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Kit Smemo

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20th Century U.S. History


Graduate Student

Advisor: Nelson Lichtenstein

I study mid-twentieth century U.S. labor and political history. My research currently focuses on the relationship of the Republican Party to the political economy of the New Deal.

Teaching Assistantships

  • History 17C: The American People (World War I to the present)
  • History 17B: The American People (Sectional Crises through Progressivism)
  • History 17A: The American People (Colonial through Jacksonian Era)
  • History 5: History of the Present

Publications

  • “A ‘New Dealized’ Grand Old Party: The Emergence of Liberal Republicanism in Minneapolis, 1937-1939”
    Forthcoming, LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas

Conference Presentations

  • “Labor and Liberal Republicanism: Making a Moderate Opposition to the New Deal Order,” Labor and Working Class History Association conference, New York, June 3-6, 2013.
  • “Racial Modernization: California Civil Rights and Republican Economic Development During and After World War Two,” Southern Labor Studies Association conference, New Orleans, March 3, 2013.
  • “The Contested Terrain of Liberalism: Labor and the Rise of Liberal Republicanism in Minneapolis, 1937-1938,” presented at the Organization of American Historians Conference, Milwaukee, WI, April 20, 2012.