Leslie Schuster

Gaige Hall 302 (401) 456-8039 (401) 456-9723 lschuster@ric.edu

Background

Leslie Schuster received her Ph.D. in Modern European History from Northern Illinois University in 1991. She taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana before coming to Rhode Island College in 1992.

At RIC she teaches a range of courses, including Historical Methods, European history and women’s studies. She also teaches in the General Education Honors Program and is the Director of the Women’s Studies Program.

Dr. Schuster’s scholarship reflects her interest in teaching and learning and in European labor and social history. Her publications include “Working Class Students and Historical Inquiry,” The History Teacher, forthcoming; A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor and the State in Saint-Nazaire’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910 (Greenwood Press, 2002); "Changer l’industrie navale: mouvement ouvrier et relations sociales," Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Octobre/Decembre 2005; “Workers and Community: The Case of the Peat-Cutters and the Shipbuilding Industry in Saint-Nazaire,” Journal of Social History, 1994. She has also served on the editorial board of The History of Education Quarterly.