Robert Zieger
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| Dr. Robert Zieger | |
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| Born | August 2, 1938 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Field | Labor Historian |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
Robert H. Zieger (August 2, 1938) is a renowned labor historian whose research focuses on the labor history of the United States.
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[edit] Life and education
Robert Zieger was born in Englewood, New Jersey to John and Grace (Harman) Zieger in 1938. He married Gay Pitman in 1962. They have one child, Robert.
Zieger received his bachelor's degree from Montclair State College in 1960, a master's degree from the University of Wyoming in 1961, and his doctorate in history from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1965.
[edit] Career
Zieger obtained an appointment as an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1964, rising to associate professor by 1973. He was an associate professor of history at Kansas State University from 1973 to 1977, and a professor of history at Wayne State University from 1977 to 1986.
In 1986, Zieger was appointed professor of history at the University of Florida. He was named Distinguished Professor of History in 1998.
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Unlike many members of the University of Florida’s History Department, Zieger’s teaching style is very student oriented. He uses a very detailed website that allows people taking his class to fully understand every single day of lecture. Also, he is adamant about making sure his undergraduates come prepared to discuss the material to be covered in class. This has two-fold benefit, as it not only ensures preparation, but also allows students to boost their grade with frequent quizzes covering the reading material.[citation needed][1]
[edit] Awards and memberships
Zieger is a distinguished labor historian. His books have twice won the highly prestigious Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for the best book in labor history.
In 1985, Zieger's Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941 was a Taft Prize co-winner with Paul Avrich's The Haymarket Tragedy.[ISBN 0-691-00600-8]
Zieger won the Taft Prize again in 1995 for his 1994 book, The CIO, 1935-1955.
Zieger is a member of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. He is also a member of the Historians of American Communism, and served as the organization's president from 1990 to 1992.
[edit] Selected books
[edit] Solely authored works
- America's Great War: World War 1 and the American Experience. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. ISBN 0-8476-9645-6
- The CIO, 1935-1955. Reprint ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-4630-9
- John L. Lewis: Labor Leader. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0-8057-7763-6
- Madison's Battery Workers, 1934-1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1977. ISBN 0-87546-062-3
- Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. ISBN 0-87049-697-2
- Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. ISBN 1-57233-371-5
- Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1969. ISBN 0-8131-1180-3
- Robin Hood in the Silk City: The I.W.W. and the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. Newark, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1966.
[edit] Co-authored works
- Zieger, Robert H. and Gall, Gilbert J. American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8018-7078-X
- Levinson, Edward and Zieger, Robert H. Labor on the March. Reprint ed. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1995. ISBN 0-87546-340-1
[edit] Edited volumes
- Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995. Robert H. Zieger, ed. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. ISBN 0-87049-990-4
[edit] References
- Who's Who in America. 59th ed. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2005.
[edit] External links
- Historians of American Communism
- Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
- Southern Historical Association
