Premilla Nadasen

Nadasen is associate professor of History at Barnard College. She was appointed to a faculty position at Barnard College in 2013.{{Cite web |title=Premilla Nadasen {{!}} MA/MSc in International and World History |url=https://worldhistory.columbia.edu/content/premilla-nadasen |access-date=2022-04-24 |website=worldhistory.columbia.edu}} She had previously held a Visiting Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at Brooklyn College.{{Cite web |title=Premilla Nadasen |url=https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/premilla-nadasen |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=The Center for the Humanities |language=en-US}} In 2019 she was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Premilla Nadasen {{!}} Barnard College |url=https://barnard.edu/profiles/premilla-nadasen |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=barnard.edu}}

From 2018 to 2020, Nadasen was President of the National Women's Studies Association.{{Cite web |title=People |url=https://www.nwsa.org/page/People |access-date=24 April 2022 |website=National Women's Studies Association}} A specialist in the roles of women of color in the welfare rights movement,{{Cite book |last=Black |first=Simon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qs_pDwAAQBAJ&dq=premilla+nadasen&pg=PA52 |title=Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York |date=2020 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-5755-3 |pages=52 |language=en}} Nadasen has worked on the National Domestic Workers Union of America,{{Cite book |last=Boris |first=Eileen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z1ljF8Glcg0C&dq=premilla+nadasen&pg=PA185 |title=Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care |date=2010-06-22 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-6193-2 |pages=185 |language=en}} the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO),{{Cite book |last=Chappell |first=Marisa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6tONTOfVCwC&dq=premilla+nadasen&pg=PA280 |title=The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America |date=2012-02-02 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-0156-7 |pages=102 |language=en}} as well as the role of domestic workers in the civil rights movement.{{Cite book |last=Blackett |first=Adelle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yK94DwAAQBAJ&dq=premilla+nadasen&pg=PA6 |title=Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law |date=2019-04-15 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-1577-8 |pages=6 |language=en}} She has been outspoken against attacks on gender studies by right-wing organisations around the world.{{Cite web |title=Global Attack on Gender Studies|first=Elizabeth|last=Redden |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/05/gender-studies-scholars-say-field-coming-under-attack-many-countries-around-globe |date=2018-12-05|access-date=2022-07-26 |website=www.insidehighered.com |language=en}}

Nadasen's first book, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, was published in 2005, and in recognition of its importance, she received the John Hope Franklin Book Prize. At the time of its publication, it was the first book to be written on the NWRO for twenty-five years.{{Cite journal |last=Frost |first=Jennifer |date=2007-10-09 |title=Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States - By Premilla Nadasen |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.410_20.x |journal=History |language=en |volume=92 |issue=308 |pages=552 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.410_20.x |issn=0018-2648|url-access=subscription }}

Historian Annelise Orleck described the book as "rich and provocative" whose "greatest achievement ... is to treat the recipient-leaders of this movement [NWRO] seriously as both practical strategists and as the framers of a unique political ideology: a black, feminist vision forged in poverty and fueled by the experiences of motherhood."{{Cite journal |last=Orleck |first=Annelise |date=2007-06-01 |title=Premilla Nadasen. Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xix, 310. $23.95 |url=https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.112.3.896 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=112 |issue=3 |pages=896–897 |doi=10.1086/ahr.112.3.896 |issn=0002-8762|url-access=subscription }} However, while praising the depth of archival research in the work, Andrew Fearnley noted that Nadasen's analysis appeared to preclude white and Puerto Rican women's contributions to the movement.{{Cite journal |last=Fearnley |first=Andrew |date=2007-03-08 |title=Premilla Nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (New York: Routledge, 2005, £16.99 paperback). Pp. xix+310. ISBN 0 4159 4579 8. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/abs/premilla-nadasen-welfare-warriors-the-welfare-rights-movement-in-the-united-states-new-york-routledge-2005-1699-paperback-pp-xix310-isbn-0-4159-4579-8/FF516B86065684603E7BCE76A7CE9155 |journal=Journal of American Studies |language=en |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=225–226 |doi=10.1017/S0021875806573451 |s2cid=145582657 |issn=1469-5154|url-access=subscription }}

Nadasen's 2016 work, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, was reviewed by Polly Reed Myers, who described the book as "a welcome addition to the historiography on labor organizing in the postwar period", where "Nadasen reframes the organizational history of domestic labor groups in important ways by placing the voices and stories of African American domestic workers at the center of the narrative".{{Cite journal |last=Myers |first=Polly Reed |date=2017-05-01 |title=Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement by Premilla Nadasen |url=https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3790412 |journal=Labor |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=135–136 |doi=10.1215/15476715-3790412 |s2cid=152061152 |issn=1547-6715|url-access=subscription }} Meanwhile Keona Ervin described the text as "highly readable" and praised the book for its illumination of the "little-known organizers including Josephine Hulett, Dorothy Bolden, Geraldine Roberts, Edith Barksdale Sloan, and Mary McClendon, and organizations such as the Club from Nowhere, the Household Technicians of America, the Domestic Workers Union, and the Household Workers Organization."{{Cite journal |last=Ervin |first=Keona K. |date=August 2016 |title=Premilla Nadasen, Household workers unite: the untold story of African American women who built a movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780807014509 Hbk. $27.95): Book reviews |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.12414 |journal=The Economic History Review |language=en |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=1050–1052 |doi=10.1111/ehr.12414|url-access=subscription }}

• Ann Snitow Prize - 2020 (inaugural recipient){{Cite web |date=2022-01-28 |title=Sarah Schulman, writer and activist, is awarded 2021 Ann Snitow Prize |url=https://annsnitowprize.com/awardees/ |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=The Ann Snitow Prize |language=en}}
• Sara Whaley Book Prize - 2016{{Cite web |title=Sara A. Whaley Book Prize |url=http://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/NWSAWhaley.htm |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=web.mnstate.edu}}
• John Hope Franklin Book Prize - 2005{{Cite web |title=John Hope Franklin Prize {{!}} ASA |url=https://www.theasa.net/awards/asa-awards-prizes/john-hope-franklin-prize |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=www.theasa.net}}
• Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize{{Cite web |title=OAH Distinguished Lecturer Profile {{!}} OAH |url=https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1961/premilla-nadasen/ |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=www.oah.org}}
• Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians

• Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023)
• Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Beacon Press, 2016){{Cite book |last=Nadasen |first=Premilla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLnTDAAAQBAJ |title=Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement |date=2016-09-06 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-0-8070-3319-7 |language=en}}
• Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement (Routledge, 2012){{Cite book |last=Nadasen |first=Premilla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVXFBQAAQBAJ |title=Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement |date=2012-05-22 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-49075-0 |language=en}}
• "From widow to 'welfare queen': Welfare and the politics of race", Black Women, Gender & Families 1.2 (Fall 2007): 52–77.{{Cite journal |last=Nadasen |first=Premilla |date=Fall 2007 |title=From Widow to "Welfare Queen": Welfare and the Politics of Race |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.1.2.0052 |journal=Black Women, Gender + Families |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=52–77 |jstor=10.5406/blacwomegendfami.1.2.0052 |issn=1935-2743}}
• Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (Routledge, 2005){{Cite book |last=Nadasen |first=Premilla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19_gAwAAQBAJ |title=Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States |date=2004-11-29 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-74369-6 |language=en}}

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