Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age

This event is co-sponsored by the KU Center for Migration Research, and media-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio.

Donna Gabaccia is a historian of international migration, widely respected for her interdisciplinary and digital history collaborations with scholars, librarians, and students. She has written and edited numerous books on U.S. immigration, migration in world history, and the history of the worldwide Italian diaspora. She is the past president of the Social Science History Association and of the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Dr. Gabaccia taught at the University of Carolina at Charlotte, the University of Pittsburg, and the University of Minnesota, where she held the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair of Immigration History and served as director of the Immigration History Research Center. She is now Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Gabaccia is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the 2013 University of Minnesota Community Service Award for Faculty, which acknowledged her work with immigrant and refugee communities. In 2013, her book Foreign Relations: American Immigration in a Global Perspective won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Theodore Saloutos Prize. Gabaccia’s most recent book, Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age, co-authored with sociologist and demographer Katharine Donato, was shortlisted for the American Sociological Association’s Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award, winning honorable mention in 2016.

Migration Stories: Donna Gabaccia