US History, Business History, Labor History, Political Economy
Melanie Sheehan
Assistant Professor of History
Melanie Sheehan is a historian of business, labor and political economy with a focus on the twentieth century United States. Her current book project, For an ‘Orderly’ Globalization: The Managed Liberalization Project in US Labor, 1945-1990, is under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press. Prior to joining the faculty at Hartwick College, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Kenyon College and Harvard Business School.
Recent courses taught:
- Global History, 1750-Present
- US History II: 1877-Present
- Baseball and American Life
- Europe and the World Wars
- The Vietnam Wars
Publications:
“Moving beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: Tariffs Then and Now,” New Labor Forum 34, no. 3 (September 2025): 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960251364884.
“The AFL-CIO, the US Balance of Payments, and the End of the Post-World War II Liberal Order, 1965-1973,” Enterprise and Society (2023): 1-24. DOI: 10.1017/eso.2023.31.