Faculty-Staff-Board

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Dr. Stephen Brauer
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, American Studies
Specialties:
  • American Literature
  • American Culture
  • American Studies
Contact:
(804) 289-8309
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Dr. Bertram Ashe
Professor of English
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • African American Literature and Culture
  • 20th Century American Literature
  • Black Vernacular Tradition
  • Post-Blackness
Contact:
(804) 289-8292
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Dr. Laura Browder
Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies
Specialties:
  • Women in combat
  • American autobiography
  • Women and guns
  • American Communist Party (Earl Browder)
  • Civil rights in Richmond
Contact:
(804) 289-8312
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Dr. Margaret Dorsey
Professor of Anthropology
Contact:
(804) 289-1770
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Alicia Díaz
Associate Professor of Dance
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Inclusive Community Council (ICC) Member
Specialties:
  • Contemporary Dance
  • Improvisation
  • Choreography
  • Dance and Social Justice
Contact:
(804) 287-6350
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Lynn Hardwicke
Academic Administrative Coordinator
Contact:
(804) 662-3008
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Dr. Patricia Herrera
Professor of Theatre
Affiliate faculty in the American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Programs
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
Specialties:
  • Theatre for Social Change
  • Late 20th & 21st American Theatre and Performance
  • Latinx Cultural Production
  • Solo Performance
  • Documentary Theatre
  • Feminist Performance
  • Hip Hop Theatre
  • Devised Theatre
Contact:
(804) 287-6352
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Dr. Nicole Maurantonio
She/Her
Professor of Rhetoric & Communications
Associate Provost of Academic Affairs
Director of Advising, First-Year Seminar, and First- and Second-Year Programming
Specialties:
  • Public memory
  • U.S. media history
  • Race and representation
  • Qualitative research methods
Contact:
(804) 289-8267
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Dr. Lauren Craig Tilton
Professor of Digital Humanities
E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
  • Computational/Digital Humanities
  • Visual Culture
  • Community Media
  • Politics of Representation
Contact:
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Dr. Douglas L. Winiarski
Professor of Religious Studies
Specialties:
  • Religion in early America
  • Native American religions
  • Religion and popular/material culture
Contact:
(804) 289-8329

Emeriti Faculty

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Dr. Edward L. Ayers
He/Him
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus
Specialties:
  • The Civil War
  • Digital Humanities
Contact:
(804) 334-5554