Read the Letter in New Yorker magazine A commentary on the book review of Timothy C. Winegard’s The Mosquito. I emphasize that the constant demand for slave labor on the sugar plantations, not mosquitoes, shaped Caribbean demographics. Industrialized sugar production with British and French reliance on the Atlantic slave…
2019 August: Postdoctoral Fellow, Reproductive Justice History Project, Study of Women & Gender, Smith College I accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Reproductive Justice History Project. It is an outgrowth of the Gloria Steinem Initiative to bring women’s history and scholarly resources to…
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2018-2019: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University I received a joint appointment for the History Department and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program. My advanced course was “Gender and History: Women Workers, the U.S., and Global Capitalism Since 1900.”
2018 April: “Homework, Sweatshops, Factories, and Mills: The New South, Puerto Rico, and Labor Markets for Neoliberalism,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA
Fragmented Archives: Northeastern Millworkers and Puerto Rican Needleworkers in the Same Industry, Different Collections,” Association for the Study of Connecticut History, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT A chance conversation with a colleague led to the realization that Puerto Rican women migrated to the Northeast in…