It is with great sadness that we share the news that our colleague, Pepi Leistyna, passed away earlier this year. Pepi was a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston where […]
WORKING-CLASS STUDIES ASSOCIATION
The Working-Class Studies Association supports scholarship, teaching, and activism related to working-class life and cultures.
Class Action Activist Class Cultures Kit Now Available
Class Action has recently added an Activist Class Cultures Kit to its arsenal of educational materials and activities around social class. Executive Director Anne Phillips describes the kit as “a comprehensive guide to understanding your […]
Film premiere of Exit Zero
Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago by MIT anthropologist Christine Walley won WCSA’s 2013 C.L.R. James Prize for the Best Book for Academic or General Audiences. Christine and her filmmaker spouse Chris Boebel have […]
Film Screening of Voices of the Lumbee
Voices of the Lumbee, winner of this year’s WCSA’s Studs Terkel Prize for Media and Journalism, will be screened at the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute in Durham, NC as part of […]
Digital Storytelling
Jane Van Galen, a first-generation college student now an Education Professor at University of Washington Bothell, has posted fourteen digital stories created by first-generation college students, First In Our Families: Digital Stories of First Generation […]
Welcome to the new website of the Working-Class Studies Association. We are currently building the site and appreciate your patience as we continue to update information.
