DANA FRANK

History Department
Humanities Academic Services
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Email: danafrank@ucsc.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Yale University, American Studies, 1988
M.Phil. Yale University, American Studies, 1984
M.A. Yale University, American Studies, 1982
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1978

EMPLOYMENT:

University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Professor and Professor of History Emerita, 2018-
Professor of History, 2002-2018
Professor of American Studies, 1999-2002
Associate Professor of American Studies, 1994-99
Assistant Professor of American Studies, 1991-94

University of Missouri, St. Louis, Assistant Professor of History, 1988-91

State University of New York at Binghamton, Visiting Lecturer in History, 1987-88

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times, Beacon Press, 2024

La larga noche hondureña: Violencia, resistencia, y EEUU tras el golpe de Estado. Spanish edition of The Long Honduran Night, with a new epilogue. Translated by Janeth Blanco. Editorial Guaymuras, Honduras, 2022

The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, Haymarket Books, 2018

Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store, Win Big: The 1937 Detroit Woolworth’s Strike, reprint of essay in Three Strikes, with a new interview with the author and introduction by Todd Chretien, Haymarket Books, 2012

Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments, City Lights Books, 2007

El poder de las mujeres es poder sindical: La transformación de los sindicatos bananeros de America Latina, Spanish Edition of Bananeras, translated by Janeth Blanco, Editorial Guaymuras, Honduras, 2006

Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, South End Press, 2005; reissued, Haymarket Books, 2016)

Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century, with Howard Zinn and Robin D.G. Kelley, Beacon Press, 2001

Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, Beacon Press, 1999

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929, Cambridge University Press, 1994

Articles in Popular Media, Public Policy Journals,                        and Literary Magazines:

“’No Money, No Milk’’’: The 1937 Chicago Wet-Nurses’ Strike,” Hammer and Hope Magazine, Issue No. 4, forthcoming, July 2024

“Wildfires Rage, Covid Spreads: In California, Life As We Knew It Has Disappeared,” The Guardian, September 3, 2020.

“Honduran Dreams,” New Left Review Sidecar, December 14, 2021.

“After Backing Coups and Corruption, the US Now Has a Chance to Do the Right Thing in Honduras,” Washington Post, December 1, 2021.

“Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep,” Memory Series, Humanities Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 21, 2021.

“Biden Must End U.S. Policy Shoring Up the Corrupt and Authoritarian Regime in Honduras,” Washington Post, March 3, 2021.

“In Rebuilding Big Basin, Which History Do We Want to Remember?,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 30, 2020.

“Wildfires Rage, Covid Spreads: In California, Life As We Knew It Has Disappeared,” The Guardian, September 3, 2020.

“Congresswomen of Color Have Always Fought Back Against Sexism,” Washington Post, July 29, 2020.

“Honduras: `We’re Supporting the Axe Murderers,’” (excerpted from The Long Honduran Night), The Jacobin, November 24, 2018.

“Telephone Not Intervened,” Catamaran Literary Reader, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Winter 2018).

“Our History Shows There’s a Dark Side to `Buy American,’” Washington Post, January 29, 2017; reprinted in New Haven Register, Albuquerque Journal.

“The US Union Label: The Allure of Consumer Solidarity, and a Minefield of Challenges,” International Union Rights, Vol. 23, No. 4 (December 2016), p. 8.

“End U.S. Support for the Thugs of Honduras,” New York Times, September 22, 2016.

“Protests Light Up Long Honduran Night,” Miami Herald, July 16, 2015.

“US Underwrites Corruption and Violence in Honduras,” Al Jazeera America, June 1, 2015.

“Term Limits Ruling is Another Nail in the Coffin of Honduran Democracy,” World Politics Review, May 7, 2015.

“Just Like Old Times in Central America: Why the U.S. Needs to Stop Funneling Money to Honduras and Treat its President Like the Corrupt Ruler He Really Is,” Foreign Policy.com, March 15, 2015.

“The Long Judicial Arm of the Honduran Coup,” Huffington Post, February 4, 2015.

“Frank: US Should Rethink Support for Honduras,” Houston Chronicle, January 2, 2015.

“Who’s Responsible for the Flight of Honduran Children?” Huffington Post, July 9, 2014.

“Honduras: The Thugocracy Next Door,” Politco Magazine, February 28, 2014.

“Hernández’s Election Was Built on Corruption,” Houston Chronicle, January 26, 2014.

“Hopeless in Honduras?,” Foreign Affairs.com, November 22, 2013.

“Honduras Votes,” The Nation, November 25, 2013, online as “A High-Stakes Election in Honduras,” The Nation.com, November 6, 2013.

“In Honduras, Military Takes Over, with U.S. Blessing,” Miami Herald, September 11, 2013. Reprinted in Spanish in El Tiempo, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, September 20, 2013. Reposted on Portside.com, Zcommunications.com, and multiple websites.

“Vocabulary Lessons,” The Baffler, No. 23, August 2013 (posted online June 28, 2013).

“Reverse Course,” (online as “The Latin America Mistake”), Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2013, translated and reposted worldwide.

“Honduras Gone Wrong,” Foreign Affairs.com, October 16, 2012; translated and reposted in Spanish, German, Greek, Icelandic, Swedish, and multiple other languages and sites worldwide.

“How Low Can Honduras Go?” The Nation.com, October 15, 2012.

“U.S. Has Blinders on in Honduras,” Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2012. Translated and reposted in Honduras, Spain, and elsewhere.

“Honduras: Which Side Are We On?” The Nation (cover story), June 11, 2012, and TheNation.com, March 21, 2012; reposted at Longreads.com; translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and widely reposted in Honduras and worldwide.

“Dems Divided over Honduras,” The Nation, April 19, 2012; and TheNation.com, March 28, 2012

“Honduras in Flames,” TheNation.com, CommonDreams.org, Voselsoberano.com and reposted worldwide, February 16, 2012.

“A Mess in Honduras, Made in the U.S.,” New York Times, January 27, 2012; simultaneously in the International Herald Tribune ; reprinted in El Tiempo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras), January 28, translated into German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, distributed worldwide.

“David Montgomery, Grand Master Workman,” TheNation.com, December 19, 2011.

“Wikileaks Honduras: U.S. Linked to Brutal Businessman,” TheNation.com, October 21,2011; reposted at CommonDreams.org, in Spanish translation at Voselsoberano.com, and reposted worldwide.

“Zelaya Returns to Honduras, But Justice is Still Not Done,” TheNation.com, June 2, 2011, and widely reposted.

“Ousted President’s Return Doesn’t Mean Repression is Over in Honduras,” TheProgressive.org, Newsday.com, and widely reposted by McClatchy News Service and AP, May 27, 2011.

“Open Season on Teachers in Honduras,” TheNation.com, May 5, 2011; in Spanish, “Honduras: La Temporada de los Docentes Gaseados,” at voselsoberano.com, (Honduras) May 5, 2011. Reposted widely.

“US: Wrong on Honduras,” The Nation, January 31, 2011; TheNation.com, January 13, 2011; in Spanish at voselsoberano.com (Honduras), and reposted widely on web sites in English and Spanish.

“In Honduras, the Holiday Season Brings Repression,” CommonDreams.org, January 11, and reposted widely.

“Repression’s Reward in Honduras? Dinner with Obama,” The Huffington Post, CommonDreams.org, CounterPunch.org, September 24, 2010, and multiple repostings, including Spanish translation at voselsoberano.com (Honduras), September 25, 2010.

“Honduras Resists,” in “Noted,” The Nation, July 19-26, 2010, p. 5.

“Crisis of Legitimacy in Honduras?” TheNation.com, NPR.com, and multiple repostings, June 30, 2010.

“A Year Later, Obama Still Shores Up Honduran Coup,” Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), Connecticut Post, TheProgressive.com, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, and multiple repostings, June 28, 2010

“Hondurans’ Great Awakening,” The Nation, April 5, 2010; also posted at TheNation.com, March 18, 2010, and reprinted on multiple websites.

“No Free Election in Honduras under Military Occupation,” HuffingtonPost.com (featured), November 26, 2009; CommonDreams.org, November 27, 2009, reprinted worldwide, including WSJ.com, Atlantic.wire.

“Obama Shouldn’t Cave In To The Far Right On Honduras,” syndicated nationally by Progressive Media Project/ McClatchy-Tribune News Service, including ChicagoTribune.com, LATimes.com, Cleveland Plain Dealer , TV stations and websites nationally, October 28, 2009 and subsequent reprints.

“Honduran Coup Has Been Far From Bloodless,” San José Mercury News, September 4, 2009

“Honduras: Are We Going to Make Concessions to Those Who Perpetrate Coups?” New America Media. com, posted to multiple web sites worldwide in Spanish and English, July 17, 2009

“President Obama’s Honduran Test,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2009

“Once They Started, Sit-Downs Spread Like Wildfire,” Labor Notes #364, July 2009, pp. 5, 14.

“UC Service Workers Deserve Livable Wages,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 2008

“Our Fruit, Their Labor, and Global Reality,” Washington Post, Sunday Outlook section, June 2, 2002

“From Woolworth’s to the WTO,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 2, 2001

“I Mille Volti Di Una Lunga Marcia,” Il Manifesto (Rome, Italy), January 2, 2000 (translated into Italian by Marina Impallomeni); reprinted in English in AFT Perspectives as “The Revolution in Seattle?” March/April 2000

“The Free Trade-Off,” San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 5, 1999

“Is This a Cause We Should Rally Around? Not Exactly,” Washington Post Outlook Section, July 4, 1999. Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 18, 1999; Las Vegas Journal-Review, July 11, 1999; Flint Journal, July 18, 1999; Louisville Courier, July 11, 1999

Articles in Scholarly Publications:

“Bananas, Elephants, and a Coup: Learning International Solidarity the Hard Way,” in Richard Greenwald and Daniel Katz, Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America, The New Press, 2012

“Women’s Power is Union Power: Banana Worker Unions in Latin America,” New Labor Forum, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 2005), pp. 85-94

“Where Is the History of U.S. Labor and International Solidarity? Part I: A Moveable Feast,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Vol. I, No. 1 (March 2004), pp. 95-119

“Where Are the Workers in Consumer-Worker Alliances? Class Dynamics and the History of Consumer-Labor Campaigns,” Politics and Society, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 2003), pp. 363-379.

“Demons in the Parking Lot: Auto Workers and the `Japanese Threat’ in the 1980s,” Amerasia Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3 (2002), pp. 33-50

“White Working-Class Women and the Race Question,” International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 54 (Fall 1998), pp. 80-102

Coordinator and Contributor, Symposium on Tera Hunter,  To `Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, including essay, “The Labor Historian’s New Clothes,” and contributions from Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Sharon Harley, Lawrence Levine, David Roediger and Tera Hunter, in Labor History, Vol. 39,No. 2 (May 1998), pp. 169-87.

“Class,” “Consumption and Consumerism,” “Work,” and “Working-Class Feminism,” in The Readers’ Companion to U.S. Women’s History, ed. Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith and Gloria Steinem (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), pp. 107-09, 132-34, 220-221, 653-54.

“Irving Bernstein’s Lean Years,” Labor History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Winter 1995-96), pp. 83-89.

“A Class About Race,” Socialist Review, No. 94 (Vol. 24, No. 1-2), Winter 1995, pp. 243-50

“Race Relations and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1915-1929,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Winter 1994/95), pp. 35-44

“Which `Women’ and the Labor Movement? Women’s Roles in the Seattle, Washington, AFL, 1917-1929,” in Gabriella Hauch, ed., Geschlecht–Klasse–Ethnizitat (Vienna, Austria: Europaverlag, 1993), pp. l89-97

“`Food Wins All Struggles:’ Seattle Labor and the Politicization of Consumption, 1919-1929,” Radical History Review No. 51 (September, 1991), pp. 65-89

“Gender, Consumer Organizing, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929,” in Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered: Toward A New Labor History (Cornell Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 273-95

“Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests,” Feminist Studies Vol. 11 No. 2 (Summer 1985), 355-385, reprinted in Kathryn Kish Sklar and Tom Dublin, Eds., Women and Power in American History: A Reader Vol. II, From 1870 (Prentice-Hall, 1991)

“Food Protests,” in Paul Buhle, Mari Jo Buhle, and Dan Georgakas, eds., Encyclopedia of the American Left (Garland Press, 1990 and 1999)

Review Article and Exchange, “Labor’s Decline,” Monthly Review, Vol .41, No. 5 (October 1989), pp. 28-55; Vol. 41, No. 11 (April 1990), pp. 41-42

Review Essay, “The Traffic in Subservience: Public-Contact Service Workers,” Monthly Review, Vol. 39 No. 2 (June 1987), pp. 55-62

“Out of the Past, a New Honduras Culture of Resistance,” NACLA, May 4, 2010.

Interviews:

“Northern Aggression,” interview by Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine, December 26, 2018.

“The Election is Being Stolen,” interview by Parker Asmann, Jacobin, December 8, 2017.

“The Pitfalls of `Buy American,’” interview by Chris Brooks, Labor Notes, May 11, 2017, reposted/reprinted by the New York Times, Jacobin, Truthout, In These Times.

“The Fate of Honduras,” interview by Parker Asmann, Jacobin, December 7, 2016.

“Eye on Honduras,” interview by Veruska Cantelli, Warscapes, December 9, 2012.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Grants and Fellowships:

Dickson Emeriti Professor Award, 2021-22, University of California, Santa Cruz

Appleton Foundation Grants, for Spanish translation and publication of The Long Honduran Night, 2019, 2021

University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2011-12

Special Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz Academic Senate, 2015-16, 2011-12, 2004-05

National Endowment for the Humanities:

Fellowship for University Teachers, 2011-12
Summer Stipend, 2002
Fellowship for College Teachers, 1996-97
Summer Stipend, 1994
Travel to Collections Grant, 1993
Fellowship for College Teachers, 1990-91

Faculty Research Fellowship, Institute for Humanities Research, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010-11

University of California, Santa Cruz Mexus Small Grant, University of California, 2010

Travel Grant, New York University Center for the U.S. and the Cold War, 2009

Diversity Fund Grant, Office of the Provost, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009

Labor Studies Grant, Miguel Contreras Labor Studies Fund, University of California, 2008-09 ($90,000, for the Center for Labor Studies)

Faculty Research Grant, University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund, 2008-09 ($30,000)

Labor Studies Grant, Miguel Contreras Labor Studies Fund, University of California, 2007-08 ($85,000, for the Center for Labor Studies)

Faculty Research Grant, University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund 2007-08 ($20,000)

Institute for Humanities Research, Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 2004

Faculty Research Grant, University of California Institute for Labor and Employment, 2002-03

Travel Grant, Institute for Humanities Research, University of California Santa Cruz, 2000, 2002

Academic Senate Research Grants, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991-2022

Humanities Division Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991-1992

Weldon Springs Grant, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1989

Summer Research Grant, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1989

Albert Beveridge Grant, American Historical Association, 1986

John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fellowship, Program on Non-Profit Organizations, Yale University, 1986

Henry Kaiser Family Grant, Walter Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, 1986

Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, 1984

Yale University Prize Teaching Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, 1983-84

Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 1980-84

Danforth Graduate Fellowship, 1980-84

Honors and Prizes:

Shortlisted, Juan E. Mendez Award for Human Rights in Latin America, Duke University, for The Long Honduran Night, 2019.

Finalist, Foreword Magazine INDIE Award, for The Long Honduran Night, 2019.

Founders’ Award, Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival, Santa Cruz, California, May, 2008

Association of American University Presses, University Press Books Selected for Public and Secondary School Libraries, and selection, “The Best of the Best from the University Presses,” C-SPAN Book TV, July 14, 2002 (for Three Strikes )

Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, University of Oregon, Spring Quarter, 2001

Excellence in Teaching Prize, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001

Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association (for Buy American ), 1999

W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for best first book, Western History Association, (for Purchasing Power), 1996

George Washington Eggleston Prize for Best Dissertation in U.S. History, Yale University, 1988

SERVICE: (selected)

MEDIA INTERVIEWS: (selected)

Television: BBC World Service, Democracy Now! (regularly), Thom Hartmann Show, Al Jazeera English TV, Fusion TV (ABC/Univision) TeleSURTV, TV Globo, UNETV, (Tegucigalpa, Honduras), Free Speech TV, Community TV Santa Cruz. Background interviews with ABC News, CBS News.

Radio and Podcasts: National Public Radio (All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Latino USA, Marketplace), Free Speech Radio News, Pacifica Radio, French Radio International, Voice of America, multiple additional radio stations in Honduras, the U.S, and Canada; Kitchen Sisters podcast; Bloomberg News podcast.

Print and Online Media: New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Toronto Star, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, San José Mercury-News, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Business Week, VICE, BuzzFeed, CNN.com, Reuters, McClatchy News Service, NBC.com, NBC Latino, Latin Pulse!, Univision, Tokyo Shimbun, De Vokskrant (Netherlands) French Radio International, EFE (Spain).