The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (ILR) is an industrial relations school and one of the four New York State contract colleges at Cornell University,located in Ithaca,New York,United States. The School has five academic departments which include:Labor Economics,Human Resource Management,Global Labor and Work,Organizational Behavior,and Statistics &Data Science.
The Organization of American Historians (OAH),formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association,is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors;historians,students;precollegiate teachers;archivists,museum curators,and other public historians;and a variety of scholars employed in government and the private sector. The OAH publishes the Journal of American History. Among its various programs,OAH conducts an annual conference each spring,and has a robust speaker bureau—the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program.
Merle Eugene Curti was an American Progressive historian who influenced peace studies,intellectual history and social history,including by using cliometrics. At Columbia University and for decades at the University of Wisconsin,Curti directed 86 finished Ph.D. dissertations and had a wide range of correspondents. He was known for his commitment to democracy,as well as the Turnerian thesis that social and economic forces shape American life,thought and character.
The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association for books relating to labor history of the United States. Labor history is considered "in a broad sense to include the history of workers,their institutions,and their workplaces,as well as the broader historical trends that have shaped working-class life,including but not limited to:immigration,slavery,community,the state,race,gender,and ethnicity." The award is named after the noted labor historian Philip Taft (1902–1976).
Marcus Rediker is an American professor,historian,writer,and activist for a variety of peace and social justice causes. He graduated with a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976 and attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study,earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994,lived in Moscow for a year (1984-5),and is currently Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti (1897–1996). A committee of 5 members of the Organization of American Historians chooses the winners from published monographs submitted by the author(s). Committee members represent the entire spectrum of American history and serve a one-year term. Beginning with the awards of 2004,the Committee may select 1 book "winner" in American intellectual history,1 book "winner" in American social history,and may list other "finalists" in each field. "Winners" split a $1000 cash award. Although not explicitly stated,"American" refers to the "United States of America" alone.
Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of History,Professor of African and African-American Studies,and Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research,writing,teaching,and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora,with a particular emphasis on the early modern Atlantic world.
Thomas Dublin is an American historian,editor and professor at Binghamton University. He is a social historian specialized in the working-class experience in the United States,particularly throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg is an American economist. He has primarily worked in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. Currently,he is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University. He is also the founder-director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI).
The Origins of the Urban Crisis:Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race,housing,job discrimination,and capital flight played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long before the 1967 race riot. Sugrue argues that institutionalized and often legalized racism resulted in sharply limited opportunities for African Americans in Detroit for most of the 20th century. He also argues that the process of deindustrialization,the flight of investment and jobs from the city,began in the 1950s as employers moved to suburban areas and small towns and also introduced new labor-saving technologies. The book has won multiple awards including a Bancroft Prize in 1998.
Nancy Woloch is an American historian. Her book A Class by Herself:Protective Laws for Women Workers,1890s–1990s won the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award and the William G. Bowen Award for the Outstanding Book on Labor and Public Policy.
Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor. She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University. She specializes in nineteenth-century US history,African-American history and women’s history,authoring Out of the House of Bondage:The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008) and The Women's Fight:The Civil War's Battles for Home,Freedom,and Nation (2020).
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an American historian. She is an associate professor of history at the University of California,Berkeley,and the author of They Were Her Property:White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. She is an expert in African-American history,the history of American slavery,and women's and gender history.
Cindy Hahamovitch is an American historian,and the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of Southern History at the University of Georgia. She has won a Merle Curti Award,a Philip Taft Labor History Book Award and a James A. Rawley Prize (OAH).
They Were Her Property:White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a nonfiction history book by Stephanie Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property is "the first extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system" and disputes conventional wisdom that white women played a passive or minimal role in slaveholding. It was published by Yale University Press and released on February 19,2019. For the book Jones-Rogers received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians.
William Caleb McDaniel is an American historian. His book Sweet Taste of Liberty:A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History. He is also an Associate professor of History at Rice University.
Amy Elizabeth Murrell Taylor is an American historian. She is the T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.
Wendy Anne Warren is an American historian. Her book New England Bound won a Merle Curti Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is also an Associate professor of History at Princeton University.
Jefferson Cowie is an American historian,author and an academic. He is a James G. Stahlman Professor of History and the Director of Economics and History Major at Vanderbilt University;a former fellow of Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science at Stanford University;a fellow at the Society for Humanities at Cornell University,and at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UC San Diego.
Ann Douglas is an American literary historian who specializes in intellectual history. She is the Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
