Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of the Department of Feminist Studies and affiliate professor of history, black studies, and law and society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was copresident of the Coordinating Council for Women in History and president of the board of trustees of The Journal of Women's History; she was also cochair of the program committee for the 2005 Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. She is author of Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America (1986) and Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (1994), which won the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History. She is also coeditor of Major Problems in the History of American Workers (2002) and The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues (2007).

Lecture topics:

• Invisible No More: Toward A History of Carework
• You Are What You Shop: Women Against the Sweatshop, Past and Present
• Domestic Workers Organize, Past and Present
• The Body as a Category for Historical Analysis
• Citizens on the Job: Gender, Race, and Rights in Modern America
• What is Work? Who is a Worker? Homeworkers, Household Workers, and Poor Single Mothers

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