Professor B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History Co-organizer, Athens Film Project 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. Research Research Areas: African American Capitalism and Economics Environment & Agriculture Imperialism & Colonialism Latin America & Caribbean Political & Legal Transnational U.S. 19th & 20th Century U.S. South World History Race and Slavery Labor History Selected Publications Selected Publications: Sarkar, Mahua. “Conclusion”. Work Out Of Place. 2017. 237-244. Print. Sarkar, Mahua. ““Men Do Not Gather Grapes From Thorns: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, And The Failure Of Regulation””. Work Out Of Place. 2017. 23-54. Print. Education Education: BA, Rollins College, 1983 PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US History 1992 Other Information Of note: Member, Society of American HistoriansJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2021Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, College of William & Mary, 2015OAH Distinguished Lecturer, 2014-John E. Sawyer Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2013-2014James A. Rawley Award for the Best Book on U.S. Race Relations, OAH, 2012Merle Curti Award for the Best Book on U.S. Social History, OAH, 2012Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2012Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012Fulbright Fellowship, University College Cork, Ireland, Spring, 2008Agrarian Studies Fellowship, Yale University, 1999-2000
