HS10: Labor and American Political Development

Collaborative Goals

The NYS Corridor schools have overlapping strengths in the historical political science study of American politics and institutions. Our existing working group previously organized a manuscript workshop that invited junior faculty, plus a few more senior faculty, to present work and receive feedback from a diverse group of faculty and graduate students. Our aim with this stage of the working group is to deepen the connections between existing working group faculty while building a denser network of scholars conducting research in these areas. We will achieve this through:

1. Regional peer collaborations, in which the members of the working group will meet at each other’s respective campuses or nearby to discuss our research and research goals, identify shared interests and opportunities for deeper collaboration, and plan larger events that would expand the network;
2. A writing retreat, providing the members of the working group an opportunity for focused work and progress on draft manuscripts;
3. A manuscript workshop, in which the members of the working group as well as invited external collaborators and experts would present working papers/chapters for sustained critique and discussion. This workshop will include graduate students from our respective institutions, and will prioritize providing junior faculty opportunities for feedback and mentorship.

These activities will be cumulative, deepening engagement and collaboration across institutions and different ways of studying law and labor, and building a broader network of scholars within corridor institutions and beyond.