Elizabeth Faue

Elizabeth Faue is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Wayne State University, where she teaches courses on gender history, labor history, and twentieth century United States. Faue is known for her work exploring the gendered dimensions of labor, politics, and working-class experience and as an advocate for interdisciplinary scholarship, critical engagement, and higher education. Her most recent book, Rethinking the American Labor Movement (Routledge, 2017), is a synthetic history written with a popular audience in mind. Faue is also the author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945 (University of North Carolina Press,1991) and Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism (Cornell University Press, 2002), a biography of labor organizer and journalist, Eva McDonald Valesh. Faue's current research projects focus on changing workplace risk and endangerment since the 1970s and on family history and identity in the Midwest.