Laura Levine Frader

Historian

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x256
E-Mail: lfrader@neu.edu


Biographical Statement

Frader is a professor in and chair of the department of history at Northeastern University. She is author of Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics, and Unions in the Aude (1991); co-editor of Gender and Class in Modern Europe (with S. O. Rose, 1996); and co-editor of Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (with H. Chapman, 2004). She has published articles on gender, labor, and social policy in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. She recently published The Industrial Revolution (2006). Her latest book, Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model, is forthcoming later this year. She is currently working on a history of European Union gender equality policies since 1957. Frader is a member of the editorial board of French Politics, Culture and Society, and is co-chair of the Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society and also of the Gender, Politics, and Society Study Group at CES.