Access to Work; "Water Over the Bridge" Willis develops a strategy for sustainable inter-modal freight transportation infrastructure.
Relevant Experience:
GSK Institute for Emerging Issues Faculty Fellow 2009 on Transportation Policy Russell Sage/Rockefeller Foundation Future of Work grant on Employment in the NC Hosiery Industry and Upjohn Institute for Employment Research on the value of worker benefits to the employee, employer, and the general public. Traveled extensively internationally to see global sources of technology, product, and markets in textiles and transportation.
Distinctions:
• 2013-2014 Chapman Faculty Fellow Teaching Award • 2013-2014 Global Research Institute Faculty Fellow • 2010-2011 Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award
• 2007-2008 Kauffman Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities • 2007-ongoing Robert Sigmon Service Learning Award from NC Campus Compact • 2006-2011 Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professorship
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• AMST 277 Globalization and National Identity • AMST 352 Honors 352: Global Access to Work - London Honors • AMST 394 The Role of the University • AMST 398 Service Learning • AMST 61H Navigating the World Through American Eyes • ECON 285 Access to Work
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Collaborative websites http://globalstories.web.unc.edu/
• 2014 "Keynesianism." Co-author with P.J. Pieper. Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Simon J. Bronner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. .
• 2014 Navigating America "Greensboro Rail Odyssey" First year seminar field studies for American Studies 51. https://navigatingamerica2013.web.unc.edu/
• 2014 "The Role of the University in American Life" http://roleofuniversity.web.unc.edu/ Archival website development from 2003 - 2013 by Rachel Willis with Julie Siefert and past graduate and undergraduate students from 2013-2013 (Complete roster of contributors listed at website).
• 2014 Triangulation: Connecting People, Places and Resources
• 2014 Designed by Rachel Willis in collaboration with current students, the GRC and the class webmaster. Spring 2013 rail journey to investigate Greensboro's role in the Civil Rights movement with a special attention to rail (physical tracks as well as the The Underground Railroad.) Website development led by American Studies undergraduate Karmen Gardner
• 2014 "Lincoln's Unfinished Legacy" designed by Professor Rachel Willis and co-led by Professors Greg Gangi, Environmental Studies and Willis. Curation and documentation by American Studies undergraduate Hillary Stroud of Carolina Scholars field study by rail to Washington, D.C. Oct. 2012. Themes of disability access, rail connectivity, and racial equality are connected to the people, places, and resources we studied and visited. http://triangulate.web.unc.edu/ Spring 2013
• 2014 Digital on-line publications (article and collaborative websites)
• 2007 "Keeping Good Job Opportunities in the Community: How and When to Use Public Training Resources to Revitalize Good Manufacturing Jobs in the United States,” with Rachel Connelly, Commissioned and published by the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, University of North Carolina Law School, http://www.law.unc.edu/PDFs/Poverty/WillisandConnellyPolicyBrief.pdf , January 2007
• 2006 “Access to Higher Education for the Differently Able” in Faculty Career Paths: Multiple Routes to Academic Success and Satisfaction, Ed. By Gretchen M. Bataille and Betsy E. Brown, ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education, Greenwood Press, pp. 15-17, 2006
• 2005 "Voices of Mill Workers: As Jobs Cross Borders and Border-Crossers Take Jobs" in The American South in a Global World, Ed. James L. Peacock, Harry Watson, and Carrie Matthews, UNC Press, pp. 138-151, 2005.
• 2004 Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored On-Site Child Care, with R. Connelly and D. DeGraff, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research monograph, forthcoming 2003-2004.
• 2004 "The Value of Employer-Sponsored Child Care to Employees," with R. Connelly and D. DeGraff, Industrial Relations, forthcoming 2004
• 2003 "The Future of Jobs in the Hosiery Industry," with R. Connelly and D. DeGraff in Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace, Ed. Eileen Applebaum, Annette Bernhardt and Richard Murnane, Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2003.
• 2002 "If You Build It. They Will Come: Parental Use of On-Site Child Care Centers," with R. Connelly and D. DeGraff, Population Research and Policy Review, June 2002
• 1995 Knitting the Social Fabric: The Survival of Work and Life Balance in a Global Economy, focusing on the effect of globalization, technology and immigration on workers' lives from oral history interviews, NAHM archives, and conferences and travel related to textile industry from 1995- present, book manuscript in progress.
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