Alice Kessler Harris
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. Kessler-Harris received her B.A. from Goucher College in 1961 and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1968. Her newest book, "Gendering Labor History. " collects some of her best-known essays on women and wage work. In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, won several prizes, including the Joan Kelly, Philip Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Bancroft Prizes; among her other fellowships and awards, Kessler-Harris has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and is vice-president, and president elect, of the Organization of American Historians.
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