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Melanie R. Shell-Weiss <shellm@gvsu.edu> Grand Valley State University Melanie is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at Grand Valley State University. Her current research focuses on immigrant recruitment, race relations, and transnational ties across the U.S. South, Latin America and the Caribbean over the late 19th and 20th centuries. This will be the focus of a book, _Translators Wanted in Dixie: Immigration and Race Relations in the Twentieth Century South_ (in progress). She is also currently working on an edited collection of essays, _Reconstructing America: Evaluating the Legacy of the Dillingham Commission on Immigration Reform_. |
| Address: | Department of Liberal Studies 1 Campus Drive Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan 49401 United States |
| H-Net Positions: | Former H-Net Assistant Director Former H-Net Council H-Net Past President Former H-Net President-Elect Former MATRIX Webstaff Plan Women's Studies |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Florida List Editor for H-Migration Former Review Editor for H-Migration Reviewer for H-Florida Reviewer for H-Southern-Industry |
| Reviews: | untitled Exceptional Women: Jewish Americans and Postwar Civil Rights in Miami New Directions in Caribbean Gender and Sexuality Studies Moving Capital and Labor in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America: New Approaches to Southern Labor and Industrial History |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Ethnic History / Studies Labor History / Studies Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies Oral History Political History / Studies Urban History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality World History / Studies |
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Bio: From 2003-2006, Melanie completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History and Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University. She holds a Ph.D. in History (Spring 2002) and an M.A. in American Studies (Spring 1996) from Michigan State University. Among her recent publications are two books, _Coming to Miami: A Social History_ (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009) and a collection of labor history essays, _Florida's Working-Class Past: New Perspectives on Labor from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration_, which she co-edited with Robert Cassanello (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009). |
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