Dr. Shirley Eoff
Office: A 001BPhone: (325) 942-2203
E-Mail: shirley.eoff@angelo.edu
Professor of History
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
M.A., Hardin-Simmons University
B.A., Howard Payne University
Member of the history faculty at ASU since 1981.
Areas of specialization: Modern America; Modern Britain; Modern Europe, U.S. Diplomatic History; U. S. Social/Cultural; and Historiography.
Courses taught include U.S. History surveys; History 3340 (English History to 1714); History 3341 (English History After 1714); History 4304 (Contemporary America, 1945 to Present); History 4333 (Recent European History Since 1918); History 6373 (Historiography and Research); History 6381 (Special Topics); History 6327 (Modern America).
University Service: President, Faculty Senate (1997-98); Member of University Symposium on American Values Committee (1983-2004); Chair of the Academic Excellence Committee (1999-2006); Graduate Advisor for History Department (2005-2006); President of Friends of the Porter Henderson Library and West Texas Collections (2005 - ).
Scholarship: Several book reviews and juried conference presentations; several articles and one monograph titled Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991); peer reviewer for academic journals and textbook reader for university and commercial publishers.
Works in Progress: Billy Anson and the Concho Valley livestock and agricultural industries; the San Angelo polio epidemic of 1949-1956; Ms. Oma Bell Perry, noted Hill Country rancher and philanthropist; San Angelo's early social history as reflected in legal disputes
Awards include Technology Grant titled "Incorporating Technology into Honors History 1301" (2005); Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2003-04, 1997-98; and selection to National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Medicine, Literature, and Culture," Penn State University School of Medicine Department of Humanities and Hershey Medical Center, Summer 2002.
Membership in Professional Organizations: North American Conference on British Studies, the Western Conference on British Studies, the Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians; Board of Directors for the West Texas Historical Association (2004-07); and the Texas Association of College Teachers.
Community Service: Volunteer with American Cancer Society
