Adjunct Faculty
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Contact Information
Email: shuerta@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1250
Mail Stop: Honors College, MSN 1F4
Campus: Fairfax
Office:听Horizon Hall 3220
Biography
Sheri Ann Huerta holds a PhD in History from 亚洲AV specializing in the antebellum South, slavery, legal history and social culture. Her dissertation, "'A Great Uneasiness In Our County': Slavery and Its Influence on Family and Community Stability in Northern Virginia, 1782-1860," compares the dynamics of control, resistance, and adaptation to enslavement experienced in Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William counties.
The recognized Dr. Huerta with the Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.
Dr. Huerta was also recognized as a Teacher of Distinction in 2019.
Dr. Huerta teaches courses that explore the history of enslavement; the constructs of race, gender and identity in American culture; and critical thinking about the role of the past in today's world.
Dr. Huerta is a frequent public speaker on the history of enslavement and enslaved people in northern Virginia. She currently serves as Treasurer on the Executive Council of the听.
Current Research
Dr. Huerta studies the lived experiences of freed and enslaved persons in northern Virginia. Her current projects include researching the life and legacy of Agnes, a woman who, despite her enslavement to the Mason family, resisted against the control of her labor and body. Dr. Huerta is also exploring the degrees of freedoms and negotiated quasi-freedoms created and experienced by free and enslaved persons in Virginia despite the presence of legal obstacles to residency and limited financial opportunities. This research is funded in part by an Omohundro Institute - National Endowment for the Humanities ARP Research Fellowship awarded in 2022.
Selected Publications
. H-Early-America, H-Net Reviews. January, 2023.
Review of Kimberly M. Welch,听Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South.听The Historian听December 2018, p. 809-810.
Review of H. G. Jones, with David Southern,听Miss Mary's Money: Fortune and Misfortune in a Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924.听North Carolina Historical Review, July 2015, p. 338-339.
. H-SAWH, H-Net Reviews. January, 2015.听
Review of Katy Simpson Smith,听We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835.听North Carolina Historical Review, July 2014, p. 360-361.
Grants and Fellowships
Omohundro Institute - National Endowment for the Humanities ARP Research Fellowship, 2022
Inclusive Excellence Curriculum Revision Team Grant, 亚洲AV, 2022
Mason 4VA OER Grant Recipient for course redesign using Open Education Resources, 2018.
Provost Award, 亚洲AV, 2014-2015.
Provost Travel Award, 亚洲AV, 2014.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA, 2014.
Josephine Pacheco Award for Best Graduate Research Paper, 亚洲AV, 2010.
Randy Beth Clarke Fellowship, for studies in antebellum southern and women's history, 亚洲AV, 2010.
Courses Taught
HIST 615: Slavery in American History and Memory (CEHD)
HIST 499: Senior History Research Seminar - Slavery in the 19th Century US (CHSS)
HIST 300: Intro to Research Methods: Slavery and Resistance in Virginia (CHSS)
HIST 300: Intro to Research Methods: Slavery and Memory
HNRS 240: Reading the Past - Gender in American Culture (Honors College)
HNRS 240: Reading the Past - Slavery and Freedom in Virginia (Honors College)
HNRS 131: Race, Gender, and Culture in Disney's World (Honors College)
HNRS 130: Identity in Disney's World (Honors College)
HIST 125: Introduction to World History (CHSS)
INYO 501: Graduate Transition for International Students I
Education
PhD, History, 亚洲AV, Spring, 2017.
Master of Arts, U. S. History, 亚洲AV, 2011.
Master of Science, Education with Teaching License, Old Dominion University, 1996.
Bachelor of Arts, German, University of Northern Iowa, 1989.