History at College of William & Mary

48 faculty and 0 courses in History at College of William & Mary.

Faculty

• Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, History h-index 10
  Notable: “An observational study of Donor Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in UK lung transplantation: DEVELOP-UK” (2016) · 148 citations
• Hannah Rosen, Associate Professor, History and American Studies h-index 10
  Notable: “Preclassical and Classical Latin precursors of Romance verb-stem suppletion” (2000) · 24 citations
• Richard Lee Turits, Associate Professor, History, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies h-index 9
  Notable: “A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic” (2002) · 148 citations
• Gerard Chouin, Associate Professor, History h-index 9
  His research interests and areas of expertise include pre-Atlantic and early modern Atlantic West African sacred landscapes, earthworks, trade, sociopolitical systems, urbanization, social collapse, diseases, food, plants and cuisines; and
  Notable: “PRELUDE TO THE ATLANTIC TRADE: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTHERN GHANA'S PRE-ATLANTIC HISTORY (800–1500)” (2010) · 57 citations
• Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History; Interim Editor, William and Mary Quarterly h-index 8
  Notable: “The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy” (2016) · 72 citations
• Nicholas S. Popper, Professor of History h-index 8
  Notable: “Printing A Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography.” (2014) · 72 citations
• Charles McGovern, Associate Professor, History and American Studies h-index 7
  Notable: “Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image” (2001) · 72 citations
• Ronald Schechter, Professor, History h-index 7
  Notable: “The British Monarchy and the French Revolution” (1998) · 23 citations
• Fabricio Prado, Associate Professor, History h-index 7
  Focus on cross-border dynamics, social networks, commerce, contraband trade, corruption, social and economic history of the Southern Cone of Latin America. Follow W&M on Social Media:
  Notable: “Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas” (2016) · 43 citations
• Chitralekha Zutshi, Class of 1962 Professor of History h-index 7
  Notable: ““Designed for eternity”: Kashmiri Shawls, Empire, and Cultures of Production and Consumption in Mid-Victorian Britain” (2009) · 43 citations
• Catherine Kelly, Professor of History; Executive Director, Omohundro Institute h-index 7
  Notable: “In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century” (2001) · 32 citations
• Jody L. Allen, Associate Professor, History h-index 6
  Es on the experiences of Black Americans from the Civil War through the Long Civil Rights Movement. Her book, Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County, Virginia from Civil War to Civil Rights (UVA Press, 2025), traces a communityR
  Notable: “Cell Death Induced in a Murine Mastocytoma by 42–47°C Heatingin Vitro: Evidence that the Form of Death Changes from Apoptosis to Necrosis Above a Critical Heat Load” (1990) · 328 citations
• Lu Ann Homza, Professor, History h-index 6
  Notable: “Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World” (2000) · 49 citations
• Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Associate Professor, History and Medieval and Renaissance Studies h-index 6
  Notable: “The AKP, sectarianism, and the Alevis’ struggle for equal rights in Turkey” (2017) · 60 citations
• Simon Middleton, Associate Professor, History h-index 6
  Early American social history and political economy. Follow W&M on Social Media:
  Notable: “De Garengeot's hernia: our experience of three cases and literature review” (2014) · 42 citations
• Philip Daileader, Professor, History h-index 6
  Notable: “English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250–1450” (2001) · 8 citations
• Carol Sheriff, Professor, History h-index 5
  Notable: “The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress” (1998) · 43 citations
• Tuska Benes, Professor and Chair, History h-index 4
  The history of linguistic thought, nationalism, ethnology and racial theory, and Europe's relations with the wider world. She recently published In Babel's Shadow: Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2
  Notable: “Comparative Linguistics as Ethnology: In Search of Indo-Germans in Central Asia” (2004) · 27 citations
• Jeremy Pope, Associate Professor, History h-index 4
  Notable: “Epigraphic evidence for a ‘Porridge-and-Pot’ tradition on the ancient Middle Nile” (2013) · 34 citations
• Paul Mapp, Associate Professor, History h-index 4
  For Paul Mapp I'm a historian of early modern North America and the Atlantic World, two geographic designations I've extended into the waters of the Pacific. I joined William and Mary's department of history in fall 2003 after receivi
  Notable: “French Reactions to the British Search for a Northwest Passage from Hudson Bay and the Origins of the Seven Years' War” (2001) · 4 citations
• Kathrin Levitan, Associate Professor, History h-index 4
  She is now working on a project on letters and letter writing in nineteenth-century Britain Follow W&M on Social Media:
  Notable: “Redundancy, the ‘Surplus Woman’ Problem, and the British Census, 1851–1861” (2008) · 15 citations
• Chandos Brown, Associate Professor, History h-index 4
  Notable: “Mary Wollstonecraft, or, the Female Illuminati: The Campaign against Women and "Modern Philosophy" in the Early Republic” (1995) · 45 citations
• Frederick Corney, Professor, History h-index 4
  Notable: “Rethinking a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project” (1998) · 18 citations
• Maria Galmarini, Associate Professor, History and Global Studies h-index 4
  Notable: “The "right to be helped": welfare policies and notions of rights at the margins of Soviet society” (2012) · 5 citations
• Leisa Meyer, Professor, History, American Studies, and Gender Studies h-index 3
  History of Sexuality/Sexuality Studies, Gender/gender studies, U.S. Women's History, and American Popular Culture. Follow W&M on Social Media:
  Notable: “Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations.” (1998) · 206 citations
• Chinua Akimaro Thelwell, Associate Professor, History and Africana Studies h-index 3
  . These interests include: Afro-diasporic history, history of the idea of race, blackface minstrelsy as a popular culture export, performance studies, post-colonial hybridity theory, Asian American history, and hip-hop studies.&
  Notable: ““The young men must blacken their faces”: The Blackface Minstrel Show in Preindustrial South Africa” (2013) · 13 citations
• Julie Richter, Faculty Affiliate, History; Director of NIAHD h-index 2
  Es on women in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, the ways in which women used spaces throughout the colonial capital, and lives of the scholars who attended Williamsburg’s Bray School. Richter’s recent publications include “
  Notable: “Financial implications of coding inaccuracies in patients undergoing elective endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair” (2018) · 29 citations
• Betsy Konefal, Associate Professor, History h-index 2
  Her research interests include race and ethnicity, indigenous organizing, human rights, and oppositional politics in Guatemala’s recent civil war. Background Betsy’s CV is available here . Betsy Konefal specializes in modern Lat
  Notable: “Subverting Authenticity: Reinas Indígenas and the Guatemalan State, 1978” (2009) · 6 citations
• Eric Han, Associate Professor, History h-index 2
  Notable: “A True Sino-Japanese Amity? Collaborationism and the Yokohama Chinese (1937–1945)” (2013) · 6 citations
• Jerry Watkins III, Teaching Professor of History h-index 2
  Notable: “Keep on carryin' on: Recent research on the LGBTQ history of the American South” (2017) · 5 citations
• Abdoulie Jabang, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
• Adrienne Petty, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor, History
• Amy Limoncelli, Adjunct Lecturer, History
• Brianna Nofil, Assistant Professor, History
• Hiroshi Kitamura, William E. Pullen Associate Professor, History
• Holly White, Adjunct Professor, History
• Joshua Piker, Professor of History; Scholarly Communities Coordinator, Omohundro Institute
• Kara French, Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies
• Lisa Armstrong, Affiliate Professor, History and Public Historian
• Melvin Patrick Ely, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities, History
• Michael Butler, Adjunct Lecturer, History
• Nathaniel Berndt, Visiting Assistant Professor, History
  Es on the cultural and intellectual history of Niger and the broader Sahel. His current project, Descendants of Zabarkan, Citizens of the World: A History of Cosmopolitan Imagination in Decolonizing Niger, , is a comparative
• Nicole Dressler, Associate Teaching Professor of History
• Peyman Jafari, Assistant Professor, History and International Relations
• Robyn Schroeder, Faculty Affiliate, History; Assistant Director, NIAHD
• Sarah E. McCartney, Assistant Teaching Professor, NIAHD
• Scott Heerman, Associate Professor of History; Editor of Books, Omohundro Institute
• Zachary Hershey, Assistant Professor of History

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.