Jacob Remes
Jacob Remes

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Jacob Remes is a historian of modern North America with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. He is a founding co-editor of the <em>Journal of Disaster Studies</em>, the co-editor, with Andy Horowitz, of<em> Critical Disaster Studies</em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), and a series co-editor of the Penn Press book series<em> Critical Studies of Risk and Disaster.</em> His first book, <em>Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era </em>(University of Illinois Press, 2016) examined the working class response to and experience of the Salem, Massachusetts, Fire of 1914 and the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Explosion of 1917. He has also written scholarly articles on a variety of other subjects ranging from interwar Social Catholicism to Indigenous land rights to transnational printers in the 19th century. His popular writing on subjects relating to his research has appeared in the <em>Nation, Atlantic, Time, Salon, </em>and elsewhere. Before coming to Gallatin,
2017 Seattle Live Blog

Remembering Jim Green

Remembering Jim Green, Saturday Session: A year ago, LAWCHA lost a stalwart: Jim Green, LAWCHA’s third president. At a panel on Friday afternoon,

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

“Traveling the World: Workers’ Transnationalism”

A panel on Friday called “Traveling the World: Workers’ Transnationalism” was a example of another valuable thing about LAWCHA panels: thoughtful comments and

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Religious history at #lawcha2017

Religious history panel, Friday Morning: One of the things I most enjoy about LAWCHA conferences is how ecumenical they are. Labor and working-class

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2017 Seattle Live Blog

Thursday Night’s Mass Incarceration Plenary

On Thursday evening, the 2017 LAWCHA conference opened with a barn-burner of a plenary on mass incarceration and prison labor, featuring Heather Thompson,

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