DeVault 1 Ileen A. DeVault Hanshaw Road 370 Ives Hall. (607) Ithaca, NY (607) address:

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1 DeVault 1 Ileen A. DeVault 1404 Hanshaw Road 370 Ives Hall Ithaca, NY Cornell University (607) Ithaca, NY (607) address: iad1@cornell.edu Education: Ph.D. Yale University (History), 1985 M.A. University of Pittsburgh (History), 1979 A.B. University of California, Berkeley (Women's Studies), 1978 Employment: 6/2005 to Full Professor, Labor Relations, Law, and History, present School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University 7/2006 to Chair, Department of Collective Bargaining, Labor 6/2009 Law, and Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University 11/1992 to Associate Professor, Labor History, School of 5/2005 Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University 7/1994 to Acting Director, Women's Studies Program, 6/1995 Cornell University 7/1992 to Associate Director, Women's Studies Program, 6/1993 Cornell University 9/1986 to Assistant Professor, Labor History, School of 11/1992 Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University 8/1985 to Associate Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, 8/1986 University of Maryland-College Park 9-12/1983 Acting Instructor, History Department, Yale University 8/1982 to Assistant Editor, International Labor and Working 12/1983 Class History 1-6/1982 Visiting Instructor, American Studies Program, Wesleyan University

2 DeVault 2 Research in Progress: AFamilies at Work@ project: In this project I look at the many manifestations of Afamily@ and their influences on different work settings and for different groups of workers. Census changes and historical inaccuracy paper: This paper examines why the U.S. Census changed the way they reported workers marital status in 1910 and how that change has influenced the historiography of women workers. AClimate and strikes@ paper: This paper studies the interaction between climatic events and workers= participation in strikes between 1887 and Papers Submitted for Publication: For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health: Ever- Married Women Workers, , submitted to The Journal of American History. This paper examines the role of wageearning wives and mothers in their family economies during the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Forthcoming Publications: AFL-CIO, entry in Hasia Diner, ed., Encyclopedia of American Women s History (Facts on File, November, 2010) Publications: United Apart: Gender, and the Rise of Craft Unionism (Cornell University Press, 2004). ASamuel Gompers,@ Biographical entry in Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, Eric Arnesen, ed. (Routledge, 2007). A>Too hard on the women, especially=: Striking together for women workers= issues,@ in The International Review of Social History 51 (2006), pp AAlice Hanson Cook,@ entry in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5, , Susan Ware, ed., (Harvard University Press, 2004).

3 DeVault 3 ANarratives Serially Constructed and Lived: Ethnicity in Cross-Gender Strikes, ,@ in The International Review of Social History 44 (1999), Supplement, (Eileen Boris and Angélique Janssens, eds., complicating categories: gender, class, race and ethnicity,), pp A>To Sit Among Men=: Skill, Gender, and Craft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor,@ in Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience, edited by Eric Arnesen, Julia Greene, and Bruce Laurie (University of Illinois Press, 1998). Sons and Daughters of Labor: Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh (Cornell University Press, 1990). A>Give the Boys a Trade=: Gender and Job Choice in the 1890s,@ in Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, Ava Baron, ed. (Cornell University Press, 1991). Associate Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 3: Unrest and Depression, (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989). Consulting Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1987). Contributing Editor, The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 4: A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1991). Book Reviews in: The International Review of Social History, The New England Quarterly, The Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Radical History Review, Reviews in American History, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labour/Le Travailleur, International Labor and Working-Class History, The Historian, Labor History, Labor Studies Journal. Selected Papers, Addresses and Conferences: Moderator, Taft Prize Roundtable: Freedom is Not Enough, by Nancy MacLean, PNLHA & LAWCHA Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2008.

4 DeVault 4 Luncheon talk on Alice Kessler-Harris book, Gendering Labor History, at North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October The New Feminism: Organizing Women Workers, Roundtable Discussion, Power Matters: Reshaping Agendas Through Women s Leadership, The National Council for Research on Women, Annual Conference June AUnited Apart: Striking en masse/in Mass.,@ Society of American Archivists, Labor Roundtable, Boston, Massachusetts, August A>Too hard on the women, especially=: Striking together for women workers= issues,@ European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March Panel Chair, AStrategies in Class Conflict: Lock-Outs, Strike Breaking, and Mediation,@ European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March AWas There a >New Unionism= for Women Workers, ?: The Case of the ILGWU,@ Kheel Center Conversation in Working-Class History and Women=s History Month Brown Bag Lunch, March AStriking West, Remembering East: Women and Textile Strikes West of the Mississippi, ,@ Public lecture at The New York Public Library, May AWomen, Work, and Unions Before the Uprising of 1909,@ Women=s Studies Program, SUNY-Binghamton, March AReliving the Present: Issues in the History of Women and Work,@ Keynote address, SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines, AWomen and Work: Past and Present,@ SUNY Morrisville, March Awards and Fellowships: Fellow, Center for Scholars and Writers, The New York Public Library Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University

5 DeVault Dissertation awarded the George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Yale University Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize Fellowship, Yale University Lena Lake Forrest Fellowship, Business and Professional Women's Foundation Yale University Fellowship Selected Professional Activities: Board member, Labor and Working-Class History Association, 2006 to 2009 Chair, Philip Taft Labor History Award Committee, 1999 to 2004, 2006 to Present; Member, 1993 to 1999 Member, Elliott Rudwick Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, April 1995-April 1997 Institute for Women and Work, Advisory Board, 1991-Present Union Leadership Institute, Plenary Session, Crisis and Opportunity: Parallels and Possible Lessons, July 2009, Ithaca, NY Union Leadership Institute, Plenary Session, Social Change: Lessons from Labor s History, July 2007, Ithaca, NY Professional Affiliations: American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Labor and Working-Class History Association Social Science History Association