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Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is an American historian, author and an academic. He is a James G. Stahlman Professor of History and the Director of Economics and History Major at Vanderbilt University; a former fellow of Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science at Stanford University; a fellow at the Society for Humanities at Cornell University, and at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UC San Diego.
Cowie's research focuses on the social and political history of how class, inequality, and labor affects American politics and culture. He has conducted research on labor history, U.S. social and political history, popular culture, democracy and inequality, popular movements and reform, American conservatism, and the history and ideas of social class since 1945 along with transnational and comparative labor and working-class history in the Americas. Cowie has authored various opinion pieces, essays, and journal articles. His books include Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Cowie's work has received media recognition and an article in The Nation stated Cowie as "one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience".
Cowie is a Distinguished Lecturer at Organization of American Historians.
Cowie received a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987, a Master's degree in History from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1990, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1997.
Following his doctoral studies, Cowie held a brief appointment at University of New Mexico before joining Cornell University's ILR School as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History in 1997. In 2001, he held an appointment as an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University and in 2004, he was promoted to Associate Professor. Cowie was promoted to Professor of History in 2012 and held the position of Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor at ILR School from 2013 till 2015. In 2016, Cowie left Cornell University and joined Vanderbilt University as James G. Stahlman Professor of History.
From 2008 till 2012, Cowie served as Inaugural House Professor and Dean of William Keeton House at Cornell University. He was chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the ILR School at Cornell University from 2013 to 2015.
Cowie's research focuses on American conservatism, race relations, popular culture, U.S. social and political history, democracy and inequality, popular movements and reform, history and ideas of social class since 1945 along with transnational and comparative labor and working-class history in the Americas.
Cowie published his book, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, in 1999. The book was reviewed as "original and timely" and an "important book written with a clear scholarly and political objective". The book revolves around economic upheaval and class conflict and the effects of capital mobility for industrial relations. Tim Strangleman stated that "Capital Moves weaves its narrative through notions of class, gender, race, and nationality as capital plays off the inequalities within and beyond the American labour market".
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Jefferson Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is an American historian, author and an academic. He is a James G. Stahlman Professor of History and the Director of Economics and History Major at Vanderbilt University; a former fellow of Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science at Stanford University; a fellow at the Society for Humanities at Cornell University, and at the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UC San Diego.
Cowie's research focuses on the social and political history of how class, inequality, and labor affects American politics and culture. He has conducted research on labor history, U.S. social and political history, popular culture, democracy and inequality, popular movements and reform, American conservatism, and the history and ideas of social class since 1945 along with transnational and comparative labor and working-class history in the Americas. Cowie has authored various opinion pieces, essays, and journal articles. His books include Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. Cowie's work has received media recognition and an article in The Nation stated Cowie as "one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience".
Cowie is a Distinguished Lecturer at Organization of American Historians.
Cowie received a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987, a Master's degree in History from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1990, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1997.
Following his doctoral studies, Cowie held a brief appointment at University of New Mexico before joining Cornell University's ILR School as a Visiting Assistant Professor of History in 1997. In 2001, he held an appointment as an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University and in 2004, he was promoted to Associate Professor. Cowie was promoted to Professor of History in 2012 and held the position of Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor at ILR School from 2013 till 2015. In 2016, Cowie left Cornell University and joined Vanderbilt University as James G. Stahlman Professor of History.
From 2008 till 2012, Cowie served as Inaugural House Professor and Dean of William Keeton House at Cornell University. He was chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the ILR School at Cornell University from 2013 to 2015.
Cowie's research focuses on American conservatism, race relations, popular culture, U.S. social and political history, democracy and inequality, popular movements and reform, history and ideas of social class since 1945 along with transnational and comparative labor and working-class history in the Americas.
Cowie published his book, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, in 1999. The book was reviewed as "original and timely" and an "important book written with a clear scholarly and political objective". The book revolves around economic upheaval and class conflict and the effects of capital mobility for industrial relations. Tim Strangleman stated that "Capital Moves weaves its narrative through notions of class, gender, race, and nationality as capital plays off the inequalities within and beyond the American labour market".