All human beings live in and through culture: the languages, traditions, and practices which create meaning in the world. Humans are likewise creatures of social order: the roles, institutions, and divisions of labor which define how we relate to one another. Together, cultural and social history explore the significance of what gets overlooked in state-centered and elitist narratives of the past. For cultural and social historians, evidence comes in many forms, from the “high” culture of novels, paintings, and operas, to the “popular” culture of rock music and comic books, to the material artifacts of work and domesticity, to the traces of lived experience recorded in letters and diaries. Challenging the authority of canons and hierarchies, cultural and social historians ask how ideas circulated in various contexts and how ordinary people made sense of the world around them. Drawing on the methods of literary criticism, cultural studies, and anthropology, this field of history reads the past as a text, reminding us that the intricacy and complexity we associate with great works of art are also the province of everyday life.
Cultural & Social History
Faculty
James Madison Professor, Emeritus
Professor
256 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10-11am; Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 pm; and by appointment
Associate Professor, Director, Distinguished Majors Program
Nau 355
Office Hours: Tuesday, 11 AM - 1 PM, and by appointment
Associate Professor of German
New Cabell Hall, Room 223
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and by appointment
Professor of History, William R Kenan, Jr Professor in American Studies
233 Nau Hall
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Assistant Dean, Associate Professor of History
269A Monroe Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Director & Chair of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies
Research Professor of History, Editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
Associate Professor of History, Affiliated Faculty, Department of French
Nau 354
Office Hours: TR, 11:00AM-1:00PM; Students should schedule meetings at https://calendly.com/profsessions
Associate Professor, Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Nau 385
Office Hours: Mondays, 12:30-2:30PM
Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics, Emerita
Nau 456 and Kerchof 213
Office Hours: By appointment
Professor of Sociology and History
Randall 202
Office Hours: N/A
Professor of Architectural History, Associate Dean in the School of Architecture
Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty, Women, Gender, and Sexuality
234 Nau Hall
Office Hours: On Leave: Spring and Fall 2024
Associate Professor; Co-Director, Holsinger Portrait Project
353 Nau
Office Hours: M, 2:00PM-4:00PM; W, 12:0-1:30; and by appointment
Associate Professor
Nau 391
Office Hours: W 2-3:30pm
William W. Corcoran Professor of History
Nau Hall 496
Office Hours: On Leave
Associate Professor
Nau 453
Office Hours: M, 1:00-2:30PM (Zoom), or by appointment (in-person or Zoom)
Assistant Professor
Nau Hall 252
Office Hours: M, 2-4PM
Professor and Chair
Nau Hall 281
Office Hours: W, 1:00PM-3:00PM and by appointment
Associate Professor
Nau 235
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Professor
Nau 282
Office Hours: W, 10:00AM-12:00PM
John L Nau, III, Professor in History of American Civil War, Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
497 Nau Hall
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Associate Professor of French
317A Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Associate Professor of Data Science
Elson 191
Edward Stettinius Professor of History
Nau 291
Office Hours: T, 10:00AM-12:00PM and by appointment on Zoom
Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History
283 Nau Hall
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Associate Professor
Nau 356
Office Hours: T, 2:00-4:00PM
Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and Dean of the School of Law, Professor of History
Law WB 389
Office Hours: F 12:00 - 1:30
Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality
203 Levering Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2023: Monday, 10:00am - 12:00pm and by appointment
Professor, Co-Director, UVA Early American Seminar
431 Nau Hall
Office Hours: M, 3:30-5PM and by appointment
Associate Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor of German and History, Director, European Studies Program, Director, Center for German Studies
NCH 233
Office Hours: M, 10:30AM-12:30PM
Graduate Student
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30 (virtual) and by appointment
Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies
Nau 236
Office Hours: On Leave
Co-Organizer, Far Right and Antifascism Group
Instructional Designer, A&S Learning Design & Technology
295 New Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Contact me.
Office Hours: By appointment
Professor
A220 Thornton Hall
Office Hours: Thurs. 12:30-2:00 (434) 924-4306
(434) 924-4306
Visiting Assistant Professor
356 Nau Hall