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# Aimee Loiselle

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- [2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2023-peter-c-rollins-book-prize/) - The Northeast Popular Culture Association is proud to honor Beyond Norma Rae with the 2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize. Accessible in style yet rigorous in scope, this book reimagines the history behind the 1979 film Norma Rae and restores the diverse women’s voices that Hollywood sidelined. Each year NEPCA awards the Peter C. Rollins
- [2023 Nov: “Threads of Solidarity: Storytelling, Laughter, and Clubbing in Justice Activism,” ASA](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2023-nov-threads-of-solidarity-storytelling-laughter-and-clubbing-in-justice-activism-asa/) - Presented as part of this roundtable at the American Studies Association in Montreal.
- [2023 Oct: “Political Power, Community Organizing, and Unionizing,” UHA](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2023-oct-political-power-community-organizing-and-unionizing-uha/) - Presenting as part of this roundtable at the Urban History Association in Pittsburgh.
- [2023 June: “Women of Color and Postwar Labor Activism: Using Federal Laws at the Local and State Level to Organize While Marginalized,” LCH](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2023-june-women-of-color-and-postwar-labor-activism-using-federal-agencies-and-laws-to-organize-while-marginalized-lch/) - Paper presentation about union organizing by Puerto Rican and southern African American women in the 1960s to 1970s for the Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference in Toronto.
- [2023 June: “Women of Color and Postwar Worker Activism: Using Federal Agencies to Organize While Marginalized,” HOTCUS](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2023-june-women-of-color-and-postwar-worker-activism-using-federal-agencies-to-organize-while-marginalized-hotcus/) - Virtual paper presentation about the importance of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for African American women's labor organizing in the 1960s and 1970s for Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) Conference in England.
- [Out-On-A-Limb (Not Impostor) Syndrome](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/out-on-a-limb-not-impostor-syndrome/) - 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 received awards. Professors Annelise Orleck in my undergrad history major and
- [Not the Next Tolstoy](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/culture-topic-the-next-tolstoy/) - People have granted Jonathan Franzen enough attention. I mean, someone actually compared Freedom to War and Peace. Yes, the cliché lives–and the comparison remains as unfortunately abused as ever (honestly, 21st-century upper-middle class America can never provide the intense characters, events, and conflicts of 19th-century Russia). Franzen appears in all the magazines and at every major New York
- [Tanya Hamilton Brings (Black) Power](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/culture-topic-tanya-hamilton-brings-black-power/) - I recently watched the independent film Night Catches Us–and yes, I intentionally use the word ‘film.’ I’m not a snob about watching movies. I’ll watch about anything (I made it through most of Sex and the City 2), but I am a believer that analysis and discussion is what makes any culture–pop, commercial, or high–interesting. And in this
- [Moments of Grace in Learning from Teaching](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/life-topic-moments-of-grace/) - In 2011, I was teaching an “adult transition to college class” for a special program at a community college. If you want to see a true and pure slice of America–America in all its glory of conglomeration, weirdness, exuberance, achievement, and commotion–visit a community college. The word “community” actually means what it says in this case: everyone in the area,
- [To-Do List for a Writer (Thinking of Buying a House)](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/life-topic-to-do-list-for-a-young-writer-thinking-of-buying-a-house/) - – Do not by a house that’s been empty for more than three months: mice, dried-out pipes, cracked washers, tree roots, maple seedlings, burrowing bugs, and nesting birds. Nature is resilient. It’s the stability of our human society that’s an illusion, human structures that teeter on the edge of decay. Just one season and that lot has been reverting to
- [Franchising History](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/using-your-play-instinct-to-up-your-problem-solving/) - David McCullough is the grandpa of popular American history. He is mild-mannered, charming, and confident but not self-important. He lacks the hard arrogance of Gore Vidal, the practiced moxie of Stephen Ambrose, the manic striving of Doris Kearns Goodwin, or the nerdy self-congratulation of Ken Burns. So criticism feels spiteful. However, while 1776 represents another fabulous success
- [Middle-Aged Grad Student](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/why-you-should-take-care-about-your-branding/) - May 14, 2013. The end of my first year in a history Ph.D. program. I did my undergraduate years in a gloriously “traditional” manner. Eighteen, freshman year, assigned to a dorm with a roommate–luckily we fell into the lifelong friends category. We had another girl (although I would have said “woman” back then) who often
- [Getting to Know Neoliberalism](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/design-is-not-just-what-it-looks-like-and-feels-like/) - The dismantling of neoliberalism could create a bridge between workers, writers, labor and justice activists, environmentalists, and scholars. The efforts could lead to new lobbying groups and policy proposals just as the dismantling of the New Deal and Great Society spawned neoliberalism. Two problems stand in the way: the word “liberal” appears and pushes many
- [Asian Women Make Nike Sneakers](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/creativity-is-nothing-but-a-mind-set-free/) - You know who really matters in all the regular controversies that Nike stirs up around its sneakers. (Its advertising and marketing division has been perfecting these tactics since the 1970s.) The Asian women who work in the factories making these shoes. They are the living laboring women often making seventy to ninety cents an hour and cranking
- [Puerto Rico’s Governor: An Issue for PR and the US](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/follow-your-own-design-process-whatever-gets-you-to-the-outcome/) - Most mainland non-Caribbean folks do not understand the recent events in Puerto Rico.* Some of this lack of understanding arises from decades of decisions in the U.S. federal government to not include colonies in daily press releases and major policy proclamations. In dozens of offices throughout the federal bureaucracy, however, hundreds of U.S. clerks, analysts,
- [Reduce Fires in the Amazon with Jobs](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/everything-is-designed-few-things-are-designed-well/) - The fires in the Amazon throughout Brazil and Bolivia reveal the inability of environmental activists, climate change organizations, and worker groups to forge effective alliances. Most of these fires started around logging, mining, and ranching operations—big money industries that extract billions in natural resources. Their imperative is to make more money, not to preserve the basics necessary for human
- [2022 Oct: “‘Nosotras Trabajamos en la Costura’: Gloria Maldonado and Puerto Rican Needleworkers in Public History Production, 1983-1987,” PRSA](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2022-oct-nosotras-trabajamos-en-la-costura-gloria-maldonado-and-puerto-rican-needleworkers-in-public-history-production-1983-1987-prsa/) - 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.”
- [2004: Mention, Literary Magazine Review (vol 22)](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2004-literary-magazine-review-vol-22/) - 2004: Literary Magazine Review (vol 22) Review of Square Lake by D.E. Steward “Square Lake, only in its fourth issue, is already a significant magazine and on its way up . . . [I]n #4, Aimee Loiselle’s ‘Nina’ goes places in the world of the disenfranchised that most of us never see . . .”
- [2007 Dec: Letter in Harper’s Magazine](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2007-december-letter-in-harpers-magazine/) - Read the letter Letter in Harper’s Magazine A defense of Jonathan Kozol’s article “The Big Enchilada” and his analysis of for–profit education management organizations (i.e. shareholders making millions from our tax dollars via the privatization of our public school system). 18. Update the CV to the new one I sent a couple days ago, please. I won't update
- [2010 Jan: LAByrinth Theater Company Master Class](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2010-january-labyrinth-theater-company-master-class/) - 2010 January: LAByrinth Theater Company Master Class I was accepted into the Master Class (now the Ensemble Workshop), a five-week program offered by the innovative LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Taught by company members, the class is multi-disciplinary and includes work in body, movement, scene study, writing, performing, producing, and most importantly, ensemble building. The class
- [2013 Nov: “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Southern Textile Workers as Raw Material for a Pop Icon,” Film & History Conference](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2013-november-film-history-conference-making-movies-the-figure-of-money-on-and-off-the-screen/) - I presented my paper, “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Southern Textile Workers as Raw Material for a Pop Culture Icon,” on November 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. It traces the extraction of the simplified Norma Rae icon from the substantive network of collective resistance to the exploitation in the textile mills. The cultural narrative embedded in the pop icon
- [2017 Oct: “Gender, Sexuality, and the New Labor History,” Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Radcliffe Institute](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-october-boston-seminar-on-the-history-of-women-gender-and-sexuality-radcliffe-institute-cambridge-panel-discussion-gender-sexuality-and-the-new-labor-history/) - 2017 October: Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge “Panel Discussion: Gender, Sexuality, and the New Labor History” The Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality is a collaboration of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the Massachusetts Historical Society. This series, whose
- [2017 Nov: Humanities in Action Panel, National Humanities Conference, Boston](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-november-humanities-in-action-panel-national-humanities-conference-boston/) - 2017 November: Humanities in Action Panel, National Humanities Conference, Boston The second in a series of three joint national panels that will bring the humanities community together as whole to consider how, by leveraging our strengths, we can achieve broader public impact and showcase the fundamental role the humanities play in addressing both local and global
- [2018 Oct: Third Place, Theme - Landline, "Waiting for the Call," Best of Valley Voices Story Slam, New England Public Radio](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2018-october-winner-third-place-theme-landline-waiting-for-the-call-best-of-valley-voices-story-slam-new-england-public-radio/) - Listen to the Best of Valley Voices Story Slam on New England Public Radio
- [2019 Aug: Postdoctoral Fellow, Reproductive Justice History Project, Study of Women & Gender, Smith College](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2019-august-postdoctoral-fellow-reproductive-justice-history-project-study-of-women-gender-smith-college/) - 2019 August: Postdoctoral Fellow, Reproductive Justice History Project, Study of Women & Gender, Smith College I accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Reproductive Justice History Project. It is an outgrowth of the Gloria Steinem Initiative to bring women’s history and scholarly resources to organizers and activists in meaningful ways. I will assist in creating
- [2019 Sept: Letter in New Yorker magazine](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2019-september-letter-in-new-yorker-magazine/) - Read the Letter in New Yorker magazine A commentary on the book review of Timothy C. Winegard’s The Mosquito. I emphasize that the constant demand for slave labor on the sugar plantations, not mosquitoes, shaped Caribbean demographics. Industrialized sugar production with British and French reliance on the Atlantic slave trade created the island populations that were of clear majority African
- [2020 Oct: Commentary for Mother Jones Bio, The Hill](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2020-october-commentary-for-the-hill-mother-jones-biography/) - 2020 October: Commentary for The Hill, Mother Jones Biography A reporter for The Hill, a news website based in Washington, D.C., that serves readers interested in federal government and national issues, contacted me for commentary on the labor activist Mother Jones. The piece is part of its Century of the Woman series to celebrate women’s activism, organizing, achievements, and leadership.
- [2020 Nov: Commentary for Springfield Democratic City Committee, Virtual Election Night Coverage](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2020-november-commentary-for-springfield-democratic-city-committee-virtual-election-night-coverage/) - 2020 November: Commentary for Springfield Democratic City Committee, Virtual Election Night Coverage The moderators for Election Night Coverage requested my commentary regarding the significance of unfolding results, particularly for the issues of U.S. workers and global supply chains, reproductive justice, and recent history of presidential politics.
- [2020 Nov: Catherine Prelinger Award, Coordinating Council for Women in History](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2020-november-catherine-prelinger-award-council-for-women-in-history/) - The CCWH Prelinger Award is a scholarship of $20,000 awarded to a scholar of excellence. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then
- [2021 Feb: "How Aimee Loiselle Does History," Contingent Magazine](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/news-1/) - 2021 February, "How Aimee Loiselle Does History," Contingent Magazine Contingent is a non-profit history magazine. Its writers are adjuncts, museum workers, independent scholars—all people who work outside the tenure-track professoriate. Contingent is rooted in three principles: History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work.
- [2021 Aug: Assistant Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2021-august-assistant-professor-of-history-central-connecticut-state-university/) - I joined the History Department at CCSU in New Britain for the 2021-2022 academic year.
- [2022 Dec: AHA Spotlight, To recognize its talented and eclectic membership](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2022-dec-aha-spotlight/) - 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.
- [2022 April: "The Crisis of Contingency and the Erosion of Research," Scholarly Work and the Work of Scholarship in an Era of Contingency, OAH Boston](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2022-april-the-crisis-of-contingency-and-the-erosion-of-research-scholarly-work-and-the-work-of-scholarship-in-an-era-of-contingency-oah-boston/) - 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 workforce’s transformation on historical scholarship. How does contingency shape historians’ research
- [2021-2022: Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Yale University](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2021-2022-faculty-fellow-center-for-the-study-of-race-indigeneity-and-transnational-migration-yale-university/) - 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 advance rigorous, innovative research and teaching on key topics of historical
- [2018-2019: Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Institute, UConn](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2018-2019-humanities-institute-dissertation-fellowship-university-of-connecticut/) - 2018-2019: Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut To aid emerging fellows, UCHI offers, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of The Graduate School, a residential graduate dissertation fellowship. Graduate Humanities Scholars receive a full research assistantship to enable dissertation fellows to concentrate solely on completion of their
- [2016: Oral History - Practices & Possibilities Panel, History Department, UConn](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2016-oral-history-practices-possibilities-history-department-uconn/) - 2016: Oral History Practices & Possibilities – History Department, UConn Coordinator and facilitator for a panel to present techniques and concerns for gathering oral history interviews for different purposes, such as large archives and grassroots collecting. Professors Bruce Stave, Fiona Vernal, and Eduardo Canedo presented on their uses and recommendations for building mutual communication, acquiring
- [2017: Humanities in Action Panel, Initiative on Campus Dialogues, Humanities Institute, UConn](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-humanities-in-action-panel-initiative-on-campus-dialogues-at-the-humanities-institute-uconn/) - 2017: Humanities in Action Panel, Initiative on Campus Dialogues at the Humanities Institute, UConn Coordinator and facilitator for a panel of scholars who have brought their humanities knowledge and perspective to community activities. The goal of the panel is to raise awareness of the many ways humanities scholars contribute, participate, and enrich our communities. Such knowledge dissemination outside
- [2000-2012: Prized Rejections - very appreciative of the handwritten notes or personalized email messages with encouraging rejection](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2000-2012-prized-rejections/) - Much thanks to all editors who take the time to release these bubbles of hope into the tsunami of anonymous form rejection: from Fugue, Hobart, Iron Horse, 322 Review, Story Quarterly, Versal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Work, Breakwater Review, Zoetrope, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Feminist Studies, Lilies and Cannonballs, The Open Face Sandwich, The Broken Plate, Peregrine,
- [2007: Finalist, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2007-finalist-rick-demarinis-short-story-contest/) - 2007 Finalist: Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts in Durango, Colorado, chose my short story “Happy Sometimes” as a finalist in their annual fiction contest.
- [2007: Short List, The William Faulkner–William Wisdom Novel Competition](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2007-short-list-for-finalists-the-william-faulkner-william-wisdom-novel-competition/) - 2007 Short List for Finalists: The William Faulkner–William Wisdom Novel Competition My manuscript Being Good About It was placed on the short list for finalists in this contest sponsored by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans. Judging is solely on the basis of writing talent, use of language, and universality of appeal in content. The precise standard
- [2005: Fiction Finalist, The Loft Mentor Series](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2005-fiction-finalist-the-loft-mentor-series/) - 2005 Fiction Finalist: The Loft Mentor Series I was selected as a fiction finalist based on an excerpt from Being Good About It. The Loft Mentor Series offers advanced criticism and professional development to twelve writers: four each in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The emerging writers are selected through anonymous competition to work
- [2008: Semi-Finalist, Breakthrough Novel Award](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2008-semi-finalist-amazon-breakthrough-novel-award/) - 2008 Semi-Finalist: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Amazon Top Reviewers and Editors selected my novel manuscript Being Good About It as a semi-finalist in the general literature category. Publishers Weekly and interested readers provided reviews as part of the process.
- [2009: Third Place, American Fiction Prize, New Rivers Press](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2009-third-place-american-fiction-prize-from-new-rivers-press/) - 2009 Third Place: American Fiction Prize from New Rivers Press The judge, novelist Clint McCown, selected my story “Souvenirs” for third place from a field of 20 finalists. The story appears in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Volume 11 from New Rivers Press. (Look for American Fiction on Facebook.) Writer’s Digest has twice
- [2009: Honorable Mention Finalist, Best Short Story, Glimmer Train](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2009-honorable-mention-finalist-glimmer-train/) - 2009 Honorable Mention Finalist: Glimmer Train My short story “Three Women Wishing for a Boy” won a spot as an Honorable Mention Finalist in the journal’s Short Story Award for New Writers. The piece made it to the top 5% from over a thousand entries.
- [2010: Finalist, The Bellwether Prize, National Writers United](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2010-finalist-the-bellwether-prize/) - 2010 Finalist: The Bellwether Prize Barbara Kingsolver sponsors this prize, and the National Writers United Service Organization managed it. (PEN American Center currently coordinates the contest.) My novel manuscript, Being Good About It, reached the final eight out of hundreds submitted. The prize seeks to support a literature of social responsibility. It promotes literary novels that address
- [2010: Finalist, Best Short Story, Press 53 Open Awards](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2010-short-story-finalist-press-53-open-awards/) - 2010 Short Story Finalist: Press 53 Open Awards Press 53 selected “The Tangle of Stems and Light” as a finalist in its annual contest. Press 53 is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and supports literary writing of all types. In addition to showcasing new writers in the Open Awards Anthology, it has a fondness for bringing
- [2012-2015: Outstanding Scholars Program Fellowship, History Department, UConn](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2012-uconn-history-department-ph-d-program-outstanding-scholars-program/) - 2012 UConn History Department: Ph.D. program, Outstanding Scholars Program In September 2012, I joined the Ph.D. program in the History Department at UConn-Storrs where I focused on 20th-century U.S. women’s history. I received a three-year Outstanding Scholars Program fellowship.
- [2014 April: “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Crystal Lee Sutton Becomes a Pop Icon,” New England Historical Association Conference, Springfield College](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2014-april-the-norma-rae-phenomenon-crystal-lee-sutton-becomes-a-pop-icon/) - “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Crystal Lee Sutton Becomes a Pop Icon” New England Historical Association Conference, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, April 2014
- [2017 March: Outstanding Paper, “Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Labor: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism,” Graduate Conference, Boston University](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-march-sovereignty-citizenship-and-labor-puerto-rican-needleworkers-and-a-deep-history-of-neoliberalism/) - WINNER * APHI Most Outstanding Paper Award “Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Labor: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism” The Public-Private Divide, American Political History Institute Graduate Conference, Boston University, March 2017
- [2017 March: Outstanding Paper, “Experiments in Citizenship, Migration, and Labor Recruitment: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism,” Graduate History Conference, UMass Amherst](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-march-experiments-in-citizenship-migration-and-labor-recruitment-puerto-rican-needleworkers-and-a-deep-history-of-neoliberalism/) - WINNER * Outstanding Paper Prize “Experiments in Citizenship, Migration, and Labor Recruitment: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and a Deep History of Neoliberalism” Mobility & Marginalization, Graduate History Conference, UMass Amherst, March 2017
- [2017 June: “Working the Exemptions: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Pliable Citizenship, and a Scaffolding for Neoliberalism,” LAWCHA, University of Washington](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-june-labor-and-working-class-history-association-conference-lawcha-university-of-washington-seattle/) - 2017 June: Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference (LAWCHA), University of Washington, Seattle Presented my paper, “Working the Exemptions: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Pliable Citizenship, and a Scaffolding for Neoliberalism.” An outstanding event that brought together scholars from wide-ranging fields, union leaders, worker activists, and adjunct/contingent faculty organizers.
- [2018 May: “Fragmented Archives: Northeastern Millworkers and Puerto Rican Needleworkers in the Same Industry, Different Collections,” Association for the Study of Connecticut History](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2018-may-fragmented-archives-northeastern-millworkers-and-puerto-rican-needleworkers-in-the-same-industry-different-collections-association-for-the-study-of-connecticut-history/) - 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 the 1960s and 1970s for jobs in old textile and garment
- [2018 April: “Homework, Sweatshops, Factories, and Mills: The New South, Puerto Rico, and Labor Markets for Neoliberalism,” Organization of American Historians](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2018-april-homework-sweatshops-factories-and-mills-the-new-south-puerto-rico-and-labor-markets-for-neoliberalism-organization-of-american-historians-annual-meeting-sacrament/) - 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
- [2019 June: Women & Workplace Activism in the Postwar U.S.: Persistent Efforts to Move Systems, LAWCHA, Duke University](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2019-june-labor-and-working-class-history-association-conference-lawcha-duke-university-durham/) - 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 Garment Industry, 1960s-1970s.” The roundtable explored organized activism women have used
- [2021 April: "Beyond the Fields: Gender, Labor, and the Public Legacies of Puerto Rican Farm Workers and Needleworkers," Shade Research Collective Symposium](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/april-2021-shade-research-collective-symposium-power-migration-and-culture-in-the-tobacco-valley/) - 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.
- [2001 March: “Worker or Woman: American Women and New Deal Labor Policy,” Women’s Studies Conference, Lehman College CUNY](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2001-march-worker-or-woman-american-women-and-new-deal-labor-policy/) - “Worker or Woman: American Women and New Deal Labor Policy” Paper presented at the annual Women’s Studies Conference Lehman College CUNY, March 2001
- [2012: “Asking the Authors” Interview: ELCAT](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2012-asking-the-authors-interview-elcat/) - 2012 “Asking the Authors” Interview: ELCAT The local community access channel requested an interview to discuss my writing, education, and career. Alexi Cohan is a high school student developing her own skills as a journalist.
- [2014 May: Bruce M. and Sondra Astor Stave Prize in Recent American History](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2014-may-bruce-m-and-sondra-astor-stave-prize-in-recent-american-history/) - 2014 May: Bruce M. and Sondra Astor Stave Prize in Recent American History The Department of History at UConn awards this prize annually to an outstanding graduate student in recent American history, particularly with an interest in interviewing people for history projects. The Staves remained active in the field, especially in the collection and preservation of
- [2014-2015: Special Ad Hoc Committee for the Springfield City Council – Workforce Development](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2014-2015-special-ad-hoc-committee-for-the-springfield-city-council-workforce-development/) - 2014-2015: Special Ad Hoc Committee for the Springfield City Council – Workforce Development President of the Springfield City Council, Michael Fenton, selected city residents for special ad hoc committees to address key issues in the communities. This committee, chaired by councilor Tim Allen, is developing three approaches to strengthen the workforce: adult basic education and training for
- [2015-2016: 100 Years of Women Award, UConn Women’s Center](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2015-2016-100-years-of-women-award-uconn-womens-center/) - 2015-2016: 100 Years of Women Award, UConn Women’s Center Established in 1992 to honor a current student who, as a role model or advocate, has advanced the role and contributions of women in society. The student must demonstrate a commitment to women’s issues through service to their community or school.
- [2015: Get OnBoard! Event – OnBoard Springfield](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2015-get-onboard-event-onboard-springfield/) - 2015: Get OnBoard! Event – OnBoard Springfield Event planning committee member for OnBoard. Its mission is to facilitate connections between talented individuals who might not have access to community leadership positions and active organizations around the Pioneer Valley. Diversifying boards of directors, committees, and volunteers by recruiting members of under-represented populations provides organizations with insight into new and innovative
- [2015 May: Albert E. and Wilda E. Van Dusen Award](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2015-may-albert-e-and-wilda-e-van-dusen-award/) - 2015 May: Albert E. and Wilda E. Van Dusen Award In 1983, Professor Van Dusen and his wife, Wilda, established the fund to support meritorious graduate students in any field of history, with a particular emphasis on service.
- [2017: Caribbean Interdisciplinary Research and Outreach Initiative (CIROI/CI) Summer Research Grant, El Instituto, UConn](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-caribbean-interdisciplinary-research-and-outreach-initiative-ciroi-ci-summer-research-grant-el-instituto-uconn/) - 2017: Caribbean Interdisciplinary Research and Outreach Initiative (CIROI/CI) Summer Research Grant, El Instituto, UConn These competitive funds will be awarded to applicants whose research project demonstrates scholarly relevance and innovation, provides clear evidence of their project being brought to fruition, and articulate a detailed plan for scholarly dissemination in the future. The project description and
- [2017 April: “A Laboratory for Neoliberalism: Puerto Rican Needleworkers, Flexible Labor Markets, and Rationales for Exemptions and Incentives,” Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Conference, UMass Amherst](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-april-a-laboratory-for-neoliberalism-puerto-rican-needleworkers-flexible-labor-markets-and-rationales-for-exemptions-and-incentives/) - Puerto Rico: Savage Neoliberalism, Colonialism and Financial Despotism, Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Conference, UMass Amherst, April 2017
- [2017: Covenant Insurance Company Summer Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UConn](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2017-covenant-insurance-company-summer-fellowship-college-of-liberal-arts-sciences-uconn/) - 2017: Covenant Insurance Company Summer Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UConn Funds for CLAS graduate students who demonstrate past academic achievement and the potential for future academic and professional accomplishments.
- [2018-2019: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2018-2019-visiting-assistant-professor-wesleyan-university/) - 2018-2019: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University I received a joint appointment for the History Department and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program. My advanced course was “Gender and History: Women Workers, the U.S., and Global Capitalism Since 1900.”
- [2020 April: Lerner-Scott Prize, Organization of American Historians](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/2020-april-lerner-scott-prize-organization-of-american-historians/) - 2020 April: Lerner-Scott Prize, Organization of American Historians My project “Creating Norma Rae: The Erasure of Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists in a Neoliberal Icon” received the Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. The prize committee described it as “a stunningly successful combination of original scholarship, compelling prose, and sophisticated argumentation.” I
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- [Academic](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/academic/) - 2018 – present Academic 2023 2020 2019 2018 2023 Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class University of North Carolina Press, 2023 — order at this link Winner of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography
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- [Fiction](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/fiction/) - 2003 – present Fiction 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2004 2003 2011 “Ban” Ars Medica, Fall 2011 A young aide in a nursing home believes she can rescue a patient after another aide’s harsh restraint–but she must face her own revulsion and rage in order to offer the compassion she intends. “Three Women Wishing for a
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## Portfolio

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- [Fashion](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/portfolio/item/fashion/) - Branding Fashion Client Delta Year 2018 Role Website / Mobile app See Website 01 — How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood. It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products
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- [e. Oliver](https://www.aimeeloiselle.com/portfolio/item/e-oliver/) - Design e. Oliver CLIENT Delta YEAR 2018 ROLE Web Design See Website 01. Concept It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people’s lives. Creativity is to discover a question
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