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Beth English, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar
LISD Publications and Grants Program Manager

Beth English is the author of A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry (University of Georgia, 2006) and The Road to the Big House: Class, Culture and Contested Control in the Reformatory Prison Movement (Routledge, forthcoming).  Her article, "'I . . . Have a Lot of Work to Do': Cotton Mill Work and Women's Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888-1895" was selected for inclusion in the Organization of American Historians’ Best American History Essays of 2008 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and she was a contributing author to Susanna Delfino and Michelle Gillespie, eds., Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South (University of Missouri, 2005). English's research and teaching focus on the U.S. during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, labor and working-class history, and the American South.

English is the Publications and Grants Program Manager for the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. 

Ph.D., William and Mary, 2003.


Telephone 609.258.9628
Facsimile 609.258.5196
baenglis@princeton.edu

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