998-present.International Editorial Board, Labour History Review (UK), 1996-present.

Editorial Board, H-Citizenship, 2007- present.Board of Editorial Advisors, Samuel Gompers Papers, 1996-2003.Contributing Editor, Editorial Board, Labor History, 2001-2003.Faculty Editor, Social Science History, 1996-2001.Newsnotes Editor, Labor History, 1993-1997.Editorial Board, Social Science History, 1991-1994.Co-Editor, Women Historians of the Midwest Newsletter, 1983-87; Review Editor, 1983-1984.

Awards:

Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Graduate School, Wayne State University, 2018Board of Governors’ Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 2018Labor and Working Class History Association Award, 2004Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Wayne State University, 2000College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 1998Career Development Chair, Wayne State University, 1995-1996Board of Governors' Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University, 1992Colonial Dames of America, Region II Scholar, 1984Phi Beta Kappa, 1979

Grants and Fellowships:

American Historical Association, Career Diversity Implementation Grant, 2018-2020,

funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Tracy Neumann and Eric Ash, Co-PIs)Council of Graduate Schools, Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement, funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Science Foundation, 2017

(team member; PI Dean Ambika Mathur).American Historical Association, Career Diversity Faculty Institutes award, 2017-2018

(Department participation grant)National Endowment for the Humanities, Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant

(Project Director), The Value of the Humanities in the Global City: Rethinking Culture

and Opportunity in Detroit, 2016-2017Master’s in Public History Program, Master’s Program Innovation and Development Grant,

(Co-PI Tracy Neumann), Graduate School, Wayne State University, 2014-2016Humanities Center, Faculty Summer Fellowship, Wayne State University 2014Graduate Research Assistantship, Faculty Award, Graduate School and Office of the Vice

President for Research, Wayne State University, 2011-2012, 2017-2018.Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University, 2005-2006Scholar in Residence, Humanities Center, Wayne State University, Fall 2002Grant in Inquiry and Research, Wayne State University, 1999University Research Grant, Wayne State University, 1999Small Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts, Wayne State University, 1992, 1999Faculty Research Sabbatical Grant, Wayne State University, Fall 1993, Winter 1999, Fall 2002,

Winter 2006, Fall 2012Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 1995-1996Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, 1994-1995Werner Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany, Conference Grant, The Politics of Social

Welfare and the Rationalization of Everyday Life, co-organized with Alice Kessler-Harris and Karen Hagemann, February 1995

Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Faculty Research Grant, Wayne State University, 1993National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Fellow, Re-Reading Intellectual

History: Integrating Women's Social and Political Thought into the Curriculum, University of Cincinnati, 1991

Faculty Research Grant, Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, 1991Faculty Development Research Grant, Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies,

University of Rochester, 1988-1989, 1989-1990J. Putnam Macmillan Travel Grant, 1985Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1984-1985Graduate School Incoming Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1979-1980Student Project for Amity among Nations, Scholarship to Greece, 1977Faculty Women's Club Scholarship, 1975-1976

Professional Service:

Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference

2003 Labor, War and Imperialism2002 Class, Gender and Ideology, Nationally and Internationally2001 Labor, Migration and the Global Economy: Past, Present and Future2000 Labor and the New Millennium: Class, Vision, and Change1999 Class and Politics in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives1998 Labor: Past and Present1997 Workers and the City1996 Memory and the Re-Telling of Working Class Lives1995 Culture and Community in Working Class History 1994 International and Comparative Labor History1993 Labor, Citizenship, and the State1992 Remaking the Working Class1991 Men, Women, and Labor: Perspectives on Gender and Labor History

Program Committee, Social Science History Association, 1991, 1995, 2012-2018 (Labor

network chair/representative). Publications Committee, Social Science History Association, 2012-2015.Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in United States Labor and Working-Class

History committee, Labor and Working Class History Association, 2007-2009.CLR James Award Committee, Working Class Studies Association, 2006-2007, 2008-2009.Program Committee Co-Chair, Social Science History Association, 2003.Board of Directors, Labor and Working Class History Association, 1999-2002.Joint Committee on the American Historical Association-Canadian Historical Association,

American Historical Association, 2000-2003; chair 2001-2002.Organizing Committee, Labor & Working Class History Association, 1997-99; Co-Director

1997-1998. Executive Board, Social Science History Association, 1994-1997.Nominating Committee, Social Science History Association, 1997, 2010.Herbert Feis Award Committee, American Historical Association, 1996-98; chair, 1998.Membership Committee, Organization of American Historians, 1995-98.United States History Standards Focus Group, American Historical Association, 1992-1994.Board Member, Women Historians of the Midwest, 1983-1987.

University Service:

University and College of Liberal Arts and Science Service, Wayne State University:Affiliate, Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, 2012-presentBoard of Governors' Faculty Recognition Award Committee, 1992-1993Chair Review Committee, History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2004-2005Chair Review Committee, Political Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2017Chair Selection Advisory Committee, History, 1994College Salary Committee, Departmental Representative, 2001, 2005Cultural Studies Program Committee, 1993-1994College of Education Program Review Committee, 1997-1998Director Review Committee, Labor@Wayne, 2013-2014Educational Development Grant Committee, 1999-2000Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee (University), (appointed), Wayne State

University, 2014-2015Faculty Research Award Committee, 1996-1997Garrett Heberlein Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Students, Graduate

School, 2008, 2009 (chair) GEOC Bargaining Committee, Provost’s Office, Wayne State University, 2008-2009Graduate Council, 2001-2004, 2005-2007 (elected), Winter 2012, 2012-2014

(appointed); New Programs Committee, 2001-2003; Enrollment Committee,2008-2009 (chair); Executive Committee, 2002-2004, 2006-2007 (chair), 2012-2014; Credentials Committee, 2005-2006; ex officio member 2007-2009

Graduate Dean Search Committee, Provost’s Office, 2013-2014Humanities Center Board, Wayne State University, 2011-2013King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Committee, Graduate School, 2002, 2007Master’s Advisory Committee, Graduate School, Chair, 2013-2014

New Programs Committee, Graduate School, Chair, 2007-2009Outstanding Graduate Mentor Selection Committee, Graduate School, 2005, 2007,

2008 (chair) and 2009 (chair)Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2006-2007;

(elected; change in assignment—ineligible 2007-2009).Public History Advisory Board (Chair), 2015-Sam Fishman Travel Award, Walter P. Reuther Library, 2012, 2013. 2014, 2015Scholarship and Fellowship Review Panel, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997Search Committee, Director Labor@Wayne, 2006-2008Search Committee, Labor Historian, Labor@Wayne, 2012-2013Selection Committee, Graduate Teaching Assistantship Grants, Office of the Vice

President for Research and the Graduate School, 2007, 2008, 2009Scholarly Communication for Graduate Students Committee, Chair, 2007-2009Summer Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, Graduate School, 2008-2009Supplemental Research Equipment Fund Review Board, Humanities, 1993-1994UPTF Contract Bargaining Committee, Provost’s Office, 2016-2017Women's Faculty Resource Network, Vice President for Academic Affairs,1996-1998Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1990-91, 1992-99; Program Committee Chair, 1994;

Project on Women and Social Change Committee, Chair, 1995-1996Women’s Studies Program Review Committee, Chair, 2008-2009

College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University:Dissertation Scholarship in Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs Committee, 1997Search Committee, Director of the Reuther Library for Labor and Urban Affairs, 1998

History Department Service, Wayne State University:Advanced Placement Day, United States History panel, April 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016African American History Search Committee, Chair, 2006-2007African History Search Committee, Co-Chair, 2001-2002Alumni Advisory Board (ex officio) 2017- Budget Committee, 2014-2015, (ex-officio) 2015-Colloquia Committee, Fall 1991Computer Committee, 1990-1991, 1992-1993Curriculum and Instruction Committee, Fall 1997Department Representative, College Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009-2010,

2012-2013Executive Committee, 2009-2010 (elected; chair), 2010-2017 (ex-officio)Faculty Mentor, 2011-2016Graduate Committee, 1992-2004, 2005-2010, 2010-2015 (chair), 2015- (ex officio)Graduate Orientation Organizer, 2010-2015Mentors Committee, Fall 1990North American Labor History Conference Committee, 1990-2003 (chair), 2003-2017Personnel Committee, 1997-1999, 2003-2005, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2009-2012,

2013-2015 (elected); 2015- (chair)Planning Committee, 1997-2002, 2003-2004

Public History Committee, 2001-2003, 2012-2016 (chair)Salary Committee, 1992-1994, 1996-1998, 2000-2002, 2004-2005, 2006-2007,

2012-2013 (elected); 2015- (ex-officio; chair)Search Committees, 1994, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2006-07, 2010-11 Undergraduate Committee, 2004-2005, 2010-2017 (ex-officio)Urban History Search Committee, 2010-2011 (chair)

Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies Service, University of Rochester:Program Committee Co-Chair, 1989-90Steering Committee, 1989-90Curriculum Committee, 1988-89Graduate Fellowship Committee, 1988-89

History Department Service, University of Minnesota:American History Wing Committee, Graduate Student Representative, 1980-81, 1983-84Graduate Studies Committee, Graduate Student Representative, 1983-84

Public Lectures:

“Rethinking Rethinking the American Labor Movement,” Untold Stories Labor History Series, Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, May 2018.

“Labor’s Democracy: The Resurgence of Organized Labor during the Great Depression and the New Deal ” Society of Active Retirees (SOAR), March 28, 2018.

“Making Jobs Just: The Fair Employment Practices Committee Reshapes the American Workplace, 1941-1945,” The 1940s: Through the War and Beyond, Alberto L. Lorenzo Cultural Center, Macomb Community College, April 2016

“Citizen-Soldiers and a Grateful Nation:  Veterans and the Postwar Politics of Obligation and Care,” Center for the Study of Citizenship, Wayne State University, November 11, 2013.

“ Troubling Women: Women Labor Leaders in a World of Men,” 6th DistrictWomen’s Conference, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Rochester, MN, September 17, 2013.

“Barriers and Gateways: Women, Gender and the Professions,” Legends of the Grand Traverse Region, History Center of Traverse City, October 25, 2012.

“Lost Mothers: Women’s Lives, Family Stories, and Social History,” History Center of Traverse City, Family History Workshop, October 25, 2012.

“Swift Course: The Transformation of Work and Occupation for Women in the Twentieth Century,” Henry Ford Health System, Women’s Improvement Network (WIN), March 23,

2012; Women of Ford Honors Seminar Project, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House and Wayne State University, September 11, 2012.

“How to Be A Great Graduate Director,” Professional Development Seminar, Office of the Vice President for Research, Wayne State University, March 2012.

“Applying for Graduate School,” History Department Graduate School Workshop, Wayne State University, September 2011, September 2012, September 2013; Undergraduate Research Conference, Wayne State University, October 2008.

“Publishing,” Workshop, History Graduate Student Association, April 2011.

“Qualifying Exams,” History Graduate Student Association Workshop, Wayne State University, November 2009.

“The State of Labor History,” Labor Archivists’ Workshop, Walter P. Reuther Library for Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, October 2009.

“Graduate Mentoring,” Mentoring Workshop, Graduate School, Wayne State University, March 2009.

“Scholarly Communication for Graduate Students,” Graduate Council, March 2008; Medical School Deans, October 2008; Communications Graduate Student Association, Wayne State University, February 2009.

“Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflicts,” Professional Development Seminar, Office of the Vice President for Research, Wayne State University, February 2009; Graduate Student Workshop, Wayne State University, April 2009.

“Crossing the Divide Between Us: Women’s Political and Labor Activism,” Adult Learning Institute, Oakland Community College, April 14, 2005.

“Culture and the New Deal” and “Gender and New Deal Political Culture,” History Links: Teaching American History, Bowling Green State University, April 9, 2005.

“Working Class, Playing Gender: Work, Leisure and Politics in 20th Century America,” Arts and Humanities Festival, Muskegon Community College, October 9, 2003.

“Class, Gender and the Radical Imagination,” Historical Perspectives Lecture Series, Center for History and Social Change, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, April 11, 2003.

“Women’s Place in the News,” Labor’s Voices/Labor TECH: Democratic Media and Organizing in Uncertain Times, New York, September 27, 2002.

“Presidential Profiles: Franklin D. Roosevelt,” lecture series, Mount Clemens Public Library, Mount Clemens, Michigan, May 21, 2002.

“Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism,” Untold Stories, a series sponsored by Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, Macalester College, May 15, 2002.

"Crossing the Divide Between Us: Issues in Women's Political and Labor Activism," Arbeitsfruhstuck lecture, sponsored by Ambassador to Austria Swanee Hunt, United States Information Agency, Vienna, November 25, 1996.

"The Turning Point: Historical Perspectives on Women and Work." There's No Such Thing as Women's Work, St. Clair County Community College, Port Huron, November 17, 1990.

Scholarly Papers and Presentations:

“Work and the Injured Body Politic: Health, Gender, and Workplace Democracy in the United States,” New Perspectives in Feminist Labour History: Work and Activism, European Labour History Network (ELHN), University of Bologna, January 17-18, 2019 (accepted)

“From Zero Tolerance to Bargaining for the Common Good: Teachers' Unions and the Teaching Workplace, 1990-2018,” Social Science History Association, Phoenix, November 2018 (accepted).

“Archival Activism and the Paths of Labor History in the Work of Peter Rachleff,” Working Toward Freedom—The Making of a Scholar-Activist Tradition: A Symposium in Honor of Peter J. Rachleff, East Side Freedom Library, St. Paul, MN, June 8, 2018.

“The Endangered Classroom: Teaching, School Violence, and Public Work,” Humanities Center, Wayne State University, February 1, 2018.

“Tackling the Issue of Enrollments in History Courses, Part 2: Strategies and Ideas from the Front Lines,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 2018.

“Rethinking Rethinking the American Labor Movement,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 2017.

“Teachers and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: The AFT, ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies, and School Violence, 1970-the Present,” Labor and Working Class History Association, Seattle, June 2017. Co-authored with Joe Rector.

“Networks of Knowing: Remaking a Labor Movement,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2016.

“You Can Call Me Honey All the Time;’ Low Wage Worker Protests and the Undertow of Harassment in the Emotional Work of Food Service,” Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November 2015.

“The Jungle Out There: Gender, Labor and Survival in the American Workplace,” Humanities Center Faculty Fellows Conference, Wayne State University, March 27, 2015.

“’Everybody Lies’: The Sexual Politics of Maids, Money, and Occupational Risk,” Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 2014; Humanities Center, Wayne State University, April 17, 2013.

“Fix the Workplace, Not the Worker: Labor Feminism and the Shifting Grounds of Equality on the Road to Johnson Controls,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013.

“The Precarious Work of Care: OSHA, AIDS, and Women Health Care Workers,1983-2000” Social Science History Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 2012; presented in Daily Work/Daily Lives Series, Michigan State University, April 5, 2013.

“Menardian Labor History: Or, What Happens When the Staples Thesis and World Systems Theory Meet the Logic of Collective Action,” Symposium in Honor of Rus Menard, History Department and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, May 10, 2012.

“Disappointment in the Law: Fighting Legal and Judicial Barriers to Labor Organizing, 1914-1932,” European Social Science History Conference, University of Glasgow, April 13, 2012.

“Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Methods,” Roundtable, Social Science History Association, Boston, November 18, 2011.

“Histories of Labour,” Social Science History Association, Boston, November 17, 2011.

“Gender, Race, and Social Policy in the Obama Administration,” American Historical Association, Coordinating Committee for Women’s History panel, San Diego, January 8, 2010.

“Labor and the Memory of Justice,” Social Science History Association, Miami, October 2008.

“Looking for Tom Joad’s Daughter: The Romance of Labor History in a Time of Cultural Migration,” North American Labor History Conference, October 18, 2008.

“The Shaping Up Years: Labor Reporting, Working-Class Intellectuals, and Labor Movement Survival after World War I,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 17, 2007.

1“Gender, Labor and Loyalty: Radicalism and Nationalism in Wartime Minneapolis,” Organization of American Historians, April 1, 2007.

“Years of Force and Violence: Remembering Class and Justice in the Heroic Era,” keynote, sponsored by LAWCHA, North American Labor History Conference, October 20, 2005.

1“Lost Mothers: Women’s Lives, Family Stories, and Social History,” Social Science History Association, Women’s Breakfast keynote, Chicago, November 20, 2004.

Book Roundtables: Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies, and Cobble, The Other Women’s Movement at Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 18 and 20, 2004.

“Shifting Labor’s Loyalties: Redefining Citizenship and Allegiance in the 1940s Left,” Organization of American Historians, Boston, March 26, 2004.

“The New Labor History at 40,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, Nov 15, 2003.

“Clothing the Bones: Labor History and the Fabric of Working Class Biography,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 16, 2001.

“Gender and Generation during the Great Depression and World War II in the United States,” Fulbright Symposium on Australia and the United States in Depression and War,” La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, October 4, 2001.

“Retooling the Class Factory: The Future of US Labor History after Marx, Montgomery, and Postmodernism,” University of Sydney, October 12, 2001, and York University, co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, March 14, 2001.

"Working Class Industrialization and Labor: Retrospective Look at Labor History," Social Science History Association meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 28, 2000.

"Publicity and Reform: Eva McDonald Valesh and Labor Reform Journalism," Social Science History Association, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27, 2000.

"Mustangs, Minivans, Mopeds, and the New Model Line: Confessions of a Labor History Conference Organizer," on the New Directions in Labor History roundtable, International Labor and Working Class History, American Historical Association, Chicago, January 8, 2000.

"Revolutionary Desire: Redefining the Politics of Sexuality among American Radicals, 1919-1945," co-authored with Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edwards University, Eleventh Berkshire Conference on Women's History, University of Rochester, June 4, 1999.

"Trends in Labor and Working Class History," Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, March 5, 1999.

"Goddesses and Monsters, Or, What Do Peggy Eaton, Hillary Clinton, and the Temptress Eve Have in Common?" Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, March 4, 1999.

"Make Love, Not War: Sex, Solidarity, and Political Community on the U.S. Left," Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 21, 1999.

"Looking Backward: Imagining the Future of Labor in the Past." Keynote speech. Southwest Labor Studies Association, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX, April 25, 1998.

"Working Public Spaces Globally." Roundtable. North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 24, 1997.

"Recasting Citizenship: The Uses of Class in a Multicultural Age," Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April 18, 1997.

"The Making of Men and Undoing of Women: Citizenship and Labor's Body Politic, 1890-1920," Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany, November 28, 1996.

"`Joan of Arc of the Laboring Classes': Authentic Experience, Trans-Class Politics, and Women's Corporate Paternalism in the Progressive Era." Institute for History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, November 21, 1996; Visiting Scholars Colloquium, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, April 10, 1996.

"Sleek Go-Betweens, Smooth-Tongued Spiders, and the Temptress Eve: Why a Woman Can't Be a Working Class Hero." Social Science History Association, New Orleans, October 13, 1996.

"Dudes, Dudesses, and Kansas City Cowboys: Gendered Dress, Ritual Play, and Representations of Labor Militancy in the late 19th Century City." Tenth Berkshire Conference on Women's History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June 8, 1996.

"Seeking Women Heroes and Villains in Women's History Month, Or, Who is Peggy Eaton, and Why Does Hillary Clinton Remind Me of Her?" Southwest State University, April 2, 1996.

"Provisioning the Returning Soldier: Veterans' Entitlements and the Politics of the Welfare State." Organization of American Historians, Chicago, March 30, 1996.

"Veterans, Citizenship, and the Politics of State Entitlement after World War I," Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, April 4, 1995; The Politics of Social Welfare and

the Rationalization of Everyday Life: Germany and the United States during the Interwar Years conference, Werner Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany, February 9, 1995.

"Facing and Effacing Difference: Citizenship, Gender Identity, and the Production Paradigm in Working Class History" Organization of American Historians,Washington, March 31,1995.

"Women's History in the United States History Curriculum." Keynote speech. Lowell Women's History Conference, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, March 15, 1995.

"Women's History as Labor History: New Trends in American Research." Amerika Haus-Berlin and Technical University of Berlin, February 13, 1995.

"Telling Tales: Labor Conflict, Class Politics, and Lawlessness in the Great Streetcar Strike." Seminar in Economic and Social History, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, March 3, 1994.

"Outfoxing the Frost: Gender, Community-Based Organization, and the Contemporary American Labor Movement." Public lecture. Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, July 29, 1993.

"The Making of Men and Undoing of Women: Work and the Body Politic, 1880-1920." Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 8, 1992; Humanities Institute, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, April 16, 1992.

"Divisions and Revisions: Class, Gender, and the Politics of Work in Women's History." American Historical Association, Chicago, December 28, 1991.

"Women, Men and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945." Center for Research on Social Organization, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 21, 1991.

"Gender and Working Class Organization in the United States between the Wars." Social Science History Association, New Orleans, November 1, 1991.

"Brotherhood, Community, and the Citizen-Soldier: Representations of Gender and Labor Solidarity." Organization of American Historians, Louisville, April 12, 1991.

"Public Soldiers and Solitary Warriors: Gender and Labor Solidarity in the U.S. Labor Movement," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, March 17, 1991 (Women’s History Week lecture); Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, April 8, 1989.

"Feminist Perspectives on Working Class History." Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, October 19, 1990.

"Telling the Truth on the Home Front: Gender, Union Solidarity, and the Equal Pay Issue during World War II." Social Science History Association, Washington D.C., November 17, 1989.

"Gender, Labor, Iconography, and the Minneapolis Labor Movement of the 1930s." Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 6, 1988.

"Organizing Women Workers in the Garment Trade in Minneapolis, 1934-1939." Sixth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Smith College, Northampton, June 2, 1984.

“‘Striking Maidens’: Women, Work, and Protest in a Minneapolis Garment Factory, 1888.” Social Science History Association, Bloomington, November 6, 1982.

Chair and Comment, Scholarly Conferences:

Authors-Meet-Critics Roundtable (Faue, Rethinking the American Labor Movement), Social Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017.

Comment. “Gender, Work, and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education.” Social Science History Association, Montreal, November 2017.

Roundtable Discussant, A Political History of American Inequality, Social Science History Association, Toronto, November 2014.

Roundtable Discussant, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Sunbelt Capitalism, Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013.

Comment. “The House Always Wins: Radical Politics, Militant Workers, and the State,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013.

Discussant and Chair, “Sisterhoods: Solidarity in Working Class Women’s Networks,” Labor and Working Class History Association, New York, June 8, 2013.

Comment, “Battered Women: Public Sector Union Bashing and Gender Discrimination,” North American Labor History Conference, October 2012.

Chair and Comment, “Perception and Power: Knowledge, Myth, Media and the Construction of Class,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2010.

Chair and Comment, “Class, Class Action, and Classification: Gender and Power at Work,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2010.

Comment, “Crisis and Class: War, Recovery and the Re-creation of Class in Britain, the United States, and India, 1929-1990,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 18, 2007.

Comment, “Views of Labor in Three Cultural Media,” North American Labor History Conference, October 2006.

Comment, “Female Patriots: Women and Their Nations in Times of War,” American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 8, 2006.

Comment, “Rethinking Working-Class History: New Perspectives,” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 28, 2002.

Comment, "Industrial Life in the Great Lakes Region," Great Lakes American Studies Association, Detroit, October 13, 2000.

Comment. "American Labor and the Struggle for Workers' Rights in Post-World War II America." American Historical Association, New York, January 5, 1997.

Comment. "Strategies of Selfhood in American Working Class Politics." North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 18, 1996.

Chair and Comment. "A Class Truce? New Interpretations of Postwar Labor Relations." American Historical Association, Chicago, January 5, 1995.

Chair and Comment. "Origins of Progressivism: Politics and Ideology in the 1890s." Labor, Politics, and the State in the 1890s conference, Terre Haute, September 22, 1994.

Comment. "Gender and Class in Comparative Perspective: The U.S., England, and France." Social Science History Association, Baltimore, November 6, 1993.

Comment. "Working Class Gender Relations in Conservative Political Climates: Canada, Great Britain, and the United States." Ninth Berkshire Conference on Women's History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, June 12, 1993.

Comment. "From Strikes to Ballots: Labor Politics in the Depression and World War II." Organization of American Historians, Anaheim, April 17, 1993.

Comment. "Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Industrial Unions." Rethinking American Labor History: Gender, Race, and Class, State Historical Society of Wisconsin and Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 10, 1992.

Comment. "Women and the State." Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Chicago, March 28, 1992.

Comment. "Women and the Labor Market." Women in Austria Symposium, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 20, 1991.

Chair and Comment. "The State Constructs Gender." Women, Politics, and Change in Twentieth Century America conference, New School for Social Research, New York, April 27, 1990.

Consulting

Consultant, Farmer-Labor Documentary Project (in progress), project by Randy Croce (University of Minnesota Labor Education Service), TomO’Connell (Metropolitan State University) and Anna Kurhajec (Metropolitan State University)

American Council of Learned Societies, Reviewer, Fellowship Applications, 2016, 2017

Exhibits for a New Century, Michigan Humanities Council grant, 2015

Detroit Historical Museum, Strategic Planning Focus Group, 2014

Women of Ford History Project, Honors College, Wayne State University, in collaboration with the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, 2012-2013.

American History Development Project, Oakland Schools, Oakland, Michigan, 2007-2008.

External Reviewer, Dutch National Science Foundation, 2012.

Honors Examiner, U.S. Labor and Urban History, Swarthmore College, 2004.

Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2012.

Women’s History Advisory Board, ProQuest Information and Learning, 2001-2002.

Consultant, Those Who Dare: Sky Walkers in the Motor City: Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers Local 25 in Detroit, 1901-2001 project, 2000-2001.

Consultant, History Themes Project, Michigan Educational Assessment Program, Michigan Department of Education and Department of the Treasury, 2001.

Consultant, Keys to Change, Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology, 1999-2000.

Consultant, The Price of Bread and Rubber: Building Tires in Eau Claire, 1917-1992, exhibit, Chippewa Valley Historical Museum, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1999.

Consultant, KTCA-KTCI Public Television (Minneapolis-St. Paul), documentary film, Minneapolis Past, 1993.

Read manuscripts for Cornell University Press, D.C. Heath, Duke University Press, Feminist Studies, Gender and Society, Greenwood Press, Journal of American History, Journal of Ethnic History, Journal of Policy History, Journal of Women's History, Labour History Review, Labour / Le Travail, Law and Social Inquiry, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Minnesota Historical Society Press, Minnesota History, New York University Press, Ohio State University Press,

Palgrave, St. Martin's Press, SECAC Review, Social Science History, University of Illinois Press, University of Nevada Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Wayne State University Press, Yale University Press.

Promotion and/or Tenure Reviewer: Baruch College-CUNY, College of William and Mary, Cornell University (2), Dalhousie University, Drew University, Franklin and Marshall University, Hunter College, Macalester College, Michigan State University (2), Northern Illinois University, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg, University of Minnesota (2), University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Pomona College, Texas Tech, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Tulsa, Wayne State University, West Virginia University (2), Western Washington University

Courses Taught:

Capstone Course for History Majors: History, Myth and Memory; History and the MediaGender and Labor History SeminarHistory of FeminismHistory of the FutureIntroduction to Historical ResearchMemory and HistoryMethods and Research in HistorySeminar: Gender, Work and Class in HistorySeminar: The Meanings of Justice in HistorySeminar: Modern United States HistorySeminar: North American Labor HistorySeminar: Politics and Policies in the Making of the U.S. Welfare StateSeminar: Race and Class in U.S. HistorySeminar: Social Theory and Social HistorySeminar: Social Rationalization and Modernity in the United StatesTopics in the History of American Women: Women, Labor, and the American LeftUnited States History from 1877United States History since 1945United States Labor History United States Political HistoryWomen, Class, and Politics in the United StatesWomen in United States History (Women in American Life and Thought)

Graduate Student Advising (completed degrees):

Josiah J. Rector, “Accumulating Risk: Race, Environmental Health, and the History of Capitalism in Detroit, 1865-2015,” (Winter 2017).

Elizabeth Ryan, PhD, “Transforming Motherhood: The Changing World of Single Mothers, 1970-1989,” (Fall 2015).

Angella L. Smith, “Economic Revolution from Within: The NIRA and the Political Economy of Crisis,” (Summer 2015).

Richard Fry, PhD, “Fighting for Survival: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Health and Safety in the United States, 1968-1988,” (Winter 2010).

Louis Jones, PhD, “The Rise of Public Sector Unionism in Detroit, 1947-1967,” (Winter 2010).

Stephen Freund, PhD, “Keeping the Promises of Repeal: Drinking and Working in California’s Post-Prohibition Drinking Establishments,” (Fall 2006).

Joseph M. Turrini, PhD, “Running for Dollars: The Politics and Economics of Track and Field in the United States, 1945-1990,” (Winter 2004).

Robert W. Gordon, III, PhD, “Environmental Blues: The Labor and Environmental Alliance, 1965-1985," (Winter 2004).

R. David Riddle, PhD, "The Rise of Reagan Democrats: The Case of Warren, Michigan," (Winter 1998).

James R. McQuaid, M.A., “Pride in the UAW: The UAW’s Accommodation and Defense of its LGBTQ Rank and File,” (Spring 2018).

David Bergh, M.A., “Working the Law: Maurice Sugar, Ernest Goodman, and the Development of Labor Law Practice,” (Summer 2016).

Erica Birth, M.A./M.L.I.S., “Edsel Ford and the Arts,” (Winter 2016).

Julia M. Teran, M.A., “Black and White Women in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commission: How Different Experiences of Gender in SNCC Contributed to the Absence of an Interracial Feminist Movement,” (Winter 2015).

Andrew J. Hnatow, M.A., "Visions of the New Left: Organized Labor, the Port Huron Statement: and the Making of SDS," (Fall 2014).

Jacob Stratton, M.A., “Secularization in Religious Activism: The Case of the Detroit Industrial Mission,” (Winter 2014).

Amanda Lauren Walter, M.A., “Becoming a Priority: Unionizing University Clerical Workers through SEIU District 925 (Spring 2013).

Josiah John Rector, M.A., “Environmental Justice at Work: The War on Cancer in the United Auto Workers, 1970-1992,” (Spring 2012).

Angelina Meadows (Kreger), M.A., “PBB: Five Years of Frustration, Devastation, and Death,” (Winter 2012).

Jaclyn Kinney, MA, “A Sensitive Decision: Maintaining a Mixed Industrial Department in the Detroit YWCA,” (Winter 2011).

Melissa R. Luberti, MA, “’Labor Was Where I Wanted to Be’: Mildred Jeffrey and the Struggles of Women Auto Workers,” (Winter 2010).

Ray Bottorff, Jr., MA, “The Skunks of Detroit: The Dramatic Short Life of the West Central Organization,” (Winter 2009).

Elizabeth Ryan, M.A., “Southern White Female Migrants: An Examination of Migration to Detroit, 1950-1969,” (Winter 2008).

Cassandra Turner, M.A. “Discrimination A Matter of Record: Getting Black Women Hired and Housed at Willow Run,” (Summer 2007).

Christopher Wilson, M.A., “The Richmond Hill Experiment: Henry Ford’s Social Engineering Project in Georgia, 1925-1951” (Spring 2007).

Jacob Hall, M.A., “Law and Labor in Detroit: The Labor Injunction and Local Labor, 1914-1922” (Spring 2005).

Catherine Hoffman, M.A., “Fighting for Gender Equality: Women in the U.A.W., 1940-1970,” (Winter 2005).

Janice M. Unger, M.A., “Tennis, Titles, and Trials: The Progression towards Equality for Women and Sports,” (Winter 2005).

Nicolette Wright, M.A., “Enter the Black Rosie the Riveter: Lillian Hatcher, International Representative to the United Auto Workers,” (Winter 2005).

Wendy Baeckeroot, M.A., “Behind the Front Lines: An Examination of Mary Heaton Vorse, 1914-1919,” (Fall 2004).

Joel Dankoff, M.A., “Inertia in the Name of Progress: The Public Works Administration and the Architecture of Higher Education,” (Spring 2002).

Jennifer Levine, M.A., “‘The Working Mother... Has to Maintain a Household’: The Women’s Auxiliaries of UAW-CIO and Government-Funded Childcare in World War II,” (Winter 2002).

Theresa Doss, M.A., “Housewives on Parallel Roads: The Detroit Housewives League and UAW-CIO Women’s Auxiliary,” (Fall 2000).

Gregory J. Wood, M.A., "Gender and the Making of Detroit's Working-Class: Towards a Rethinking of the 'Preunion' Era," (Fall 1999).

Adolph Mongo, M.A., "Detroit Police Department STRESS Unit: A Catalyst for Change in Detroit, 1971-1974," (Winter 1999).

John Simpson, M.A., "Rural Resort and Real Estate: Park Planning in Detroit, 1865-1890," (Spring 1997).

Kae Halonen, M.A., "Paycheck or Participatory Democracy: Teaching Democracy to Detroit Elementary School Children, 1917-1930," (Winter 1996).

Amy Sara Clark, M.A., "Crossing the Lines: Public Response to Female Soldiers and Spies during the American Civil War," (Fall 1995).

Jennifer Stollman, M.A., "A Study of Michigan Farm Women's Roles during the 19th Century," (Spring/Summer 1994).

Marguerite Brown, M.A., "`Because of My Race': Gender, Race Relations, and Black Women Workers in Detroit during World War II," (Winter 1994).

Joseph M. Turrini, M.A.,"'When Is the Time, If It Is Not Now?': The Fight Over Independent Politics in the Wayne County CIO, 1936-1948," (Fall 1993).

Robert Gordon, M.A., "Pesticides and Politics: The United Farm Workers and Chemical Pesticides, 1967-1977," (Winter 1993).

Judith Martin, M.A., "Political Progression: Suffrage and Beyond--Michigan Women through Their Final Success," (Winter 1993).

Sonja A. Gildon, M.A., "Black First: The Effects of Race over Sex on the Types of Jobs Available to African American Women in Detroit during the Depression Years through World War II," (Winter 1992).

I currently advise seven doctoral and three master’s students; I sit on an additional five doctoral committees (two in history, two in communications, one in English).

References on Request