Emma R Teitelman

Teitelman comes to ILR following a stint as an Assistant Professor at McGill University. A historian with a particular interest in the history of labor, inequality and state formation, especially during Reconstruction and the late-nineteenth century.
Her first book, Lumber and Lodes: The Social Reconstruction of the South and the West After the U.S. Civil War (forthcoming with Harvard University Press), is a history of capitalist power and worker politics in the wake of emancipation.
Teitelman also spent two years at Penn State, where she was an assistant research professor and the associate director of the Richards Civil War Era Center. That came after a three-year appointment as the Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in American History at the University of Cambridge.