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

Professor
256 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10-11am; Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm

Associate Professor, Director, Distinguished Majors Program
Nau 355
Office Hours: Tuesday, 3-5 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: W, 2:00-4:00PM

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: T, 2:00-3:00PM; TR, 11:00AM-12:00PM; or by appointment

Associate Professor, Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Nau 385
Office Hours: Mondays, 12:30-2:30PM

Commonwealth Professor Emerita of History and Mathematics
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: Thursdays 2:30 - 4 pm, and by appointment

Associate Professor; Co-Director, Holsinger Portrait Project
353 Nau
Office Hours: T, 2:00PM-4:00PM; W, 10:30AM-12:30PM; and by appointment

Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies
Nau 236
Office Hours: On Leave

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: On Leave

Assistant Professor
Nau Hall 252
Office Hours: W, 10:00AM-12:00PM and by appointment

Professor and Chair
Nau Hall 281
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00PM, and by appointment.

Associate Professor
Nau 235
Office Hours: On leave 2023-2024

Professor
282 Nau
Office Hours: W, 1:30-3:30PM

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: Mondays, 1:30-3:00PM

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

Edward Stettinius Professor of History
Nau 291
Office Hours: T, 3:00-5:00PM

Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History
283 Nau Hall
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:00-3:30pm (in person) and by appointment on Zoom

Associate Professor
Nau 356
Office Hours: T/TR, 2:00-3:00PM

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

Professor, Co-Director, UVA Early American Seminar, Co-Director, MapScholar
431 Nau Hall
Office Hours: W, 11:00-1:00pm and by appointment

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
Office Hours: T, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Graduate Student








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

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


Visiting Assistant Professor
356 Nau Hall