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Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD

Associate Professor & Author

Research

It is important to me to produce collaborative and accessible scholarship. I have been involved in multiple public history projects regarding women's labor and migration histories. I have also written op-eds and co-authored articles with students and community leaders to circulate archival research about African American and women's labor histories inside and outside of academia.

Undergraduate Courses

Rutgers University Undergraduate Courses: Working Women in American Society Black Workers in American Society Women Taking the Lead: Race, Migrations, and Labor (Co-Instructor: Dr. Sheri Davis, Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization)* Texas Woman's University Undergraduate Courses: Gender and Social Change: An Introduction to Multicultural Women’s Studies, Honors Section US Women of Colors Feminist Theory Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Senior Capstone* Feminist Research Methods* Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Practicum* Rutgers University - Newark Transnational Feminisms Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies History of Race, Women, and Labor in America Black Feminist Theory in a Global and Historical Context Politics of Sexuality *Courses created by me
Graduate Courses

Rutgers University Labor History, 1880-1945 Women Taking the Lead: Race, Migrations, and Labor Texas Woman's University Women at Work: Race, Migrations, and Labors* Black Feminist Thought* US Women of Colors Feminist/Womanist Theories The Politics of Motherhood Independent Study: Feminist and Postmodernist Theories of Gender and Sexuality* Independent Study: Beyonce’s “Lemonade” and the History of Womanist Thought* Doctoral Independent Study: Feminist Archival Research Methods and Practicum: Creating the Marcia Niemann Feminist Activism Collection* Master’s Internship Course: Research and Workshop Development at RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, Fort Worth, TX office)* *Courses created by me
Cross-Listed Courses

Texas Woman's University & Rutgers University Covid-19 & Black Workers: Race, Gender, and Labor* https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/news-and-events/our-stories/stories/2021/06/07/course-investigates-covid-19-systemic-inequalities-and-the-history-of-black-women-worker-resistance Spelman College, Rutgers University, & Advancing Black Strategists Initiative Fellowship Program Women Taking the Lead: Race, Gender, and Labor* *Courses created by me

Selected Articles & Op-Eds

The Washington Post, September 5, 2022.

The Washington Post, September 5, 2022.

“Nannie Helen Burroughs, trailblazing Black teacher and labor organizer.”

"Labor Organizer Nannie Helen Burroughs and her National Training School for Women and Girls."

Journal of Women, Gender, and Families of Color. 10, 1 (2023): 9-40.

The Washington Post, June 19, 2022.

The Washington Post, June 18, 2022.

Part 1 of 2: “Juneteenth Started in Texas. So did this Black Town. Whites destroyed it."

The Washington Post, June 18, 2022.

The Washington Post, June 18, 2022. Part 2 of 2: White Racism Brought Down a Black Community. Will There Be Reparations?

The Washington Post, December 10, 2020.

The Washington Post, December 10, 2020.

“The Long History of Black Women Organizing in Georgia Might Decide Senate Control: Black Women in Georgia Have Shaped Local and State Politics For More Than A Century.”

Women's History Review Journal

Special Issue: Women, Work, and the State Danielle Phillips-Cunningham,“Slaving Irish ‘Ladies’ and Black ‘Towers of Strength in the Labor World’: Race and Women’s Resistance in Domestic Service.” Women’s History Review Journal, vol. 28, no. 1, 2020.

U.S. Women's History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, “Cleaning Race: Irish immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the US Northeast, 1865-1930.” US Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood. edited by Leslie Brown, Jacqueline Castledine, & Anne Valk, Rutgers University Press, 2017, pp. 10-28.

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

Danielle Phillips, “Moving with the Women: Tracing Racialization, Migration, and Domestic Workers in the Archive.” Signs, vol. 38, no. 2, 2013, pp. 379–404. JSTOR.

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