Jennifer Guglielmo

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Guglielmo specializes is U.S. history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research interests include women's activism, diasporic and working-class feminisms, ethnic and race relations, and histories of im/migration, labor, and political radicalism.

Guglielmo is currently completing a book Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Everyday Resistance and Working-Class Feminism in New York City, 1880-1945 (University of North Carolina Press). This project grows out of her dissertation (University of Minnesota, 2003), which was awarded the Organization of American Historians Lerner-Scott Prize for Best Dissertation in U.S. Women's History and the University of Minnesota's Prize for Best Dissertation in the Humanities. She is also co-editor of Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America (Routledge, 2003), which has been translated into Italian and published in Italy as Gli Italiani sono bianchi? Come l'America ha costruito la razza ( Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2006). Her essays have also been published in a number of anthologies and academic journals, including the following:

“Women Writing Resistance: Teaching Italian Immigrant Women's Radical Testimonies,” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 19:3 (Fall 2007): 14-28.

“Rebel Girls.” In Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Eds. Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

“Sweatshop Feminism: Italian Women's Political Culture in New York City's Needle Trades, 1890-1919.”  In Sweatshop, USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective. Eds.Daniel E. Bender and Richard A. Greenwald. New York: Routledge, 2003.

“Italian Women's Proletarian Feminism in the New York City Garment Trades, 1890s-1940s.” In Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World. Eds. Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Guglielmo is currently beginning research for a book on grassroots activism among working-class women in Harlem from the 1930s through the 1950s, and is in the process of recovering and translating short essays written by Italian immigrant women anarchists in early twentieth-century urban New York and New Jersey, which will be reprinted in her next book, My Rebellious Heart: Italian Immigrant Women's Anarchist Feminist Prose in New York City's Radical Subculture, 1890-1930. She is also a member of the American Studies Program and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender.

TEACHING FIELDS

U.S. Social and Cultural History

Women's History

Immigration History

Labor History

Working-Class Studies

Ethnic and Race Relations

Racial Formation

Social Movements

Urban History

Feminist Theory and Methodology

Globalization and Transnational Culture

Postcolonial Theory  

Phone: 413-585-3712
Office: Neilson Library 4/05
Email: jgugliel@smith.edu

Office Hours: Friday 3:00-5:00 p.m. and by appointment

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