Tami J. Friedman

Dr. Tami J. Friedman is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Brock University. She holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research focuses on 20th-century U.S. history, particularly industrial migration, economic restructuring, and the interplay of public policy, labor, and corporate power. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled *Communities in Competition: Capital Migration and Plant Relocation in the U.S. Carpet Industry, 1929-1975*.

Her teaching spans U.S. foreign policy, Cold War history, the 1960s, and women’s history. Graduate courses include studies on women and work, and modern American conservatism. She actively supervises MA students in U.S. foreign policy, labor history, and women’s history.

Her research has been recognized with the 2009 Binkley-Stephenson Award for her article on corporate power and labor decline post-WWII. She contributes to public discourse on U.S. politics, racial conflict, and reproductive rights through media engagements.