FRANK TOBIAS HIGBIE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Office: 5242 BUNCHE HALL
Phone: 310-794-9331
Fax: 310-206-9630
E-mail: higbie@history.ucla.edu

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Field

United States social history, labor and working class history

Notes

Associate Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

Member of the American Federation of Teachers, University Council, AFL-CIO.

Selected Publications

Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Outspoken: Chicago's Free Speech Tradition. Curator (with Peter Alter), Newberry Library/Chicago Historical Society exhibit, 2004. Online exhibit.

Awards

Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association, 2004.

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 2004. Awarded jointly to Indispensable Outcasts and Robert Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism.

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