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2012 - 2013 Graduate Catalog 
    
2012 - 2013 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

History Faculty


Chair

Leisa D. Meyer Associate Professor (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison).

Graduate Director

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

Undergraduate Director

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

Professors

Melvin P. Ely Kenan Professor (Ph.D., Princeton), Christopher Grasso1 (Ph.D., Yale), Cindy Hahamovitch (Ph.D., North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Ronald Hoffman2 (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), LuAnn Homza (Ph.D., Chicago), Scott R. Nelson Leslie & Naomi Legum Professor (Ph.D., North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Carol Sheriff (Ph.D., Yale), James P. Whittenburg William E. Pullen Professor (Ph.D., Georgia).

Visiting Distinguished Professor

Robert F. Engs Visiting Harrison Professor (Ph.D., Yale).

Associate Professors

Kveta E. Benes Clark G. and Elizabeth H. Diamond Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Washington), Chandos M. Brown (Ph.D., Harvard), Philip Daileader (Ph.D., Harvard), Andrew H. Fisher (Ph.D., Arizona State), Hiroshi Kitamura (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), Betsy O. Konefal (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Laurie S. Koloski (Ph.D., Stanford), Paul Mapp (Ph.D., Harvard), Charles McGovern (Ph.D., Harvard), Ronald B. Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard), Robert T. Vinson (Ph.D., Howard), Karin Wulf3 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Chitralekha Zutshi (Ph.D., Tufts).

Assistant Professors

Eric Han (Ph.D., Columbia), Ayfer Karakaya Stump (Ph.D., New York University), James La Fleur (Ph.D., Virginia), Kathrin Levitan (Ph.D., Chicago), Matthew Mosca (Ph.D., Harvard), Nicholas Popper (Ph.D., Princeton), Jeremy Pope (Ph.D., Harvard), Fabricio Prado (Ph.D., Emory).

Adjunct Associate Professor

Carl Lounsbury (Ph.D., George Washington).

Visiting Associate Professor

Susan A. Kern4 (Ph.D., William & Mary)

Visiting Assistant Professors

Jody Allen (Ph.D., William & Mary), Guillaume Aubert (Ph.D., Tulane), Julie Richter (Ph.D., William & Mary), Elena Schneider5 (Ph.D., Princeton).

Lecturers

Marley R. Brown III (Ph.D., Brown), Cary Carson6 (Ph.D., Harvard), Charles F. Hobson7 (Ph.D., Emory), James Horn8 (Ph.D., University of Sussex), Kevin P. Kelly9 (Ph.D., Washington), Fredrika Teute10 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Lorena S. Walsh11 (Ph.D., Michigan).


1 Editor, William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
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 Vice President of Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
7 Editor, John Marshall Papers
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 Editor of Publications, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
11 Historian, Department of Historical Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation