Faculty in History
Dr. Elizabeth McKillen
Professor of History
207-581-1912
270A Stevens Hall
E-mail:
Elizabeth.McKillen@umit.maine.edu
Ph.D., Northwestern University
My teaching and research specialties are in the history of U.S.
foreign relations and U.S. labor history. Since coming to the University
of Maine in 1992, I have regularly taught the two semester sequence in
the history of U.S. foreign relations (HTY 473-474), U.S. labor history
( HTY 477), and the second half of the U.S. history survey (HTY 104).
I also offer graduate courses in U.S. foreign relations and labor history, and have taught the senior seminar (HTY
498), and a seminar in immigration history. My research explores the
importance of international political and economic issues in shaping
both the workplace struggles and political subcultures of immigrant and
native-born U.S. workers and considers the myriad ways in which U.S.
workers have tried to exert international influence. My recent research
on workers and international affairs in the Mexican borderlands during
World War I was funded by a grant from the American Council of Learned
Societies.
Representative Publications:
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Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1995).
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"Hybrid Visions: Working-Class Internationalism in the Mexican
Borderlands, Seattle, and Chicago, 1910-1920," Labor: Studies in
Working-Class History of the Americas 2:1 (Winter 2005): 77-107.
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"Organized Labor," in Encyclopedia of American Foreign Relations, 2nd
ed., Alexander DeConde, et al., eds. (New York: Scribner, 2002):
45-60.
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"Ethnicity, Class, and Wilsonian Internationalism Reconsidered: The
Mexican- and Irish-American Immigrant Left and U.S. Foreign Relations,
1914-1922," Diplomatic History 25 (Fall 2001): 553-87.
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"American Labor, the Irish Revolution, and the Campaign for a Boycott
of British Goods, 1916-1924," in Radical History Review 61 (Winter
1995), 35-61.
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"The Corporatist Model, World War I, and the Public Debate over the
League of Nations Battle," Diplomatic History 15 (Spring 1991):
171-197.
Book reviews and other articles in Journal of American History,
Labor History, International Labor and Working Class History, Diplomatic
History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Eire-Ireland, and
Business History Review. Encyclopedia entries in The Oxford Companion to United
States History, The Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy,
The
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History, The Encyclopedia of the American
Left, and The Encyclopedia of Chicago History.
Current Projects:
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Presently at work on a book entitled "American Labor, the Immigrant
Left, and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1910-1928"
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