Faculty Records: Tom Shields Papers

1989-2007
University Archives #UA90-72
Portions of this collection are digitized (4 items)
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[Item Description and date]. Tom Shields Papers. UA90-72, Box [number]. University Archives, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
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East Carolina University Archives
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This collection of Tom Shields' records contains correspondence, administrative files from East Carolina University's Roanoke Colonies Research Office, his publications, event announcements and brochures, press releases, photographs, audio cassettes, and digital media on floppy and zip disks.

Biographical/historical information

Tom Shields earned a B.A. at Bucknell University, an M.A. at Western Kentucky University, and a Ph.D. at University of Tennessee. At East Carolina University he taught undergraduate and graduate courses on American literature, especially early American and frontier literature, undergraduate literary survey and composition courses, and graduate research methods. His research interests and publications focus on the Spanish and English literature of colonial North America, particularly the "Lost Colony" and John Lawson. He helped establish the Roanoke Colonies Research Office at ECU in 1993. He retired from East Carolina University in the summer of 2022.

Scope and arrangement

This collection of Tom Shields' records contains correspondence, administrative files from East Carolina University's Roanoke Colonies Research Office, his publications, event announcements and brochures, press releases, photographs, audio cassettes, and digital media on floppy and zip disks.

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Container list
Box 1 Annual Reports, Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, 1995-1996
Box 1 Annual Reports, Roanoke Colonies Research Office, 1993-1996
Box 1 Conference presentations notes, 1995
Box 1 Institute for Historical and Cultural Research Charter, undated
Box 1 Meeting Minutes, Roanoke Colonies Research Office, 1994
Box 1 Meeting Minutes, Roanoke Decoded Post-Conference, 1993
Box 1 Proposed Statement of Purpose, Roanoke Colonies Research Office, undated
Box 1 The Roanoke Colonization Bibliography Project, undated
Box 1 Roanoke Colonization Related Materials on the Internet, undated
Box 1 Correspondence, 1989, 1993
Box 1 Correspondence, 1994
Box 1 Correspondence, 1995
Box 1 Correspondence, 1996
Box 1 Correspondence, 1997
Box 1 Correspondence, 1998
Box 1 Correspondence, 1999-2007
Box 1 Correspondence , undated
Box 1 East Makes West: Images of the Orient in Early Spanish and English Literature of North America, undated
Box 1 A Tribute to Helen Wallis, undated
Box 1 Event announcements and brochures, 1994-2007, undated
Box 1 Press Releases, 1993, 1998
Box 1 Photographs, 1996, undated
Box 2 Dr. Shields Research, 3.5" floppy disk, undated
Box 2 Roanoke Old Plantation, Discovering The First English Settlement in America by Gary Carl Grassl, 3.5" floppy disk, 2002
Box 2 Roanoke Colonies Research Office Backup, zip disk, 1997
Box 2 Roanoke Colonies Research Office Materials, zip disk, undated
Box 2 Roanoke Colonies Research Office Original, zip disk, undated
Box 2 Web Backup, zip disk, 1997