Jeannette Gabriel
Graduate Student Researcher
Fall 2005 - Summer 2006
Jeannette Gabriel is a second year Ph.D. student in American History currently working on the unemployed workers movement in the 1930s.
Jeannette began work at the New Media Lab in September 2005 and her most recent project is "Images of the Unemployed in New Deal Photography: 'The Forgotten Man' versus the Militant Unemployed Workers Movement" (3 mb. PDF document) which is being developed into a web based presentation. This study analyzes the representation of unemployed both as isolated individuals and an organized movement in order to assess the transformation of public opinion of the unemployed from victims to citizens and workers.
In addition, Jeannette has been researching material for the ASHP Young America Project. She has collected primary documents and copyedited presentation on youth experiences in the Great Depression; Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction; and the West.