Kathleen Mapes has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2000.
Professor Mapes is a scholar of U.S. labor history.
Office Hours (Spring 2020)
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Publications
Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics
More About Me
Research Interests
Twentieth Century
U.S.
Labor and Immigration
Rural history
Awards and Honors
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Richard L. Wentworth/Illinois Award in American History, 2010 for Sweet Tyranny
Classes
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HIST 602: Adv Hist Research Methods
This course is designed to give you an opportunity to think critically and creatively about how historians research, conceptualize, organize, and write about the past. To gain an understanding of how and why historical scholarship has evolved, we will read a variety of secondary sources in which historians reflect upon specific methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Equally important, this course is designed to give you an opportunity to practice the historian's craft by engaging in the process of researching, conceptualizing, and writing history. We will dig deeply into a variety of primary sources as well as conceptual and methodological approaches.