Apr 19, 2024  
2016 - 2017 Graduate Catalog 
    
2016 - 2017 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

History Faculty


CHAIR

Frederick Corney Professor (Ph.D., Columbia).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

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

PROFESSORS

Melvin Ely William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities (Ph.D., Princeton), Christopher Grasso (Ph.D., Yale) (on leave 16-17),  LuAnn Homza1 (Ph.D., Chicago), Leisa Meyer William & Mary Community Studies Professor of History, American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), Joshua Piker (Ph.D., Cornell), Carol Sheriff William E. Pullen Professor (Ph.D., Yale), James Whittenburg (Ph.D., Georgia) (on leave Spring 17), Karin Wulf 2 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), and Chitralekha Zutshi (James Pinckney Harrison Professor (Ph.D., Tufts).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Kveta Benes (Ph.D., Washington - Seattle) (on leave Fall 16), Chandos Brown (Ph.D., Harvard), Gerard Chouin (Ph.D., Syracuse), Philip Daileader (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave 16-17), Andrew Fisher Margaret L. Hamilton Professor (Ph.D., Arizona State), Eric Han (Ph.D., Columbia) (on leave 16-17), Laurie Koloski (Ph.D., Stanford), Betsy Konefal (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Kathrin Levitan (Ph.D., Chicago), Paul Mapp3 (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave 16-17), Charles McGovern (Ph.D., Harvard), Jeremy Pope (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave Fall 2016), Nicholas Popper Kohlhagen Associate Professor (Ph.D., Princeton) (on leave 16-17), Hannah Rosen (Ph.D., Chicago) (on leave 16-17), Ronald Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard), Richard Turits (Ph.D., Chicago) (on leave 16-17), and Trent Vinson Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Professor (Ph.D., Howard).

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Ph.D., New York University),  Fabricio Prado (Ph.D., Emory), and Chinua Thelwell (Ph.D., New York University).

COURTESY PROFESSORS

Cindy Hahamovitch (Ph.D., North Carolina - Chapel Hill) and Scott Nelson (Ph.D., North Carolina - Chapel Hill).

COURTESY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Brett Rushforth (Ph.D., California - Davis).

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

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

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Michael Butler (Ph.D., Virginia).

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Jody Allen (Ph.D., William & Mary), Dajeong Chung (Ph.D., Columbia), Emily Gioielli (Ph.D., Central European University, Budapest, Hungary), Deborah Hamer4 (Ph.D., Columbia), Sarah Panzer (Ph.D., Chicago), Maria Rogacheva (Ph.D., Notre Dame), and Shauna Sweeney5 (Ph.D., New York University).

SENIOR LECTURER

Guillaume Aubert (Ph.D., Tulane).

LECTURERS

Marley Brown III (Ph.D., Brown), Cary Carson6 (Ph.D., Harvard), David Corlett (Ph.D., William & Mary), Charles F. Hobson7 (Ph.D., Emory), James Horn8 (Ph.D., Sussex), Fredrika Teute (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Lorena S. Walsh9 (Ph.D., Michigan), Julie Richter (Ph.D., William & Mary), and Nadine Zimmerli10 (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison).


1 Dean for Educational Policy
2 Director, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
3 Interim Editor of Books, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

4 NEH Fellow in the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
5 NEH Fellow in the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
6 Retired Vice President of Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
7 Editor, The Papers of John Marshall
8 Vice President of Research and Abby and George O’Neill Director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library
9 Historian, Department of Historical Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
10 Associate Editor of Books, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture