Core Faculty

Spencer Crew

Robinson Professor

U.S. History

Chris C Elzey

Director, Sport and American Culture minor

U.S. History: History of basketball; sport and ethnicity; Olympics; sport and race; sport and scandal; sport and film

C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

Associate Professor

U.S. History: 19th-Century, Indigenous Histories, Public History, Washington D.C.

Christopher H. Hamner

Associate Professor

U.S. History: War and American society, the individual experience of combat, technological change and warfare

Yevette Richards Jordan

Associate Professor

U.S. History: African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism

Mills Kelly

Emeritus Faculty

U.S. History: Digital humanities, public digital history, historical pedagogy, Appalachian Studies, modern East Central Europe, Environmental history

Cynthia A. Kierner

Professor

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

Meredith H. Lair

Associate Professor

U.S. History: 20th-century US, the Vietnam War, war and American society, veterans, collective memory, consumerism, militarism

Alison Landsberg

Director, Center for Humanities Research

Professor

U.S. History: the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics

Sam Lebovic

Professor

U.S. History: 20th century culture and politics; civil liberties; media history; foreign relations; national security; democracy; political institutions and political economy; cultural globalization, constitutional history.

Lincoln A. Mullen

Professor

U.S. History: American religious history, digital history, 19th-century U.S. history

Michael O'Malley

Professor

U.S. History: 19th and 20th century US, cultural history, history of technology

George Oberle

Associate Professor

U.S. History: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American History, History of Education and Knowledge Institutions, Civil Societies, History of Science and Technology, George Mason and the Mason family, and the Old South

Jennifer Ritterhouse

Professor

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

Stephen Robertson

Director of the MA Program in History

Professor

U.S. History: 20th century US history, digital history, legal history, urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality

Zachary Schrag

Professor

U.S. History: US history, urban history, history of technology, public policy, research methods.

Randolph Scully

Associate Professor

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

Nate Sleeter

Research Assistant Professor

U.S. History: Gifted children, cultural history, teaching and learning, digital

Suzanne E. Smith

Director of the PhD Program

Professor

U.S. History: African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History

Rosemarie Zagarri

Distinguished University Professor

U.S. History: Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history