Sadie Bergen, PhD

Sadie Bergen (she/her) studies the history and ethics of reproductive health with a focus on the ways that American institutions—from hospitals to corporations—have shaped reproductive health inequities. Her dissertation examines the history of neonatal intensive care...

Rishi Awatramani, PhD

Rishi Awatramani’s research employs ethnographic and comparative methods to examine the race and class politics of urban working-classes, and historical patterns of social protest. His research interests are in the fields of Race and Ethnicity, Labor and Labor...

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...

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