Tina Hirsch Sheller

Assistant Professor of History and Historic Preservation

Van Meter 132
410-337-3016
tina.sheller@goucher.edu

Education

B.A., Goucher College, 1974

M.A., University of Maryland, 1978

Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1990

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Historic Preservation, Public History, Early American History

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

"The Origins of Public Education in Baltimore, 1825-1829," History of Education Quarterly

22 (Spring 1982), 23-43; republished in Urban Education in the United States: A Historical Reader. Edited by John L. Rury. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Contributor, Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. Edited by Paul Finkelman. New York:

Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005.

 "Freemen, Servants, and Slaves: Artisans and the Craft Structure of Revolutionary Baltimore Town,"

American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750-1850. Edited by Paul Gilje,

Howard Rock, and Robert Asher. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Contributor, James Madison and the American Nation, 1751-1836: An Encyclopedia. Edited by

Robert Rutland. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Associate editor, Latrobe's View of America, 1795-1820: Selections from the Watercolors and

Sketches. Edited by Edward C. Carter, II, John C. Van Horne, and Charles E. Brownell.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Funded Research

FAC grant for research project on Epsom Farm, Fall 2011

Awards/Significant Accomplishments

Historical consultant and exhibit coordinator, "Glassmaking in Maryland," Baltimore Museum of Industry, 2003-2004

Historical consultant, "Memories of Baltimore Business," oral history video, Baltimore Museum of Industry, 2003-2004

Oral history coordinator, "Working in Baltimore: 20th Century Memories," oral history project, Baltimore Museum of Industry, Spring 2001

Research coordinator, History of the Baltimore Company Ironworks, Carroll Park Foundation, Baltimore, Spring, 2000