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. |
| 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 |
| Braun, Herbert | Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Latin American |
| 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 |
| Edelson, S. Max | Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies Colonial British America, History of Cartography, Slavery and Plantation Societies |
| Ferreira, Roquinaldo | Associate Professor Early Africa, Colonial Brazil, Atlantic World On Leave: Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 |
| 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; history of nationality, ethnicity, and race; history of imperialism; history of commerce |
| Haines, Gerald | Lecturer U.S.-Latin American Relations, Espionage |
| Hale, Grace | Professor of History and American Studies Director of the American Studies Program 20th century US cultural history, history of the US South, documentary studies, sound studies |
| Halliday, Paul D. | Department Chair Julian Bishko Professor of History & Professor of Law 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 On Leave: Spring 2013 |
| Kershaw, Paul | Associate Professor Post-Roman Europe, 500 - 950 |
| Kett, Joseph F. | James Madison Professor American Intellectual and Cultural History On Leave: Spring 2013 |
| Klubock, Thomas | Associate Professor Latin America, Chile, Working-Class History, History of Gender and Sexuality, Environmental History |
| Lambert, Erin | Assistant Professor Early Modern Europe, Reformation, visual and aural cultures |
| 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 | Associate Professor Jewish history; European history; history of human rights |
| Mason, John Edwin | Associate Professor/Associate Chair 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 On Leave: Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 |
| 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 |
| Nair, Neeti | Associate Professor Modern South Asia |
| Osheim, Duane J. | Professor Medieval and Renaissance Europe |
| Owensby, Brian P. | Professor Latin America; Modern Brazil; Colonial Mexico; Legal History; early-modern Spanish empire in the New World On Leave: Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 |
| Parshall, Karen | Professor of History and Mathematics History of Science |
| Reed, Bradly W. | Associate Professor China |
| Rosenfeld, Sophia | Professor 17th- and 18th-century France and Europe; European and American Intellectual History; Comparative Age of Revolutions |
| Rossman, Jeffrey | Associate Professor Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Russia/USSR; Modern Europe; Communism; Genocide |
| Schuker, Stephen A. | William W. Corcoran Professor Modern Europe, International On Leave: Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 |
| 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 |
| Thompson, Elizabeth F. | Associate Professor 20th-century Middle Eastern history: Social Movements, Colonialism, Gender, Public Sphere and Cinema |
| Varon, Elizabeth | Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History American South, Civil War Era, Women’s and Gender History, Intellectual and Cultural History |
| White, Joshua M. | Assistant Professor Early Modern Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean; social, legal, and diplomatic 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 | Associate professor Imperial China, especially the Song dynasty (960-1279), elite culture, family, filial piety |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Weber , Alison | 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, Cori | Adjunct Professor U.S. gender and race; childhood and adulthood |
| Gilliam, George H. | Adjunct Instructor Graduate Student (ABD) American South; 19th Century Virginia Economic and Business History; Virginia Political History |
| 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
| von Daacke, Kirt | Associate Professor Assistant Dean American South, Slavery, Social and Cultural History |
Emeritus Faculty
| Aron, Cindy S. | Professor Emerita American Women's History |
| Berlanstein, Lenard R. | Commonwealth Professor, Emeritus Modern European Cultural History |
| Bond, Julian | Professor Emeritus U.S. South |
| Butler, Reginald D. | Associate Professor Emeritus Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies Afro-American |
| Crosby, Everett U. | Professor Emeritus Medieval Europe:1050-1750; Medieval France and England; Medieval Church |
| Dimberg, Ronald G. | Associate Professor Emeritus Korea, Traditional China |
| Edsall, Nicholas C. | Professor Emeritus Modern Britain |
| Gaston, Paul M. | Professor Emeritus U.S. South and Civil Rights |
| Hauser, Walter | Professor Emeritus Modern India |
| Holt, Michael F. | Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History, Emeritus Nineteenth Century U.S., Political |
| 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 |
| Onuf, Peter S. | Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, Emeritus American Revolution, Early American Republic |
| Sablinsky, Walter | Associate 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 | Associate Professor Emeritus 18th Century U.S.; History of Virginia |
Visiting Scholars
| Guo, Yanjun | Visiting Scholar |
| Johnson, Harold B. | Visiting Scholar Latin America |
| Kosicki, Piotr H. | ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) 20th-century Europe (West and East), Roman Catholicism, Cold War, commemoration of mass violence, history of ideas, Poland, France |
| Levine, Stephen | Visiting Scholar U.S. Cultural History, Late 19th and Early 20th Century U.S. |
| Zinberg, Cecile | Visiting Scholar Early Modern England |
