Cindy Hahamovitch

Cindy Hahamovitch is a scholar of southern US, immigration, and labor history in a global context. She is the author of two books: The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (UNC Press, 1997) and the triple prize-winning, No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press). A Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and the John E. Sawyer Fellow at the National Humanities Center, she is the past president of the Southern Labor Studies Association and of LAWCHA (the Labor and Working Class History Association). She is currently working on two projects: a history of labor migration and trafficking over the past two centuries and the history of Jim Crow South Florida. She teaches the modern US survey plus courses on immigration, the US South, Georgia, food and power, labor history, state and society, and US history for future history teachers. She also produces very short documentary films on Athens History for local high school classrooms.