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Thomas Dublin

Professor
Co-director, Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender
Co-director, Center for the Teaching of American History
Ph.D., Columbia University
U.S. labor and social history

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

• Immigration and Ethnicity in the U.S.

Recent or current graduate courses:

• US Immigration and Ethnicity
• Gender and Working Class History
• Quantitative Methods for Historians
• World Migrations
  

Significant Publications

• The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Co-author with Walter Licht (Cornell University Press, 2005).
  - Co-Winner of 2006 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians.
  - Winner of the 2006 Philip S. Klein Award of the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
• Women and Power in American History, 2 vols. (Prentice-Hall, 2002, second ed.) co-edited with Kathryn Kish Sklar.
• When the Mines Closed: Stories of Struggles in Hard Times (Cornell University Press, 1998). Edited oral history narratives and photographs from the anthracite region of Pennsylvania.
• Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic: College Students Explore Their Roots (Temple University Press, 1996). Edited collection of undergraduates' writing on their own ethnicity.
• Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1994; ppbk. ed., 1995). A New York Times "Notable Book of the Year, 1994."
• Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986 (University of Illinois Press, 1993). Edited collection of immigrant letters, diaries, and reminiscences.
• Farm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860 (Columbia University Press, 1981; second ed., 1993).
• Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (Columbia University Press, 1979; second ed., 1994).

Recent Articles:

• "Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920 - 1970," pp. 329-40 in Jean R. Soderland and Catherine S. Parzynski, eds. Backcountry Crucibles: The Lehigh Valley from Settlement to Steel (Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 2008), co-authored with Walter Licht.
• "Launching a New Journal: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000," Women's History Review 17:1 (February 2008): 95-101. Co-authored with K. K. Sklar.
• "Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States," History Now, No. 10 (December 2006), online at http://www.historynow.org/12_2006/historian4.html.
• "Bridging Learning Communities: A Summer Workshop for Social Studies Teachers," The History Teacher, 38 (May 2005), 361-69, co-author with James J. Carpenter and Penelope Harper.
• "Feminism and Mainstream Narratives in American History, 1780-2000," OAH Magazine of History (March 2005), 26-28, co-author with Kathryn Kish Sklar.
• "How Did Sarah Bagley Contribute to the Ten-Hour Movement in Lowell and How Did Her Labor Activism Flow into Other Reform Movements, 1836-1870?" co-author with Teresa Murphy, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 , 8:3 (Sept. 2004) at http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm.
• "How Did the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and Chinese Garment Workers Unite to Organize the 1938 National Dollar Stores Strike? " Women and Social Movements in the United States , 1600-2000 , 8:1 (March 2004) at http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm.
• "Miner's Son, Miners' Photographer: The Life and Work of George Harvan," The Journal for MultiMedia History, volume 3 (March 2001), online at http://www.albany.edu/jmmh (co-author with Melissa Doak).
• "Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970," Oral History Review 27 (Winter/Spring 2000), 1-17 (co-author with Walter Licht).
• "Working-Class Families Respond to Industrial Decline: Migration from the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region since 1920," International Labor and Working Class History, 54 (Fall 1998), 40-56.
• "Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970," translated as "Género y Decadencia Económica: La Région de las Minas de Antracita de Pennsylvania," Historia, Antropologia y Fuentes Orales, No. 17 (October 1997), 59-72. (Barcelona, Spain).