Jennifer Guglielmo

Jennifer Guglielmo is a writer, historian and associate professor at Smith College, specializing in the histories of labor, race, women, im/migration, transnational cultures and activisms, and revolutionary social movements in the modern United States. She has published on a range of topics, including women’s organizing in garment, textile and domestic work, working-class feminisms, anarchism, whiteness and the Italian diaspora.

Guglielmo is the author of the award-winning book ''Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945'' (2010)Jennifer Guglielmo, ''Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (Gender and American Culture Series), 2010. and co-editor (with Salvatore Salerno) of ''Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America'' (2003).Jennifer Guglielmo, ''Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America.'' New York: Routledge, 2003. The book was translated into Italian in 2006: ''Gli Italiani Sono Bianchi? Come l' America ha costruito la razza.''.Jennifer Guglielmo, ''Gli Italiani Sono Bianchi? Come l'America ha costruito la razza.'' Milan: Il Saggiatore Press, 2006. She is currently translating short essays written in Italian by immigrant women anarchists—such as Maria Roda and Virgilia D'Andrea—in early twentieth-century New York City and northeastern New Jersey.Susannah Gold
"Italian Working-Class Women in the US at the Start of the 20th Century."
i-Italy.org, October 5, 2010. These will be reprinted in her next book, ''My Rebellious Heart: Immigrant Women's Anarchist Feminist Prose in New York City's Radical Subculture, 1890–1930.''

In 2018-21, Guglielmo co-directed the public history/digital humanities project, “Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands”, which received the 2022 National Council on Public History Award for Outstanding Public History Project. Guglielmo worked with scholars Michelle Joffroy and Diana Sierra Becerra, and organizers from the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) to develop history as an organizing tool to mobilize domestic workers on a massive scale. They received a grant of $2.7 million, and the project includes
digital timelinetwo documentary films17 workshops
a website for curriculum facilitators, and short biographies and hand-painted portraits of 21 movement ancestors. Committed to language justice, the project is in five languages, including English, Spanish, Tagalog, Nepali, and Haitian Kreyol. The entire project can be accesse
here
Guglielmo’s research for the project has focused on the history of domestic work and organizing in North America from the 17th century to the present, to connect the multiracial and multiethnic histories that constitute this past.

Life and family

Guglielmo was born in Flushing, New York. Her brother Thomas A. Guglielmo is also a historian and her brothe
Mark Guglielmo
is an artist.

Education and career

Guglielmo received a Bachelor of Arts in history and women's studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, a Masters of Arts in history from University of New Mexico in 1995 and a PhD in history from University of Minnesota in 2003. Her doctoral dissertation, "Negotiating Gender, Race and Coalition: Italian Women and Working-Class Politics in New York City, 1880 to 1945", won the Best Dissertation AwardJennifer Guglielmo wins Best Dissertation Award.
/ref> from the University of Minnesota and the Organization of American Historians’ Lerner-Scott PrizeLerner-Scott Winners
2004. for best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history.

She taught history and women's studies at William Paterson University, SUNY New Paltz, Ulster County Community College, and the University of Minnesota, before joining the faculty at Smith College in 2003.

Honors and awards

* 202
National Council on Public History Award
for Outstanding Public History Project
*Smith College Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching, 2012.2012 Recipients.

*Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book AwardThe Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
/ref> for ''Living the Revolution,'' 2011.Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Award

, Society for Italian Historical Studies and the American Historical Association, 2011.
*Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award for Best Book in U.S. Immigration History, ''Living the Revolution,'' 2010.Immigration and Ethnic History Society
2010 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award Winners
2010.
*Honorable Mention from the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansBerkshire Conference of Women Historians.
/ref> for Best First Book, ''Living the Revolution,'' 2010.Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Jennifer Guglielmo's ''Living the Revolution,'' Honorable Mention Best First Book
, 2010.
*Organization of American Historians Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in U.S. Women's History, 2004.
*University of Minnesota Best Dissertation Award for "Negotiating Gender, Race and Coalition: Italian Women and Working Politics in New York City, 1880 to 1945,” 2003.

Grants and fellowships

In 2018, Guglielmo and Michelle Joffroy (Smith College) received a private grant of $2.7 million for a three-year public history/worker education project (2018-2021) with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Guglielmo's work has also been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the American Association of University Women.

References

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Living people
21st-century American historians
American social historians
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
Smith College faculty
American women historians
21st-century American women writers