This is a huge honor for Scott, the Labor Research Center, and the University. This honor is well deserved. Scott is a truly outstanding teacher, whose passion for education and labor history extends far beyond the classroom. Molloy has been navigating the area of labor history for more than 20 years now. Molloy joined URI in 1986 as a summer lecturer, bringing his experiences and love of labor history.
Labor history is so interesting.
Molloy's enthusiasm for labor history is not something that can easily be missed. Just look around his office, home, or even the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. to see artifacts from his extensive labor collection. Molloy's collection began after he found a small pin from his union in a bookstore. He started collecting other union items as a hobby and his collection soon grew so large that the Smithsonian acquired 10,000 pieces of it to create the Scott Molloy Labor Collection. I felt I had this mandate inside of me to save working- class history.