Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Achilles, ManuelaLecturer, Departments of History and German
Associate Director, Center for German Studies
Modern German and European history and culture; history of emotions; cultural studies; critical theory, sustainablity in transatlantic perspective.
On Leave: Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
Balogh, BrianProfessor of History, Department of History, University of Virginia
Director and Chair, The Miller Center National Fellowship Program, Compton Professor
20th Century U.S. Political, American Political Development, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology
Barnett, RichardAssociate Professor
Medieval and Early Modern South Asia; Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh
Berlanstein, Lenard R.Commonwealth Professor
Modern European Cultural History
Bond, JulianProfessor
U.S. South
Braun, HerbertAssociate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Latin American
Burns, Jennifer L.Assistant Professor
20th Century U.S., political, cultural, intellectual
Confino, AlonProfessor
Modern Germany, Holocaust, and Europe; historical method and narrative; memory and cultural history; transnational history of forced migration in the modern world, with an emphasis on the 1940s and in particular on Palestine/Israel
Crosby, Everett U.Professor
Sometime Chairman, Medieval Studies Program
Medieval Europe:1050-1750; Medieval France and England; Medieval Church
On Leave: Spring 2012
Dimberg, Ronald G.Associate Professor
Korea, Traditional China
Edelson, S. MaxAssociate Professor
Colonial British America, History of Cartography, Slavery and Plantation Societies
Ferreira, RoquinaldoAssociate Professor
Early Africa, Colonial Brazil, Atlantic World
Gallagher, Gary W.John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War
U.S. Civil War
Geraci, Robert P.Associate Professor
Modern Russia and Russian Empire
On Leave: Spring 2012
Haines, GeraldLecturer
U.S.-Latin American Relations, Espionage
Hale, GraceAssociate Professor
20th century US cultural history and the US South
Halliday, Paul D.Professor and Associate Chair
Legal History; Britain and the Empire, 1500-1850
Harold, Claudrena N.Associate Professor
African-American History, African American Studies, U.S. Labor History
Hitchcock, WilliamProfessor of History
Modern Europe, War and Society, Cold War
Holt, Michael F.Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History
Nineteenth Century U.S., Political
Kershaw, PaulAssociate Professor
Head, Medieval Studies Program
Western Europe, AD 500 - 1050
On Leave: May 2011-August 2012
Kett, Joseph F.James Madison Professor
American Intellectual and Cultural History
On Leave: Spring 2012
Klubock, ThomasAssociate Professor
Latin America, Chile, Working-Class History, History of Gender and Sexuality, Environmental History
Leffler, Melvyn P.Edward Stettinius Professor of History
History of U.S. Foreign Relations
Leffler, PhyllisProfessor
Public History; History of U.Va.; Oral history
Lendon, J. E.Professor
Greek, Roman
Loeffler, JamesAssistant Professor
Jewish history; European history; history of human rights
Mason, John EdwinAssociate Professor
Southern Africa, Modern Africa, History of Photography
McCurdy, Charles W.Professor of History and Law
Legal
McMillen, Christian W.Associate Professor
Native American; U.S. West
Megill, AllanProfessor
Modern Europe, Modern European History of Ideas, Historical Theory/Philosophy of History
Meyer, Elizabeth A.Professor
Greek and Roman
On Leave: fall 2012-spring 2013
Miller, Joseph C.T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor
Early Africa, Slavery, Slave Trade, Atlantic History, World History
On Leave: Spring 2012
Nair, NeetiAssistant Professor
Modern South Asia
Onuf, Peter S.Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor
American Revolution, Early American Republic
Osheim, Duane J.Professor
Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Owensby, Brian P.Professor and Department Chair
Latin America; Modern Brazil; Colonial Mexico; Legal History; early-modern Spanish empire in the New World
Parshall, KarenProfessor of History and Mathematics
History of Science
Reed, Bradly W.Associate Professor
China
Rosenfeld, Sophia Professor
17th- to early 19th-Century France and Europe; Early Modern European and American Intellectual History; Age of Revolutions
Rossman, JeffreyAssociate Professor
Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
Russia/USSR; Modern Europe; Communism; Genocide
Rowe, ErinAssistant Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions (Non-US History)
Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean; Saints and Sanctity
Schuker, Stephen A.William W. Corcoran Professor
Modern Europe
Stagg, J.C.A.Professor
Editor, The Papers of James Madison
Early American Republic
Stolz, RobertAssistant Professor
Japanese History, Social Theory
Thomas, MarkProfessor of History and Economics
British Economic, US Business and Economic, International Economic, Australia
On Leave: Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Thompson, Elizabeth F.Associate Professor
Director, Workshop on Muslim Societies
20th-century Middle Eastern history: Social Movements, State Formation, Colonialism, Gender, Public Sphere and Cinema
Varon, ElizabethProfessor
American South, Civil War Era, Women’s and Gender History, Intellectual and Cultural History
Zelikow, PhilipWhite Burkett Miller Professor of History
Associate Dean for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Modern world, 20th century US, American foreign policy
Zhang , Cong EllenAssistant Professor
Imperial China, especially Song dynasty (960-1279), elite culture, women and family
Zunz, OlivierCommonwealth Professor
Twentieth Century U.S., Social


Faculty with Joint Appointments

Brown, John K.Associate Professor
Member of Committe on the History of Environment and Technology
Technological and Industrial History
Brown-Nagin, TomikoProfessor of History
Professor of Law
American social and legal history
Carlson, W. BernardProfessor
Member of Committe on the History of Environment and Technology
History of Technology; American Business History; Entrepreneurship; Social and Cognitive Theories of Innovation
Cushman, BarryJames Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law
David H. Ibbeken '71 Research Professor of Law
American Legal and Constitutional History
Fogarty, Gerald P.William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
U.S. Catholic History and Vatican diplomacy
Goluboff, RisaProfessor of Law, Professor of History
Caddell & Chapman Research Professor
History of civil rights, labor, and constitutional law in the 20th century
Horne, Janet R.Associate Professor of French
French Civilization; Social and Cultural History; Cinema and History
James, JohnProfessor of Economics
Professor of History
Economic History
Olick, Jeffrey K.Professor of Sociology and History
Collective memory, critical theory, transitional justice, and postwar Germany
Russell, Edmund P.Professor
Environmental History; History of Technology
Weber , Alison Associate Professor
Women's History, Spanish History
White, G. EdwardJohn B. Minor Professor of Law and Professor of History
American Legal History, Intellectual History

Associated Faculty

Coleman, DavidAssociate Professor
Nuclear and defense policy, U.S.-European relations, and Cold War history
Field, CorinneAdjunct Professor
U.S. gender and race; childhood and adulthood
Gilliam, George H.Assistant Director for Public Programs and Chair of the Forum Program, Miller Center of Public Affairs
Graduate Student (ABD)
U.S. South
McKee, GuianAssociate Professor, Miller Center of Public Affairs, Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy
U.S. social policy history and urban history
O'Shaughnessy, AndrewSaunders Director, Robert H.Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
Eighteenth Century Atlantic World, British Empire
Selverstone, Marc J.Associate Professor
U.S. foreign relations post-1945, the culture of the Cold War, and the Vietnam War

Affiliated Faculty

Zalashik, Rakefet Assistant Professor

Emeritus Faculty

Aron, Cindy S.Professor
American Women's History
Butler, Reginald D.Associate Professor
Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies
Afro-American
Edsall, Nicholas C.Professor Emeritus
Modern Britain
Gaston, Paul M.Professor Emeritus
U.S. South and Civil Rights
Hauser, WalterProfessor Emeritus
Modern India
Israel, John W.Professor Emeritus
Modern China
McClellan, WoodfordProfessor Emeritus
Modern Russia
Midelfort, H. C. ErikJulian Bishko Professor of History, Emeritus
Early Modern Europe
Sablinsky, WalterProfessor Emeritus
Modern & Soviet Russia
Schutte, Anne J.Professor Emerita
Early Modern Cultural, Gender, Religious; Italy
Sedgwick, AlexanderProfessor Emeritus
Early Modern France
Wilken, Robert L.Professor Emeritus
Early and medieval Christian history and thought
Williams, D. AlanProfessor Emeritus
18th Century U.S.; History of Virginia

Scholars in Residence

Floyd, RichardScholar in Residence
Modern Britain and the British Empire
Johnson, Harold B.Scholar in Residence
Latin America
Levine, StephenScholar in Residence
U.S. Cultural History, Late 19th and Early 20th Century U.S.
Wright, Luke S. H.Scholar in Residence
Early Modern England
Zinberg, CecileScholar in Residence
Early Modern England



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