Education

Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1995

Academic & Professional Interests

Laurie Mercier teaches the history of the United States, the American West, the Pacific Northwest, immigration and migration, and American labor. She is former associate director of the Center for Columbia River History, a former president of the Oral History Association, and co-director of the Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive project.

Publications

Mercier’s recent publications include Speaking History: Oral Histories of the American Past, 1865–Present (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), with Sue Armitage; Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City (University of Illinois Press, 2001); “Reworking Race, Class, and Gender into Pacific Northwest History” (Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 2001); “Instead of Fighting the Common Enemy: Mine Mill and the Steelworkers Unions in Cold War Montana” (Labor History, fall 1999); “We Are Women Irish: Gender, Class, Religious, and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana” (in Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women’s West, University of Oklahoma Press, 1997); “Creating a New Community in the North: Mexican Americans of the Yellowstone Valley” (in Stories from an Open Country: Essays on the Yellowstone River Valley, University of Washington Press, 1995).