Alice Kessler-Harris

Professor Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at the Columbia University, who specializes in the history of American labor and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. Her published works include In Pursuit of Equity (awarded the Joan Kelly, Phillip Taft, and Bancroft Prizes), Women Have Always Worked, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States, and A Woman's Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences. She is also the co-editor of Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, Australia, and the United States, 1880-1920 and U.S. History as Women's History. She is a past president of the Organization of American History and the Labor and Working-Class History Association.