Maura Bainbridge

Maura Bainbridge holds a PhD in anthropology with a focus on historical archaeology. Her academic work considered the memorialization, and more often the erasure, of labor history at sites of labor conflict in the United States — Homestead, Pennsylvania; Ludlow, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois. She believes this history is important to preserve and celebrate because it allows contemporary workers to challenge seemingly immovable power structures while offering us models for how to build a more just world.