Presentations / March 28, 2024
2023 Nov: “Threads of Solidarity: Storytelling, Laughter, and Clubbing in Justice Activism,” ASA
Presented as part of this roundtable at the American Studies Association in Montreal.
Presented as part of this roundtable at the American Studies Association in Montreal.
Presenting as part of this roundtable at the Urban History Association in Pittsburgh.
Virtual paper presentation about the importance of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for African American women’s labor organizing in the 1960s and 1970s for Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Conference in England.
Paper presentation about union organizing by Puerto Rican and southern African American women in the 1960s to 1970s for the Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference in Toronto.
Labor Histories Across Imperial Sites, Puerto Rican Studies Association, Holyoke, MA In 1984 and 1985, Gloria Maldonado and several Puerto Rican needleworkers in New York City shared their experiences with three women scholars for a public history project titled “Nosotras Trabajamos en la Costura.”
With contingent faculty now making up almost three-quarters of higher education’s academic workforce, the teacher/scholar model has broken down. Most contingent historians engage actively as scholars, but they do so with little support from scholarly institutions. This session examines the impact of the academic…