Alice Kessler-Harris

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 in 1968.

Her newest book, "In Pursuit of Equity: How Gender Shaped American Economic Citizenship", has won several prizes, including the Joan Kelly, Phillip Taft and Bancroft Prizes, and among her other fellowships and awards, Kessler-Harris has been a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina. She is immediate past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and is a vice-president of the Organization of American Historians.

elected Works

* "Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview" (1981)
* "Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States", (1982)
* "A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences", (1990).

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/fac-bios/Kessler-Harris/faculty.html Kessler-Harris Academic homepage] at the Columbia University website


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