Associate Professor of History (2002)
B.A., M.A., University of Florida, 1990, 1993; Ph.D., Tulane University, 2001

Teaching and  Research Interests:   Labor History, Southern History, Gender/Women's History, African American History, Recent American History

Upper Division Courses:

• HIST 4132: Recent America, US Since 1945
• HIST 4135 The United States in the 1960s
• HIST 4635 Globalization & Its Discontents: U.S. Labor & Capital in the 20 th Century (senior seminar)
• HIST 5232 Working Class History in the United States
• HIST 5138 The New South

Office Hours for Fall 2008: TTH 2:00-3:15, or by appointment

Contact Information:
1208 Forest Building
PO Box 8054
Department of History
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054
Tel.: (912) 478-1867
Email: mah@georgiasouthern.edu
Fax: (912) 478-0377

Publications:

• “Look for the Union Label:  Organizing Women Workers and Women Consumers in the Southern Apparel Industry” in Entering the Fray:  Gender, Culture and Politics in the New South, edited by Sheila Phipps and Jonathan Wells.  Columbia:  University of Missouri Press.  Forthcoming in 2009.
•  “’It Takes a Special Kind of Woman to Work Up There’:  Race, Gender and the Impact of the Apparel Industry on Clarke County, Alabama, 1937-1980” in Work, Family and Faith:  Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, edited by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless. Columbia:  University of Missouri Press, 2006.
•  “After the Wives Went to Work:  Organizing Women in the Southern Apparel Industry” in "Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph":  Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities, edited by Bruce Clayton and John Salmond.  Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 2003.

• Southern Labor Studies Association, Program Committee
• Student Technology Fee Grant, Georgia Southern University, 2003
• Faculty Research Grant, Georgia Southern University, 2003
• Faculty Development Grant, Georgia Southern University, 2003

• Book manuscript: Striking Beauties: Garment Workers in the United States South, 1937 - 1980. Under contract with University of Georgia Press.
• Book Project: The Right to Boycott:  An Examination of Consumer Actions in American History -- This study traces the history of boycotts and other consumer actions in the name of political, social and economic justice throughout the course of American history and considers the conceptualization of consumption as a politicized process as a perennial force in American history.