Peter J. Rachleff home: 651-774-8687
835 E. Sixth Street office: 651-696-6371
St. Paul, Minnesota 55106 e-mail: rachleff@macalester.edu
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. in
American history (1981)
dissertation: "Black, White, and Gray: Race and Working-
Class
Activism in Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1890"
advisor: David Montgomery
M.A. in
American history (1976)
Amherst College
B.A. in
sociology (1973)
Phi
Beta Kappa; Magna cum laude
TEACHING
AT MACALESTER
Chairperson, History Department (1997 – 2000)
Professor of History (1995 - )
Associate Professor of History (1987-1995)
Assistant Professor of History (1982-1987)
Macalester curriculum
The
History of the U.S. Working-Class
Women and
Work in U.S. History
The Study
of History
Immigration & Ethnicity in U.S. History
The
Formation of Industrial America, 1830-1890
American
Labor Radicalism
Slavery,
Emancipation & Reconstruction
African
Americans & the Transformation of the City, 1890-1945
Advanced
research seminars in Minnesota history
Introduction to African-American Studies
Introduction to Comparative North American Studies
The Great
Depression in U.S. History
Historians and Race
Racial
Formation in US History and Culture (with Leola Johnson)
Telling
Labor’s Story Through Music (with Robert Peterson)
FELLOWSHIPS
Dewitt Wallace Sabbatical Extension Fellowship,
Macalester (1996)
Minnesota Humanities Commission "Works in
Progress" (1995)
American Council of Learned Societies/Ford
Foundation (1988-89)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Seminar, "Immigration
and
Ethnicity in 20th Century America," Immigration History
Research
Center, University of Minnesota (1983)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, University of
Pittsburgh (1977-78)
Dwight Hitchcock Fellowship, Amherst College
(1974-75)
2.
ADDITIONAL
TEACHING
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Masters
in Liberal Studies Program
"The Future of the Labor Movement" (1995)
"Immigration & Ethnicity in U.S. History" (1996)
"Labor and Theater in the 1930s" (1999)
Metropolitan State University, St. Paul
Community
Faculty member (1983 – 1996; 2001 - )
"History
of U.S. Economic Life"
"Labor & Technology"
"Workers and Their Unions"
"Unions and the American Economy"
Faculty-designed Independent Studies (1996 - 1997)
"Soldiers and Society: The American Civil War"
"The Great Depression in U.S. History"
Recipient, "Excellence in Teaching" Award (1993)
Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota
Adjunct
faculty member (1983-1986)
"American Labor History"
"Labor & Technology"
"Women's Labor History"
Center for Economic Education, University of St.
Thomas, St. Paul
Summer
Program in "Economics & Corporate Environment"(1989-1999)
World Press Institute, Macalester College
Adjunct
faculty member (1988 - )
Penn/USIA American Studies Summer Institute
"Interpreting American Culture" (1991 & 1992)
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
Organization of American Historians
Editorial Board, SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY,
1992-1995; 1998-2002
Editorial Board, LABOR HISTORY, 2001 – 2003
Editorial Board, LABOR, 2003 -
Editorial Board, SAFUNDI: THE JOURNAL OF SOUTH
AFRICAN AND
AMERICAN
COMPARATIVE STUDIES (www.safundi.org),
2001-
National Writers Union, Local 13, Twin Cities
(UAW)
United Association for Labor Education (UALE/CWA)
Labor and Working Class History
Association(LAWCHA),
Co-chairperson, Nominations Committee
Scholars, Artists, and Workers for Social Justice
3.
WORK
IN PROGRESS
REFIGURING AND REPRESENTING RACE: THE BUFFALO HISTORICAL
MARIONETTES IN THE 1930S (collaboratively with
Beth Cleary)
LABOR AND POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA
PUBLICATIONS
“Call and Response: The Future of the Strike,”
symposium,
New
Labor Forum, 12:3 (Fall 2003)
“Is the Strike Dead?” New Labor Forum,
12:2 (Summer 2003)
“Lynching and Racial Violence,” Z Magazine,
15:12 (December 2002)
“Lynching Then and Now,” CounterPunch,
9:18-19 (Oct. 15, 2002)
“Making the Invisible Visible,” Introduction to
David Parker, BY
THESE
HANDS: PORTRAITS FROM THE FACTORY FLOOR (St. Paul:
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002)
“The Buffalo Historical Marionettes,” in
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW
YORK
STATE (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002)
“Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison
of the Hormel
Strike
of 1985-86 (US) and the Volkswagen Strike of 2000 (SA)”
SAFUNDI:
THE JOURNAL OF SOUTH AFRICAN AND AMERICAN COMPARATIVE
STUDIES
(www.safundi.org), 7 (November 2001);
reprinted in
Andrew
Offenburger, ed., SAFUNDI: A SOUTH AFRICAN AND AMERICAN
COMPARATIVE READER. THE BEST OF SAFUNDI AND OTHER SELECTED
ARTICLES
(Safundi, 2002)
“Globalization and Union Democracy,” International
Socialist
Review, 19 (August – September 2001)
Syllabus for History 30: “Women and Work in U.S.
History,” in
Janet
Zandy, ed., WHAT WE HOLD IN COMMON: AN INTRODUCTION TO
WORKING
CLASS STUDIES (NY: The Feminist Press, 2001)
“The Current Crisis of the South African Labor
Movement,”
Labour/LeTravail
(Canada), 47 (Spring 2001)
“Introduction” to William Millikan, A UNION
AGAINST UNIONS: THE
MINNEAPOLIS CITIZENS ALLIANCE AND ITS FIGHT AGAINST ORGANIZED
LABOR,
1903-1947 (St.Paul: Minnesota Historical Society
Press,
2001)
"Richmond: Civic, Literary, and Mutual Aid
Associations" and
"Readjusters" in Nina Mjagkij, ed., ORGANIZING BLACK
AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS (New York:
Garland Press, 2001)
4.
“Why Participation? Lessons from the Past for the
Future,” Labor
Studies
Journal 25:4 (Winter 2001)
“On the Ground with the South African Labor
Movement,” Safundi:
The
Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies
(www.safundi.org), 3 (October 2000)
“Seeds of a Labor Insurgency,” in John Hinshaw
and Paul LeBlanc,
eds.,
U.S. LABOR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: STUDIES IN WORKING
CLASS
STRUGGLES AND INSURGENCY (Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity
Books,
2000)
“They Say Give Back, We Say Fight Back: The
Legacy of the Hormel
Strike,
Fifteen Years Later,” Dollars and Sense 231 (Sept/
Oct
2000)
ARupture or Continuity?@ contribution to symposium on Paul Buhle,
TAKING
CARE OF BUSINESS, in New Politics VII:4 (Winter 2000)
“Working,” Introductory essay to catalogue,
WORKING: PHOTOGRAPHS
OF
WORKING PEOPLE by STEPHEN M. DAHL (Minneapolis: pARTs
Gallery,
1999)
"Lessons from Labor History:
Organizing," in Ray M. Tillman and
Michael
S. Cummings, eds., THE TRANSFORMATION OF U.S. UNIONISM (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
Reiner Publishers, 1999)
"The Failure of Minnesota
Farmer-Laborism," in Kevin Boyle, ed.,
ORGANIZED LABOR AND AMERICAN POLITICS (Albany: State University
of New
York, 1998)
"The Dynamics of Americanization: The
Croatian Fraternal Union in the
1930s," in Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie, eds., LABOR HISTORIES: CLASS, POLITICS,
AND THE WORKING-CLASS
EXPERIENCE (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998)
"Unbroken Mirror: One Hundred Years of the
St.Paul Union Advocate"
(with
Barb Kucera), Labor's Heritage, 9:4 (Spring 1998)
"Cram Your Spam: Remembering the Hormel
Strike," and "The More
Things
Change: The AFL-CIO," in The Baffler, 9 (Spring 1997)
"Organizing 'Wall-to-Wall': The Independent
Union of All Workers,
1933-1937," in Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman, eds.,
UNIONIZING THE JUNGLES: LABOR AND COMMUNITY IN THE 20th C
MEATPACKING INDUSTRY (Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1997)
"Organizing Wall-to-Wall: The Independent
Union of All Workers,
1933-1937," in Staughton Lynd, ed., "WE ARE ALL LEADERS: THE
ALTERNATIVE UNIONISM OF THE EARLY 1930S (Urbana: University
of
Illinois Press, 1996)
5.
"The Croatian Fraternal Union, Radicalism,
and the American Labor
Movement," in Matjaz Klemencic, ed., ETHNIC FRATERNALISM IN
IMMIGRANT COUNTRIES (Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor
Pedagoska fakulteta, 1996)
"Solid State," Minnesota Monthly,
30:2 (February 1996)
"Richmond," in Jack Salzman, David
Lionel Smith, and Cornel West,
eds.,
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE,
IV (NY:
Simon & Schuster MacMillan, 1996)
"The Quest for Rail Labor Unity," Canadian
Dimension, 29:4,
(August-September 1995)
"State of the Unions: Improving," Utne
Reader, Sept.- Oct. 1994
"Peering into the Crystal Ball: The Future
of the US Labour
Movement," Canadian Dimension, 28:4 (August-September 1994)
"The Future in the Present: The Work of
C.L.R. James," Monthly
Review, 45:10 (March 1994)
"A Page from History? Seeds of a Labor
Resurgency," The Nation,
258:7
(February 21, 1994)
HARD-PRESSED IN THE HEARTLAND: THE HORMEL STRIKE
AND THE FUTURE
OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT (Boston: South End
Press, 1993)
[nominated for a 1994 Minnesota Book Award]
"The Croatian Fraternal Union, Zajednicar,
and the Second
Generation, in DUE DOMOVINI/TWO HOMELANDS: MIGRATION
STUDIES
(Ljubljana: Centre of Scientific Research of the
Slovene
Academy of Sciences & Arts, 1993)
"The Rebirth of Minnesota's Labor
Movement," in Mel Hammarberg,
ed.,
INTERPRETING AMERICAN CULTURE: A REGIONAL APPROACH
(Glasgow, Scotland: Modern Studies Association, 1992)
"USA: 1991 Rail Strike," Echanges/Exchanges
(London & Paris),
68/69
(July - December 1991)
"Derailed -- But Not Defeated," Z
Magazine (July - August 1991)
"Art and Activism in the American Labor
Movement," Artpaper, 10:8
(April
1991)
"Multicultural History," in Helen Stub,
ed., BEYOND THE SUITCASE:
A
RESOURCE GUIDE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL TEACHING OF HISTORY
(Minneapolis: The Origins Program, 1990)
"American Labor in the 1980s," in Don Fritz
and David Roediger,
eds.,
WITHIN THE SHELL OF THE OLD: ESSAYS ON WORKERS' SELF-
ORGANIZATION (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1990)
6.
BUILDING THE UNION, 1890-1990: BRANCH NO.28,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF
LETTER CARRIERS (St. Paul: NALC Branch 28, 1990)
"Supporting the Hormel Strikers," in
Jeremy Brecher and Tim
Costello, eds., BUILDING BRIDGES: LABOR-COMMUNITY COALITIONS
(NY:
Monthly Review Press, 1990)
"Council Communism"; "The
Croatian-American Left"; "Industrial
Unionism" essays in Dan Georgakas and Paul Buhle, eds.,
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT (NY: Garland, 1990)
"'Members in Good Standing': Richmond's
Community of Former
Slaves,
1865-1873," Virginia Cavalcade, 39:3 (Winter 1990)
and 39:4
(Spring 1990)
"American Labor in the 1980s," Workers'
Democracy, #33 (October - December
1989)
"Turning Points in the Labor Movement: Three
Key Conflicts," in
Clifford
Clark, ed., A CENTURY OF CHANGE: THE STATE AND ITS
PEOPLE
SINCE 1900 (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society
Press,
1989)
"Class, Ethnicity, and the New Deal: The
Croatian Fraternal Union
in the
1930s," in Peter Kivisto, ed., THE ETHNIC ENIGMA: THE
SALIENCE
OF ETHNICITY FOR EUROPEAN-ORIGIN GROUPS
(Philadelphia: The Balch Institute, 1989)
BLACK LABOR IN RICHMOND, 1865-1890 (Urbana:
University of Illinois
Press,
1989 [paperback])
"Black Richmond and the Knights of
Labor," in Jerry Lembcke, ed.,
RACE,
CLASS, AND URBAN CHANGE (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press,
1989)
"Two Decades of the 'New' Labor
History," American Quarterly,
41:1
(March 1989)
"Welcome to Austin, Poland," Zeta,
2:1 (January 1989)
"Hard Times for Hormel: Meatpackers Lead
U.S. Labor," Canadian
Dimension,
20:6 (November 1986)
"Keeping Minneapolis an Open Shop Town: The
Citizens Alliance in
the
1930s," [with Lois Quam], Minnesota History (Oct. 1986)
"The Hormel Strike: Turning Point for the
Rank-and-File Labor
Movement," Socialist Review (September 1986)
"Women in the Labor Market and the Labor
Movement," [with Tom
O'Connell],
in Sirkka Sinkkonen and Annelli Milen, eds.,
TOWARDS
EQUALITY (Kuopio, Finland: University of Kuopio,
1986)
7.
BLACK LABOR IN THE SOUTH: RICHMOND, VIRGINIA,
1865-1890)
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984)
"Machine Technology and Workplace Control:
The U.S. Post Office,"
in Frank
Fischer and Carmen Sirianni, eds., CRITICAL STUDIES
IN
ORGANIZATION AND BUREAUCRACY (Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1984)
MOVING THE MAIL (Morgantown, West Virginia: Work
Environment
Project,
1981)
MARXISM AND COUNCIL COMMUNISM (Brooklyn:
Revisionist Press, 1976)
ROOT AND BRANCH: THE RISE OF THE WORKERS'
MOVEMENT [co-editor],
edited
by "Root and Branch" (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett,1975)
"Soviets and Factory Committees in the
Russian Revolution, in ROOT AND
BRANCH: THE RISE OF THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT (ibid.)
PUBLIC
PRESENTATIONS
“From the Bread Box to the Ballot Box,” a series
of presentations
to
locals of the Minnesota Association of Professional
Employees (MAPE), January – February 2004
“Immigrant Workers Lead the Way,” South Central
Federation of
Labor,
Madison, Wisconsin, “Labor History With a Bite” series,
April
21, 2003
“History of Labor in Ramsey County,” at “From
Frontier to Future:
150
Years of Ramsey County History,” Ramsey County Historical
Society
1999 Lecture Series, October 5, 1999
“William Mahoney and Farmer-Laborism in St.
Paul,” Friends of the
St. Paul
Public Library, May 18, 1999
"Americans at Work," Independent
Humanities Scholars Network and
Minnesota Historical Society, November 9, 1995
"The Future of Rail Labor," Wisconsin
Labor History Society, 14th
Annual
Conference, LaCrosse, May 1995
"The Independent Union of All Workers,"
Wisconsin Labor History
Society,
12th Annual Conference, Madison, April 1993
"The 1894 Great Northern Railway Strike,"
Ramsey County Historical
Society,
St. Paul, April 1992
"Work and Race," Ramsey County
Historical Society "Have Lunch with
a Historian" Series, March 1992
8.
"The Labor Movement Today," six part
series on Minnesota Public
Radio,
January 1992
"Portrait," KTCA Public Television,
September 1990
Appearances on "Almanac";
"Face-to-Face"; "Newsnight Minnesota"
(KTCA);
"Moore on Sunday" (WCCO TV); MPR, KFAI, WCCO Radio
CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED LECTURES
“(Re)Figuring and (Re)Presenting Race: The
Buffalo Historical
Martionettes,” with Beth Cleary, International Humanities
Conference, Honolulu, January 2004
“Is the Strike Dead?” North American Labor
History Conference,
Detroit,
October 2003
“Labor’s Response to Corporate Terrorism,”
(keynote) Pacific
Northwest Labor History Association Conference, Seattle,
May 2003
“Transnational Perspectives on Race and Labor
Radicalism,” Social
Science
History Association (commentator), St. Louis, Oct.2002
“Creating and Oppositional Working-Class
Identity: Radio, Theater,
and
Dance in Depression Era America,” North American Labor
History
Conference (commentator), Detroit, October 2002
“Anti-Lynching Movements: The 1930s to the Modern
Civil Rights
Movement,” (chair and commentator), “Lynching and Racial
Violence: Histories and Legacies” Conference, Emory University
and the
Martin Luther King, Jr., Center, Atlanta, October 2002
“Farmers and Workers,” Northern Great Plains
History Conference,
(commentator), Minneapolis, October 2002
“Representing and Refiguring Race: The Jubilee
Singers of the
Buffalo
Historical Marionettes,” (with Beth Cleary), “Au-dela
Du New
Deal: New Perspectives on the U.S. in the 1930s”
Conference at University of Paris no.VII, June 2002
“Representing Race: The Buffalo Historical
Marionettes of the
Federal
Theatre Project,” (with Beth Cleary), “The Legacy of
The New
Deal” Conference, Chicago, May 2002
“Academics as Activists and Activists as
Academics,” Social
Science
History Conference, Chicago, November 2001
“Immigration, Race, and Labor History,” North
American Labor
Conference (chair and comment), Detroit, October 2001
9.
“Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison
of the Hormel
Strike
of 1985-86 (USA) and the Volkswagen Strike of 2000-
2001
(South Africa),” South African Sociological Association
Annual
Congress, July 1-4, 2001: “Globalisation, Inequality,
And
Identity,” University of South Africa, Pretoria
“Whiteness: Its Place in the Historiography of
Race and Class in
the
United States,” presented to “The Burden of Race:
Whiteness and Blackness in Modern South Africa,” Wits History
Workshop
and Wits Institute for Economic and Social Research,
July
5-8, 2001, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
“Oral History and Labor History: New Prospects,”
Oral History
Association of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 2001
“Radical Black Puppeteers,” Historical
Perspectives Lecture
Series,
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, March 2001
“Representing Race: The Buffalo Historical
Marionettes in the
1930s,”
with Beth Cleary, Center for Working-Class Studies
Lecture
Series, Youngstown State University, November 2000
“The Current Crisis of the South African Labor
Movement,” North
American
Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 2000
“The Performance of Race in the 1930s: The
Buffalo Historical
Marionettes,” for workshop “Staging the Cultural Front,”
North
American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Oct.1999
“Radicals on the Prairie” (commentator), Northern
Great Plains
History
Conference, St. Cloud, Minnesota, October 1999
"Refiguring Race: Race, Ethnicity, and Class
in the Buffalo
Historical Marionettes," University of Minnesota Faculty
Seminar
in Race and Ethnicity, December 1998
"Response" to Saskia Sassen, "The
State in Economic
Globalization," International Roundtable, Macalester College, November 1998
"Empire, Race, and Working-Class
Mobilization," North American
Labor
History Conference, Detroit, October 1998 (plenary
session)
"Social Provision and Social Thought in the
Great Depression,"
North American
Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 1998 (chair and commentator)
"Solidarity Unionism after Union
Recognition," Conference on
Solidarity Unionism, Youngstown, Ohio, June 1998 (chair)
"What's Happening in the Labor
Movement," Conference on Rank-and-
File Unionism, City University of New York, December 1997
10.
"The Politics of Public Space: Crafting
Community in the Urban
North,
1895-1930," North American Labor History Conference,
Detroit,
October 1997 (chair and comment)
"New Directions in Labor History,"
North American Labor History
Conference, Detroit, October 1997 (Plenary Session)
"The Knights of Labor Use of Drama" for
panel "The Labor Movement
and Its
Use of Theater in the 19th and 20th Centuries,"
Pedagogy/Theater of the Oppressed Conference, University of
Nebraska-Omaha, April 1996
"Race and the Labor Movement, 1890s-1930s,"
Organization of
American
Historians Conference, San Francisco, April 1997
(chair)
"African-American Working Lives and Reason:
Recollecting Race,
Class
and Resistance, from Detroit to the Delta," North
American
Labor History Conference, Wayne State University,
Detroit,
October 1996 (chair)
"Detroit Remembers: Roundtable on Recent
Scholarship on the
Detroit
Working Class" (moderator), North American Labor
History
Conference, Detroit, October 1996
"Community as Construct in Working Class
History: A Round Table,"
North
American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October
1995
"The Social Bases of Working-Class Identity,"
North American Labor
History
Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October
1995
(chair and comment)
"Floyd Olson: Radical or Racketeer? The
Failure of Minnesota
Farmer-Laborism," Sixth Annual Symposium of the George Meany
Memorial
Archives,"Labor and Politcs,” November 1994
"Labor and the Law: Historical
Perspectives," Annual Conference of
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Chicago, October 1994
"Ethnicity and Nationalism: Italian
Immigrants and the
Recomposition of the U.S. Working-Class," North American
Labor
History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit,
October
1994 (chair & commentator)
"Recent Labor Actions," Northern Great
Plains History Conference,
St.
Paul, October 1994 (commentator)
"The Croatian Fraternal Union, Radicalism,
and the American Labor
Movement," Conference on "Development and Significance of the
Fraternal Organizations among Immigrants in North and South
America
and Europe," University of Maribor, Slovenia, May 1994
11.
"Black, White and Gray: The Knights of Labor
and Race," Southern
Labor
Studies Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, October 1993
"Labor History and Labor Activism,"
plenary panel, North American
Labor
History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit,
October
1993
"Federal Government Forces Railroad Workers
from the Track," North
American
Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 1993
"The Future of the Labor Movement,"
"Under the Workman's Cap: The
Work and
Teaching of David Montgomery," conference of David
Montgomery's former grad students, Pittsburgh, June 1993
"Creating Free Social Space: The St. Paul
Labor Speakers Club,"
Session on "Labor Historians Work with the Labor Movement,"
North
American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Oct. 1992
"Rail Labor, the Government, and Union
Militancy," National
Conference
of the Association for Union Democracy, "After
the
Teamsters Victory: The Next Steps for Union Democracy,"
Chicago, June 1992
"Homeland Politics and Croatian
Workers," panel on "Immigrant
Workers and Homeland Politics: The 1920s and 1930s," Social
Science History Association, New Orleans, November 1991
"Race, Occupational Segregation, and the
State in the U.S."
Social
Science History Association, New Orleans,
November 1991 (chair)
"Retail is No Small Detail: Male
Packinghouse Workers Reach Out
to
Women Retail Workers in Southern Minnesota, 1933-1937,"
panel
on "Gender and Industrial Unionism in the United
Packinghouse Workers of America," North American Labor History Conference, Detroit,
October 1991
"Urban Politics in the Reconstruction-Era
South: The African-
American Search for Coalition" (commentator), Organization
of
American Historians Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1991
"The Croatian Fraternal Union, Zajednicar,
& the Americanization
of the
Second Generation," conference on "The Ethnic Press in
the
Immigrant Countries," University of Maribor, Slovenia,
Yugoslavia, April 1991
"African-American Working-Class Activity in
Post-Bellum Richmond,
Virginia," Southern Historical Association Annual Conference,
New
Orleans, November 1990
12.
"The 'New' Labor History Examines Changes in
the Workplace," for
"New Directions in Virginia History," conference sponsored by
the
Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Humanities
Council, Richmond, October 1990
"Race, Ethnicity, and Social Science
Methods: Roundtable," Social
Science History Association, Minneapolis, October 1990
"Labor, Meet History: Unions Write Their
History," Social Science
History Association, Minneapolis, October 1990
"The Maritime Frontier of Freedom: Sailors,
Slaves, and the
Underground Railroad by Sea in the 18th Century," (moderator)
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, St. Paul,
April
1990
"The Role of Radicals in the Independent
Union of All Workers,
1933-1937," panel on "Radicalism in
20th Century America" at
"First Annual Wisconsin Labor History Conference: The Wisconsin School and Beyond,"
Madison, March 1990
"The Black Working Class in the South"
(commentator), Social Science
History Association, Washington, D.C., November 1989
"The IWW in Minnesota in the World War I
Era" (chair/commentator),
Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, Oct.1989
"Building Local Level Inter-Union
Networks," Labor Notes Conference, Detroit, May 1989
"The Past Meets the Present: The Hormel
Strikes of 1933 and 1985-
1986," Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eveleth,
Minnesota, September 1988
"The Chains That Bind -- and Divide,"
conference on "A Century of
European Migrations in Comparative Perspective," Immigration
History Research Center, November 1986
"Organizing Solidarity with Local P-9,"
Labor Notes Conference,
Detroit, November 1986
"Unionism on the Rails: A Living Legacy,"
Northern Great Plains
History Conference, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, September 1986
"Impact of Old World Politics on
Croatian-Americans, 1915-1945,"
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, March 1986
"Ethnic Identity and Class Consciousness:
The Croatian Fraternal
Union
and the Unionization of Meat-Packing in South St. Paul
during
the Great Depression," Northern Great Plains History
Conference, Moorhead, October 1986
13.
"Women and the Labor Market and the Labor
Movement: The American
Experience" (with Tom O'Connell), Reunion of Sisters
Conference, Kuopio, Finland, June 1985
"Labor Radicalism in Minnesota"
(commentator), Annual Meeting of
Minnesota Historical Society, September 1985
"Introducing Labor History into an Inner
City High School" (with
Phil
Mead), Organization of American Historians Conference,
Minneapolis, April 1985
"Black Richmond and the Knights of
Labor," North American Labor
History Conference, Detroit, October 1984
"Black and White Working-Class Cultures in
Richmond, Virginia,"
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Baltimore,
April
1976
REVIEWS
Sheila Smith McKoy, WHEN WHITES RIOT: WRITING
RACE AND VIOLENCE
IN
AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN CULTURES, Labour/Le Travail,
52
(Fall 2003)
Jennifer Delton, MAKING MINNESOTA LIBERAL: CIVIL
RIGHTS AND THE
TRANSFORMATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, Journal of American
History, 90:3 (December 2003)
William Chafe, ed., THE ACHIEVEMENT OF AMERICAN
LIBERALISM: THE
NEW
DEAL AND ITS LEGACIES, www.newdeal.com,
spring 2003
Donna Gabaccia and Fraser Ottanelli, eds.,
WORKERS OF THE WORLD:
MIGRATION AND THE FORMATION OF MULTI-ETHNIC STATES, The
Volunteer:
Journal of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade,
XXIV:2 (Summer 2002)
James Green, TAKING HISTORY TO HEART, Annals
of Iowa, 61:1 (Winter
2002)
Elizabeth Sanders, ROOTS OF REFORM, American
Studies, 43:1 (Spring
2002)
Bruce Nelson, DIVIDED WE STAND, Labor History,
43:3 (August 2002)
Wilson J. Warren, STRUGGLING WITH “IOWA’S PRIDE”:
LABOR RELATIONS, UNIONISM, AND
POLITICS IN THE RURAL MIDWEST SINCE 1877 and
Dennis
Deslippe, “RIGHTS, NOT ROSES”: UNIONS AND THE RISE OF
WORKING-CLASS FEMINISM, Enterprise and Society 2:3
(September 2001)
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith,
GLOBALIZATION
FROM
BELOW: THE POWER OF SOLIDARITY, Z MAGAZINE, 14:9
(September 2001)
14.
Paul Buhle, FROM THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR TO THE NEW
WORLD ORDER, and
Anthony V. Esposito, THE IDEOLOGY OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF
THE
U.S., 1901-1917, Labor Studies Journal 25:4 (Winter 2001)
David Cecelski and Timothy Tyson, eds., DEMOCRACY
BETRAYED: THE
WILMINGTON RACE RIOT OF 1898, Reviews in American History
28
(2000)
Bill V. Mullen, POPULAR FRONTS: CHICAGO AND
AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL
POLITICS, 1935-1946, Callaloo 23:4 (Fall 2000)
Wilson J. Warren, STRUGGLING WITH “IOWA’S PRIDE”:
LABOR RELATIONS,
UNIONISM, AND POLITICS IN THE RURAL MIDWEST SINCE 1877,
Minnesota
History 57/3 (Fall 2000)
Scott Nelson, IRON CONFEDERACIES:SOUTHERN
RAILWAYS, KLAN VIOLENCE,
AND
RECONSTRUCTION, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography
108:2
(2000)
Bill V. Mullen, POPULAR FRONTS: CHICAGO AND
AFRICAN AMERICAN
CULTURAL POLITICS, 1935-1946, and William Maxwell, NEW NEGRO,
OLD
LEFT: AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITING BETWEEN THE WARS, Left
History
7:1 (Spring 2000)
David Prosten, ed., THE UNION STEWARD’S COMPLETE
GUIDE, Union
Democracy
Review, October 1999
Willis J. Nordlund, SILENT SKIES: THE AIR TRAFFIC
CONTROLLERS
STRIKE, International Labor and Working Class History
(forthcoming)
Roger Horowitz, “NEGRO AND WHITE, UNITE AND
FIGHT!” A SOCIAL
HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM IN MEATPACKING, Journal of
Social
History 32:3 (Spring 1999)
William Hartford, WHERE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY?
UNIONS AND ECONOMIC
CHANGE
IN THE NEW ENGLAND TEXTILE INDUSTRY, 1870-1960,
American
Historical Review 104:1 (February 1999)
Sally Miller, RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER IN
EARLY TWENTIETH
CENTURY AMERICAN SOCIALISM, Labor History 40:1 (Feb.1999)
Michael Denning, THE CULTURAL FRONT:
"Michael Denning and the
'Laboring' of American Culture: A Symposium," Labor History,
39:3
(August 1998)
Ruth Milkman, FAREWELL TO THE FACTORY: AUTO
WORKERS IN THE LATE
TWENTIETH CENTURY, H-NET Book Review (H-Labor), June 1998
James Lorence, ORGANIZING THE UNEMPLOYED:
COMMUNITY AND UNION
ACTIVISTS IN THE INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND, Labour/Le Travail
41
(Spring 1998)
15.
John Salmond, GASTONIA 1929: THE STORY OF THE
LORAY MILL STRIKE,
American
Studies 39:1 (Spring 1998)
Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas, eds., THE IMMIGRANT
LEFT IN THE
UNITED
STATES, Labor Studies Journal 22:4 (Winter 1998)
Nigel Harris, THE NEW UNTOUCHABLES: IMMIGRATION
AND THE NEW
WORLD
WORKER, Political Science Quarterly 112:3 (Fall 1997)
Shaunna Scott, TWO SIDES TO EVERYTHING: THE
CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION
OF
CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, Indiana
History
(September 1997)
Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz, MEATPACKERS: AN
ORAL HISTORY OF
BLACK
PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL AND
ECONOMIC EQUALITY, Journal of American History, 84:1
(June
1997)
Dana Frank, PURCHASING POWER: CONSUMER
ORGANIZING, GENDER, AND THE
SEATTLE LABOR MOVEMENT, 1919-1929, American Studies, 38:1
(Spring 1997)
Daniel Nelson, FARM AND FACTORY: WORKERS IN THE
MIDWEST, 1880- 1990, Annals of
Iowa, 55:4 (Fall 1996)
Neville Kirk, LABOUR AND SOCIETY IN BRITAIN AND
THE USA, I & II,
Labor
Studies Journal, 21:3 (Fall 1996)
Bruce Nissen, FIGHTING FOR JOBS: CASE STUDIES OF
LABOR-COMMUNITY
COALITIONS FIGHTING PLANT CLOSINGS, Indiana History (June 96)
Paul Maccabee, JOHN DILLINGER SLEPT HERE: A
CROOKS' TOUR OF ST.
PAUL,
1920-1936, Locus, 8:2 (Spring 1996)
Ron Roberts, JOHN L. LEWIS: HARD LABOR AND WILD
JUSTICE, Annals
of
Iowa, 55:2 (Spring 1996)
Ivan Cizmic, HISTORY OF THE CROATIAN FRATERNAL
UNION OF AMERICA,
1894-1994, Journal of American History (March 1996)
Marie Tyler-McGraw, AT THE FALLS: RICHMOND,
VIRGINIA, AND ITS
PEOPLE, Journal of Southern History, 62:1 (February 1996)
Edward S. LaMonte, POLITICS AND WELFARE IN
BIRMINGHAM, 1900-1975,
Locus,
8:1 (Fall 1995)
Charles Dew, BOND OF IRON: MASTER AND SLAVE AT
BUFFALO FORGE,
Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography, 103:4 (Oct.1995)
Howard Rabinowitz, RACE, ETHNICITY AND
URBANIZATION, Indiana
Magazine
of History (December 1994)
16.
Michael Honey, SOUTHERN LABOR AND BLACK CIVIL
RIGHTS, Journal of
Southern
History, 60:4 (November 1994)
Paul Krause, THE BATTLE FOR HOMESTEAD and David
Demarest, ed., THE
RIVER
RAN RED, Labor Studies Journal, 19:3 (Fall 1994)
F.N. Boney, R.L. Hume, & Rafia Zafar, eds.,
GOD MADE MAN, MAN MADE
THE
SLAVE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE TEAMOH, Journal of
American
History, 80:4 (March 1994)
Ronald Donovan, ADMINISTERING THE TAYLOR LAW:
PUBLIC EMPLOYEE LABOR RELATIONS
IN NEW YORK, Business History Review, 67:3
(Autumn 1993)
Robert J. Constantine, ed., LETTERS OF EUGENE V.
DEBS, 3 volumes,
Labor
Studies Journal, 18:1 (Spring 1993)
Bruce Kaufman, THE ORIGINS & EVOLUTION OF THE
FIELD OF INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS IN THE U.S., Labour/Le Travail (Spring 1993)
Loren Schweninger, BLACK PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE
SOUTH, 1890-1915,
Business History Review, 66:2 (Spring
1993)
Eric Arnesen, WATERFRONT WORKERS OF NEW ORLEANS, Journal
of
Southern
History, 58:4 (November 1992)
Crandall A. Shiflett, COAL TOWNS: LIFE, WORK, AND
CULTURE IN
COMPANY TOWNS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA, Annals of Iowa, 51:6
(Fall
1992)
Earl Lewis, IN THEIR OWN INTERESTS: RACE, CLASS,
AND POWER IN
20th
CENTURY NORFOLK,Journal of American History (June 1992)
"American Dream," [film], Oral
History Review, 20:1&2 (Spring
1992)
William Cohen, AT FREEDOM'S EDGE: BLACK MOBILITY
AND THE WHITE
QUEST
FOR RACIAL CONTROL, 1865-1915, History: Reviews of New
Books,
20:3 (Spring 1992)
"Barbara Koppel's Dream" [film review],
Radical Historians
Newsletter,
no. 66 (May 1992)
Lizabeth Cohen, MAKING A NEW DEAL, American
Historical Review,
79:2,
(October 1991)
Paul Buhle, C.L.R. JAMES: THE ARTIST AS
REVOLUTIONARY, Journal of
American
History, 78:2 (September 1991)
Priscilla Long, WHERE THE SUN NEVER SHINES: A
HISTORY OF AMERICA'S
BLOODY
COAL INDUSTRY, Labor Studies Journal (Fall 1991)
17.
Steve Golin, THE FRAGILE BRIDGE, and David
Goldberg, A TALE OF THREE CITIES,
Labour/Le Travail, (Spring 1991)
Joseph C. Wilson, TEARING DOWN THE COLOR BAR, and
Jack Santino,
MILES
OF SMILES, Oral History Review, 18:2 (Fall 1990)
Milton Derber, LABOR IN ILLINOIS: THE AFFLUENT
YEARS, 1945-1980,
Annals
of Iowa, 50:5 (Summer 1990)
Richard Schneirov and Thomas Suhrbur, UNION BROTHERHOOD,
UNION
TOWN, Annals
of Iowa, 50:4 (Spring 1990)
Hans L. Trefousse, ANDREW JOHNSON: A BIOGRAPHY, Pennsylvania
History,
57:1 (January 1990)
Bruce Nelson, BEYOND THE MARTYRS, Labour/Le
Travail, Winter 1990
Joseph Wilson, TEARING DOWN THE COLOR BAR, Labor
History, 31:1-2,
(Winter-Spring 1990)
David Montgomery, FALL OF THE HOUSE OF LABOR, Minnesota
History,
(Summer 1989)
Paul Buhle, MARXISM IN THE USA, Review of
Radical Political Economy (Winter 1989)
Darrel Bigham, ALL WE ASK IS A FAIR TRIAL: BLACKS
IN EVANSVILLE,
Indiana
History, (December 1988)
Shelton Stromquist, A GENERATION OF BOOMERS: THE PATTERN OF
RAIL- ROAD CONFLICT IN THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY, Minnesota History,
Fall
1988)
James R. Barrett, WORK AND COMMUNITY IN THE
JUNGLE, International
Labor
& Working-Class History, (Fall 1988)
Gerald D. Jaynes, BRANCHES WITHOUT ROOTS: GENESIS
OF THE BLACK
WORKING-CLASS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1862-1882, Journal of
American
History, 75:3 (December 1986)
George C. Wright, LIFE BEHIND A VEIL: BLACKS IN
LOUISVILLE, 1865- 1930, Journal
of American History, 75:2 (September 1986)
Donald Winters, THE SOUL OF THE WOBBLIES, Minnesota
History,
(Summer 1986)
David W. Detijen, THE GERMANS IN MISSOURI,
1900-1918; Hartmut Keil
and
John Jentz, eds., GERMAN WORKERS IN INDUSTRIAL CHICAGO;
Steven
Ross, WORKERS ON THE EDGE: WORK, LEISURE AND POLITICS
IN
INDUSTRIALIZING CINCINNATI, 1788-1890; and Joe W. Trotter,
BLACK
MILWAUKEE: THE MAKING OF AN INDUSTRIAL PROLETARIAT,
1915-1945, Contemporary Sociology, (January 1986)
18.
MANUSCRIPTS
REVIEWED
Duke University Press
University of North Carolina Press
D.C. Heath
State University of New York Press
Cornell University Press
University of California Press
University of Virginia Press
Iowa State University Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Indiana Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Iowa Press
Minnesota Historical Society Press
University of Minnesota Press
Journal of American History
Journal of American Ethnic History
Annals of Iowa
Minnesota History
The Historian
Labor Studies Journal
JOURNALISTIC
PUBLICATIONS
Working Stiff -- an internet news magazine devoted to work issues
(http://oldev-cr01.pbs.org/weblab/workingstiff/index.html)
"Punching Out" -- weekly "advice" column on work
issues, 1998
American Writer -- quarterly journal published by the National
Writers Union
columns on events & developments in the labor movement, 1998
Opinion columns
St. Paul
Pioneer Press Dispatch, monthly 1989 - 1992
semi-annually, 1993 - present
Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Business Forum", five times
a year 1993 - 1997
These
columns have been reprinted in such newspapers as:
Atlanta Journal & Constitution; San Francisco Examiner;
Cleveland Plain Dealer; Hartford Courant; New Haven
Register;
Syracuse Post-Standard; Washington Times;
Allentown Morning Call; Portland Oregonian; Indiana AFL- CIO News; Baltimore Sun;
Kentucky Labor News; Cincinnati
Union Builder; St. Paul Union Advocate; Duluth Labor
News; Madison Union Labor
News
These
columns and other essays have also appeared in a wide
variety of local union newsletters, including: UAW 879
Autoworker;
USWA 7263 Scraps of Steel; The Iowa Postal
Worker;
Lehigh Valley APWU Visions
19.
City
Pages, historical documentary previews: "Liberty!",
November 16, 1997; "Life & Literature: The Givens
Collection", January 7, 1998
City
Business, op-eds on labor issues, 1997 -
St.
Paul Union Advocate, essays on local labor history,
1985 - present
EXPERIENCE
WITH THE LABOR MOVEMENT/LABOR EDUCATION
Consultant, International Association of
Machinists Local 1833,
Internal Organizing and Strategic Planning, 2001
Consultant, American Postal Workers Union
National Organizing
Committee, 1999 –
Board of Directors, St. Paul Labor Speakers Club,
1986 –
We
organize monthly public labor educational programs.
Chairperson, "Meeting the Challenge Committee",
1992 -
We
organize an annual labor education conference, featuring
presenters from around the country, reaching an audience of
500 or
more local trade unionists and college students. We
have
created the "Solidarity Kids Theatre," which performs not only at our conferences but around
the country.
picnic: 60th Anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers'
Strike (1994)
Member, Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition, 1991 -
Member, Workers Education Local 189 (CWA), now
United Association for Labor
Education (UALE), 1980 -
Member, National Writers Union, Local 13 (UAW),
1988 -
Labor Notes Policy Committee, 1990 –
Honorary Member, UAW Local 879 (St. Paul), 1993 -
Honorary Member, Zentei (Japanese Postal
Workers), 1986 -
Faculty Member, Workers Solidarity School, 1993 -
1998
(St.
Louis, Madison, New York)
Labor Studies Program, Metropolitan State
University, Faculty
member
and Advisory Board member, 1985 - 1991
"Help or Hindrance? The Evolution of
American Labor Law,"
Teamsters for a Democratic Union convention, Chicago,
October 1994
20.
"The 'Organizing Model' in Historical Perspective," South Central
Federation of Labor, Workshop, Madison, Wis., November 1994
"Developing a Grassroots Strategy,"
Rail Chiefs Conference, Las
Vegas,
November 1993
"Deregulation's Threat to Labor in the
Utilities Industry," State
Utilities Conference, Wisconsin Rapids, November 1993
"Historical Perspectives on Membership
Involvement," Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employes, System Federation/Federation
Officers Seminar, Meany Center, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1993
"The Challenge of Employee Involvement
Programs," IBEW 6th
District Annual Conference, Minneapolis, August 1993
"Lessons of Labor History," three-part
series
Oil,
Chemical & Atomic Workers Local 6-662, Pine Bend Refinery, Rosemount, Minnesota,
1993
National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 28, St. Paul,
Minnesota, 1990
Teamsters Local 792, St. Paul, 1990
"Putting the Movement Back in Our Local
Unions," workshop
Connecticut Postal Workers Union, 1991
Bismarck/Mandan, North Dakota, rail unions, 1992
Aberdeen, South Dakota, rail unions, 1992
Postal
Mailhandlers Local 323, Minnesota, 1992
American Postal Workers Union, Minneapolis, 1992
Eastern Montana Central Labor Council, 1993
Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Postal Workers, 1996
Indiana State Postal Workers, 1997
Virginia State Postal Workers, 1997
Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky Tri-State Postal Workers, 1998
Cincinnati Postal Workers Union, 1998
"Using Labor History in Local
Newsletters," American Postal
Workers Union, Postal Press Association, National Editors Conference, 1995 (Orlando); 1997
(Washington, D.C.);
1999
(Las Vegas)
"Labor History Meets Black History,"
curriculum workshop for
Danbury, Connecticut, teachers, October 1991
"Solidarity vs. Competition in an Era of
Free Trade," conference
organizer, St. Paul, January 1991
"The Roots of the Labor Movement in St.
Paul," photo-text display
prepared for St. Paul Trades & Labor Assembly, fall 1990
American Postal Workers Union, Eastern Region
Summer School, with
Institute for Labor Studies, West Virginia University, 1981 -
21.
"History of Branch 28, National Association
of Letter Carriers,"
local
union history project, 1989-1990
Educational consultant:
Minnesota Nurses Association, 1990; 1993;
Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE), 1990
Graphic Communications International Union (GCIU)
Locals 1-M, 1-B, and 29, 1985 -
UAW
Local 879 (Ford/St. Paul), 1983-87; 1991-92
UAW
Local 683 (FMC/Fridley), 1984
Operating Engineers Local 49, 1987 -
Minnesota Education Association, 1985
St.
Paul Federation of Teachers, 1995
American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees
(AFSCME) Local 3800 (University of Minnesota), 1993 -
Burlington Northern General Chairmen's Association, 1986 -
United Transportation Union, Soo Line
System, 1994
Intercraft Association of Minnesota, 1985 -
Western Nebraska Central Labor Council, Alliance, Neb., 1992
Eastern Montana Central Labor Council, Glendive, 1992
Operating Engineers Local 70, St. Paul, 1999
AFSCME Council, 40th anniversary history project,
1986
IBEW Local 110, 75th anniversary history project,
1987
Twin Cities P-9 Support Committee, chairperson,
1985 - 1988
"Building Union Involvement,"
conference organizer, 1987
National Rank-and-File Against Concessions,
midwest rep, 1985
"The Catholic Bishops' Pastoral
Letter," conference organizer (86)
"Quality of Work Life Programs: Towards a
Union Perspective,"
conference organizer, 1985
"The Power in Our Hands: The History of the
American Worker,"
film
and discussion series organizer, 1983
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library, “Untold
Stories,” Labor
History
Month Planning Committee, 1998 -
Advisory Board member, Midwest Center for
Occupational Health
and
Safety, Minneapolis, 1999 -
"Victorian America," National Endowment
for the Humanities Program
for
White Bear Lake teachers, 1995-1996
Minnesota State Historical Records Advisory
Board, 1996 -
National History Day, consultant and judge, 1990
-
Great American History Theater, board member,
1992 -
University of Minnesota, "College in the
Schools," 1992
Minnesota Historical Society, African American
History, 2001
22.
Minnesota Historical Society, Mill Site Planning,
2000
Minnesota Historical Society, strategic planning
committee, 1991
Minnesota Historical Society, museum planning,
1991 -
Origins Program, Multi-cultural History
Symposium, 1989-1990
Ramsey County Historical Society, "1894
Great Northern Strike"
program, 1991-1992
The Way, North Minneapolis Community Center,
board member, 1990
History Teaching Alliance, 1987 - 1988
St. Paul Board of Education and St. Paul
Federation of Teachers,
Labor
Studies Curriculum Committee, 1984 - 1985
Friends of the Alliance of the Streets, board
member, 1987
Friends of the Immigration History Research
Center, 1987 -
West 7th Community Center, board member, 1984 -
1986
Minnesota Historical Society Summer Workshop for
Secondary
Teachers, 1983 - 1985; 1989
Dining Car Workers History Project, 1994 -
Frogtown History Project, 1985
West Side History Project, 1983
St. Paul Church on the Hill History Project, 1983
- 1984
"We Remember Rondo" History Project,
1983
Edina High School AP Program/Northwest Area
Foundation,
Interactive Cable Project, 1983
SERVICE
TO MACALESTER COLLEGE
Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program,
Mentor
and Coordinator, 2000 –
Multicultural Advisory Committee, 2003 -
Council on Multicultural Affairs, 1999 - 2001
Admissions Advisory Committee, 1998 - 2001
Faculty and Staff Benefits Committee, 1998 - 2000
Chairperson, History Department, 1996 - 2000
Comparative North American Studies Committee,
1995-1998
African-American Studies Committee, 1995-
(acting
chairperson, spring 2003)
Task Force on Multicultural Affairs, 1994
Committee on Affirmative Action Policy, 1992 -
1995 (chair, 93-95)
Knight Committee on Diversity, 1989-1990 (chair)
Curriculum Committee, 1989-1991 (chair, 1990-91)
Ford Symposium on Curricular Diversity, 1988-1989
Cultural Pluralism Program, 1987-1988
(co-director)
Organizer, Faculty Retreat on Cultural Pluralism,
1988
Organizer, Bush Symposium on Cultural Pluralism,
1986-1987
Ad Hoc Committee on Developing a Pluralistic
Curriculum, 1986
HECUA Program Board of Directors and Macalester
liaison, 1985 - 93
ACM Urban Studies Program, Macalester liaison,
1985 -
"Teaching Research," ACM Conference on
Teaching History, 1988
Mentor, ACM Minority Student Project; 1988; 1990;
1991; 1993; 1995
Artists and Lecturers Committee, 1983 - 1985
International Studies Steering Committee, 1983 -
1985
Urban Studies Committee, 1983 -
Library Committee, 1982 - 1983