Georgetown College

The complex geography of the hemisphere creates environments which provide resources that sustain systems of production, work, and trade.  These systems sometimes threaten the environments in which they exist and challenge the health and well being of the people around them.

Work in Progress

Denise Brennan

Life After Trafficking: Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States Today. Field research and writing are ongoing for this book project.
“Ethnographic Research on Life after Forced Labor and Servitude in the United States,” in Ethnography and Policy: What Do we Know about Trafficking?, edited by Carole Vance, forthcoming from School of American Research Press.
“Love Work in Sex Work (and After): Performing at Love,” in Intimacies, edited by William Jankowiak, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

Melissa Fisher

“Wall Street Women: Gender and Work in Global Finance,” book manuscript.

Erick Langer

“Ethnicity, Commerce and Nation Building in the Nineteenth-Century South-Central Andes,” book.

Joseph McCartin

Collision Course: PATCO and the Fate of U.S. Labor, 1968-82; research project in progress.
“A Wagner Act for Public Employees: Labor’s Deferred Dream and Liberalism’s Deepening Crisis, 1970-76,” article manuscript for the Journal of American History.

David S. Painter

A book manuscript on oil and world power.
A chapter on oil and resources for the Cambridge History of the Cold War.

John Tutino

Making a New World: Forging Atlantic Capitalism in the Bajío and Spanish North America (c. 2008), under contract with Duke University Press.
Remaking the New World: Bajío Revolution, Mexican Independence, and the Transformation of North America (c. 2010), under contract with Duke University Press.

Bryan McCann

"Two Tales of One City: The History of Community Development in 20th Century Rio de Janeiro," book project.

John McNeill

Epidemics and Geopolitics in the American Tropics, 1640-1920 (Cambridge University Press).

Recent Publications

Michael Bailey

“Welfare Migration and the Multifaceted Decision to Move,” American Political Science Review, 99: 1 (February 2005): 125- 135.
“A Wider Race? Interstate Competition Across Health and Welfare Programs,” co-authored with Mark Rom, Journal of Politics, 66: 2 (May, 2004): 326 – 347.

Dana Luciano

Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America, forthcoming from New York University Press (Fall 2007).
“Bodies in and Out of Time: Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite and the Sexual Politics of History,” in Philosophies of Sex: New Essays on The Hermaphrodite, edited by Renee Bergland and Gary Williams, forthcoming.

J.R. McNeill

“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1830,” Review-Fernand Braudel Center, 27 (2004), 343-64.
“Yellow Fever, Empire and Revolution: The Political Impacts of Infectious Disease in the Caribbean Region, 1640-1900,” in When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points, edited by Pekka Hämäläinen (Helsinki University Press, 2006), 81-111.
“Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1640-1900,” in City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), 193-206.

“Environment and History in South America and South Africa,” in South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons, edited by S. Dovers, R. Edgecombe, and Bill Guest (Ohio University Press and David Philip, 2002), 240-249.
“Yellow Fever, Empire and Revolution: The Political Impacts of Infectious Disease in the Caribbean Region, 1640-1900,” in When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points, edited by Pekka Hämäläinen (Helsinki University Press, 2006), 81-111.
 

Denise Brennan

“Methodological Challenges in Research on Human Trafficking: Tales from the Field,” International Migration 43: 1/2 (2005): 35-54.
“Women Work, Men Sponge and Everyone Gossips: Macho Men and Stigmatized/ing Women in A Sex Tourist Town,” Anthropological Quarterly 77: 4 (2004): 705-733.
“When Sex Tourists and Sex Workers Meet: Encounters within Sosúa, the Dominican Republic’s Sexscape,” in Tourists and Tourism, edited by Sharon Gmelch (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2003).
“Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as Stepping Stone to International Migration for Dominican Women,” in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002).
“Globalization, Women’s Labor and Men’s Pleasure: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic,” in Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, edited by George Gmelch and Walter P. Zenner (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2002).
“Tourism in Transnational Places: Dominican Sex Workers and German Sex Tourists Imagine One Another,” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 7: 4 (2001): 621-663.

Erick Langer

“Contraband and Credit: Merchants and Miners in the South-Central Andes, 1830-1930,” in Consumption, Markets and Trade in Spanish America, 1750-1950, edited by Rory Miller and Colin Lewis, forthcoming from the Institute of Latin American Studies (2007).
“Indian Trade and Ethnic Economies in the Andes, 1780-1880,” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 15:1 (2004), 9-33.
“Bajo la sombra del Cerro Rico: Redes comerciales y el fracaso del nacionalismo económico en el Potosí del siglo XIX,” Revista Andina, 37 (2003), 77-94.
“Género y comercio a mediados del siglo XIX en Bolivia: El caso de Antonia Lojo, una acaudalada mujer indígena en Challapata,” in Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia: Anuario 2002 (Sucre: Talleres Gráficos La Gaviota, 2002), 107-129.
“Economic Development and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America,” Evaluation of Development Assistance for Indigenous Peoples (Washington, DC: World Bank-Inter-American Development Bank, 2002) [CD].

“Chaco Region (South America),” entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Chandra Manning

“Contraband” and “United States Colored Troops,” entries in Encyclopedia of Reconstruction, edited by Richard Zuczek (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).
“Internal Improvements,” in Major Acts of Congress, edited by Brian K. Landsberg (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004).

Joseph McCartin

“‘Fire the Hell Out of Them’: Sanitation Workers’ Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s,” Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas, 2:3 (Fall 2005): 67-92.
“Approaching Extinction?: The Declining Use of the Strike Weapon in the United States, 1945-2000,” in The Strike in International Context, edited by Sjaak van der Velden, forthcoming form Aksant Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2007.
“Assessing the Legacy of the PATCO Strike Twenty-Five Years Later,” forthcoming in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 2006.
“Bringing the State’s Workers In: Time to Rectify an Imbalanced U.S. Labor Historiography,” Labor History, 47:1 (February 2006): 73-94.
“Democratizing the Demand for Workers’ Rights: Toward a Re-Framing of Labor’s Argument,” and “Reply to Lance Compa and Sheldon Friedman,” Dissent (Winter 2005): 61-66, 70-71.
“Estranged Allies on the Margins: On the Ambivalent Response of Labor Historians to Catholic History,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 21:2 (Spring 2003): 114-120.
“La Première Guerre mondiale et la naissance des relations sociales aux États-Unis,” translated by Jean-Christian Vinel, in Le Siècle des Guerres, edited by Pietro Causarano, et al. (Paris: Les Editions de Atelier, 2004), 228-236.
“Labor,” in Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century America, edited by Stephen J. Whitfield (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2004), 249-265.
“Managing Discontent: The Life and Career of Leamon Hood, Black Public Employee Union Activist,” in The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation, edited by Eric Arnesen, forthcoming from University of Illinois Press, 2007.
“Public Sector Labor Activism: The Unheralded 1960s Movement,” in Heather Thompson, Speaking Out with Many Voices: Documenting American Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s, forthcoming from Prentice Hall, 2007.
“Re-Framing the Crisis of U.S. Labor: Rights, Democracy, and Political Economy,” Labour/Le Travail, forthcoming Spring 2007.
“The PATCO Strike and Permanent Replacement,” forthcoming in Perspectives on Work (of the Labor and Employment Relations Association), 2006.
“Turnabout Years: Public Sector Unionism and the Crisis of Labor Liberalism,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, edited by Julian Zelizer and Bruce Schulman, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, 2007.
“What Happened to Industrial Democracy? Thinking Beyond the Current Rights-Based Defense of Organized Labor in the Workplace,” Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, 14 (Winter 2004): 19-40.
“Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal,” co-authored with James P. McCartin, forthcoming in Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas 4:1 (Spring 2007).

David S. Painter

“Oil,” entry in Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas, edited by Alexander DeConde, Fredrik Logevall, and Richard Dean Burns, second edition (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002).

Adam Rothman

“Hurricane Katrina and the Burdens of History,” History Compass, 4:2 (2006).

John Tutino

“The Revolutionary Capacity of Rural Communities: Ecological Autonomy and its Demise,” in Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico, edited by Elisa Servín, Leticia Reina, and John Tutino (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007).

Major Works

David S. Painter

Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).

Denise Brennan

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004).
Erick Langer

Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880- 1930 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989)

Joseph McCartin

Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, editor and introduction, abridged edition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
American Labor: A Documentary History, co-edited with Melvyn Dubofsky (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004).

J.R. McNeill

The Atlantic Empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana, 1700-1763 (University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
David S. Painter

Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).

John Tutino

From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
“The Revolution in Mexican Independence: Insurgency and the Negotiation of Property, Production, and Patriarchy in the Baíio, 1800-1855,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 78: 3 (1998): 367-418.