Advisory Board

headshot of Dr. Lauren Craig Tilton

Associate Professor of Digital Humanities

Data Science Advisory Board Member

Program Coordinator, American Studies


Specialties:
  • Computational/Digital Humanities
  • Visual Culture
  • Community Media
  • Politics of Representation
Contact:
headshot of 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
headshot of Dr. Edward L. Ayers

Tucker-Boatwright Professorship of the Humanities and President Emeritus


Specialties:
  • The Civil War
  • Digital Humanities
Contact:
(804) 334-5554
headshot of 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

Academic Administrative Coordinator

Contact:
(804) 662-3008
headshot of Dr. Margaret   Dorsey

Professor of Anthropology

Contact:
(804) 289-1770
headshot of Dr. Patricia  Herrera

Professor of Theatre

Affiliate faculty in the American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Programs

Interim Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)


Specialties:
  • Theatre as Social Change
  • 20th and 21st Century American Theatre and Performance
  • Latina/o Cultural Productions
  • Solo Performance
  • Documentary Theatre
  • Gender and Performance
  • Hip Hop Performances
Contact:
(804) 287-6352
headshot of Dr. Nicole  Maurantonio

Professor of Rhetoric & Communications

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