UMass Boston

Labor history, Latin American studies, immigration, human rights, anthropology 

PhD, Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1998
MA, Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 1994
MA, Political Science, University of Michigan, 1991
BA, Political Science, UCLA, 1989

• Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights. Pluto Press. 2019.
• Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans. Co-edited with Thomas Adams. University of Louisiana Press. 2014.
• The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Duke University Press. 2009. Co-edited with Carlos de la Torre.
• The People Behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals, and Human Rights. Co-edited with Aviva Chomsky and Garry Leech. Casa Editorial Pisando Callos. 2007.
• Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food. Yale University Press. 2005.
• Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas. Duke University Press. Co-edited with Mark Moberg. 2003.
• In the Shadows of State and Capital: United Fruit, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Duke University Press. 2002.

Steve Striffler writes and teaches about labor, migration, and the left in relation to Latin America and the United States.  He recently published Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights, which explores the history of US-Latin American solidarity from the Haitian Revolution to the 2000s.  He is currently co-editing (with Aviva Chomsky), Labor in 21st Century Boston: The Fight for Economic Justice, which is expected in the Fall of 2020.

Publications can also be found at:

https://um-boston.academia.edu/SteveStriffler