Jennifer Guglielmo

Jennifer Mary Guglielmo is a writer, historian and associate professor at Smith College, specializing in the histories of labor, race, women, migration and revolutionary social movements in the modern United States. She has published on a range of topics, including women’s organizing in garment, textile and domestic work, working-class feminisms, anarchism, whiteness and the Italian diaspora.

Guglielmo is the author of the award-winning book ''Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945'' (2010) and co-editor (with Salvatore Salerno) of ''Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America'' (2003). The book was translated into Italian in 2006: ''Gli Italiani Sono Bianchi? Come l' America ha costruito la razza''. She has also published many essays and book chapters.

In 2018-21, Guglielmo co-directed the public history/digital humanities project, “Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands”, which received the 2022 National Council on Public History Award for Outstanding Public History Project and Honorable Mention from the 2021 American Studies Association Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities. Guglielmo worked with scholars [https://www.smith.edu/people/michelle-joffroy Michelle Joffroy] and [https://www.umass.edu/history/about/directory/diana-sierra-becerra Diana Sierra Becerra], and organizers from the [https://www.domesticworkers.org/ National Domestic Workers Alliance] (NDWA) to develop history as an organizing tool to mobilize domestic workers on a massive scale. They received a grant of $2.7 million, and the project includes a [https://www.dwherstories.com/ digital timeline], [https://vimeo.com/wemakehistory two documentary films], [https://wemakehistory.wpengine.com/ 17 workshops], a website for curriculum facilitators, and short biographies and hand-painted portraits of 21 movement ancestors. Committed to language justice, the project is in five languages, including English, Spanish, Tagalog, Nepali, Haitian Kreyol, and Portuguese. The entire project can be accessed [https://www.domesticworkers.org/about-domestic-work/domestic-worker-history/ here]. Guglielmo’s research for the project has focused on the history of domestic work and organizing in North America from the 17th century to the present, to connect the multiracial and multiethnic histories that constitute this past.

Guglielmo is also translating short essays written in Italian by immigrant working-class women anarchists—such as Maria Roda and Virgilia D'Andrea—in early twentieth-century New York City and northeastern New Jersey. She is collaborating with Sicilian artist [https://www.ciancimino.it/ Gabriella Ciancimino], and her brother, artist [https://www.markguglielmo.com/ Mark Guglielmo], to make these materials accessible to the public. Provided by Wikipedia