Office: Rhodes Tower 1902
Phone: 216.523.7191
r.s.shelton@csuohio.edu

Robert S. Shelton joined the faculty in the fall 2001. He earned his Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He teaches courses in 19th-century American history; including the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Shelton comes to CSU from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where he taught classes and served as an editor of the Slavery Petitions Project. He helped prepare the project's collection of primary documents relating to slavery for microfilming and, as co-editor, published Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1999). He has also written works on emancipation in the British Caribbean, women textile workers in nineteenth century Texas, and garment workers during the New Deal.

Professor Shelton is currently preparing a manuscript about the interaction between African-Americans and recent European immigrants who worked on the docks in Galveston, Texas, during the nineteenth century. In the future, he hopes to continue examining workers in American port cities and to look at the legal records left by slaves and free people of color in the northern states during the early antebellum period.

Courses: HIS 111: U.S. History to 1877