Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests

Ivette Rivera-Giusti is revising a manuscript on gender, labor, and working-class politics in the Puerto Rican tobacco industry between 1898 and 1924.  The manuscript explores the development of a culture of labor activism among workers in the tobacco industry, including the role of women tobacco workers in the formation of working-class feminism, and argues that concerns about motherhood and the family were at the center of these workers’ ideas on labor and social justice.  The manuscript also explores the gender politics of the Puerto Rican labor movement within the context of the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898 and how economic transformations brought by a new colonial order transformed women’s lives.
Dr. Rivera-Giusti is also affiliated with the American Studies Program and the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute.