Elizabeth Esch


Elizabeth Esch
  • Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, American Studies

Contact Info

213 Bailey Hall
1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045

Research

Research interests:

  • U.S. Empire
  • Working-class Studies
  • Race and Racism
  • Transnational Studies

Selected Publications

Esch, Elizabeth. The Color Line and the Assembly Line: The Ford Motor Company in Brazil, South Africa and the United States. University of California Press, 2018.

Esch, Elizabeth, and David Roediger. “Race and the Management of Labour in U.S. History.” Theorizing Anti-Racism: Rethinking the Connection between Marxism and Postcolonialism, edited by Abigail Bakan and Enakshi Dua, University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 340–76.