Faculty, Staff, & Advisory Board
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, American Studies
Specialties:
- American Literature
- American Culture
- American Studies
(804) 289-8309
Dr. Mia Reinoso Genoni
She/Her
Dean of Westhampton College
Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, Art and Art History; Women, 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
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
(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
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
Dr. Edward L. Ayers
He/Him
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus
Specialties:
- The Civil War
- Digital Humanities
(804) 334-5554