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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: ALICE KESSLER-HARRISadmin2022-01-24T11:37:40-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Alice Kessler-Harris

“I attribute a lot of my success to the world that was changing around me.”

Historian, educator, author. One of the most important women’s historians in the United States and a leading advocate for university level women’s studies and feminist labor history. A.B. Goucher College, 1961; M.A. Rutgers University, 1963; Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1968.

Interviewed by Rebecca Lubetkin, VFA Board, December 2021

Photo. Alice Kessler-Harris in 1975.

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More About Alice:

  • Alice Kessler-Harris body of work including employment history, honors and awards, books, select articles, essays, reviews, papers, presentations and more.
  • Women & The American Story, Columbia University MOOC select lectures
    • Professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks with scholars about the history of women’s work in this Massive Open Online Course from Columbia University in collaboration with New-York Historical Society.
  • Select interviews
    • Gendering Labor History, A Conversation with Alice Kessler-Harris and Thavolia Glymph, February 25, 2021
    • An Interview with Alice Kessler-Harris, by Tony Michels, Lara Vapnek and Annie Polland, February 2019
    • Emeritus Professors in Columbia, Conversation with Alice Kessler-Harris
    • Alice Kessler-Harris interview, Columbia Center for Oral History
    • Interview with Alice Kessler-Harris – Women, Education and Leadership at Rutgers, 2015
    • Alice Kessler-Harris: What Happened to Second Wave Feminism? American Historical Association, January 4, 2015
    • New River Media Interview with Alice Kessler-Harris, Professor of History, Columbia University 
    • Robin Morgan celebrates For National Equal Pay Day by demystifying economics and speaks with 9to5 founder Karen Nussbaum; Alice Kessler-Harris on the pink collar ghetto; Jewelle Bickford on investing; and Michaela Walsh of Women’s World Banking. April, 2013
    • Dr. Alice Kessler-Harris Interview with Stephen McKiernan, March, 2010
  • New-York Historical Society Museum & Library website
  • Veteran Feminists of America event: Labor & the Women’s Movement, St. Louis, MO, September 27, 2014
    • “Labor & the Women’s Movement: The Untold Story and Why it Matters,” report to the VFA Board
    • The Coalition of Labor Union Women
  • Papers of Alice Kessler-Harris, 1962-2016, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
  • On C-SPAN
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 252 – 253 

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