James R Barrett

Professor Emeritus, History

Emailjrbarret@illinois.edu

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Personal profile

Office Address

304A Gregory Hall

Office Phone

333-3799

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Research Output

Gatekeepers and "Americanizers": Irish Americans and the Creation of a Multicultural Labor Movement in the United States, 1880s-1920s

Barrett, J. R., Apr 2018, Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia. Patmore, G. & Stromquist, S. (eds.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, (The Working Class in American History).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

What Went Wrong? The Communist Party, the US, and the Comintern

Barrett, J. R., Apr 3 2018, In : American Communist History. 17, 2, p. 176-184

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Affordable Higher Education

Barrett, J. R., Feb 2017, The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation. Hoxie, F. E. (ed.). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, p. 87-91

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History

Barrett, J. R., Aug 2017, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 304 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Review: T. B. Neary's Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914–1954

Barrett, J. R., Dec 1 2017, In : Journal of American History. 104, 3, p. 800-801

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

Activities

5 Invited talk
1 Editorial activity

The Communist Party of the United States: What Went Wrong?

James R Barrett (Speaker)

Oct 2015

Activity: Talk types › Invited talk

Blue-Collar Cosmopolitans: Toward a History of Cosmopolitanism and the Working-Class Intellectual

James R Barrett (Speaker)

Nov 2016

Activity: Talk types › Invited talk

Russia and the Communist Party, USA: Contradictions of the Relationship

James R Barrett (Speaker)

Oct 14 2017

Activity: Talk types › Invited talk

Journal of American Ethnic History (Journal)

James R Barrett (Editorial board member)

2006 → …

Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity

The Working-Class Subjective

James R Barrett (Speaker)

Apr 2017

Activity: Talk types › Invited talk

Honors & Recognition

Arnold O. Beckman Award

James R Barrett (Recipient), 1987

Prize

Arnold O. Beckman Award

James R Barrett (Recipient), 1992

Prize

Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award

James R Barrett (Recipient) & David R. Roediger (Recipient), 2006

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ISHS Award of Superior Achievement

James R Barrett (Recipient), 1988

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