Carmen Whalen received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1994 and is associate professor of history at Williams College, where she teaches courses in Latina/o history. She is author of "From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies" (2001), and coeditor of "The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives" (2005). She has recently assembled a photographic history of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia for the Images of America series. Her current research focuses on Puerto Rican women, New York City's garment industry, and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union in the post-World War II era.