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…
April 2021 Shade Research Collective Symposium: Power, Migration, and Culture in the Tobacco Valley. My presentation “Beyond the Fields: Gender, Labor, and the Public Legacies of Puerto Rican Farm Workers and Needleworkers” begins at 2:02:20.
Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference (LAWCHA), Duke University, Durham Organized the roundtable Women and Workplace Activism in the Postwar U.S.: Persistent Efforts to Move Systems with six other women scholars. Presented my paper “Organizing While Marginalized: Gloria Maldonado and Lucy Sledge in the Textile and…
2018 April: “Homework, Sweatshops, Factories, and Mills: The New South, Puerto Rico, and Labor Markets for Neoliberalism,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Sacramento, CA
Fragmented Archives: Northeastern Millworkers and Puerto Rican Needleworkers in the Same Industry, Different Collections,” Association for the Study of Connecticut History, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT A chance conversation with a colleague led to the realization that Puerto Rican women migrated to the Northeast in…