Event Title
Massachusetts History Commendation, presented to Robert Forrant
Location
Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Start Date
1-6-2015 12:45 PM
End Date
1-6-2015 1:00 PM
Description
Robert Forrant is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a board member of the Lawrence History Center. On the editorial board of Mass Benchmarks, a joint publication of the UMass President’s Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, he is editor with Jurg Siegenthaler of The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike (2014) and co-author with the Lawrence History Center’s Susan Grabski of Lawrence, Massachusetts and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike (2013). In 2012 he worked extensively on a variety of programs dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the Bread and Roses Strike. Currently he is leading a UMass Lowell effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Recent publications include: The Big Move: Immigrant Voices From a Mill City, with Christoph Strobel (2011) and Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (2009). He has participated in numerous projects funded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lowell National Historical Park.
Massachusetts History Commendation, presented to Robert Forrant
Ballroom, Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Robert Forrant is a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a board member of the Lawrence History Center. On the editorial board of Mass Benchmarks, a joint publication of the UMass President’s Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, he is editor with Jurg Siegenthaler of The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike (2014) and co-author with the Lawrence History Center’s Susan Grabski of Lawrence, Massachusetts and the 1912 Bread & Roses Strike (2013). In 2012 he worked extensively on a variety of programs dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the Bread and Roses Strike. Currently he is leading a UMass Lowell effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Recent publications include: The Big Move: Immigrant Voices From a Mill City, with Christoph Strobel (2011) and Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (2009). He has participated in numerous projects funded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lowell National Historical Park.
Comments
Presented by David Tebaldi.