Faculty

Allen, Jody L.
Assistant Professor, History; Robert Francis Engs Director, The Lemon Project
Office: Blair 334
Phone: 221-1200
Email: [[jlalle]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: U.S., African American, Women, Higher Education (slavery and Jim Crow)

Becker, Michael
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Office: Blair 345
Email: [[mjbecker]]

Benes, Tuska
Professor and Chair, History
Office: Blair 331
Email: [[kebene]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Europe and Germany
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Nationalism and National Identity, Religion, Science and Medicine

Berndt, Nathaniel
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Office: Blair 316
Email: [[naberndt]]

Brown, Chandos
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 343
Phone: 757-221-1271
Email: [[cmbrow]]
Regional Areas of Research: Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Religion, Science and Medicine

Butler, Michael
Adjunct Lecturer, History
office: Blair 307
email: [[mabutler01]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: International Relations

Chouin, Gérard
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 316
Email: [[glchouin]]
Regional Areas of Research: Ancient to Modern Africa, Atlantic World, Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, Cultural/Intellectual, Imperialism and Colonialism, Environmental, French Atlantic, Historiography and Historical Memory, Material Culture, Religion, Science and Medicine

Corney, Frederick
Professor, History
Office: Blair 331
Email: [[fccorn]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Europe and Russia
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, Cultural and Intellectual History, Historiography and Historical Memory

Daileader, Philip
Professor, History
Office: Blair 342
Email: [[phdail]]
Regional Areas of Research: Medieval Europe, especially Spain and France
Thematic Areas of Research: Social History, Religious History, and Historiography

Dressler, Nicole
Associate Teaching Professor of History
Office: Blair 304
Email: [[nkdressler]]
Regional Areas of Research: Early America, Atlantic World, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: British Empire, Cultural/Intellectual, Social and Labor

Ely, Melvin Patrick
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities, History
Office: Blair 301
Email: [[mpelyx]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: African American, American South, Popular Culture and Media, Race and Ethnicity

Fisher, Andrew
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 338
Phone: 757-221-3408
Email: [[ahfis2]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Imperialism and Colonialism, Environmental, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, North American West, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Race and Ethnicity

Gaffield, Julia
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 311
Email: [[jkgaffield]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Vast Early America, Haiti
Thematic Areas of Research: Revolution, Independence, International Law, Diplomatic History, Abolitionism

Galmarini, Maria
Associate Professor, History and Global Studies
Office: Blair 350
Email: [[mgalmarinikaba]]
Regional Areas of Research: Russia and Modern Europe
Thematic Areas of Research: Social History, Gender, Disability Studies, Transnational

Han, Eric
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 303
Email: [[echan]]
Regional Areas of Research: East and South Asia
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, Diaspora and Migration, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Race and Ethnicity

Homza, Lu Ann
Harrison Chair and Professor, History
Office: Blair 360
Email: [[lahomz]]
Regional Areas of Research: Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Iberian Empires, Legal, Religion

Jafari, Peyman
Assistant Professor, History and International Relations
Office: Blair 355
Email: [[pjafari]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Middle East and Indonesia
Thematic Areas of Research: Labor, Environmental and Infrastructural History, Energy and Natural Resources (oil), Revolutions, Empires and Imperialism, Commodity Frontiers and Capitalism.

Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 310
Email: [[akstump]]
Regional Areas of Research: Middle East, especially Anatolia and the Balkans under Ottoman Rule
Thematic Areas of Research: Religion, Subalternity, Cultural and Social, Borders and Borderlands, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Historiography and Historical Memory

Kelly, Catherine
Professor, Executive Director, Omohundro Institute
Office: Ground level, Swem Library
Phone: 757-221-1114
Email: [[cekelly01]]
Regional Areas of Research: Early America, U.S
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/ Intellectual, Material Culture

Kitamura, Hiroshi
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 340
Phone: 757-221-3740
Email: [[hxkita]]
Regional Areas of Research: East and South Asia, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Comparative and Transnational, International Relations, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Popular Culture and Media

Konefal, Betsy
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 341
Email: [[bokone]]
Regional Areas of Research: Latin America and the Caribbean
Thematic Areas of Research: Native American/Indigenous Peoples, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Labor

Levitan, Kathrin
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, History
Office: Blair 308
Email: [[khlevi]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Europe and Britain
Thematic Areas of Research: British Empire, Cultural/Intellectual, Imperialism and Colonialism, Nationalism and National Identity, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Labor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Limoncelli, Amy
Adjunct Lecturer, History
Office: Blair 307
Email: [[aelimo]]
Regional Areas of Research: Modern Europe and Britain

Mapp, Paul
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 315
Phone: 757-221-3765
Email: [[pwmapp]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Early America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Borders and Borderlands, British Empire, Comparative and Transnational, Imperialism and Colonialism, French Atlantic, Historiography and Historical Memory, Iberian Empires, International Relations, North American West, Pacific World/Pacific Rim

McCartney, Sarah E.
Assistant Teaching Professor , NIAHD
Office: Blair 357
email: [[semcca]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Material Culture, Social & Labor, Cultural/Intellectual, Public History

McGovern, Charles
Associate Professor, History and American Studies
Office: Samuel E. Jones House, 219
Phone: 757-221-1296
Email: [[cfmcgo]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Economic History and Capitalism, Popular Culture and Media

Meyer, Leisa
Professor, History, American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Office: College Apartments 203
Email: [[ldmeye]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Popular Culture and Media, Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Middleton, Simon
William E. Pullen Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 317
Email: [[smiddleton]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Social/Cultural, Political Economy

Nofil, Brianna
Assistant Professor
Office: Blair 348
Email: [[blnofil]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Immigration, borders and borderlands, carceral state, legal

Petty, Adrienne
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 332
Email: [[ampetty]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States

Piker, Joshua
Professor, History, Editor, William and Mary Quarterly
Email: [[japiker]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: British Empire, Native American/Indigenous Peoples

Pope, Jeremy
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 211
Email: [[jwpope]]
Regional Areas of Research: Ancient to Modern Africa, Middle East and Indian Ocean
Thematic Areas of Research: African American, Comparative and Transnational, Cultural/Intellectual, Diaspora and Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Religion

Popper, Nicholas S.
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 349
Email: [[nspopper]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Thematic Areas of Research: British Empire, Comparative and Transnational, Cultural/Intellectual, Imperialism and Colonialism, Historiography and Historical Memory, Science and Medicine

Prado, Fabrício
Associate Professor, History
Office: Blair 351
Email: [[fpprado]]
Regional Areas of Research: Atlantic World, Latin America and the Caribbean
Thematic Areas of Research: Borders and Borderlands, Comparative and Transnational, Economic History and Capitalism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Iberian Empires, Social and Labor

Richter, Julie
Faculty Affiliate, History , History, Director of NIAHD
Office: Blair 333
Email: [[cjrich]]
Regional Areas of Research: Early America, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: African American, American South, Material Culture, Public History, Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Rosen, Hannah
Associate Professor, History and American Studies
Office: Blair 305
Email: [[hrosen]]
Phone: 757-221-1347
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: African American, American South, Cultural/Intellectual, Race and Ethnicity, Social and Labor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Schechter, Ronald
Professor, History
Office: Blair 218
Email: [[rbsche]]
Regional Areas of Research: Early Modern and Modern Europe
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Race and Ethnicity, Religion

Schroeder, Robyn
Faculty Affiliate, History, Assistant Director, NIAHD
Office: Blair 312
Email: [[rschroeder]]
Regional Areas of Research: Early America, US
Thematic Areas of Research: Public History, Cultural/Intellectual, American South, Political History

Sheriff, Carol
Professor, History
Office: Blair 314
Email: [[cxsher]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: Cultural/Intellectual, Social and Labor

Thelwell, Chinua Akimaro
Associate Professor, History and Africana Studies
Office: Blair 354
Email: [[cathelwell]]
Regional Areas of Research: Ancient to Modern Africa, United States
Thematic Areas of Research: African American, Comparative and Transnational, Cultural/Intellectual, Diaspora and Migration, Popular Culture and Media, Race and Ethnicity

Turits, Richard Lee
Associate Professor, History, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies
Office: Blair 225
email: [[rturits]]
Regional Areas of Research: Latin America and the Caribbean
Thematic Areas of Research: Caribbean, Latin America, U.S. Empire, Race & Racism

Watkins III, Jerry
Associate Teaching Professor, History
Office: Blair 339
Email: [[jtwatkinsiii]]
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: LGBTQ+, Southern Culture, Theatre, Popular Culture

Zhang, Jinghong
Visiting Assistant Professor, History and Modern Languges
Office: Blair 303
Email: [[jzhang60]]

Zutshi, Chitralekha
Class of 1962 Professor of History
Office: Blair 306
Email: [[cxzuts]]
Regional Areas of Research: South Asia and the Indian Ocean
Thematic Areas of Research: Islam, Imperialism and Colonialism, Historiography and Historical Memory, Nationalism and National Identity, British Empire, and Cultural/Intellectual History