Daniel Graff

Professor of the Practice
Director, Higgins Labor Program
History/Center for Social Concerns

Research Interests

work, labor, race, gender, and politics

Related Courses Taught

Labor & America since 1945; Gender@Work in US History; Food, Work & Power in US History; Work, Slavery & Freedom in US History to 1877; Lincoln, Douglass, and the Struggle Against American Slavery; Making America from the Margins

Biography

Dan Graff has a joint faculty appointment in the Department of History and the Center for Social Concerns, where he directs the interdisciplinary Higgins Labor Program. He earned his Ph.D. in US History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined the University of Notre Dame in 2001, and he specializes in teaching and research focusing on the intertwined histories and futures of work, labor, race, gender, and politics.

As director of the Higgins Labor Program, he co-convenes the Just Wage Initiative.