Beth English

Associate Research Scholar, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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  • Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Biography

Beth English is director of the Liechtenstein Institute''s Project on Gender in the Global Community. She is on the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program, and is also an instructor with Princeton University’s Prison Teaching Initiative. She received her Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, where she was a Glucksman Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

English''s research and teaching focus on gender, historical and contemporary labor and working class issues, global economy, and the U.S. and Global Souths. She is the co-editor of Global Women''s Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy(link is external) (with Mary E. Frederickson and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama, forthcoming, Routledge); author of A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry(link is external); and a contributing author to several edited volumes focusing on gender and on the U.S. South. Her recent articles include, “Global Women’s Work: Historical Perspectives on the Textile and Garment Industries”(link is external)(Journal of International Affairs), and “La mort de Dixie? (The Death of Dixie?)” (Politique Américaine, with co-author Bryant Simon). Her article, "''I . . . Have a Lot of Work to Do'': Cotton Mill Work and Women''s Culture in Matoaca, Virginia, 1888-1895" was recognized as one of the Organization of American Historians'' Best American History Essays of 2008(link is external) (David Roediger, ed.). 

As director of the Project on Gender in the Global Community, English oversees the Institute’s initiatives on Women, Peace and Security; Women’s Economic Security; Children and Armed Conflict; and Prevention of Sexual- and Gender-Based Violence. Around these issues, English has organized and chaired several policy workshops, and frequently presents at symposia and conferences. She co-directs the Project''s student fellows program, organized around the theme of "Gender, Law, and Security."   

(Ph.D., William and Mary, 2003)

 

Areas

  • Gender

  • US South

  • Global South

  • Labor Studies

  • History

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