Michael K. Honey

Overview

Michael Honey is Professor of African American, Ethnic and Labor Studies, and American History at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT).

His research and writing is widely recognized. His book, Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle, received the Southern Historical Association's H.L. Mitchell Award for southern working-class history, the Southern Regional Council's Lillian Smith award for a study of human rights issues in the South, and the Tacoma Public Library's Murray Morgan Award for excellence by a Washington State writer.

Previously, Honey won the Organization of American Historians Charles Thomson Prize— for the best research article based on the National Archives— for his article on white Unionists within the Confederacy during the Civil War. He has received research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Professor Honey has published a score of scholarly articles in books and journals, as well as numerous columns in newspapers and periodicals.

Professor Honey is currently helping to develop research-based learning among undergraduates through the Center for Labor Studies Tools for Transformation grant from the University of Washington. He is working with unions and community groups. As well as writing and teaching, Professor Honey regularly speaks on historical issues at various campuses and community organizations throughout the country, and consults with teachers and researchers developing labor, ethnic, and gender studies programs.