Ruth Percy
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Toronto, 2006
Liberal Arts Building
601-266-4333
ruth.percy@usm.edu
Ruth Percy earned her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2006. Her dissertation discussed working women's engagement with feminist ideas in turn of the twentieth century London and Chicago. She has an article coming out in Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas that examins the fiction of a radical woman activist.
Dr. Percy is currently working on a number of other articles and on revising her manuscript, "Women or Workers? Working Women and Feminsit Ideas in London and Chicago, 1880s to 1920s," for pubilcation. Her research and teaching interests include gender, labour, ethnic, immigration, food, and ideas history.
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