Ph.D. New York University
Professor, Department of History
Scholarship:
Storming Caesar’s Palace: Poverty, Activism and the American Dream
(Boston: Beacon, 2005).
*Winner of the 2006 Meyers Outstanding Book Award. Awarded by the Gustavus
Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.
“I Decided I’d Marry the First Man Who Asked: Gendering Black Migration From
Cotton Country to the Desert Southwest” in Marc Rodriguez, Josef Barton and
Donna Gabbacia, eds. New Directions in Modern Continental Migration
(University of Rochester Press: 2004).
"Pauline Newman: Immigration, Radicalism and Gender,” in Charles Calhoun ed.
The Human Tradition in America 1865 to the Present (Scholarly
Resources, 2003).
Reprinted in Eric Arnesen ed. The Human Tradition in the Labor
Movement (Scholarly Resources: 2004).
“Wage Earning Women, 1900-2000,” in Nancy Hewitt ed. Blackwell
Companion to American Women’s History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers,
2002).
“Soviet Jews: The City’s Newest Immigrants Transform New York Jewish Life”
in Nancy Foner ed. New Immigrants in New York, 2nd edition. (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2002).
“Waves Upon the Sand: A Century of Jewish Immigrant Life in Brighton Beach,”
in Ilana Abramovitch, ed. The Jews of Brooklyn (Hanover: University
Press of New England, 2002).
Interests:
The dynamic interaction between grass-roots social protest and top-down
policy making in U.S. Political History
Poor women's political movements and motherhood as a catalyst to organize
politically
Immigration and Labor
Courses Taught:
History of U.S. Women Since 1900
Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in U.S. History
Sex, Gender, and Society
Women and American Radicalism Left and Right
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