EMMA
AMADOR
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EDUCATION
Aug 2015 Ph. D. in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation: “Welfare is Work: Social Welfare, Migration, and Women’s Activism in Puerto Rican Communities after 1917.”
Examination Fields: Latino/as in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, United States 20th C & Comparative Ethnic Studies
2006 M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Concentration: Latino/a Studies
Thesis: “From Formeria to Formey: Stitching Together a Concept of “Movement” Through Puerto Rican Women’s Labor History”
2004 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
Concentrations: Latino/a Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Spanish
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Fall 2017- present Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Connecticut, Storrs
2016-2017 Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
2015- 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Goucher College
FIELDS OF STUDY
Latino/as in the United States
Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans in the United States
Latin America and the Caribbean
Race and ethnicity
Women, gender, and sexuality
Comparative Ethnic Studies
United States Transnational History
United States in the World
Migration, immigration, and transnationalism
PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Book:
The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice
(Forthcoming, Duke University Press, May 2025).
Published Articles:
2020
“Caring for Labor History,” Forum: Starting from Home: Four New Spirits Engage Labor History, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the History (17:4, December 2020): 65-69.
2019
“Linked Histories of Welfare, Labor, and Puerto Rican Migration,” Forum: Puerto Rico and the United States at Critical Junctures, Modern American History (2: Fall 2019): 165-168.
2016
“Women Ask Relief for Puerto Ricans:” Social Workers, the Social Security Act and Puerto Rican Communities, 1933-1943,” LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (12:3, December 2016): 105-129.
2015
“Organizing Puerto Rican Domestics: Resistance and Household Labor Reform in the Puerto Rican Diaspora after 1930,” ILWCH: International Labor and Working-Class History (No. 8, Fall 2015): 67-86.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Studies Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Latin American Studies Association
Puerto Rican Studies Association
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
National Women's Studies Association
Presentation at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, 2013, Photo credit: Dr. Arlene Torres