Faculty, Staff, & Advisory Board
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, American Studies
Specialties:
- American Literature
- American Culture
- American Studies
(804) 289-8309
Dean of Westhampton College
Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Art and Art History; Gender & Sexuality Studies; American Studies
Affiliated Faculty in American Studies
Contact: 804-289-8468
Associate Professor of Spanish
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- 16th and 17th century Hispanic colonial literatures and cultures
- Visual studies and Mesoamerican cultural productions and manuscripts
- Literary and cultural theory; (Post)colonial studies
- Queer theory and seventeenth-century Spanish peninsular drama and poetry
(804) 484-1543
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
(804) 289-8312
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
(804) 287-6350
Professor of Political Science
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Social Welfare Politics
- Public Policy
- American Politics
(804) 287-6457
Dr. Laura M. Fernández
She/Her
Assistant Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Latinx Studies
- Latinx Popular Culture
- Border Studies
(804) 289-8490
Assistant Professor of Journalism
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Contact: (804) 287-6409
Lynn Hardwicke
She/Her
Professor of Theatre
Affiliate faculty in the American Studies and Gender & Sexualities Studies Programs
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
(804) 287-6352
Assistant Professor of Journalism
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Contact: (804) 287-6049
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
(804) 289-8267
Director, Digital Scholarship Lab
Affiliated Faculty in American Studies
Specialties:
- 19th century United States
- Digital humanities
(804) 484-1555
Irving May Professor of Human Relations, Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member
Director, University of Richmond Race and Racism Project
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Race
- Masculinity
- African American culture
- Hip Hop/Rap
- Gender
- Content Analysis
- Racial Identity
- Black/Africana Studies
Associate Professor of History and American Studies
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- United States and the World
- U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History
- History of International Development
- History of Philanthropy
- History of Cooperatives and Capitalism
(804) 289-8338
Professor of Digital Humanities
E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts
Data Science Advisory Board Member
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Computational/Digital Humanities
- Visual Culture
- Community Media
- Politics of Representation
Professor of Religious Studies
Specialties:
- Religion in early America
- Native American religions
- Religion and popular/material culture
(804) 289-8329
Emeriti Faculty
Professor of English, Emeritus
Africana Studies Advisory Board Member, Emeritus
Specialties:
- African American Literature and Culture
- 20th Century American Literature
- Black Vernacular Tradition
- Post-Blackness
(804) 289-8292
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus
Specialties:
- The Civil War
- Digital Humanities
(804) 334-5554