April 2021 Shade Research Collective Symposium: Power, Migration, and Culture in the Tobacco Valley. My presentation “Beyond the Fields: Gender, Labor, and the Public Legacies of Puerto Rican Farm Workers and Needleworkers” begins at 2:02:20.
Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference (LAWCHA), Duke University, Durham Organized the roundtable Women and Workplace Activism in the Postwar U.S.: Persistent Efforts to Move Systems with six other women scholars. Presented my paper “Organizing While Marginalized: Gloria Maldonado and Lucy Sledge in the Textile and…
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…
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…
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