Eric Fure-Slocum

Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2001
20th-Century U.S. History;
Labor, Urban, and Political History
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furesloc@stolaf.edu


I teach U.S. history, the History Research Workshop, a seminar on work, American Conversations, and an interdisciplinary course on social change. Other courses I offer include "Wal-Mart America" and "Cynicism and Hope in Modern America". Before going to graduate school to study history, I worked for over a decade as a community organizer in Minnesota and California.

My first book project, nearing the final stages of revision, is titled Postwar Democracy: How Growth and Working-Class Politics Reshaped a 1940s City. My second project Losing Hope?: Workers and Cynicism in Metropolitan America focuses on the problem of working class, cynicism and political disengagement in post-World War II cities and suburbs. I also have published articles and essays on 19th- and 20th-Century labor, urban, and social history.

I completed my Ph.D. in History at the University of Iowa in 2001. Earlier I received an M.A. in History from San Francisco State University, an M.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, and a B.A. from St. Olaf (History major). My wife, Carolyn (the Chaplain at Carleton College) and I have two children, one in college and one in high school.