Faculty & Staff

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Dr. Pippa Holloway
Professor of History
Cornerstones Chair in History
Chair, Department of History
Specialties:
  • Political and legal history
  • LGBT history
  • Southern history
Contact:
804-289-8990
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Dr. Juan Pablo Ardila Falla
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
  • Latin American History
  • Cultural History
  • History of Emotions
  • Latin American Independence Processes
  • Bourbon Reforms
  • Age of Revolutions
  • History of Cartography
Contact:
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Dr. Chris Bischof
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
  • Modern Britain and the World
  • History of Education
  • British Emancipation
Contact:
(804) 289-8335
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Dr. David Brandenberger
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)
Contact:
(804) 289-8667
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Dr. James J. Broomall
Professor of History
William Binford Vest Chair in History
Specialties:
  • American Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Cultural History
  • Public History
  • Southern History
Contact:
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Dr. Joanna Drell
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
Contact:
(804) 287-1828
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Catherine Hash
Academic Administrative Coordinator
Contact:
(804) 287-6041
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
  • Modern Europe
  • 20th Century Germany
  • Far-Right Extremism
  • Neo-Nazism and Holocaust Denial
  • Migration and Mobility
  • Race and Racism
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Global/Transnational History
Contact:
(804) 289-8346
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Dr. Tze M. Loo
Associate Professor of History and Global Studies
Global Studies Concentration Advisor, Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
  • Japanese Colonialism
  • Okinawan History
  • Heritage Studies
Contact:
(804) 289-8334
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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
Contact:
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Dr. Jillean McCommons
Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
Specialties:
  • 20th Century United States
  • Social Movements
  • African American History
  • Black Women's History
  • Appalachian Studies
Contact:
(807) 287-6306
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Dr. Manuella Meyer
Associate Professor of History
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Africana Studies
Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Specialties:
  • Political and Cultural History of Latin America
  • Welfare and Philanthropy in Latin America
  • Sociology of Medical Knowledge
Contact:
(804) 287-6374
Dr. Marina Montesano
Cornerstones Visiting Chair in History
Specialties:
  • Medieval Europe, Medieval/Renaissance
  • Gender in the Middle Ages
  • East-West Mobility in the Middle Ages
  • Magic and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Times
  • Cultural History
Contact:
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Dr. Nicole Sackley
Associate Professor of History and American Studies
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • United States and the World
  • U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History
  • History of International Development
  • History of Philanthropy
  • History of Cooperatives and Capitalism
Contact:
(804) 289-8338
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Dr. Samantha Seeley
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
Contact:
(804) 289-8340
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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
Contact:
(804) 289-8424
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Dr. L. Carol Summers
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
Contact:
(804) 289-8976
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Dr. Geoffrey Traugh
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
  • Modern Africa
  • Global History
  • Decolonization
  • Development
  • Environment
Contact:
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Dr. Sydney Watts
Associate Professor of History and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Specialties:
  • Early Modern Europe
  • 18th Century France
Contact:
(804) 289-8339
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Dr. Yücel Yanıkdağ
Professor of History
Global Studies Concentration Advisor: Cultures and Communications
Specialties:
  • Turkey and Ottoman Empire
  • The Middle East
  • Nationalism
  • World War I
Contact:
(804) 289-8336
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Dr. Eric S. Yellin
He/Him
Associate Professor of History
Specialties:
  • Modern United States
  • U.S. Political and Social History
  • Race and Racism
Contact:
(804) 289-8465

Emeriti Faculty

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Dr. Edward L. Ayers
He/Him
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus
Specialties:
  • The Civil War
  • Digital Humanities
Contact:
(804) 334-5554