John T Popiel

John T Popiel

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• • Labor History
• • Black Labor History
• • History of Detroit 
• • Radicalism
• • Revolutionaries  

Research

 Master's Thesis: "'Prison Cannot Crush Their Spirit': The Ideological Impact of Incarceration on Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Eugene V. Debs." https://uhcl-ir.tdl.org/handle/10657.1/2402

Dissertation: FIGHTING DETROIT’S MEDICAL EMPIRE: RADICAL HEALTH CARE WORKERS, THE LABOR MOVEMENT, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS DURING THE 1960S AND 1970S

Education

• B.A., History, University of Houston - Clear Lake, 2017.
• M.A., History, University of Houston - Clear Lake, 2020.

Awards and grants

•  Most Outstanding Graduate Student in the College of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston - Clear Lake, 2019-2020.

•  Michael Patterson Memorial Endowed Research Award in African American History, 2022.

•  Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship, Wayne State University, 2024-2025.

Selected publications

 Popiel, John T. (July 2025). "'A Crime Against Humanity': Prison, Capitalism, and Convict No. 9653 (Eugene V. Debs)." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 

Courses taught by John T Popiel

Winter Term 2024

• HIS1050 - History of the Headlines: United States Since World War II

Fall Term 2023

• HIS3650 - History of Detroit
• US3650 - History of Detroit

Winter Term 2023

• HIS1050 - History of the Headlines: United States Since World War II