Eileen Boris
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 […]
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 is part of the US team of the Trans-Atlantic Partnership Platform, NSF funded, project, “Who Cares? Care and Pandemics in Transnational Perspective”