Dorothy Sue Cobble

Professor of History and Labor Studies

Ph.D.,  Stanford University

B.A.,  University of California, Berkeley

204 Van Dyck Hall
848-932-8219

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http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cobble

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include 20th century U.S. political, social, and intellectual history; global and comparative social movements and social policy; women's and gender history; labor and working-class history; women and work; global labor. I am currently writing on the egalitarian politics and international initiatives of US labor reformers from World War I to the present.  I am also working on a book on 20th century U.S. social democracy as seen through the life of consumer, labor, and women's rights activist Esther Peterson.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

• 510: 539  Colloquium in Women’s and Gender History
• 510: 559  Problems and Directed Readings in American History III (Twentieth Century)
• 510: 521  Colloquium in Labor History

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• "The Promise and Peril of Global Labor History," International Labor and Working-Class History 82 (Fall 2012).
• "Friendship Beyond the Atlantic: Labour Feminist International Contacts After the Second World War," Arbetarhistoria (Stockholm, Sweden) 1-2/2009: 12-20. Invited article translated into Swedish. Published in English March 2012.
• "Don't Blame the Workers," Dissent Magazine, Winter 2012.
• "Occupy Wall Street Theater is A Jab at Political Paralysis," The Star-Ledger, December 18, 2011.
• “Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on Women,” In No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of American Feminism, ed. Nancy Hewitt (Rutgers University Press, 2010), pp. 144-167.
• “More Intimate Unions,” in Intimate Labors: Care, Sex, and Domestic Work, eds. Rhacel Parrenas and Eileen Boris (Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 280-295.
• “It’s time for New Deal Feminism,” The Washington Post 12/13/09.
• “U.S. Labor Women’s Internationalism in the World War I Era,” Revue Francaise d’Etudes Americaines 122:4 (2009): 44-57.
• “Women and Politics, 1920-1970,” in Princeton Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, ed. Michael Kazin (Princeton University Press, 2009).
• Editor, The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Cornell, 2007).
• The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton, 2004).

SELECTED AWARDS

• Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2010-2011.
• 2010 Sol Stetin Award for Career Achievement in Labor History, Sidney Hillman Foundation.
• Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2007-2008.
• Philip Taft Book Prize for The Other Women’s Movement, 2005.
• Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 1999-2000.
• Herbert A. Gutman Book Prize for Dishing It Out, University of Illinois Press, 1992.

RECENT INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

• "Humanizing Work," Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France, 31 March 2011.
• Alice Cook Distinguished Lectureship, “US Labor Women’s Interwar Internationalism,” Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 15-16, 2010.
• “The Future of Labour History Journals,” European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium, April 16, 2010.
• “Making the Next Labor Movement Possible,” Institute for Labor and Culture, Yale University, January 26, 2009.
• “The Road Not Taken: Labor Feminism and Work-Family Reform in the Post-World War II U.S.” Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2008.
• “Labor Feminism and Social Reform in Postwar America,” Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, Harvard University, July 2008.
• “More Intimate Unions: How The New Emotional Service Class is Transforming Labour,”Queen Mary, University of London, London, England, June 2008.
• “Transnational Labour Feminism and U.S Social Policy, 1919-1975,” University of Chicago, Chicago, April 2008.
• “U.S. Labor Women’s Internationalisms, 1914-1975” Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, March 2008.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• International Advisory Board, Global History of Equal Pay, 1945-2000, Vetenskapsradet Funds, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012-
• Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-2015.
• Awards Panel, Sol Stein Labor History Prize, Sidney Hillman Foundation, 2011-
• Editorial Board, International Labor and Working-Class History.
• Associate Editor, Signs.
• American History Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Gender Equity Task Force, New Jersey Employment and Training Commission, 1993-94.
• Expert Witness, NY Hotel and Motel Trades Council v. Hotel Association of NYC, Inc., 1988-90.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Historical Association
• Organization of American Historians
• Labor and Employment Relations Associations
• Labor and Working-Class History Association
• Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
• Working-Class Studies Association