Faculty & Staff
James Green, PhD
- Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts Director of the Public History Track in the History Master's Program
- Telephone: 617.287.7354
- Email: James.Green@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall 3-154-03
Areas of Expertise
Professor Green's research interests are in U.S. labor and working class history. He teaches public history in the graduate program and undergraduate courses in modern U.S. labor, social and political history, social movements and the history of Boston. Professor Green is directing the new Public History track in the master's degree program.
Degrees
PhD, Yale University
BA, Northwestern University
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (New York: Pantheon Books, Random House, 2006 & Anchor Books paperback, 2007).
- Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).
- With Tom Juravich and William Hartford, Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters from the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996).
Additional Information
Spring 2013 Office Hours: M (3-4 p.m.) & T (10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)
Professor Green is a scholar, writer, and teacher of U.S. history. He directs the new Public History Track in the History Master's Program. He received his PhD in history from Yale University in 1972 and five years later joined the faculty at UMass Boston. Professor Green has also held lectureships at Warwick University in England, the University of Genoa in Italy where he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow, and Harvard University where he has taught in the Trade Union Program since 1987.
