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Interdisciplinary historian focused on household labor, especially home care and racialized gendered state

Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Black Studies, Global Studies, and History, University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing on home-based work, social reproduction, and intimate labor. Her books include Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care [2010] with Rachel Parreñas co-editor, and Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State, with Jennifer Klein [2012, 2015], winner of the Sara A. Whaley Prize on Women and Work. She was PI for “Working at Living: The Social Relations of Precarity;” “Enforcement Strategies for Empowerment: Models for the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights,” and “The Labor of Care.” She was part of the US team of the Trans-Atlantic Partnership Platform, NSF funded, project, “Who Cares? Care and Pandemics in Transnational Perspective.” Her latest book, co-edited with Heidi Gottfried and Nadja Araujo Guimarães, is Caring Beyond Borders: Assessing Home Care Policies and Workers’ Rights in Europe and the Americas (De Gruyter/Brill, 2026). She is finishing a book with Gottfried and Ruth Milkman based on a survey of home care workers, funded. by the Ford Foundation. I am President of LAWCHA, Labor and Working Class History Association, 2026-2028.

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