Sonya Michel
About
Sonya Michel is an American historian. She is Professor Emerita at the Department History, University of Maryland. She has also taught at Brandeis University, Brown University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Michel served as Director of United States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her research areas include care work and old-age security, child care, immigration and civil society, race and gender issues, as well as work-family balance. Her appearances on C-SPAN have included topics such as "Women and Labor Rights" and "Retirement and Social Security". Michel has a Ph.D. in American civilization from Brown University. Her husband, Jeffrey Herf, is also an American historian and professor at the University of Maryland.
