June 18, 1999

Georgetown Hires 2 in Labor History; Noted Gay-Studies Scholar Moves to U. of Michigan; U. of Iowa's Struggling International Writing Program Loses Director

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN and SCOTT HELLER

Plenty of U.S. labor historians have lamented that they are a dying breed. But don't tell that to Georgetown University. It just hired two of them to start in the fall.

Michael Kazin, a 20th-century Americanist who started out in labor history, will move down the road from American University. Joining him will be Joseph A. McCartin, a hot young scholar at the State University of New York College at Geneseo who