Jess Bird
Gladfelter Hall
Temple University Department of History
Philadelphia, PA 19122
jessica.bird@temple.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Temple University, 2011-present
Dissertation: “Do the Hustle:” New York City’s Underground Economy, 1965The Present
Committee: Bryant Simon (Chair), Heather Ann Thompson, David Farber
B.A., History, Hampshire College, 2006
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Temple University, Department of History
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US from 1877: Spring 2014
Founding Philadelphia: Fall 2014
Twentieth-Century US History: Summer 2015 (online)
Teaching Assistant/Grader, Temple University, Department of History
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US from 1877: Fall 2011-2013
Dissent in America: Spring 2012, Spring 2015
US History Through Film: Spring 2013
Confronting Empire: Spring 2014
PUBLICATIONS
Book Reviews:
Review of Beauty Shop Politics, by Tiffany M. Gill, European Journal of American
Culture 32:3 (September 2013)
HONORS/AWARDS
Labor and Working Class History Association Travel Grant, May 2015
CLA Travel Award, Temple University, May 2015
Comprehensive Exams passed with Distinction, December 2013
American Studies Summer Seminar Travel Grant, Doshisha University, July 2013
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CONFERENCES
“Welcome to Fear City: Criminalizing New York City’s Underground Economy, 19641975,” Fighting Inequality, Joint Conference of the Labor and Working-Class History
Association and the Working-Class Studies Association, Georgetown University, May
2015.
Comment, “Crime & Criminality,” James A. Barnes Graduate Student Conference,
Temple University, March 2015.
Comment, “Modern U.S. Political Activism,” James A. Barnes Graduate Student
Conference, Temple University, March 2014.
“New York City’s Informal Economy, 1973-1992,” Doshisha University American
Studies Summer Seminar, Kyoto, Japan, July 2013
“Fire in the Bronx:’ Immigration, Informal Economy, and the Urban Crisis in New York
City, 1960-1990,” Barnes Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, March 2013
PUBLIC HISTORY
Consultant for 2013 MEPS Charette on “The Sixties,” University of the Arts, March 2122, 2013
Research Intern at Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City, Spring 2009
SERVICE
Vice President, Barnes Club Graduate Student Organization, 2013-2014
Social Secretary, Barnes Club Graduate Student Organization, 2012-2013
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Labor and Working-Class History Association
Organization of American Historians
Urban History Association
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