Annelise Orleck, Professor of History at Dartmouth College

Annelise Orleck

Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College

Annelise Orleck is Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of five books on labor, immigration, women's and poor people's movements. Common Sense and a Little Fire; Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States (1995), for which she did research at Cornell's Kheel Center; Soviet Jewish Americans (1999); Storming Caesars' Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2005); Rethinking American Women's Activism (2014); and We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages, (2018) and co-editor of two: The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right (1997); and The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History (2011). Her writing has also appeared in Salon; Mother Jones; The Guardian; Los Angeles Review of Books; Ms. Magazine; Jacobin and other venues. She is the founding co-president of the Dartmouth AAUP chapter.