April, 2017 - Aimee Loiselle

Presentations / April 30, 2017

2017 June: “Working the Exemptions: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Pliable Citizenship, and a Scaffolding for Neoliberalism,” LAWCHA, University of Washington

2017 June: Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference (LAWCHA), University of Washington, Seattle Presented my paper, “Working the Exemptions: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Pliable Citizenship, and a Scaffolding for Neoliberalism.” An outstanding event that brought together scholars from wide-ranging fields, union leaders, worker activists, and adjunct/contingent…

2017: Covenant Insurance Company Summer Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UConn

2017: Covenant Insurance Company Summer Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UConn Funds for CLAS graduate students who demonstrate past academic achievement and the potential for future academic and professional accomplishments.

Presentations / April 30, 2017

2017 March: Outstanding Paper, “Experiments in Citizenship, Migration, and Labor Recruitment: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism,” Graduate History Conference, UMass Amherst

WINNER * Outstanding Paper Prize “Experiments in Citizenship, Migration, and Labor Recruitment: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism” Mobility & Marginalization, Graduate History Conference, UMass Amherst, March 2017

Presentations / April 30, 2017

2017 Nov: Humanities in Action Panel, National Humanities Conference, Boston

2017 November: Humanities in Action Panel, National Humanities Conference, Boston The second in a series of three joint national panels that will bring the humanities community together as whole to consider how, by leveraging our strengths, we can achieve broader public impact and showcase the…

2017 April: “A Laboratory for Neoliberalism: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Flexible Labor Markets, and Rationales for Exemptions and Incentives,” Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Conference, UMass Amherst

Puerto Rico: Savage Neoliberalism, Colonialism and Financial Despotism, Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Conference, UMass Amherst, April 2017

Presentations / April 30, 2017

2017 Oct: “Gender, Sexuality, and the New Labor History,” Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Radcliffe Institute

2017 October: Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge “Panel Discussion: Gender, Sexuality, and the New Labor History” The Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality is a collaboration of the Schlesinger Library on the History of…