 Visiting Assistant Professor
Migration, Labor and Working Class History, Women and Gender in the U.S., Latin America and Africa The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218 Gilman Hall 308
Telephone: 410-516-7663
Email: shellweiss@jhu.edu
Office Hours: Monday 1-3pm and by appointment
Curriculum Vitae As a scholar of Modern American History, my work focuses on the
inter-connected processes of migration, labor and race relations in the late
nineteenth and twentieth century United States and Atlantic World. My
current research focuses on foreign labor recruitment and race relations in
the U.S. South and Latin America. This will be the subject of a book,
_Translators Wanted in Dixie: Immigration and Race Relations in the
Twentieth Century South_ (in progress). I am also currently working on an
edited collection devoted to the legacy of the Dillingham Commission on
Immigration. My first book, _Coming to Miami: A Social History_ (University of Florida
Press, December 2008) offers a unique perspective on the larger narrative of
20th century immigration U.S. history by focusing southward toward the
Caribbean and Latin America, rather than primarily on Europe. Portions of
this research have been published in several articles and book chapters,
including a collection of labor history essays, _Florida's Labor and
Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor History from Spanish
Florida to the New Immigration (University of Florida Press, November 2008)
which I am co-editing with Robert Cassanello. This research has helped shape my teaching foci and community work. And I am particularly interested in how migration, race relations, and economic developments have reshaping the city of Baltimore. | 
