Brian Walter, PhD

Brian Walter completed his dissertation in 2023 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at James Madison University. Brian’s research explores how the impacts of climate-change-driven...

Jennifer Standish, PhD

Jennifer Standish studies the social, legal, and political history of labor unions in the 20th century U.S. South. Her dissertation focuses on the history of “Right-to-Work” laws and union security agreements. Union organizers argue that these laws create a “free...

Eshe Sherley, PhD

Eshe Sherley is also a member of the Certificate Program in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation, “Care in Crisis: Black Women and the Politics of Labor in Atlanta, 1965-1985,” examines how working-class Black women organized...

Bruno Seraphin, PhD

Bruno Seraphin completed his dissertation at Cornell University in 2023. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Bruno is also a graduate minor in American Indian and Indigenous studies. His research...

Nora Kassner, PhD

Nora Kassner (she/they) is a doctoral emphasis in Feminist Studies. Her dissertation, titled “Hard to Place: Queer Foster Families and the Remaking of U.S. Family Policy, 1975-1996,” explores the transformation of U.S. family policy in the late 20th century through...

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