daniel started following 8 journals.
daniel followed the research interests: Colonialism, History of American Foreign Relations, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Animal Studies
daniel added 5 papers
Faculty Member, Humanities
Canada Research Chair in Cultural History and Analysis
About
Daniel Bender’s research focuses on the cultural, social, and labour history of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (2004) and the co-editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Comparative and Global Perspective (2003). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Radical History Review, and International Labor and Working-Class History. His current book, a cultural history of American industrialization and empire, American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Empire was published in 2010. His current project, “Animal Empire: Zoos and the American Exotic” examines zoos to understand notions of the exotic in American elite and working-class culture. He is the Canada Research Chair in Cultural History and Analysis at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He trains students in American, cultural, labour, transnational, and food history.
He is available to give talks on current research in American animal, zoo, and imperial history as well as past work in the cultural history of American labor and industry.
