Dr. Michael Rosenow, assistant professor of history at UCA, is the winner of the 2009 Herbert G. Gutman Prize for the outstanding dissertation in U.S. labor and working-class history. The annual award is given by the Labor and Working Class History Association, and it includes a cash prize and a publishing contract for the dissertation manuscript with the University of Illinois Press.
Rosenow joined the UCA history faculty in August 2008, replacing Dr. Harry Readnour, as a professor of nineteenth-century American history. His prize-winning dissertation was entitled, “Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among United States Workers, 1877-1910,” which he completed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.