Great news! Our graduate student, Kathleen Brown, contributed the chapter titled "No Cuts--No Cops--No COVID: The Graduate Employees’ Pandemic Strike at the University of Michigan" to the larger anthology “The Pandemic and the Working Class: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19” edited by Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler. The anthology is on track to be published by the University of Illinois Press in 2025.
Kathleen has also published the paper "The Fight of the Retaguardia: US-American Social Workers Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy and Colonias Infantiles” and was awarded the Abraham Lincoln Brigades Archives' George Watt Memorial Essay Prize, which comes with a $1,000 award.
While the paper is not yet online, the competition is described here:
https://alba-valb.org/education/essays.
Follow the web page to read the article shortly.
