Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..
Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Stacy D. Fahrenthold is Associate Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California Davis. She is the author of two books, the most recent of which is Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class (Stanford University Press, 2024). Her first book, Between the Ottomans and the Entente: the First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 2019), was awarded the Arab American National Museum’s Evelyn Shakir Award in 2020, the 2019 Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, and the 2019 Syrian Studies Association Book Prize. Fahrenthold is Associate Editor at Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies.