Assistant Professor Charlotte Haller

Dr. Haller received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in American History and Women’s History and her B.A. from Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island).  Prior to coming to Worcester State College, she taught at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) and Penn State Erie. 

 Her current research centers upon free African Americans in North Carolina at the time of the American Revolution as a window into black and white Americans’ understandings of race, slavery, and freedom.  You can find a piece of this work in: “’And Made Us to Be a Kingdom’:  Race, Antislavery, and Black Evangelicals in North Carolina’s Early Republic,” North Carolina Historical Review 80 (April 2003).   

As a teacher, Dr. Haller seeks to engage students in the processes of uncovering and interpreting history.  Through lectures, discussions, and readings in both primary and secondary sources, students are invited to discover the challenges as well as the pleasures of history. 

When she’s not at Worcester State College, Dr. Haller enjoys, among other things, getting caught up in the latest historical debates with her husband and fellow historian, Joe Cullon; re-reading old childhood favorites and finding new literary treasures with her son, Ezra; having political discussions with her mother, a Worcester city councilor; and walking (sometimes on snowshoes) through the landscapes of her youth with her father in Holland, Massachusetts.