Robert Weir

Lecturer

Robert Weir returned to Smith in 2005 after several years teaching at Bay Path College. He has also taught at Mount Holyoke, the University of Massachusetts, and Mount Ida College, and was a senior Fulbright scholar in New Zealand. He has published four books on the American labor movement: The Changing Landscape of Labor (with Michael Jacobson-Hardy); Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor; Knights Unhorsed: Internal Conflict in a Gilded Age Social Movement; and The Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor (with James Hanlan); The Encyclopedia of Social Class in America, an edited collection, will be published by Greenwood Press in 2007.  Professor Weir is currently researching The Grateful Dead and American cultural change since 1950; and the impact of the Knights of Labor on New Zealand in the late 19th century.  In 2006-7, his courses survey the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Phone: 413-585-3737
Office: Dewey Hall #9
Email: rweir@smith.edu
Office Hours: TTH 10:30-noon & by appointment

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