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Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz

I am a historian of the twentieth century United States specializing in Latinx, immigration, and borderlands histories. I am particularly interested in the intersection of immigration policy and labor migrations at the turn of the twentieth century.

I am currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Labor’s Morality: The Hidden Ties Between Sexual Labor, Agricultural Work, and Justice at the California Borderlands, 1875–1937 (under Advanced Contract with UT Press). Labor’s Morality argues that people have historically moralized labor to create boundaries between “legitimate” workers and “immoral” criminals and how the border made such distinctions visible. Focusing on sex and agricultural workers, I show how as both groups crossed and recrossed the California-Mexico border, they revealed and contested the conflicting definitions of morality and work between the Mexico and the United States.

Publications:

“Constructing Coercion: Labor Regimes and Sex Workers at the US-Mexico Borderlands” ineds. Jessica Pliley & John Mckiernan-González (UT Press, 2026).

“” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 21 no. 4

“” The American Historian (Winter 2025).

]]> Anelise H. Shrout /faculty/profile/anelise-h-shrout/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:01:39 +0000 /faculty/profile/anelise-h-shrout/ I explore the intertwined relationships between history and data. My book, Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy focuses on the nineteenth-century origins of international humanitarianism, and particularly the ways in which philanthropic donations were used as proxies for arguments about governance in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

I’m also working on a digital archiving project that explores the lives of immigrants who were medically incarcerated in New York in the nineteenth century. This project uses computational methods to understand the forces working on those immigrants, as well as the communities they were able to form within institutions.

I’m also interested in how the ‘internet age’ changes the way we interact with sources and with students – and in how the digital humanities shape what we do both as scholars and as teachers.

On BlueSky:

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