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

Great Plains Quarterly

Labor History

                                                           

                   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