Rick Halpern
Interim Director, Centre for the Study of the United States
Bissell-Heyd Chair, American Studies
Director, American Studies Program
Areas of interest
- Food
- United States
- U.S. Social History
- Comparative History
- Labour and Working Class History
Biography
Main Bio
Rick Halpern is a social historian whose work has focused on race and labour in a number of national and international contexts. He has written about meat and meatpacking, sugar and plantations, and regionalism. Currently he is at work on two major projects: a book on race and class in 20th century photography, and a study of the year 1919 in Chicago. He is the Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies and, until July 2015, was the Dean at UTSC. Prior to that he was the Principal of New College on the St George campus. Professor Halpern works with graduate students in a number of fields.
Select publications
- Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid (Indiana University Press : 2016)
- Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire (Between the Lines : 2009)
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Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (University of Illinois Press : 1997)
