Tenure-line Faculty

LaNitra M Berger

Associate Professor

Art of the African Diaspora, African-American art history, South African modern art, Intersections of the African and Jewish Diasporas, lynching photography, art and social activism, African and African American Studies, social justice and international education, women artists, racial injustice and public monuments and memorials

Benedict Carton

Associate Director

Associate Professor

Africa, South Africa, transnational race, imperialism, cultural and oral history

Spencer Crew

Robinson Professor

Cynthia A. Kierner

Professor

Colonial and revolutionary America; early republic; Old South; women and gender; disasters in history

Christy L Pichichero

Associate Professor

Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student, Faculty, Staff Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.

Jennifer Ritterhouse

Professor

20th century U.S.; U.S. South; African American history; women and gender; children and childhood

Stephen Robertson

Professor

20th century US history, digital history, legal history, urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality

Gabrielle A Tayac

Associate Professor

Public History Native American and Indigenous Studies Museum Studies Community Engaged Methodology

Rosemarie Zagarri

Distinguished University Professor

Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history