Rate My Professor William Brucher

Brucher's research specializations include United States social and cultural history, transnational labor history, and modern Latin American history. His key publications comprise the peer-reviewed article “From the Picket Line to the Playground: Labor, Environmental Activism, and the International Paper Strike in Jay, Maine” published in Labor History 52, no. 1 (2011), and the encyclopedia entry “Labor Unions and Strikes” in Conflicts in American History: A Documentary Encyclopedia, Volume 6 (2010). He has contributed book reviews to Labor Studies Journal, Western Historical Quarterly, and The Michigan Historical Quarterly, and is developing a book manuscript based on his dissertation. Among his honors are Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowships from Brown University Graduate School (2009–2011), the John R. Haynes and Dorothy Haynes Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2010), Historical Society of Southern California Haynes Foundation Fellowship (2010), and the Ernest P. Muller Prize for the Most Distinguished Honors Thesis in History from Bates College (2002). Brucher teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on labor history, including U.S. Labor and Employment Before the End of Reconstruction (37:575:201), History of Labor and Work in the United States, 1880 to 1945 (37:575:202), U.S. Labor History, 1945 to the Present (37:575:203), and Labor and Employment History (37:578:612). He supports labor education through Rutgers' Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN), delivering union steward trainings, online courses, and film series. Brucher provides expert commentary on contemporary labor issues, appearing in media such as The New York Times, Law360, Supply Chain Dive, WHYY, and WGN Radio on topics including dockworkers strikes, port automation, NJ Transit disputes, and union contract negotiations.