By the time I was in a history PhD program as a middle-aged woman, I knew I had the chops to do the academics. Writing and teaching were central to my work, and I had published general articles and literary short fiction that had…
AHA members are involved in all fields of history, with wide-ranging specializations, interests, and areas of employment. To recognize its talented and eclectic membership, Perspectives Daily features a regular AHA Member Spotlight series. Aimee Loiselle is an assistant professor of history at Central Connecticut State University.
Labor Histories Across Imperial Sites, Puerto Rican Studies Association, Holyoke, MA In 1984 and 1985, Gloria Maldonado and several Puerto Rican needleworkers in New York City shared their experiences with three women scholars for a public history project titled “Nosotras Trabajamos en la Costura.”
With contingent faculty now making up almost three-quarters of higher education’s academic workforce, the teacher/scholar model has broken down. Most contingent historians engage actively as scholars, but they do so with little support from scholarly institutions. This session examines the impact of the academic…
The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) is a university-wide, interdisciplinary academic research center. The Director of the RITM Center is Stephen Pitti, Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. The mission of RITM is to…