Dana Frank

Dana Frank is a Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a historian of labor, women, and social movements in the United States and Honduras. Her work focuses on working people’s struggles, race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational capitalism, and she has been active in researching human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras, about which she has written widely and testified before both the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament.

Frank is the author of What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times (Beacon Press), which presents four narratives of how ordinary working people in the U.S. responded to the Great Depression through creative collective action. She has written multiple other books, including Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism, Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919–1929, and the coauthored Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century.[