Cindy Hahamovitch

Professor, History

Office: Blair 315
Phone: 757-221-3770
Email: [[cxhaha]]

Background

Cindy Hahamovitch received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill in 1992. She teaches 19th and 20th century US history, including courses on labor and immigration. Her book, The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945, was published by UNC Press in 1997. She is currently writing a book on Caribbean labor migration to the US since the Second World War, tentatively entitled, "The Perfect Immigrant: Jamaican Guestworkers in the Land of Jim Crow." She serves on the editorial board of Labor: Studies in Working-class History of the Americas, the executive board of the Labor and Working Class History Association, and on the George Pozzetta prize for Immigration History.