Apr 19, 2024  
2015 - 2016 Graduate Catalog 
    
2015 - 2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

History Faculty


CHAIR

Cindy Hahamovitch Class of 1938 Professor of History (Ph.D., North Carolina - Chapel Hill).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

 Hiroshi Kitamura (Ph.D., Wisconsin - Madison).

PROFESSORS

Melvin Ely William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities (Ph.D., Princeton), Christopher Grasso (Ph.D., Yale),  LuAnn Homza1 (Ph.D., Chicago), Leisa Meyer (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), Scott Nelson Leslie and Naomi Legum Professor (Ph.D., North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Joshua Piker (Ph.D., Cornell), Carol Sheriff William E. Pullen Professor (Ph.D., Yale), James Whittenburg (Ph.D., Georgia), Karin Wulf 2 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), and Chitralekha Zutshi (Ph.D., Tufts).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Kveta Benes (Ph.D., Washington - Seattle), Chandos Brown (Ph.D., Harvard), Frederick Corney Undergraduate Director (Ph.D., Columbia), Philip Daileader James Pickney Harrison Associate Professor (Ph.D., Harvard), Andrew Fisher Margaret L. Hamilton Professor (Ph.D., Arizona State), Eric Han (Ph.D., Columbia), Laurie S. Koloski (Ph.D., Stanford), Betsy Konefal (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Kathrin Levitan (Ph.D., Chicago), Paul Mapp (Ph.D., Harvard), Charles McGovern (Ph.D., Harvard), Nicholas Popper (Ph.D., Princeton), Brett Rushforth3 Gale and Steve Kohlhagen Term Distinguished Associate Professor (Ph.D., California - Davis), Ronald Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard), Richard Turits (Ph.D., Chicago), and Trent Vinson Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor (Ph.D., Howard).

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Fahad Bishara (Ph.D., Duke), Gerard Chouin (Ph.D., Syracuse), Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Ph.D., New York University),  Jeremy Pope (Ph.D., Harvard), Fabricio Prado (Ph.D., Emory), Hannah Rosen (Ph.D., Chicago), and Chinua Thelwell (Ph.D., New York University).

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Susan Kern4 (Ph.D., William & Mary), and Carl Lounsbury (Ph.D., George Washington).

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Michael Butler (Ph.D., Virginia), Dajeong Chung (Ph.D., Columbia), Emily Gioielli (Ph.D., Central European University, Budapest, Hungary), and Sarah Panzer (Ph.D., Chicago).

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Jody Allen (Ph.D., William & Mary), Guillaume Aubert (Ph.D., Tulane), Ryan Kashanipour 5 (Ph.D. Arizona), and Paul Polgar 6 (Ph.D., City University of New York).

LECTURERS

Marley Brown III (Ph.D., Brown), Cary Carson7 (Ph.D., Harvard), David Corlett (Ph.D., William and Mary), Charles F. Hobson8 (Ph.D., Emory), James Horn9 (Ph.D., Sussex), Fredrika Teute10 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Lorena S. Walsh11 (Ph.D., Michigan), Julie Richter (Ph.D., William and Mary), and Nadine Zimmerli12 (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison).


1 Dean for Educational Policy
2 Director, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
3 Book Review Editor, William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
4 Director of the Williamsburg Collegiate Program in Early American History, Material Culture, and Museum Studies
5 NEH Fellow in the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
6 NEH Fellow in the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
7 Vice President of Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
8 Editor, John Marshall Papers
9 Vice President of Research and Abby and George O’Neill Director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
10 Editor of Publications, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
11 Historian, Department of Historical Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
12 Assistant Editor Book Publications, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture