Elizabeth Victoria Faue
Elizabeth Victoria Faue
Department of History1810 Avondale Avenue3094
Faculty/Administration Bldg.Ann Arbor, MI 48103Wayne State
UniversityDetroit, MI 48202
Work: (313) 577-2525Home: (734) 717-2993Email: Email:
[email protected]
Education:
PhDUniversity of Minnesota, History, 1987
M.A.University of Minnesota, History, 1985
A.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-presentProfessor of History, Wayne State University,
Department of History
2010- 2015 Director of Graduate Studies, Wayne State University,
Department of History
2007-2009Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Wayne
State University
1993-2002Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Department
of History
Summer 1993Visiting Faculty, University of Washington, Center
for Labor Studies,
Summer Program in Comparative Labor History
1990-1993Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Department
of History
1988-1990Susan B. Anthony Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women's
Studies, University of Rochester, Department of History and Women's
Studies Program
1986-1988Lecturer, University of Minnesota, History and Women's
Studies
Fall 1987Visiting Lecturer, Macalester College, Department of
History
Publications: Books
Rethinking the American Labor Movement. American Social and
Political Movements of the Twentieth Century series. New York:
Routledge, May 2017 (forthcoming).
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 Womens 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:
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 Labors 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, 19191945, 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:
Radical Experience and the Surveillance State, Reviews in
American History (forthcoming).
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:
Murderous Work: Gender, Risk, and Endangerment in the American
Workplace. A study of occupational safety, health, and risk at work
in the late twentieth century.
Timepiece: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Allegiance. 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 Walter, in Encyclopedia
of the Middle Class (forthcoming).
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.
Womens 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 WomenA 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 University
Press, 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 Whiteclay
Chambers 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, eds (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 549-51.
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.
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.
Canadian Journal of History 49:3 (Winter 2014), 557-559.
CHOICE (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; (forthcoming)
(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.
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 Work:
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.
Professional Service:
Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference
2003 Labor, War and Imperialism
2002 Class, Gender and Ideology, Nationally and
Internationally
2001 Labor, Migration and the Global Economy: Past, Present and
Future
2000 Labor and the New Millennium: Class, Vision, and Change
1999 Class and Politics in Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives
1998 Labor: Past and Present
1997 Workers and the City
1996 Memory and the Re-Telling of Working Class Lives
1995 Culture and Community in Working Class History
1994 International and Comparative Labor History
1993 Labor, Citizenship, and the State
1992 Remaking the Working Class
1991 Men, Women, and Labor: Perspectives on Gender and Labor
History
Program Committee, Social Science History Association, 1991,
1995, 2012-2016 (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,
1994-97.
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, 1992-94.
Board Member, Women Historians of the Midwest, 1983-87.
Awards:
Labor and Working Class History Association Award, 2004
Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Wayne State University,
2000
College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, Wayne State University,
1998
Career Development Chair, Wayne State University, 1995-1996
Board of Governors' Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State
University, 1992
Colonial Dames of America, Region II Scholar, 1984
Phi Beta Kappa, 1979
Grants and Fellowships:
The Value of the Humanities in the Global City: Rethinking
Culture and Opportunity in
Detroit, Next Generation Humanities PhD Challenge Grant,
National Endowment for
the Humanities, Project Director, 2016-2017 (CLAS/Wayne State
University)
Masters Program Innovation and Development Grant, Graduate
School, Wayne State
University, 2014-2016
Humanities Center, Faculty Summer Fellowship, Wayne State
University 2014
Graduate Research Assistantship, Faculty Award, Wayne State
University, 2011-2012
Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, Wayne
State University, 2005-2006
Scholar in Residence, Humanities Center, Wayne State University,
Fall 2002
Grant in Inquiry and Research, Wayne State University, 1999
University Research Grant, Wayne State University, 1999
Small Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts, Wayne State
University, 1992, 1999
Faculty Research Leave Grant, Wayne State University, Fall 1993,
Winter 1999, Fall 2002,
Winter 2006, Fall 2012
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers
University, 1995-1996
Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers
University, 1994-1995
Werner 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, 1993
National 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, 1991
Faculty Development Research Grant, Susan B. Anthony Center for
Women's Studies,
University of Rochester, 1988-1989, 1989-1990
J. Putnam Macmillan Travel Grant, 1985
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota,
1984-1985
Graduate School Incoming Fellowship, University of Minnesota,
1979-1980
Student Project for Amity among Nations, Scholarship to Greece,
1977
Faculty Women's Club Scholarship, 1975-1976
University Service:
University and College of Liberal Arts and Science Service,
Wayne State University:
Affiliate, Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues,
2012-present
Board of Governors' Faculty Recognition Award Committee,
1992-1993
Chair Review Committee, History, College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, 2004-2005
Chair Review Committee, Political Science, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, 2017
(chair)
Chair Selection Advisory Committee, History, 1994
College Salary Committee, Departmental Representative, 2001,
2005
Cultural Studies Program Committee, 1993-1994
College of Education Program Review Committee, 1997-1998
Director Review Committee, Labor@Wayne, 2013-2014
Educational Development Grant Committee, 1999-2000
Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee (University),
(appointed), Wayne State University, 2014-2015
Faculty Research Award Committee, 1996-1997
Garrett Heberlein Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate
Students, Graduate
School, 2008, 2009 (chair)
GEOC Bargaining Committee, Provosts Office, Wayne State
University, 2008-2009
Graduate 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, Provosts Office, 2013-2014
Humanities Center Board, Wayne State University, 2011-2013
King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Committee, Graduate
School, 2002, 2007
Masters Advisory Committee, Graduate School, Chair,
2013-2014
NEH Grant Steering Committee, College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, 2015-2017 (chair)
New Programs Committee, Graduate School, Chair, 2007-2009
Outstanding 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 assignmentineligible 2007-2009).
Public History Advisory Board (Chair), 2015-
Sam Fishman Travel Award, Walter P. Reuther Library, 2012, 2013.
2014, 2015
Scholarship and Fellowship Review Panel, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996,
1997
Search Committee, Director Labor@Wayne/Fraser Center for
Workplace Issues,
2006-2008
Search Committee, Labor Historian, Labor@Wayne, 2012-2013
Selection Committee, Graduate Teaching Assistantship Grants,
Office of the Vice
President for Research and the Graduate School, 2007, 2008,
2009
Scholarly Communication for Graduate Students Committee, Chair,
2007-2009
Summer Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, Graduate
School, 2008-2009
Supplemental Research Equipment Fund Review Board, Humanities,
1993-1994
UPTF Contract Bargaining Committee, Provosts Office,
2016-2017
Women's Faculty Resource Network, Vice President for Academic
Affairs,1996-1998
Women's Studies Advisory Board, 1990-91, 1992-99; Program
Committee Chair, 1994;
Project on Women and Social Change Committee, Chair,
1995-1996
Womens 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, 1997
Search 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, 2016
African American History Search Committee, Chair, 2006-2007
African History Search Committee, Co-Chair, 2001-2002
Alumni Advisory Board, 2017-present (ex-officio)
Budget Committee, 2014-2015, (ex-officio) 2015-present
Colloquia Committee, Fall 1991
Computer Committee, 1990-1991, 1992-1993
Curriculum and Instruction Committee, Fall 1997
Department Representative, College Promotion and Tenure
Committee, 2009-2010,
2012-2013
Executive Committee, 2009-2010 (elected; chair), 2010-2018
(ex-officio)
Faculty Mentor, 2011-2016
Graduate Committee, 1992-2004, 2005-2010, 2010-2015 (chair),
2015-present
Graduate Orientation Organizer, 2010-2015
Mentors Committee, Fall 1990
North American Labor History Conference Committee, 1990-2003
(chair), 2003-2017
Personnel Committee, 1997-1999, 2003-2005, 2006-2007, 2007-2008,
2009-2012,
2013-2015 (elected); 2015- present (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- present (chair)
Search Committees, 1994, 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2006-07,
2010-11
Undergraduate Committee, 2004-2005, 2010-present
(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, 1989-90
Steering Committee, 1989-90
Curriculum Committee, 1988-89
Graduate Fellowship Committee, 1988-89
History Department Service, University of Minnesota:
American History Wing Committee, Graduate Student
Representative, 1980-81, 1983-84
Graduate Studies Committee, Graduate Student Representative,
1983-84
Public Lectures:
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
District
Womens 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: Womens 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, Womens
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, Professional Development 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: Womens 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.
Womens Place in the News, Labors 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:
Learning from the Ground Up: 1930s Labor and Social Science
Reporting, 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, 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 Womens
History panel, San Diego, January 8, 2010.
Labor and the Memory of Justice, Social Science History
Association, Miami, October 2008.
Looking for Tom Joads 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.
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.
Lost Mothers: Womens Lives, Family Stories, and Social History,
Social Science History Association, Womens Breakfast keynote,
Chicago, November 20, 2004.
Book Roundtables: Bender, Sweated Work, Weak Bodies, and Cobble,
The Other Womens Movement at Social Science History Association,
Chicago, November 18 and 20, 2004.
Shifting Labors 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 GoBetweens, SmoothTongued 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 (Womens 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:
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
Womens 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:
American Council of Learned Societies, Reviewer, Fellowship
Applications, 2016
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.
Womens 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 Media
Gender and Labor History Seminar
History of Feminism
History of the Future
Introduction to Historical Research
Memory and History
Methods and Research in History
Politics and Policies in the Making of the U.S. Welfare
State
Seminar: The Meanings of Justice in History
Seminar: North American Labor History
Seminar in Social Theory and Social History
Seminar: Modern United States History
Social Rationalization and Modernity in the United States
Topics in the History of American Women: Women, Labor, and the
American Left
United States History from 1877
United States History since 1945
United States Labor History
United States Political History
Women, Class, and Politics in the United States
Women in United States History (Women in American Life and
Thought)
References on Request
