Faculty Profile
Bender, Daniel Ph.D. New York
Associate Professor, UTSC
(416) 287-7122
debender@utsc.utoronto.ca
Office: UTSC HW527
Field: American cultural, social and labour history of the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Daniel Bender’s research focuses on the cultural, social, and labour history of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor (2004) and the co-editor of Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Comparative and Global Perspective (2003). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Radical History Review, and International Labor and Working-Class History. His current book, a cultural history of American industrialization and empire, American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Empire is forthcoming in fall, 2009. His current project, “Domestic Exotic: American Zoos, 1874-1965.” Examines zoos to understand notions of the exotic in American elite and working-class culture. He is the Canada Research Chair in Urban History at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He trains students in American, cultural, labour, transnational, and food history.