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Donna Gabaccia

Department of History 1116 HellerH 271 19th Ave S
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • International migration studies
  • United States immigration and labor history
  • Comparative women and gender
  • World history

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979.
  • Master's of Arts: University of Michigan, 1975.
  • Bachelor's of Arts with Distinction: Mount Holyoke College, 1971.

Publications

  • Gender and Migration: Gabaccia, Donna, with Katharine Donato, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan, and Patricia Pessar, International Migration Revew, 40 , 2006.
  • "Nations of Immigrants: Do Words Matter?" : Gabaccia, Donna, The Pluralist , 5, 3 (Fall 2010) 5-31.
  • Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on American Immigration . Gabaccia, Donna, Princeton University Press, Author, 2012. Link
  • Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s. Gabaccia, Donna, Dirk Hoerder , Brill , Co-Editor, 2011. Link
  • Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World. Gabaccia, Donna, Loretta Baldassar, Fordham University Press , Co-Author, 2010. Link
  • “Transition in Gender Ratios among International Migrants, 1820-1930". Gabaccia, Donna, Elizabeth Zanoni , Co-Author.
  • “Recipes in Context: Solving a Small Mystery in Charleston’s Culinary History". Gabaccia, Donna, Jane Aldrich , Co-Author.

Research Activities

  • Imagining Nations of Immigrants: a book that seeks to explain why the U.S., almost alone of the many nations of the world formed through migration, features immigration so prominently in its histories and myths about itself
  • Gender Ratios and International Migration : book project with Katharine Donato, Vanderbilt University , 2006 - 2013

Professional Activities

  • President, Social Science History Association: 2008
  • Co-Editor "Studies in World Migrations": Book Series, University of Illinois Press , 2005 - present

Outreach Activities

  • Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities : http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/ma/ihrc3908.html, 2009 - 2010
  • Gilder Lerman History in a Box Vol. VIII: The Freedom to Move: Immigration and Migration in U.S. History , 2009 - 2012
  • "Food, Farms and History: A Conversation with Michael Pollan": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZz-ZYDZOI, January 4, 2013

Awards

  • President, Social Science History Association, 2007 - 2008
  • Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar , 2008 - 2009
  • 2010 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program Faculty Field Grant , 2011 - 2011

Courses Taught

  • Migration in Global History
  • Comparing Global Migrations (Graduate Level)
  • The Age of Global Contact
  • How to Do History
  • Food in History
  • Pathways to Minnesota: Digital Humanities
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Featured Faculty

  • Major Awards for History Profs. Kevin Murphy, Barbara Welke, Donna Gabaccia (2), Kay Reyerson, Elaine Tyler May

    It has been a season for great honors and accomplishments for our faculty. Congratulations to all!

    Donna Gabaccia is one of the recipients of the 2013 University Outstanding Community Service Award
    Donna Gabaccia has been awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective.
    Elaine Tyler May has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 by The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
    Kevin Murphy is a 2013 recipient of the UofM's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.
    Kay Reyerson has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy.
    Barbara Welke has been named one of the new Distinguished McKnight University Professors.

     April 3rd, 2013

  • 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History to Ruth Karras

    Congratulations to Professor Ruth Karras, who has been named co-winner of the AHA's 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

    Given by the American Historical Association and named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).

     November 13th, 2012

  • Erika Lee to receive 2012 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award

    Congratulations to Erika Lee who has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Sciences for 2012 at the University of Minnesota.

    Erika Lee received the award at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on October 12, 2012.

    October 30th, 2012

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