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Department Affiliations
Specialties
- International migration studies
- United States immigration and labor history
- Comparative women and gender
- Food studies
- World history
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979.
- Master's of Arts: University of Michigan, 1975.
- Bachelor's of Arts with Distinction: Mount Holyoke College, 1971.
Publications
- Immigrant Lives in the US: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. Gabaccia, Donna, Leach, C., Routledge, 2004.
- American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. Gabaccia, Donna, with Vicki L. Ruiz, University of Illinois Press, Co-Editor, 2006.
- Gender and Migration: Gabaccia, Donna, with Katharine Donato, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan, and Patricia Pessar, International Migration Revew, 40 , 2006.
- Inventing Little Italy: Gabaccia, Donna, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2007.
Research Activities
- Foreign Relations: An International History of U.S. Immigration: book under contract with Princeton University Press
- Imagining Nations of Immigrants: a book that seeks to explain why the U.S., almost alone of the many nations of the world formed through migration, features immigration so prominently in its histories and myths about itself
- Together with Loretta Baldassar, Anthropology, University of Western Australia, editing an Interdisciplinary Essay Collection: Intimacy Across Borders
- Interdisciplinary Pilot Research Project "Gender Ratios and Global Migration" of the Immigration History Reseach Center and the Minnesota Population Center
Professional Activities
- Rudolph Vecoli Chair in Immigration History Research, University of Minnesota: 2005
- Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota: 2005
- President, Social Science History Association: 2008
Awards
- International and Interdisciplinary Research Circle Award, University of Minnesota Office of International Programs, 2007
- President, Social Science History Association, 2007 - 2008
- Co-Editor, University of Illinois Press Book Series, "Studies in World Migrations"
- Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
- Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation 2008-2009
Courses Taught
- Comparative World Migrations
- Migration in Global History
- Women and Diasporas
- Comparing Global Migrations (Graduate Level)
- Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on Migration and Mobility (Graduate Level)
- Introduction to History: Scopes and Methods (Graduate Level)
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