Thomas Dublin

State University of New York Distinguished Professor
Co-director, Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender
Ph.D., Columbia University
U.S. labor and social history
Office: LT 810
Phone: (607) 777-2854
E-mail: tdublin@binghamton.edu

I am a U.S. Social Historian with an interest in gender, race and ethnicity, and class in the working-class experience. My research has focused on both the industrial revolution in nineteenth-century New England and deindustrialization in the Middle Atlantic region in the twentieth century. I employ quantitative evidence in my research and the Worldwide Web in my teaching.

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

Books:

• Women and Power in American History, (Prentice-Hall, 2008, third edition) co-edited with Kathryn Kish Sklar. Earlier editions, 1991, 2002.
• 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.
• 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:

• “The New Labor History, the New Media, and New Challenges,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 7:2 (May 2010), 83-96.
• How Did Elisabeth Freeman's Publicity Skills Promote Woman Suffrage, Antilynching, and the Peace Movement, 1909-1919?” two parts, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, 12:2 (July 2008) at http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wam2.
• "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.

Websites

• History 264, "Immigration and Ethnicity in U.S. History": http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~hist264a
• "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000": http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
• “Women and Social Movements, International—1840 to Present”:  description of this subscription site found at http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/WASMINTERNATIONAL.html

Honors and Awards

• Dean's Distinguished Lecturer, Binghamton University, October 2007
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Women's Studies, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, June 2007
• Elected to membership, American Antiquarian Society, 2006
• Co-Winner of Merle Curti Award, 2006
• Winner of Philip S. Klein Award, 2006
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 2006
• Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 2005-2006
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000
• Residential Fellow, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale, 2000-2001
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000
• Society of American Historians, 1992
• Bancroft Prize for Women at Work, 1980
• Merle Curti Award for Women at Work, 1980

Recent Grants and Fellowships

• Department of Education Grants, "Teaching American History," 2001-2004, 2004-2007, 2007-2010.
• N.E.H. Education Demonstration Project, "Women and Social Movements in the United States: Expanding Resources on the Worldwide Web," 2001-2004 (co-director with K. K. Sklar).
• N.E.H. Teaching with Technology Grant, "Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1830-1930," 1998-2000 (co-director with K. K. Sklar)
• N.E.H. Humanities Focus Grant, "U.S. Women's History, 1880-1930, World Wide Web Database," 1997-1998 (co-director with K. K. Sklar)

Recent Professional Activities

• Chair, Dunning Prize Committee, AHA, 2009
• Member, Editorial Board, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2008-2010
• Judge, Theodore Saloutos Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2006-2008
• Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, Organization of American Historians, 2005-2009