Vincent DiGirolamo

Assistant Professor of Writing - Social Science (1997)

Degrees: BA University of California, Berkeley 1978; MA University of
California, Santa Cruz 1989; PhD Princeton University 1997

Teaching Experience: George Mason University; University of California,
Santa Cruz; Graduate Institute of Journalism, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing

Professional Experience: Newspaper reporter, editor, documentary
producer, San Francisco Bay Area

Teaching Specialties: Writing, 19th & 20th century American history, labor,
childhood, race and ethnicity

Research Interests: Revising dissertation for publication, writing
encyclopedia article on children in suburbs, co-producing documentary on New York House of Refuge, the first reform school in America

Travel: Europe and Asia; residence in Leeds, England and Beijing, China

Publications: Whispers Under the Wharf, a novel(1990); "The
women of Wheatland: Female Consciousness and the 1913 Wheatland Hop Strike"
(Labor History, 1993) "Monterey's Boat People" PBS documentary (1984)

Dissertation: "Crying the News: Children, Street Work, and the American Press, 1830's-1920's"

Distinctions: Finley Postdoctoral Fellowship, George Mason University;
Wilson Fellowship; Mellon Graduate Fellowship, Center for Human Values; Rollins
Prize in History, Princeton University; Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education; NEH Fellowships