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United States History
Ph.D. Candidate
B.A., University of California San Diego; M.A., University of California Riverside
Advisor: Mary Furner
Is it conceivable, and if so, how has it been suggested, that economic and social rights may be implemented through some set of international regulatory institutions? Are there such things as transnational rights? What lies behind the motivation for a multilateral defense of social and economic freedoms based on the right to work and to earn an adequate standard of living for the health and welfare of both self and family? My work draws attention to the influence of various international labor movements on U.S. policy development. It is my aim to redirect historical attention, within the United States and abroad, to global labor issues including international movements in support of global labor standards. (more...)
My dissertation, focusing on liberal labor internationalism, looks at the early years of the International Labor Organization (ILO), a tripartite agency representing workers, employers, and governments created in conjunction with the League of Nations in 1919. The organization studied workers’ lives and conditions and lobbied extensively for both international agreements and national law in support of labor rights. Aware of hardship in the lives of working people around the world, yet also fearing revolution and seeking social stabilization, governments, through the ILO, encouraged active participation by workers in conjunction with employers, state officials, and trade unionists in promoting legislation aimed at improving working conditions across industries.
Dissertation Title- International Labor Standards in the Building of two Postwar Orders, 1919-1954
Teaching Fields- Modern U.S. history; labor and social policy
- International relations
- International labor history
- Political and economic history
Courses Taught- History 167 CP: Proseminar in American Working Class History: Workers and International Human Rights
UCSB, Winter 2011
- Interdisciplinary Studies 192/199 DC
University of California Washington Center, Summer 2009
- History 167 Q: Labor Studies Internship
UCSB, Spring 2009
- History 102 J: International Labor Movments, 1900 to the present
UCSB Session B, Summer 2008
Teaching Assistantships- Law and Society 1: Introduction to Law and Society
Fall 2007
- University of California Washington Center, Interdisciplinary Studies 199DC
Winter 2007 and Summer 2007
- Law and Society 112: Law and Society
Fall 2006
- History 17 B: The American People, 1830-1920
Summer 2006 and Summer 2005
- History 5 C: Western Civilization, 1715-present
Spring 2005
Publications- “From Geneva to the Americas: The International Labor Organization and Inter-American Social Security Standards, 1936-1948"
International Labor and Working Class History, 80 (Fall 2011), 215-240.
- “New Dealers on the International Stage: U.S. Social Policy Experts and the ILO, 1948-1954"
in Sandrine Kott and Joëlle Droux, eds.,Universalizing Social Rights: A History of the International Labour Organization and Beyond (Palgrave, forthcoming).
- Co-authored with Eileen Boris, “The ILO: Women’s Networks and the Making of the Women Worker”
Women and Social Movements International, ed. Tom Dublin and Katherine Sklar (Alexander Press, 2011).
Awards- Deconde-Burns Prize for Outstanding Accomplishment in the History of Foreign Relations, UCSB Graduate Division
June 2011
- Robert Collins Prize for the Best First Graduate Student Publication, UCSB Department of History
June 2011
- Robert L. Kelley Prize in the History of Public Policy, UCSB Department of History
June 2009
- Research Initiation Award, All-UC Group in Economic History
January 2009
- Richard and Jeanne Williams Endowed Graduate Fellowship
June 2006
Conference Papers- “Clara Beyer and the Gendering of Cold War International Development Training Programs”
Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, April 2011
- “The ‘Havana Charter’ and the Postwar Debate over Trade and Labor Standards”
West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2011
- “For the 'Social and Economic Security of all Peoples': Defining ILO Postwar Social Programs, 1947-1954”
Transnational Social Policies, Reformist Networks, and the International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009
- "From Geneva to the Americas: Internationalizing Social Security from Depression to War"
Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: The Newberry Conference on Labor Across the Americas, Chicago, September 2008
- “'What the International Labor Organization Means to America'"
European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2008
Fellowships- University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States Small Grant
July 2010
- Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB Department of History
January 2010
- Schlesinger Library Dissertation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
September 2009
- Dissertation Fellowship, California Labor and Employment Research Fund
June 2008
- Research Fellow, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
January 2009
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