Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
| Achilles, Manuela | Lecturer, 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, Brian | Professor 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, Richard | Associate Professor Medieval and Early Modern South Asia; Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh |
| Berlanstein, Lenard R. | Commonwealth Professor Modern European Cultural History |
| Bond, Julian | Professor U.S. South |
| Braun, Herbert | Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Latin American |
| Burns, Jennifer L. | Assistant Professor 20th Century U.S., political, cultural, intellectual |
| Confino, Alon | Professor 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. Max | Associate Professor Colonial British America, History of Cartography, Slavery and Plantation Societies |
| Ferreira, Roquinaldo | Associate 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, Gerald | Lecturer U.S.-Latin American Relations, Espionage |
| Hale, Grace | Associate 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, William | Professor 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, Paul | Associate 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, Thomas | Associate 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, Phyllis | Professor Public History; History of U.Va.; Oral history |
| Lendon, J. E. | Professor Greek, Roman |
| Loeffler, James | Assistant Professor Jewish history; European history; history of human rights |
| Mason, John Edwin | Associate 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, Allan | Professor 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, Neeti | Assistant 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, Karen | Professor 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, Jeffrey | Associate Professor Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Russia/USSR; Modern Europe; Communism; Genocide |
| Rowe, Erin | Assistant 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, Robert | Assistant Professor Japanese History, Social Theory |
| Thomas, Mark | Professor 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, Elizabeth | Professor American South, Civil War Era, Women’s and Gender History, Intellectual and Cultural History |
| Zelikow, Philip | White 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 Ellen | Assistant Professor Imperial China, especially Song dynasty (960-1279), elite culture, women and family |
| Zunz, Olivier | Commonwealth 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, Tomiko | Professor of History Professor of Law American social and legal history |
| Carlson, W. Bernard | Professor Member of Committe on the History of Environment and Technology History of Technology; American Business History; Entrepreneurship; Social and Cognitive Theories of Innovation |
| Cushman, Barry | James 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, Risa | Professor 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, John | Professor 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. Edward | John B. Minor Professor of Law and Professor of History American Legal History, Intellectual History |
Associated Faculty
| Coleman, David | Associate Professor Nuclear and defense policy, U.S.-European relations, and Cold War history |
| Field, Corinne | Adjunct 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, Guian | Associate Professor, Miller Center of Public Affairs, Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy U.S. social policy history and urban history |
| O'Shaughnessy, Andrew | Saunders 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, Walter | Professor Emeritus Modern India |
| Israel, John W. | Professor Emeritus Modern China |
| McClellan, Woodford | Professor Emeritus Modern Russia |
| Midelfort, H. C. Erik | Julian Bishko Professor of History, Emeritus Early Modern Europe |
| Sablinsky, Walter | Professor Emeritus Modern & Soviet Russia |
| Schutte, Anne J. | Professor Emerita Early Modern Cultural, Gender, Religious; Italy |
| Sedgwick, Alexander | Professor Emeritus Early Modern France |
| Wilken, Robert L. | Professor Emeritus Early and medieval Christian history and thought |
| Williams, D. Alan | Professor Emeritus 18th Century U.S.; History of Virginia |
Scholars in Residence
| Floyd, Richard | Scholar in Residence Modern Britain and the British Empire |
| Johnson, Harold B. | Scholar in Residence Latin America |
| Levine, Stephen | Scholar 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, Cecile | Scholar in Residence Early Modern England |
