Aimee Loiselle

Aimee Loiselle serves as an Assistant Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, specializing in the modern United States as a critical nexus for transnational labor and capital flows with focused analysis on women workers, gender dynamics, racial formations, and migration patterns. Her scholarship critically examines how popular culture narratives obscure the complex realities of global labor systems.

Her current research project, "Creating Norma Rae: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists Lost in Reagan’s America," investigates the twentieth-century dismantling of textile and garment manufacturing through women's lived experiences. This work deconstructs the 1979 film "Norma Rae," demonstrating how its portrayal of a white southern mill worker systematically erases women of color and propagates neoliberal individualism while obscuring structural labor exploitation.

Loiselle's publications consistently analyze intersections of labor history, gender, race, and transnational capitalism, often challenging dominant historical narratives through cultural critique. Her work reveals how imperial frameworks shape labor exploitation and how marginalized voices are silenced in mainstream historical accounts, particularly regarding U.S. territorial expansion and its labor consequences.

Her exceptional contributions have earned prestigious recognition:

• 2020 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH)
• Catherine Prelinger Award from the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH)

While specific details about graduate student mentorship and external grant funding remain undisclosed in available sources, her research program demonstrates sustained engagement with critical labor historiography and intersectional feminist analysis.