Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community
A conversation with Naomi R. Williams, Rutgers, and Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time
4-5:30 p.m.
Location
Description
Naomi R. Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Naomi’s research examines the ways working people impact local and national political economies, and the ways workers participate in collaborative social justice movements. Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-772-4103 (text only) or email pagac@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, March 4, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.