A plenary hosted by the Southern Labor Studies Association, featuring MaryBe McMillan (AFL-CIO NC) and Bill Fletcher (Author, Activist), moderated by Nancy MacLean (Duke).

Hosted and interviewed by Ben Fortun (UNC) and James Woodall (Duke).

Sarah McNamara workshopped the introduction from her forthcoming book manuscript, From Picket Lines to Picket Fences: Latinas and the Remaking of the Jim Crow South (UNC Press).

February 19, 2021  3:30pm EST  Via Zoom    Dr. Robert Korstad   “Reflections on Writing Working-Class and Labor History”    Robert Korstad is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke University. He received his B.A. and PhD from … Read more

March 19, 2021 3:30pm EST Via Zoom Dr. Pamela Nogales “The International Workingmen’s Association in the United States and the 'Social Question' in the Nineteenth Century” Pamela Nogales is a historian and cultural critic who writes about social reform and … Read more

April 16, 2021 Dr. Dwana Waugh Via Zoom Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Revisited: “Choice,” Race, and Housing in Charlotte’s Public Schools and Communities''' Dwana Waugh is an Assistant Professor at Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar Virginia. Dr. Waugh’s paper … Read more

Bethany Moreton is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Her first book, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009) won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for best first book in U.S. history, the John Hope … Read more

Melanie Sheehan is a PhD candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her dissertation examines how US industrial union leaders engaged in political lobbying and worked through international trade union federations to advance their interests related to international trade, capital movements, and global … Read more

Blair LM Kelley is Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Kelley is currently at work on a new book, Black Folk: … Read more

Please join the Carolina Triangle Labor Seminar on January 21 from 3:30-5:00 for a discussion with Professor Jack Metzgar of his recent book, Bridging the Divide: Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society (2021). In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar illuminates the differences between … Read more

Cristian Roberto Walk is a PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill.

James Chappel is the Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University.