The study of slavery necessarily implicates a series of other historical approaches: ethnicity and race, legal history, studies of gender, labor history, social history, economic history, material culture. By being about both economy and power, the study of slavery and its aftermaths must engage with some of the largest questions any historian can ask, and draw on some of the widest varieties of evidence possible. In the Corcoran Department, the study of slavery also extends far beyond the North American focus to be expected, and found, at Mr. Jefferson's University; its practitioners study systems of enslavement and manumission from antiquity to the present, from ancient Greece to modern Africa.
History of Slavery
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Graduate Student
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PhD Candidate
296 Nau Hall
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Faculty
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John L. Nau III Distinguished Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy
NAU 491
Office Hours: TR, 1:30-3:30PM
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Associate Professor, Brockman Foundation Jefferson Scholars Foundation Professor
Nau 384
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
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Professor, Co-Director, UVA Early American Seminar
431 Nau Hall
Office Hours: M, 3:30-5PM and by appointment
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Associate Professor
352 Nau Hall
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
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Associate Professor
Nau 235
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
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Assistant Professor, General Faculty
Nau 436
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
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Associate Professor; Co-Director, Holsinger Portrait Project
353 Nau
Office Hours: M, 2:00PM-4:00PM; W, 12:0-1:30; and by appointment
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Professor of Architectural History, Associate Dean in the School of Architecture
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Professor of Law, Professor of History
Law WB 302D
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John L. Nau III Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, Professor of History and Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Nau 295
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Director & Chair of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies
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Assistant Dean, Associate Professor of History
269A Monroe Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
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Associate Professor
Nau 355
Alumni
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