Robert S. Wolff
Associate Professor of History
Assistant to the Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Department of History
208 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone: (860) 832-2807
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: wolffr@ccsu.edu
Areas of Specialization: 19th & 20th c. U.S.; Labor History;
History of Education; Comparative History of Slavery/Enslavement;
Maryland History
Robert S. Wolff received a B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College in 1988, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1991 and 1998 respectively. He came to CCSU in 1997. He
served as department chair,
2003-2006.
Dr. Wolff’s teaching interests include: business, economic, & labor history, Civil War & Reconstruction, and enslavement in the Americas. He also teaches a topics course on the Amistad in the Atlantic World. He was a semi-finalist for the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001. Dr. Wolff’s current research explores slavery, the American Civil War, and historical memory in Maryland. He is also putting the final touches on a book manuscript tentatively entitled, Racial Imaginings: Schooling and Society in Industrial Baltimore, 1860-1920.
Selected publications:
- "The Problem of Race in the Age of Freedom; The
Transformation of Public Schooling in Baltimore, 1860-1867."
Civil War History
52, no. 3 (Fall 2006):
229-254.
- "Blackness in White America: The Perilous Voyage of the Amistad
in Popular Memory." In Perspectives on Race,
Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America, ed. Glenn S. Gordinier
(Mystic, Conn.: Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport,
Munson Institute Press, 2006).
- "‘The Stronghold of Liberty’: Civil War Editorials of the Windham County Press, 1861-1865." Connecticut History 42, no. 2 (Fall 2003): 132-158.
- "Industrious Education and the Legacy of Samuel Ready." Maryland Historical Magazine 95, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 309-329.
- "Da Gama’s Blundering: Trade Encounters in Asia and Africa During the European ‘Age of Discovery,’ 1450-1520." The History Teacher 31, no. 3 (May 1998). 297-318.
- The Global Experience; Readings in World History. 2 vols. Edited with Stuart B. Schwartz and Linda R. Wimmer. New York: Longman, 1997-1998.
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