Catherine A. Evans and Jessie B. Ramey, “Scrapbooking Dissent: Appalachian and Salvadoran Feminist Labor Solidarity,” Rejoinder, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University (Issue 10, Spring 2025).
Jessie B. Ramey and Amelia Golcheski, “Love, Joy, and Hope: Kipp Dawson and Social Movement Resiliency since the 1950s,” The American Historical Review (Vol 129, Issue 4, December 2024): pp. 1669–1674. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae468
Seyun Kim, Bonnie Fan, Willa Yang, Jessie Ramey, Sarah Fox, Haiyi Zhu, John Zimmerman and Motahhare Eslami, “Public Technologies Transforming Work of the Public and the Public Sector,” CHIWORK ’24: Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. Article No. 20 (June 2024): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663384.3663407 Best Paper Award.
Jessie B. Ramey, Catherine A. Evans; “We Came Together and We Fought”: Kipp Dawson and Resistance to State Violence in US Social Movements since the 1950s. Radical History Review, January 2024; 2024 (148): 181–192. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-10846922
“The Gendered Dimensions of Women’s Philanthropy,” in A Gift of Belief: Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh, Kathleen W. Buechel, editor (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).
In Pittsburgh, women, African Americans, newcomers, religious congregations from every faith tradition, neighborhood and social strata organized distinctive forms of philanthropy. Until now, they, and most of their life changing stories, remained unknown.
“Orphans and Orphanages as Childcare,” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, Daniel Thomas Cook, editor (U.K.: Sage Publishing, 2020).
“For the Public Good: Urban Youth Advocacy and the Fight for Public Education,” Children and Youth Services Review. Place, Power, and Possibility: Remaking Social Work with Children and Youth (Special edition edited by Janet L. Finn, et.al.). Vol. 35, No. 8 (August 2013): 1260–1267.
Childcare in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages, Working Class in American History Series (University of Illinois Press, 2012; paperback 2013).
Winner of the:
* Lerner-Scott Prize in women’s history from the Organization of American Historians
* the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association
* the John Heinz Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance
“‘I Dream of Them Almost Every Night’: Working Class Fathers and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929,” Journal of Family History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2012): 36-54.
“The Bloody Blonde and the Marble Woman: Gender and Power in the Case of Ruth Snyder,” Journal of Social History, Vol. 37, No. 3 (spring 2004): 625-650.
Jessie B. Ramey, Ph.D. 