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Charlotte Haller
Professor
508-929-8046 challer1@worcester.edu
Faculty Member's Office
327 Sullivan
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Areas of Expertise
African American HistoryAmerican RevolutionPedagogyWomen's HistoryWomen's Studies

Bio

Trained in U.S. Women’s history and American History, Dr. Haller’s academic interests include women’s history, African American history, the history of the American Revolution, and the history of food.

Courses Taught

HI 111 US History to 1877

HI 112 US History 1865 to the Present

HI 140 We the People

HI 200 Historian’s Craft

HI 274 History of Gender and Sexuality in America

HI 356 The American Revolutionary Period

HI 352 Civil War and Reconstruction

HI 460 Capstone:  Topics have included, War and American Society and America on Trial

WO 100 Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

 

Education
2000
University of Wisconsin - Madison
History
Ph.D.
1990
Brown University
American Civilization
BA

Achievements

Publications

co-authored with Colleen Sullivan. "First-Year Seminar Program Evaluation: A Focus Group Study," Currents 10 (May 2018).
Service Projects
Director of Women's Studies
2018-19, Ƶ.
Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of the First Year Experience
2011-2016, Ƶ.

Research At A Glance

Finding Freedom in a Revolutionary Era: Slavery and Free Blacks in North Carolina, 1760-1810

Finding Freedom in a Revolutionary Era: Slavery and Free Blacks in North Carolina, 1760-1810

Book manuscript under review with the University of Georgia Press.

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"The Convenience of Cold: Refrigerators, Consumerism, and Gender Roles During the Great Depression"

"The Convenience of Cold: Refrigerators, Consumerism, and Gender Roles During the Great Depression"

Article in progress.

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The Story of Midge: Tragedy, War, and Coming to Terms with Women's Lives in the Mid-Twentieth Century

The Story of Midge: Tragedy, War, and Coming to Terms with Women's Lives in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Article and digital humanities site in progress.

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Sample Courses

U.S. History I

Survey of United States history to 1877.
3 Credits

U.S. History II

Survey of United States history from 1877 to the present.
3 Credits

Native America

A survey of Native American history, focusing upon North America from pre-contact through the present.
3 Credits

American Revolution

The era of the American Revolution is one that is often evoked but rarely explored in depth. Cardboard cutouts of George Washington sell cars on President's Day. The Boston Marathon is run on Patriot's Day but few know that the day celebrates Lexington and Concord. References to the founding fathers and their vision for the country often pepper modern-day constitutional battles. The coming of the Revolution is standard fare in the history curriculum (especially in Massachusetts), but few seem to notice or care that almost all of the stories (Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party) take place in Massachusetts. Because the story of the American Revolution is the story of the founding of the United States, our understanding of this time period is more mythic than real. As this course will reveal, the era of the American Revolution was much more interesting and complex than our popular conceptions of it. To study the American Revolution is to raise important and fascinating questions about the nature of historical change, the potential of popular revolt, and the deeply-embedded paradoxes of slavery and freedom in American history.
3 Credits

The Historian's Craft

Designed for the history major or minor (but open to anyone), “The Historian’s Craft” provides hands-on exploration of history as both a professional field and a scholarly discipline. This course will provide students an overview of historiography and methods in history, and offers opportunities to build your research, writing, and interpretive skills through intensive work with sources, texts, and other historical evidence. By the end of this course, you will understand how historians work and how history is made and constructed. You will also feel confident in approaching your own historical investigations because you will possess the necessary practical skills and methodological tools. Over the course of the semester, you will build and polish a portfolio of your work, a solid foundation for more advanced and independent future work in the history major/minor and beyond.
3 Credits

The Study and Writing of History

Graduate course on history methods.
3 Credits

Southern History

Graduate course.
3 Credits

War and American Society

Graduate Research Seminar.