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JENNIFER LUFF Institute for Research on Labor and Employment University of California, Los Angeles 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2107 Los Angeles, CA 90095 310-206-0395 (office) / 310-794-6403 (fax) jdluff@irle.ucla.edu EDUCATION 2005 Ph.D., American studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Dissertation: “Judas Exposed: Labor Spies in the United States.” Directed by Professor Cindy Hahamovitch. Fields: U.S. history, cultural studies, and comparative state development. 1996 M.A., American studies, College of William and Mary. Thesis: “A Parlor in the Penitentiary: Prisons and Reading in Victorian America.” Directed by Professor Robert A. Gross. 1992 B.A., English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, July 2007 - June 2008 Postdoctoral fellow, New York University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Tamiment Library, Center for the United States and the Cold War, September 2006 - May 2007. Arthur Weinberg Fellow, Newberry Library, summer 2007. INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE Adjunct instructor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Fall 2005: Taught the U.S. history survey to undergraduates. Instructor, Keio University/College of William and Mary Cross-Cultural Collaboration, Summer 1997: Taught American culture classes to Japanese exchange students in intensive residential program. PUBLICATIONS “Surrogate Supervisors: Railway Spotters and the Origins of Workplace Surveillance,” forthcoming in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, February 2008. “Labor Spies,” “LaFollette Committee,” “Commission on Industrial Relations,” “Pattern Bargaining,” “Justice for Janitors,” and “National Right to Work Committee” for the Encyclopedia of Labor and Working Class History, edited by Eric Arnesen, Routledge, November 2006. "Organizing: a secret history," co-authored with Sam Luebke, Labor History 44:4 (December 2003). Review of Karin A. Shapiro, A New South Rebellion (Chapel Hill, NC, 1999), in Left History 6.2 (Spring 2000). TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS “Bulwark Against Radicalism: Labor Conservatives in World War I,” Labor History colloquium, Scholl Center, Newberry Library, September 2007 "’This Canker of Espionage’": Hosiery Workers vs. Labor Spies in Pennsylvania," Thinking Through Action conference (Simon Fraser University/Pacific Northwest Labor History Association), Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2005. "‘This Evil in Modern Industry'": Labor Spies, Communists, and Reformers," American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2004. "‘Honest Workers Should Rid Industry of the Labor Spy': The Hosiery Workers' Fight Against the Labor Spy Industry," North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 2004 [paper read by panel chair]. "Judas Exposed: Railroad Spotters in the Nineteenth Century," at Southern Labor Studies Conference, Miami, Florida, April 2002. "When the Spies Came in From the Cold," at North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 2000. "Organizing in the Solid South," Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice Conference, Washington DC, April 1998. "Lock-down Labor: Convict Labor in Nebraska, 1875-1895," at Southern Labor Studies Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, September 1997. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Editorial Assistant, New West Indian Guide, September 1997-May 1998. Editorial Apprentice, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, August 1996-June 1997. SERVICE President, American Studies Graduate Student Organization, 1997-1998; Vice-President, 1996-1997. Founding member, Tidewater Labor Support Coalition. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Campaign coordinator, Service Employees International Union, Washington, DC, 2003 - 2006: Developed strategy and coordinated campaigns for Change to Win, a coalition of unions tackling nonunion service sector. Coordinated strategy for union organizing and bargaining in the long-term care industry. Regional Director, America Votes/America Coming Together, Stark County region, Ohio, October-November 2004: Directed volunteer recruitment and coordinated election-day mobilization for presidential campaign, in support of candidate John Kerry, in swing districts. Senior lead researcher, AFL-CIO, Washington DC, 2001- 2003: Developed strategies for union organizing campaigns in manufacturing industries. Organizer/researcher, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1999 - 2001: Researched manufacturing industries and worked on organizing campaigns. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Labor and Working Class History Association Organization of American Historians |