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
• Hannah Rosen, Associate Professor, History and American Studies h-index 10
• Nicholas S. Popper, Professor of History h-index 8
• 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
• Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Associate Professor, History and Medieval and Renaissance Studies h-index 6
• Philip Daileader, Professor, History h-index 6
• 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
• Jerry Watkins III, Teaching Professor of History h-index 2
• Abdoulie Jabang, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
• Adrienne Petty, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor, History
• Amy Limoncelli, Adjunct Lecturer, History
• Betsy Konefal, Associate Professor, History
  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
• Brianna Nofil, Assistant Professor, History
• Carol Sheriff, Professor, History
• Catherine Kelly, Professor of History; Executive Director, Omohundro Institute
• Chandos Brown, Associate Professor, History
• Charles McGovern, Associate Professor, History and American Studies
• Chinua Akimaro Thelwell, Associate Professor, History and Africana Studies
  . 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.&
• Chitralekha Zutshi, Class of 1962 Professor of History
• Eric Han, Associate Professor, History
• Fabricio Prado, Associate Professor, History
  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: Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Threads Soc
• Frederick Corney, Professor, History
• Gerard Chouin, Associate Professor, History
  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
• Hiroshi Kitamura, William E. Pullen Associate Professor, History
• Holly White, Adjunct Professor, History
• Jeremy Pope, Associate Professor, History
• Joshua Piker, Professor of History; Scholarly Communities Coordinator, Omohundro Institute
• Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History; Interim Editor, William and Mary Quarterly
• Julie Richter, Faculty Affiliate, History; Director of NIAHD
  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 “
• Kara French, Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies
• Kathrin Levitan, Associate Professor, History
  She is now working on a project on letters and letter writing in nineteenth-century Britain Follow W&M on Social Media: Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Threads Social Stream Williamsburg, Virginia
• Leisa Meyer, Professor, History, American Studies, and Gender Studies
  History of Sexuality/Sexuality Studies, Gender/gender studies, U.S. Women's History, and American Popular Culture. Follow W&M on Social Media: Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Threads Social Stream Williamsburg, Virginia
• Lisa Armstrong, Affiliate Professor, History and Public Historian
• Lu Ann Homza, Professor, History
• Maria Galmarini, Associate Professor, History and Global Studies
• 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
• Paul Mapp, Associate Professor, History
  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
• Peyman Jafari, Assistant Professor, History and International Relations
• Richard Lee Turits, Associate Professor, History, Africana Studies, Latin American Studies
• Robyn Schroeder, Faculty Affiliate, History; Assistant Director, NIAHD
• Ronald Schechter, Professor, History
• Sarah E. McCartney, Assistant Teaching Professor, NIAHD
• Scott Heerman, Associate Professor of History; Editor of Books, Omohundro Institute
• Simon Middleton, Associate Professor, History
  Early American social history and political economy. Follow W&M on Social Media: Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Threads Social Stream Williamsburg, Virginia
• 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 2026-07-01.