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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Dorothy Sue Cobble Distinguished Professor 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Dorothy Sue Cobble Distinguished Professor Department of Labor and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey 50 Labor Center Way New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 08901-8553 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., with distinction, Stanford University, 1986. U.S. and Comparative History M.A., with distinction, San Francisco State University, 1976. U.S. History. B.A., cum laude, University of California, Berkeley, 1972. American Studies. TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS Historical and contemporary study of work, social movements, and social policy; 20th century US political and intellectual history; 20th century international history; history of human rights and worker rights; labor women’s transnational activism; global labor and global political economies; gender and work; new forms of work and worker movements; service, low-wage, and precarious work. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, HONORS (SELECTED) *Swedish Research Council’s 2016 Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, Stockholm University. *Visiting International Scholar Award, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, February 2016. *ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2015-2016. *Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians, 2012-2015; 2015-2018. *Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2010-2011. *Alice Cook 2010 Distinguished Lecturer, Cornell University, September 2010. *Sol Stetin Award for Career Achievement in Labor History, Sidney Hillman Foundation, 2010. *Charles Warren Fellowship, Warren Center in American History, Harvard University, 2007-2008. *Scholar-in-Residence, Center for Gender Research, University of Bergen, Norway, September 2007. *Winner, Philip Taft 2005 Book Prize for Best Book in Labor History, The Other Women’s Movement. *Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers 2004 Outstanding Book Award, The Other Women’s Movement. *New Jersey Council for the Humanities 2005 Noteworthy Book, The Other Women’s Movement. *A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2004, The Other Women’s Movement. *Princeton University’s 2004 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations, The Other Women’s Movement. *Research Adviser Stipend, Social Science Research Council Fellowship Program, 2003-04. *Rutgers University Research Council Grant, 2003-04. *Co-Director, Rockefeller Fellows in the Humanities Grant, Institute for Research on Women, 2001-03. *Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C. 1999-2000. *Rutgers University Research Council Grant, 1997-98. *Faculty Fellow, Center for Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1995-96. *Research Grant, Fund for Labor Relations Studies, University of Michigan, 1994-1995. *Research Fellowship, Institute for Study of Labor Organizations, Meany Center, 1993-1994. *Research Grant, U.S. Women's Bureau, Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., 1992-1993. *Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Award for Scholarly Excellence, 1992. *Herbert A. Gutman 1992 Book Prize, University of Illinois Press, for Dishing It Out. *Fellowship, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, 1989-90 (declined). *American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1989-90. *Albert J. Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 1989-90. *National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, 1989-90. *Henry Kaiser Family Foundation Research Grant, 1989-90. 2 *New Jersey Historical Commission Grant, 1987-88. *Rutgers University Research Council Grant, 1986-87 *James B. Weter Fellowship, Stanford University, 1984-85. *History Department Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1977-78; 1978-79; 1979-1980. *California State Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowships, 1970-1972, 1974-1976. BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT America’s Progressive Politics and the Global Women Who Made It. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, under contract. How the Labor Movement Changed America. NY: The New Press, under contract. PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED VOLUMES Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements (with Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry). New York: Norton, 2014. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Feminism-Unfinished/. UK Times Higher Education Best Books of 2014. In These Times 2014 Best Summer Read. Huffington Post List of 50 Favorite Books of 2014. Best Books of 2014, American Library Association’s Amelia Bloomer List Excerpts reprinted in Salon.com, alternet, and other electronic outlets. Spanish translation, 2015. Gendered Activism and the Politics of Women’s Work (edited with Silke Neunsinger and Peter Winn), Special Issue, International Labor and Working-Class History 77 (Spring 2010): 1-201. The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (edited volume). Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Nominee, UALE Best Published Book in Labor Studies, 2002-2007. Nominee, Susan Koppelman Award, Popular Culture Association, 2007. Working-Class Subjectivities and Sexualities (edited with Victoria Hattam), Special Issue, International Labor and Working-Class History 69 (Spring 2006): 1-200. The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7635.html. Winner, 2005 Philip Taft Book Prize for the Best Book in American Labor History. Honorable Mention, Gustavus Myers 2004 Outstanding Book Award. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004. Princeton University Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations, 2004. New Jersey Council for the Humanities Noteworthy Booklist, 2005. Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference(s): Working Papers from the 2003-2004 Seminar (edited with Beth Hutchison and Amanda Chaloupka), New Brunswick, NJ: Institute for Research on Women, 2004. Reconfiguring Class and Gender: Working Papers from the 2002-2003 Seminar (edited with Amanda Chaloupka and Beth Hutchison), New Brunswick, NJ: Institute for Research on Women, 2003. Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership (edited volume), Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.http://www.press.uillinois.edu Winner, 1992 Herbert A. Gutman Book Prize, University of Illinois Press. 3 Excerpts reprinted in Working People of California, ed. Dan Cornford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 85-115. Excerpts reprinted in Reading Women’s Lives, 3rd ed. NY: Allyn & Bacon, 2004. Excerpts reprinted in The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, eds. Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, and Manuel Ness. NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2009, pp. 633-639. ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS “The Other ILO Founders,” in Eileen Boris and Susan Zimmermann, eds. The Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labor Standards and Gender Equity. Geneva: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming. “International Women’s Trade Unionism and Education,” in Susan J. Schurman and Michael Merrill, eds. Global Workers’ Education, Special Issue, International Labor and Working-Class History 90 (Fall 2016), forthcoming. “Worker Mutualism in an Entrepreneurial Age,” Labour and Industry 26:4 (Fall 2016), forthcoming. “Economic Justice for All: Some Jersey Roots,” New Jersey Studies (Summer 2016), forthcoming. “Shorter Hours, Higher Pay,” Pacific Standard Magazine (http://www.psmag.com) on-line: August 19, 2015. Print: November 2015. Picked as “Best of Week’s Journalism,” Sidney Hillman Foundation, New York, August 28, 2015. “Who Speaks for Workers? Japan and the 1919 ILO Debates Over Rights and Global Labor Standards,” ILWCH 87 (Spring 2015): 213-34. Reprinted as “Japan and the 1919 ILO Debates over Rights, Representation and Global Labour Standards,” In Jill M. Jensen and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., The ILO From Geneva to the Pacific Rim: West Meets East. Geneva: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 55-79. “What ‘Lean In’ Leaves Out” (with Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry), The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, September 22, 2014. “Labor Today” (with Michael Merrill), Pennsylvania Legacies: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 14:1 (Spring 2014): 40-41. Reprinted in Portuguese in Revista História & Perspectivas, Brazil, forthcoming. “Esther Peterson” (with Julia Bowes), American National Biography Online, April 2014, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-01361.html. “A Higher ‘Standard of Life’ for the World: U.S. Labor Women’s Reform Internationalism and the Legacies of 1919,” Journal of American History 100: 4 (March 2014): 1052-1085. “Pure and Simple Radicalism: Putting the Progressive Era American Federation of Labor in Its Time,” featured roundtable article, (61-87), with responses from Melvyn Dubofsky, Julie Greene, Andrew Cohen, and Donna T. Haverty-Stacke (88-110); and author reply to commentators (111-116), Labor: Studies in the History of the Americas 10:2 (Winter 2013), 61-116. “Labor Feminism, The ‘Other’ American Women’s Movement,” translated into Italian by Pier Paolo Poggio for The Other XX Century [L’Altronovecento, Comunismo Eretic E Pensiero Critico] Milan, Italy: Jaca Books, 2013. [Italian] “The Promise and Peril of the New Global Labor History,” International Labor and Working-Class History 4 82 (Fall 2012): 99-107. “Don’t Blame the Workers,” Dissent (Winter 2012): 35-39. http://www.dissentmagazine.org/author/dorothysuecobble “The Wagner Act at 75: The Intellectual
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