Aimee Loiselle is an assistant professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. She studies the modern U.S. as a hub for transnational labor and capital with an interest in women workers, gender, race, and migration. Her research also explores how popular culture obscures these complexities of global labor. Her current project Creating Norma Rae: Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists Lost in Reagan’s America follows women through the twentieth-century disaggregation of textile and garment manufacturing. In addition, she examines the movie Norma Rae (1979) and the way its image of a white southern mill hand erases women of color and reinforces neoliberal individualism. Loiselle's most recent article, “U.S. Imperialism and Puerto Rican Needleworkers: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Women’s Labor in a Deep History of Neoliberal Trade,” appeared in ILWCH in Fall 2020. She received the 2020 Lerner-Scott Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and Catherine Prelinger Award from the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH).