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History and Art History

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Faculty and Staff

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  • Shaul Bakhash

    Shaul Bakhash

    Robinson Professor

    Iran, modern Middle East, modern Islamic political thought

  • Steven Barnes

    Steven Barnes

    Associate Professor
    Director, Center for Eurasian Studies

    Modern Russian and Soviet history, totalitarianism, Cold War Europe

  • Lisa Passaglia Bauman

    Lisa Passaglia Bauman

    Assistant Professor

    Art History

  • Sheila Brennan

    Sheila Brennan

    Assistant Professor

    U.S. History: Public history; digital history; US cultural (19th & 20th C); museums, material culture and memory; popular collecting practices and hobbies

  • Joan C. Bristol

    Joan C. Bristol

    Associate Professor

    Latin America, social and cultural history

  • Lawrence E. Butler

    Lawrence E. Butler

    Associate Professor

    Medieval, Islamic, architecture

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  • Benedict Carton

    Benedict Carton

    Associate Professor

    Africa, environment and health, global and imperial histories, cultural and oral history

  • Jack R. Censer

    Jack R. Censer

    Professor
    Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences

    French, European social

  • Jane Turner Censer

    Jane Turner Censer

    Professor

    U.S. History: 19th century U.S.; American South; women, gender, and family in the U.S.

  • Michael G. Chang

    Michael G. Chang

    Associate Professor

    Political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial China; ethnicity; state-formation; court studies

  • Daniel Cohen

    Daniel Cohen

    Associate Professor

    European History: European and American intellectual history, history of science

  • Samuel Collins

    Samuel Collins

    Assistant Professor

    European History: Early medieval, religion

  • Dina M. Copelman

    Dina M. Copelman

    Associate Professor

    Modern British, European women, European social

  • Benjamin Arthur Cowan

    Benjamin Arthur Cowan

    Assistant Professor
  • Spencer Crew

    Spencer Crew

    Robinson Professor

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  • Diana D'Amico

    Diana D'Amico

    Assistant Professor

    History of education and education policy

  • Nicole De Armendi

    Nicole De Armendi

    Assistant Professor

    Art History

  • Robert D. DeCaroli

    Robert D. DeCaroli

    Associate Professor

    Interactions of early South Asian Buddhism with popular religious practice, the origin of the Buddha image and the social, political, religious factors that led to its codification and spread

  • Marion F. Deshmukh

    Marion F. Deshmukh

    Robert T. Hawkes Professor of History

    European cultural history, history of modern Germany and Austria, German and Austrian art history

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  • Angela George

    Angela George

    Assistant Director, History of Decorative Arts

    Decorative arts and design history

  • Fred Gibbs

    Fred Gibbs

    Assistant Professor

    European History

  • Michele Greet

    Michele Greet

    Associate Professor

    Twentieth-century Andean art, Latin American artists in Europe

  • Christopher A. Gregg

    Christopher A. Gregg

    Assistant Professor

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  • Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Associate Professor

    Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history

  • Christopher H. Hamner

    Christopher H. Hamner

    Associate Professor
    Concentration Head, War and the Military in Society

    War and American society, the individual experience of combat, technological change and warfare

  • Carmelita Hinton

    Carmelita Hinton

    Robinson Professor
  • Angela Ka-Yan Ho

    Angela Ka-Yan Ho

    Assistant Professor
  • Mack P. Holt

    Mack P. Holt

    Professor

    Early modern Europe, especially France, the Reformation, the history of wine, the history of the book

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  • Yevette Richards Jordan

    Yevette Richards Jordan

    Associate Professor
    Graduate Coordinator, Women and Gender Studies

    Women’s history, African American history, women’s labor in the global economy, labor history, Pan- Africanism, Cold War

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  • Matthew B. Karush

    Matthew B. Karush

    Associate Professor

    Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history

  • T. Mills Kelly

    T. Mills Kelly

    Professor

    Historical pedagogy, digital humanities, human trafficking, modern East Central Europe

  • Cynthia A. Kierner

    Cynthia A. Kierner

    Professor
    Director of the PhD Program, History and Art History

    U.S. History: Colonial and revolutionary America; early republic; Old South; women and gender

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  • Meredith Lair

    Meredith Lair

    Associate Professor
    Director, Interdisciplinary Studies

    The Vietnam War, war and American society, collective memory, conflict tourism, post-1945 social and cultural history

  • Alison Landsberg

    Alison Landsberg

    Associate Professor

    Early cinema, race and self-making, museums and the installation of memory, the politics of consumption

  • Sharon M. Leon

    Sharon M. Leon

    Associate Professor

    American religious history, history of science, 20th Century social and cultural history, digital public history

  • Randolph H. Lytton

    Randolph H. Lytton

    Associate Professor

    European History: Classical Greece and Rome

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  • John Nauright

    John Nauright

    Professor

    sport and international development, mega-events and legacies, globalization and sport, international issues in sport management, race and sport, gender and sport

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  • Michael O'Malley

    Michael O'Malley

    Associate Professor

    19th and 20th century US, cultural history, history of technology

  • John R. Orens

    John R. Orens

    Professor

    European History

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  • Gabriella Petrick

    Gabriella Petrick

    Assistant Professor
  • Paula Petrik

    Paula Petrik

    Professor

    U.S. History: 19th century U.S. social, trans-Mississippi West, business and economic history

  • Brian W. Platt

    Brian W. Platt

    Associate Professor
    Chair, History and Art History

    Japan, East Asia

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  • Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: 20th century U.S.; American South; women and gender; children and childhood

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  • Abdulaziz Sachedina

    Abdulaziz Sachedina

    IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies
  • Tom Scheinfeldt

    Tom Scheinfeldt

    Assistant Professor

    European History

  • Zachary Schrag

    Zachary Schrag

    Professor

    U.S. History: Post-1945 US history, urban history, history of technology, public policy, human subjects regulations, riot control

  • Kelly Schrum

    Kelly Schrum

    Associate Professor

    Teaching and learning, online learning, digital humanities, history education

  • Susan E. Schulze

    Susan E. Schulze

    Assistant Professor

    European History

  • Randolph Scully

    Randolph Scully

    Associate Professor
    Director of the MA Program in History, History and Art History

    U.S. History: colonial and revolutionary America, race, gender, religion, Southern history, Virginia history

  • Martin J. Sherwin

    Martin J. Sherwin

    University Professor

    U.S. History: Cold War-era politics, diplomacy, and culture; history and film; nuclear history

  • Richard Norton Smith

    Richard Norton Smith

    Assistant Professor

    U.S. History

  • Suzanne E. Smith

    Suzanne E. Smith

    Professor

    African American, 20th century Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Urban and Popular Music

  • Vadim Staklo

    Vadim Staklo

    Associate Professor

    European History

  • Peter Stearns

    Peter Stearns

    Provost

    World History: Modern European and American and comparative social history, history of emotions, world history

  • Ryan A. Swanson

    Ryan A. Swanson

    Assistant Professor
    Director, Sport and American Culture

    U.S. History: 19th century US, Social and political history, Sports history

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  • Sean Takats

    Sean Takats

    Assistant Professor

    European History: Eighteenth-century France, the Enlightenment, cultural history, history of medicine, early modern empire, the consumer revolution

  • Ellen Wiley Todd

    Ellen Wiley Todd

    Associate Professor
    Director of the MA Program in Art History, History and Art History

    American art history

  • John  Turner

    John Turner

    Assistant Professor

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  • Rex A. Wade

    Rex A. Wade

    University Professor

    Russian and Soviet history, the Russian revolution

  • Janet Walmsley

    Janet Walmsley

    Assistant Professor

    European History

  • David K Wiggins

    David K Wiggins

    Professor

    history of African American participation in sport, sport biography, race and ethnic issues in contemporary sport

  • Cynthia Williams

    Cynthia Williams

    Assistant Professor
    Director, History of Decorative Arts

    Glass, stained glass, ceramics

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  • Huseyin Yilmaz

    Huseyin Yilmaz

    Assistant Professor
    Co-Director, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies

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  • Rosemarie Zagarri

    Rosemarie Zagarri

    University Professor

    Early American history (colonial-1820); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history