Apr 16, 2024  
2014 - 2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014 - 2015 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

History Faculty


CHAIR

Cindy Hahamovitch Class of ‘38 Professor of History (Ph.D., North Carolina - Chapel Hill).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

 Hiroshi Kitamura (Ph.D., University of 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), Scott Nelson Leslie & Naomi Legum Professor (Ph.D., North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Carol Sheriff (Ph.D., Yale), James Whittenburg William E. Pullen Professor (Ph.D., Georgia), and Karin Wulf2 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Kveta Benes Clark G. and Elizabeth H. Diamond Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Washington - Seattle), Chandos Brown (Ph.D., Harvard), Philip Daileader (Ph.D., Harvard), Andrew Fisher (Ph.D., Arizona State), Eric Han (Ph.D., Columbia), Laurie S. Koloski Undergraduate Director (Ph.D., Stanford), Betsy Konefal (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Kathrin Levitan (Ph.D., Chicago), Paul Mapp (Ph.D., Harvard), Charles McGovern (Ph.D., Harvard), Leisa Meyer (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), Brett Rushforth3 (Ph.D., California - Davis), Ronald Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard), Richard Turits (Ph.D., Chicago), Trent Vinson University Associate Professor for Teaching, Francis L. And Edwin L. Cummings Professor (Ph.D., Howard), and Chitralekha Zutshi (Ph.D., Tufts).

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

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

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Michael Butler (Ph.D., Virginia).

VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Jody Allen (Ph.D., William & Mary), Guillaume Aubert (Ph.D., Tulane), Celeste McNamara (Ph.D., Northwestern), and Paul Polgar5 (Ph.D., City University of New York).

LECTURERS

Marley Brown III (Ph.D., Brown), Cary Carson6 (Ph.D., Harvard), David Corlett (Ph.D., William and Mary), Charles F. Hobson7 (Ph.D., Emory), James Horn8 (Ph.D., Sussex), Fredrika Teute9 (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Lorena S. Walsh10 (Ph.D., Michigan), Julie Richter (Ph.D., William and Mary), and Nadine Zimmerli11 (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 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 Editor of Publications, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
10 Historian, Department of Historical Research, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
11 Assistant Editor Book Publications, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture