Eva Sheppard Wolf
Associate Professor of History

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Office Location: SCI 267

 

Office Hours for Spring, 2012:

Tues. 2:10-3:15, Thurs. 11:00-12:15

and by appointment

 

Office Phone: 415.338.7544
Email: shepwolf@sfsu.edu
 

Television Appearance

Who Do You Think You Are? With Blair Underwood. (airdate 2/24/12)


Books

Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia

Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion

 

Courses Taught:

Hist. 120: US to 1877

Hist. 300: Seminar in Historical Analysis

Hist. 422: Founding of the American Nation

Hist. 473: Unfree Labor in Early America

Hist. 700: Seminar in Historical Analysis

Hist 780: Transition to Capitalism in Early America

Hist. 780: Regionalism and Nationalism in Early America

For Syllabi Go To History Department Website

 

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Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000

B.A., UC Berkeley, 1992

 

 

Research Interests

American Revolution, Slavery and Emancipation, Political Ideology, Free Blacks

 

Current Scholarship

Book: Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner’s Rebellion (LSU Press, 2006)

Current research: “One of the ‘white negroes’: a free black man’s life in antebellum Virginia