Wendy Wong

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Assistant Professor - Instructional

    Programs
    • Intellectual Heritage
Office Location

Mazur Hall, 518

Expertise

Intellectual Heritage; U.S. History

Biography

Dr. Wendy Wong has been appointed Assistant Professor of Instruction in Intellectual Heritage in the College of Liberal Arts. She received her Ph.D. in History. Her research is on the relationship between foreign relations, print media, and slavery in Early America. She has recently acted as a consultant for Revolutionary City, a digital-history project at the American Philosophical Society, is the current editor of the Revolution to Civil War chapter for the SHAFR Guide Online with the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Selected Publications

  • “Chapter 3: Revolution to Civil War,” The SHAFR Guide: An Annotated Bibliography to U.S. Foreign Relations (forthcoming).
  • State of the Field essay on Haitian-American relations.  H-Diplo (Summer 2017)
  • “Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul” in Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (peer reviewed) http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/ (forthcoming)
  •  “Embargo Act (1807)” in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, from 1776 to the Present(Farmington Hills, MI:  Cengage Learning Inc., 2015).
  • “John Adams: Diplomat” in A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams, ed. David Waldstreicher (Malden MA, 2013).

Courses Taught

  • Intellectual Heritage I: The Good Life
  • Intellectual Heritage II: The Common Good