Cindy Hahamovitch

Cindy Hahamovitch is an American historian, and the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of Southern History at the University of Georgia. She has won a Merle Curti Award, a Philip Taft Labor History Book Award and a James A. Rawley Prize (OAH).

Life She was born in Montreal, Quebec. She graduated from Rollins College and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she studied with Leon Fink. She taught at the College of William & Mary, and currently teaches at the University of Georgia. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.

Works The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. , No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. ,