EVAN MATTHEW DANIEL 394 12 th Street, Unit 6 Brooklyn, NY 11215 Phone: (718) 965-1117 Email: danie866@newschool.edu EDUCATION PhD (Defending May, 2010) Departments of History and Political Science, New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science History Major Field: United States History Minor Field: Latin American History Political Science Major Field: American Politics Minor Field: Political Theory MA History and Political Science, New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, 2003 BA Humanities, New College of California, 1998 DISSERTATION TITLE Rolling for the Revolution: A Transnational History of Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana, South Florida and New York City, 1855-1895. Committee: Victoria Hattam (chair), Oz Frankel (co-chair), Jose Moya (Barnard College), Robin Blackburn (University of Essex). ABSTRACT The dissertation examines the intersections of class, labor internationalism and Cuban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, Cuban torcedores (cigar makers) exemplified the highly autonomous work culture of skilled artisans and their newspapers and workplace orators, or, lectors, articulated an eclectic internationalist anarchist ideology mixed with socialist and liberal rhetoric. Despite this internationalist orientation, Cuban cigar makers played a pivotal role in the fight against Spanish rule by raising funds, disseminating propaganda, and eventually participating in armed struggle. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS United States Intellectual and Social History, 1850-1930 Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean, 1800-1930 Class, Ethnicity and Race Radical Political Movements and Revolutions Immigration, Citizenship and Transnationalism Institutions of American Government July 2009- June 2010 TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE Graduate Student Advisor Department of History, New School for Social Research Spring 2008- Visiting Instructor Spring 2009 Department of History, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY Courses designed and taught: American History, 1896-Present; American Labor History; The World in the Twentieth Century
Fall 2006- Adjunct Lecturer Spring 2008; Department of Political Science, Baruch College, City University of New York Summer 2009 Course designed and taught: Introduction to American Politics 2 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 July 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor Departments of History and Latin American Studies Pace University, New York, NY Course designed and taught: A Century of Revolution and Social Change in Latin America: Mexico and Cuba Adjunct Lecturer Departments of History and Latin American Studies Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York Courses designed and taught: History of Puerto Rico-Discovery to 1900; Caribbean History- Discovery to 1900 Teaching Assistant Department of History Eugene Lang College, The New School Course taught: Globalizing World History RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Research Consultant Conducted visual and Internet research for Steve Fraser s manuscript, Wall Street: America s Dream Palace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 2005-2007 Research Assistant International Labor and Working-Class History (http://www.ilwch.rutgers.edu/) Updated website and copyedited articles for publication. 2006 Research Assistant Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research Assisted Professor Victoria Hattam on her manuscript, In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 2003-2006 Archivist Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Created finding aids and wrote archival descriptions for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, United Federation of Teachers, New York Teachers Union and New York Teachers Guild and Alger Hiss Family papers and related collections. 2001-2003 Research Analyst-Labor History United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, AFL-CIO, New York, NY Analyzed historical records and assisted with public history exhibits. 2000-2001 Researcher Emma Goldman History Papers, University of California, Berkeley Copyedited and wrote biographical entries for Emma Goldman, Vol. 1: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES (Re)Examining Class: Transnational Workers and Nationalist Struggles in the late 19th Century United States, (with Malini Cadambi), in Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen (eds.), Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream (Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies). Lit Verlag: Vienna, 2007. REVIEWS Marko Attila Hoare, Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, Democratiya, January- March 2008, (http://www.dissentmagazine.org/democratiya/article_pdfs/d12daniel.pdf). Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. London and New York: Verso Books, 2006, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 1, No. 1, (2007): 137-141. Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, Democratiya, May-July 2006, (http://www.dissentmagazine.org/democratiya/article_pdfs/d5daniel.pdf). Eran Kaplan, The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, Democratiya, August-October 2006, (http://www.dissentmagazine.org/democratiya/article_pdfs/d7daniels%20%281%29.pdf) Public History Resource Center: Labor Management Conflict in American History, Website Review, Public History.org (http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/view_review.asp?dbid=93), January 2004. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Encyclopedia Entries: Anarchists in France, Antonio Gramsci, and Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Encyclopedia of Revolutions, Uprisings and Popular Movements. New York: Facts on File, 2009. Encyclopedia Entry: Cubans. Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. New York: Routledge, 2006. Encyclopedia Entries: American Federation of Labor, Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Knights of Labor. Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. London: M.E. Sharpe, 2005. Encyclopedia Entries: Barcelona Workers Rebellion (1909) and Syndicalism. St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide, The Schlager Group, 2004. Encyclopedia Entries: Anarchism and the United States Labor Movement and Sacco and Vanzetti. Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. London: M.E. Sharpe Reference, 2004. Encyclopedia Entries: Agent Provacateur, Cooperatives, Craft Unions, Sympathy Strike and Wildcat Strike. Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004. 3
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS Leaves of Change: Cuban Tobacco Workers and the Struggle Against Slavery and Spanish Imperial Rule, 1850s-1890s, target journal, International Labor and Working- Class History. A Single Universe: Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana and South Florida, 1853-1899, target journal, The Journal of Southern History. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected) Trans-Atlantic Anarchy: Re-Evaluating European Anarchist Experiences in North America, 1890s-1930s, European Social Science History Conference, Ghent, Belgium, April 2010. Anarchism and Transnational History in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1880s- 1930s: A Roundtable Discussion, American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, January 2010. The Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America: Reaction and Revolution in the 1960s, Gotham Seminar, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, April 2008. (Re)Examining Class: Transnational Workers and Nationalist Struggles in the late 19th Century United States, (with Malini Cadambi), Southwest Labor Studies-Labor and North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 2005 and European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March 2006. Anarchist Ideology and the Working Class Movement in Cuba: 1850s-1890s, Mini- Seminar, City College of San Francisco, November 2005. From Anarchist Jews to Jewish Anarchists: The Yiddish-Speaking Anarchist Milieu in the Eastern United States, 1880s-1920s, Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, New York University, March 2005. A Single Universe: Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana and South Florida, 1853-1899, Florida Conference of Historians, Tampa, March 2005. Rolling for the Revolution: A Transnational History of Cuban Cigar Makers in Havana, New York City and South Florida, 1868-1895, Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, January 2005. Leaves of Change: Cuban Tobacco Workers and the Struggle Against Slavery and Spanish Imperial Rule, 1850s-1890s, North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, October 2004. Chattel Slaves, Free Laborers, Wage Slaves: Anarchism and the Transition from Slavery to Wage Labor in Cuba: 1850-1895, History Matters: Social Movements Past, Present and Future, New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, May 2003. 4
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association, Conference on Latin American History 5 American Political Science Association Labor and Working Class History Association Latin American Studies Association Cuba and Labor Sections Organization of American Historians Social Science History Association AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS New School for Social Research Tuition Scholarship, 2001-2006 New School for Social Research Travel Grants, 2005 and 2006 New School for Social Research Janey Program for Latin American Studies Grant, 2006-2007 Organization of American Historians/Society for Immigration and Ethnic History, Higham Grant, 2006 Teaching Assistanceship, Fall 2006 Research Assistanceships, 1999-2000; 2005-2007, Spring 2009 Institute for Anarchist Studies Grant, 2005 Davis-Putter Memorial Scholarship Award, 2000 FOREIGN STUDY Archivo Nacional, Havana, Cuba (Archival Research), December 2006-January 2007. Universidad de la Matanzas, Cuba (Sustainable Development), Summer 1995. REFERENCES Victoria Hattam, Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Robin Blackburn, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of History, New School for Social Research, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Oz Frankel, Chair, Associate Professor, Department of History, New School for Social Research, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Jose Moya, Associate Professor, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, 415 Lehman Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 10027.