Statement of Purpose: LAWCHA is an organization of historians, labor educators, and working-class activists who seek to promote public and scholarly awareness of labor and working-class history through research, writing, and organizing. It is open to the widest possible variety of approaches to the subject of labor and working-class history. The association has a demographically, regionally, and internationally diverse membership and leadership. It has developed mutually supportive relationships with existing regional, state, and local labor studies and labor history societies in the United States and other countries, as well as equally important relationships with unions and community organizations. LAWCHA promotes labor and working-class history within the history and social studies curricula in public schools as well as at community colleges, colleges, universities, and unions.
Officers
President
Eileen Boris
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
E-mail: boris@femst.ucsb.edu
Vice President
Paul Ortiz
Cornell Univ.
E-mail: pao35@cornell.edu
Immediate Past President
Joseph A. McCartin
Georgetown Univ.
E-mail: jam6@georgetown.edu
Secretary
Emily E. LB. Twarog
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: etwarog@illinois.edu
Treasurer
Liesl Miller Orenic
Dominican Univ.
E-mail: lorenic@dom.edu
Executive Assistant
Patrick Dixon
Georgetown Univ.
E-mail: lawcha.office@gmail.com
Updated 5/26/26