Departments and Programs

• History
• Jewish Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~history/faculty/orleck.html

Contact Information

Email: annelise.orleck@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3283
Office: 6107 Carson Hall

Education

B.A. The Evergreen State College; M.A. New York University; Ph.D. New York University

Areas of Expertise

U.S. history since 1877; U.S. political history; U.S. women; women and American radicalism; race, ethnicity and immigration; Jewish immigration, gay and lesbian studies

Selected Works

• Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, (2005).
• "I Decided I'd Marry the First Man Who Asked: Gendering Black Migration From Cotton Country to the Desert Southwest" in New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, M Rodriguez, J Barton and D Gabbacia (eds.), (2005).
• "Pauline Newman: Gender, Ethnicity and Radicalism," in The Human Tradition in America 1865 to the Present, C Calhoun (ed.), 2003.
• The Soviet Jewish Americans, (1999, paperback 2001).
• Common Sense And A Little Fire: Women and Working Class Politics in the United States, (1995).

Current Projects

Rethinking the War on Poverty: Views from the Ground Up; "Hurricanes, Race and Gender: New Historical Perspectives on the War on Poverty"