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
Nau 497
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 2:00-3:00pm

Associate Professor
256 Nau Hall
Office Hours: On leave Spring 2021
Associate Professor
Nau 355
Office Hours: 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

Assistant Dean, Associate Professor of History
202 Monroe Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

Research Professor of History, Editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition

Associate Professor of History, Affiliated Faculty, Department of French
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:00PM-3:00PM

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Nau 385

Associate Professor
Nau Hall 436
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00, F 11:00-12:00 & by appointment

Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics
Nau 456 and Kerchof 226
Office Hours: By appointment via Zoom

Professor of Sociology and History
Randall 202
Office Hours: N/A

Saunders Director, Robert H.Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
Office Hours: N/A

Professor of Architectural History, Associate Dean in the School of Architecture

Associate Professor
234 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday, 10-11 and by appointment

Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies
236 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-1:00 and by appointment

Associate Professor
Nau 391
Office Hours: W 2:30-3:30p

Associate Professor
Nau 453
Office Hours: Mon. 1:00-2:00 and by appointment- please email for Zoom invitation

Assistant Professor
Nau Hall 252
Office Hours: I am on leave in 2019-20

Professor
Nau Hall 281
Office Hours: MW 9:00-10:00AM & 12:00-1:00PM

Professor
282 Nau
Office Hours: Fall 2020: Fridays 10am-12pm (zoom)

John L Nau, III, Professor in History of American Civil War, Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
395 Nau Hall
Office Hours: On leave spring 2021

Associate Professor of French
317A Cabell Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Lecturer
New Cabell Hall 321
Office Hours: Mon and Wed, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Professor, Department Chair
Nau 291
Office Hours: Tuesday, 9:00 a.m.-10 a.m., 2:00 p.m.-3:15 pm

Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History
283 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Beginning August 29, 2019: T, TH 4:45-6:15

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

Assistant Professor, General Faculty
155 Nau Hall
Office Hours: M-F by appointment via Zoom.

Professor
A220 Thornton Hall
Office Hours: Thurs. 12:30-2:00 (434) 924-4306
(434) 924-4306

Associate Professor Emeritus

Associate Professor of German and History, Director, European Studies Program, Director, Center for German Studies
Nau 255
Office Hours: MW 10:00am-12:00pm, and by appointment
Graduate Student

Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30 (virtual) and by appointment

Ph.D. Candidate, Editor, Essays in History

Co-Organizer, Far Right and Antifascism Group


Office Hours: By appointment

Alumni

Institute for Thomas Paine Studies and University of Virginia Press Post-Doctoral Fellow at Iona College, 2020-2022


Visiting Assistant Professor
356 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4pm or by appointment