Jan 13, 2025  
2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024 - 2025 Graduate Catalog

History Faculty


CHAIR

Kveta Benes Professor (Ph.D., Washington - Seattle).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

Kathrin Levitan Associate Professor (Ph.D., Chicago).

PROFESSORS

Frederick Corney (Ph.D., Columbia), Philip Daileader (Ph.D., Harvard), Melvin Ely William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities (Ph.D., Princeton), Lu Ann Homza James Pickney Harrison Chair (Ph.D., Chicago), Leisa Meyer William & Mary Community Studies Professor of American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison) (on leave Spring 2025), Joshua Piker (Ph.D., Cornell), Nicholas Popper (Ph.D., Princeton), Ronald Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave 2024-2025), Carol Sheriff (Ph.D., Yale), and Chitralekha Zutshi Class of 1962 Professor of History (Ph.D., Tufts).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Chandos Brown (Ph.D., Harvard), Gérard Chouin Margaret L. Hamilton Associate Professor (Ph.D., Syracuse) (on leave 2024-2025), Andrew Fisher (Ph.D., Arizona State), Julia Gaffield (Ph.D., Duke), Cristina Galmarini (Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Eric Han (Ph.D., Columbia) (on leave Fall 2024), Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave 2024-2025), Hiroshi Kitamura (Ph.D., Wisconsin - Madison), Betsy Konefal (Ph.D., Pittsburgh), Paul Mapp (Ph.D., Harvard), Charles McGovern (Ph.D., Harvard) (on leave 2024-2025), Simon Middleton William E. Pullen Chair (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Centre), Adrienne Petty (Ph.D., Columbia), Jeremy Pope (Ph.D., Harvard), Fabricio Prado (Ph.D., Emory) (on leave 2024-2025), Hannah Rosen (Ph.D., Chicago), Chinua Thelwell (Ph.D., New York University), and Richard Turits (Ph.D., Chicago).

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Jody Allen (Ph.D., William & Mary), Peyman Jafari (Ph.D., Leiden University), and Brianna Nofil (Ph.D., Columbia) (on leave Fall 2024).

TEACHING PROFESSOR

Jerry Watkins, III (Ph.D., King’s College).

ASSOCIATE TEACHING PROFESSOR

Nicole Dressler (Ph.D., Northern Illinois).

ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR

Sarah McCartney (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Greensboro).

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Julie Richter (Ph.D., William & Mary), and Robyn Schroeder (Ph.D., Brown).

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Nathaniel Berndt (Ph.D., Duke), and Zachary Hershey (PhD., Pennsylvania).

COURTESY PROFESSORS

Christopher Grasso (Ph.D., Yale), and Karin Wulf (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins).

COURTESY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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

ADJUNCT LECTURERS

David Brown (M.A., Massachusetts-Boston), Michael Butler (Ph.D., Virginia), Irina Gorbunova-Ford (Ph.D. Far Eastern Academy of Public Service, Khabarovsk, Russia), Jeffrey Klee (Ph.D., Delaware), Glenn LaFantasie (Ph.D., Brown), Amy Limoncelli (Ph.D., Boston College), Carl Lounsbury (Ph.D., George Washington), and Amy Stallings (Ph.D., William & Mary).