CAUSE Predoctoral Projects
CAUSE sponsors graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty research on various topics, aiming to facilitate and sustain a vigorous program of graduate and post-graduate student training, research, and writing.
Trent Alexander, "Race and Patterns of Migration in the Southern Move to the Industrial Corridor, 1910-1980."
Charles Franklin Lee, "Odd Jobs: African American Working-Class Formation in Western Pennsylvania, 1865-1920."
Susannah Feeney Walker, "For Appearance's Sake: African American women's Beauty Culture from the 1920's to the 1970's."
Robin Dearmon Jenkins, "The Steel Ceiling: African Americans and Shipyard Worker Organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area During World War Two."
John Hinshaw, "Dialectic of Division: Race and Power Among Western Pennsylvania Steelworkers, 1937-1975."
Liesl Miller Orenic, "On the Ramp: Ground Service Workers in the American Airline Industry, 1930-1970."
Lisa Johnson, "On Race and Place: The Struggle to Desegregate the Highland Park Pool, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1948-1952."
Lindsay McKenzie, "Grinding Rogues Honest and Idle Men Industrious: Convict Labor at Joliet Penitentiary, 1853-1933."
Mary Nash, "Institutional History of Freemen's Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1863-1965."
Andre Brock, "A Rhetoric of Technology: Sources and Insights."
Rebecca Kluchin, "Fit to be Tied? Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1960-1984."