Faculty & Staff
Cornerstone Chair in History
Chair, Department of History
Specialties:
- Political and legal history
- LGBT history
- Southern history
804-289-8990
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
- Latin American History
- Cultural History
- History of Emotions
- Latin American Independence
- Bourbon Reforms
Dr. Edward L. Ayers
He/Him
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus
Specialties:
- The Civil War
- Digital Humanities
(804) 334-5554
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern Britain and the World
- History of Education
- British Emancipation
(804) 289-8335
Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Specialties:
- Imperial Russia / Soviet Union / Post-Soviet space
- Ideology & Propaganda
- Nationalism
- Interdisciplinary methodology (esp. concerning literature and film)
(804) 289-8667
Professor of History
Specialties:
- Medieval Europe, Medieval/Renaissance Italy
- Households, Family, and Gender in the Middle Ages
- Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily
- Medieval Frontiers
- The Crusades
(804) 287-1828
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern Europe
- 20th Century Germany
- History of Migration
- Race, Gender, Sexuality
- Far-Right Extremism
(804) 289-8346
Cornerstones Visiting Chair in History
Specialties:
- Ukrainian women’s history and anthropology in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Anthropology of the Gulag
- Oral history
- Gender transformations in post-socialist countries
804-289-8428
Associate Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Japanese Colonialism
- Okinawan History
- Heritage Studies
(804) 289-8334
Dr. Graeme Mack
He/Him
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Specialties:
- U.S. - China
- Pacific World(s)
- Political Economy
- Maritime History
- The American West
- Encounter and Cultural Exchange
Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
Specialties:
- 20th Century United States
- Social Movements
- African American History
- Black Women's History
- Appalachian Studies
(807) 287-6306
Associate Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance
Interdisciplinary Program Co- Coordinator, Global Studies
Africana Studies Ex-Officio Advisory Board Member
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
- Political and Cultural History of Latin America
- Welfare and Philanthropy in Latin America
- Sociology of Medical Knowledge
(804) 287-6374
Adjunct Professor of History
Specialties:
- Medieval Europe
- Medieval England
- Medieval Economy
- Monasticism
(804) 289-6036
Associate Professor of History and American Studies
Specialties:
- United States and the World
- U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History
- History of International Development
- History of Philanthropy
- History of Cooperatives and Capitalism
(804) 289-8338
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century North America
- The American Revolution
- Early United States
- Race, Slavery, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
- Migration and Indigenous Dispossession
(804) 289-8340
Dr. Walter Stevenson
He/Him
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Chair, Department of Classical Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History
Specialties:
- Ancient History
- Roman Imperial Society
- Greek and Latin Literature
(804) 289-8424
Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Billikopf Professor of History and Global Studies
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Politics and Governance, Culture and Communications
Specialties:
- Colonial Africa
- History of Education
- Nationalism and Decolonization
(804) 289-8976
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
- Modern Africa
- Global History
- Decolonization
- Development
- Environment
Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Early Modern Europe
- 18th Century France
(804) 289-8339
Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
- Turkey and Ottoman Empire
- The Middle East
- Nationalism
- World War I
(804) 289-8336
Dr. Eric S. Yellin
He/Him
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
- Modern United States
- U.S. Political and Social History
- Race and Racism
(804) 289-8465