Dr. Mary E. Frederickson is on the faculty in the Department of History at Miami University, and affiliated faculty in American Studies,   Women's Studies and Black World Studies.  Her Ph.D. is from the  University of North Carolina at  Chapel Hill, where she served as Assistant Director of the Southern Oral History Program.  Previous positions include Visiting Bye-Fellow, Selwyn  College, Cambridge, UK; faculty in History at the University of Alabama, Birmingham; post-doctoral research fellowship at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College.  In Birmingham, she established the UAB Oral History Program and directed collecting the histories of steel and iron workers and their families.  She is co-editor, with Joyce L. Kornbluh, of Sisterhood and Solidarity:  Workers Education for Women (Temple), and the author of numerous articles in labor and women's history.  Named the Miami University Distinguished Educator for 2005-06, Frederickson has trained many M.A. and Ph.D. students, in addition to undergraduate teaching in women's history, oral history and race and ethnicity.  Her research on women's labor history has included both academic scholarship and activism; recent scholarship has focused on gendered resistance and the concealed strategies women and men have used to emancipate themselves and their children from slavery and economic oppression.  Named a Wilks Faculty Scholar in 2006, she is leading a team of students in research and community engagement in Cincinnati's  Over-the-Rhine neighborhood during 2007-08.