| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | History |
| Office: | RT 1325 |
| Phone: | 216-687-3927 |
| Email: | R.S.SHELTON@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://academic.csuohio.edu/sheltonr/ |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1325, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||
| Ph.D., History, Rice University, 2001 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Robert S. Shelton joined the faculty in the fall 2001 after earning his Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He teaches courses in 19th-century American history, including Slavery, Abolition, & Politics, 1820-1860, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Comparative Emancipation.
Shelton has published articles on race, slavery, and labor in respected academic journals such as Journal of Social History and Slavery & Abolition. His article "Built By the Irishman, Negro and the Mule:' Labor Militancy Across the Color Line in Post Reconstruction Texas," won the C.K. Chamberlain Award for the best article to appear in the East Texas Historical Journal in 2008. His current work examines ethnicity and race in antebellum America. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| 19th Century American History
Civil War and Reconstruction southern history African American history | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| 19th-Century US
Slavery &Race The Coming of the Civil War Civil War & Reconstruction African-Americans Labor Politics Introduction to Graduate Studies | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| Labor and Working Class History Association
Organization of American History Southern Historical Association | ||