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Julie Greene (born 1956) is an American historian, specializing in transnational history, global labor history, and American immigration history, best known for her books Pure and Simple Politics (1998) and The Canal Builders (2009), the latter for which she was awarded a James A. Rawley Prize in 2010. She has been the professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park since 2010, and the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History since 2023. [1]

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Education

Greene received an Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Michigan in 1980, a Master's degree in History from the University of Cambridge, at Murray Edwards College in 1987, and a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1990, where she studied under David Montgomery. [2] [3] [4]

Career

Following her doctoral studies, Greene held a brief appointment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1990 and then moving to the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 as an assistant professor before being promoted to associate professor in 1999. [5] In 1998, she published her first book titled Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism 1881-1917, which was a study of the political evolution of the American Federation of Labor. [6] [7] [8]

In 2008, Greene left the University of Colorado for the University of Maryland, where she was promoted to full professor of history in 2010. [5] In 2009 Greene published her second book, The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal, a transnational labor history of the building of the Panama Canal, which won the James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of U.S. race relations in 2010. [9] [10] [11] [12]

In addition to her teaching and research, Greene has held a variety of leadership positions in academic organizations. In 2011, she and Ira Berlin co-founded and directed the University of Maryland's Center for Global Migration. Greene served in this position until 2022. [13] [14] [5] Greene also served as the President of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from 2013 to 2015, [15] and then the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) from 2018 to 2020, having previously helped found the organization in 1997. [16] [17]

Greene has served as the series editor for the University of Illinois Press' The Working Class in American History book series since 2012. [18] She was the founding reviews editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History , and served as an associate editor for the journal until 2023, when she became the editor-in-chief following Leon Fink's retirement. [5] [19] [20]

Selected works

Books

Selected articles and book chapters

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  2. ↑ "Julie Greene". HuffPost. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  3. ↑ Poe, Ryan (30 August 2015). "David Montgomery, 1927 – 2011". LAWCHA. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  4. ↑ Greene, Julie (19 December 2011). "From the Shop Floor to the Lecture Hall: David Montgomery, 1927-2011". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Scholar: Julie Greene". Women Also Know History. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  6. ↑ Boyle, Kevin (2001). "Review of Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917". Social History. 26 (1): 120–122. ISSN   0307-1022. JSTOR   4286744.
  7. ↑ Moehling, Carolyn M. (3 March 1999). "Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881–1917. By Julie Greene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xi,293. $49.95". The Journal of Economic History. 59 (3): 825–826. doi:10.1017/S0022050700023810. ISSN   1471-6372.
  8. ↑ "Symposium on Julie Greene: Pure and simple - ProQuest". ProQuest. ProQuest   221078082 . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "The Canal Builders". C-SPAN. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  10. ↑ Oshinsky, David (27 March 2009). "They Dug It". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  11. ↑ Feinberg, Richard (1 May 2009). "The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal". Foreign Affairs. No. May/June 2009. ISSN   0015-7120 . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  12. ↑ "James A. Rawley Award". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  13. ↑ "Center for Global Migration Studies". Department of History - University of Maryland. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  14. ↑ "FEATURED LECTURE: Movable Empire: Labor Migrations and the Making of U.S. Global Power, 1890–1934". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  15. ↑ "Officers, Council Members, & Committees". SHGAPE. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  16. ↑ "History of LAWCHA – LAWCHA" . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  17. ↑ "Julie Greene – LAWCHA" . Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  18. ↑ "The Working Class in American History Series". University of Illinois Press. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  19. ↑ "Julie Greene New Editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas". history.umd.edu. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  20. ↑ "Labor: Studies in Working-Class History". Duke University Press. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
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