Daniel Bender

Daniel Bender is a Ph.D. candidate in American labor history at New York University. A graduate of Yale University (B.A.), Bender has received the Andrew Mellon fellowship in humanistic studies and the Henry Mitchell MacCracken fellowship at NYU.

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