CURRICULUM VITAE 

EDUCATION:
B.A Denison University,1961
M.A. Boston University, 1963
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976 

 
EMPLOYMENT:
Lowell State College, Instructor in Social Studies, 1963-1965
Florida State University Canal Zone Campus, Adjunct in History, Winter 1976
Florida International University, Adjunct & Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 1974-1978
Assistant Professor, History, 1978-1983
Associate Professor, History, 1983-present
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 1988-present
 
TEACHING FIELDS:
History of U.S. Women, U.S. Social History, U.S. Cultural History, U.S. Labor History
HONORS, AWARDS:
Phi Beta Kappa, Denison University, 1960
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers in 1978, Lawrence Levine Seminar entitled "The Folk in American History," University of California, Berkeley.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers in 1981, Robert Zieger Seminar entitled "Twentieth Century Labor History," Wayne State University.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers in 1984, Karen Offen and Susan Groag Bell Seminar entitled "The Woman Question in Modern Thought, 1750­1950," Stanford University.
Books Published:
American Automobile Workers. 1900-1933, State University of New York Press, 1987.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"Black Automobile Workers in Detroit, 1910-1930," Journal of Negro History, 64 (Summer 1979), 177-190.
"Academic Women and Unions," in Women Winning: A Handbook for Action Against Sex Discrimination, ed. Virginia Pendergrass, Nelson-Hall, 1979.
"American Automobile Workers and Their Work, 1897-1933," Labor History, 22 (Spring 1981), 213-236.
"Auto Workers Confront the Depression, 1929-1933," Detroit in Perspective, 6 (Fall 1982), 47-71.
"Working Girls and Millionaires: The Melodramatic Romances of Laura Jean Libbey," American Studies, 24 (Spring 1983), 19-35.
"Briggs Manufacturing Company Strike, 1933," Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. Ronald J. Filippeli, Garland Press, 1990, 68-70.
"General Motors Sit-Down Strike, 1937," in Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. Ronald J. Filippeli, Garland Press, 1990, 202-207.
"Matilda Robbins: A Woman's Life in the Labor Movement, 1900?1920," Labor History, 34 (Winter 1993), 33-56.
Book Reviews:
The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir by Daisy Bates, in First Person Female American, 1980.
The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921, by Stephen Meyer III, in Journal of American History, September 1982.
Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers by John Barnard, in Journal of American History, March 1984.
Empty Promises: Quality of Working Life Programs and the Labor Movement by Donald Wells, in Labor History, Spring 1989.
Union Maids Not Wanted: Organizing Domestic Workers 1870-1940 by Donna L. Van Raaphorst, in Journal of American History, September 1989.
On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work, eds. Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer, in Technology and Culture, April 1990.
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 by Phyllis Palmer, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Spring 1991.
Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World II and Reconversion by Amy Kesselman, American Historical Review, June 1991.
Labor Will Rule by Steven Fraser, in American Historical Review, October 1992.
Heroes of Unwritten Story by Henry Kraus, in Journal of American History, June 1995.
The Gentle General: Rose Pesota, Anarchist and Labor Organizer by Elaine Leeder in American Historical Review, October 1995.

 

PAPERS DELIVERED AT SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:
"Black Auto Workers in America," Florida Teachers of History Annual Convention, February 1978.
"The Power of the Word: Literary Sources for Teaching Afro-American History," Florida Teachers of History Annual Convention, February 1979.
Commentator for session on "Working Class Culture in the Great Depression," Organization of American Historians, April 1980.
"Class and Sex in Popular Culture: The Working Girls of Laura Jean Libbey," National Women's Studies Association, May 1980.
"Matilda Robbins: Socialism, Romance and Personal Politics," FIU Women's Studies Colloquium, October 1982.
"American Automobile Workers in the 1920s: New Workers for the New Era?" North American Labor History Conference, October 1983.
Commentator for FIU Women's Studies Colloquium, 1983, 1985.
"From Women's History to Gender Analysis: What Do We Lose and What Do We Gain?" Florida Teachers of History, March 1988.
"Motherhood and Feminist Theory: A Modern History," South Central Women's Studies Association Conference, March 1988.
"Motherhood and Morality," FIU History Society, March 1988.
"Single Motherhood in the Progressive Era: Matilda Robbins' Experience," Southern Conference on Women's History, June 1988.