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Dylan Shearer

Graduate Student

History

Contact

Building & Room:

UH 1000

Address:

601 S Morgan St.

About

Dylan Shearer is a doctoral candidate working with Lynn Hudson. A semi-Chicagoland native, Dylan is interested in how race, gender, and class interact with memory formation in labor groups.

Education

B.A. – University of Montana, 2013
M.A. DePaul University, 2016
Ph.D. to be completed, 2023

Courses Taught:

The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization, The History of Chicago, American History: Reconstruction to the Present

Selected Presentations

Loyola Graduate Conference 2019: “You Are Not Dead!” Lucy Parsons, Race, Gender, and the Martyrdom of the Haymarket Eight

Research Currently in Progress

Dylan Shearer’s current research revolves around how labor groups developed memories related to the Haymarket Affair, the Centralia Massacre and the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial