Faculty Profiles
Dr. Joseph W. Bendersky

Professor
Ph.D., 1975, Michigan State University

Specialties

  • Modern European History
  • German History
  • European Intellectual History
  • Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany
  • The Holocaust

E-mail: jwbender@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9755
Dr. Leigh Ann Craig

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2001, The Ohio State University

Specialties

  • Later Medieval Europe
  • Medieval Christianity
  • Early Modern Europe
  • Women and Gender in pre-modern Europe
  • World Systems

Leigh Ann Craig

E-mail: lacraig@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9666
Dr. Andrew Crislip

Associate Professor
William E. & Miriam S. Blake Chair in the History of Christianity
Ph.D., Religious Studies, 2002, Yale University

Specialities

  • Late ancient, early medieval Christianity
  • Christian monasticim
  • Healing traditions within Christianity
  • Gnosticism

Crislip

E-mail: acrislip@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804 828-0155
Brian Daugherity

Collateral Instructor and Assistant to the Chair
ABD, College of William & Mary

Specialties

  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Southern Race Relations
  • Virginia History
  • African American History
  • Public History

 

 

 

 

E-mail: bjdaugherity@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.4498

Dr. G. Antonio Espinoza

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2007, Columbia University

Specialities

  • Latin American history
  • History of the Andes
  • Peruvian history
  • History of Education

Antonio Espinoza

E-mail: gaespinoza@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804 828-9387
Dr. Ibrahim Hamza

Collateral Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2009, York University

Specialties

  • African history
  • Modern Nigerian history
  • Slavery in Muslim Africa

 

 

 

 

Ibrahim Hamza

E-mail
Voicemail: 804.828.9374

Dr. John E. Herman

Director, VCU-China Relations
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1993, University of Washington

Specialties

  • East Asia
  • Late Imperial China
  • Ethnohistory of Southwest China
  • Yi History
  • Comparative Approach to Empires and Frontiers
  • Historical Sociology

 

herman

E-mail: jeherman@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.2856
Dr. Marian M. Jones

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Joint appointment in the Department of History (STS Initiative) and the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs

Specialties

  • Bioethics - historical approach
  • Disasters in Social Context

marionjones

E-mail: mmjones@vcu.edu
Voicemail: pending
Dr. Norrece T. Jones

Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1981, Northwestern University

Specialties

  • African-American History
  • Slavery in North America
  • West African History
  • Social Control

E-mail: ntjones@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9814
Dr. John T. Kneebone

Associate Professor
Ph. D., 1981, University of Virginia

Specialties

  • History of the American South
  • Public History

E-mail: jtkneebone@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9706
Dr. Sarah Hand Meacham

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2003, University of Virginia

Specialties

  • Colonial American history
  • United States Women's history

 

 

 

 

E-mail: shmeacham@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9758
Dr. Bernard Moitt

Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., 1985, University of Toronto

Specialties

  • African history
  • Caribbean history
  • Francophone Africa and Francophone Caribbean
  • Slavery in the Atlantic World
  • Women/Children and Slavery in Africa and the African Diaspora

 

 

E-mail: bmoitt@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9675
Dr. George E. Munro

Professor
Ph.D., 1973, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Specialties

  • Russia and the Soviet Union
  • 18th Century Europe
  • France to 1815

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E-mail: gemunro@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.2211

Dr. John C. Powers

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2001, University of Indiana

Specialties

  • History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • History of Chemistry & Alchemy
  • Early Modern Universities
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • History of Scientific Instruments
  • Science & Religion

E-mail: jcpowers@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.1736
Dr. Karen A. Rader

Director of STS (Science, Technology, and Society) Initiative
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1995, Indiana University

Specialties

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • History of Science Museums
  • 20th Century life sciences
  • Animals and science
  • Life sciences in US national laboratories
  • Women in science

 

 

 

E-mail:karader@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9642
Dr. Emilie E. Raymond

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2003, University of Missouri at Columbia

Specialties

  • Twentieth-century U. S. History
  • Political and Cultural History
  • Women's History
  • Neoconservatism

E-mail: eeraymond@vcu.edu
Voicemail:  804.828.9809
Dr. Ryan K. Smith

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2002, University of Delaware

Specialties

  • Nineteenth-century U. S. History
  • Material Culture
  • American Religious History
Ryan Smith photo

E-mail: rksmith3@vcu.edu
Voicemail:  804.828.9932
Dr. Timothy N. Thurber

Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Specialties

  • Twentieth-century U. S. History
  • Political History
  • Civil Rights

E-mail: tnthurber@vcu.edu
Voicemail:  804.828.4760
Dr. Ted Tunnell

Professor
Ph.D., 1978, University of California at Berkeley

Specialties

  • Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Antebellum American History
  • Virginia History

E-mail: ttunnell@vcu.edu
Voicemail: 804.828.9767
Dr. Nicholas M. Wolf

Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D., 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Specialities

  • Cultural history of 19th century Ireland
    • Irish language
    • application of linguistic methods to history

 

E-Mail: nmwolf@vcu.edu
Telephone: 804 828.8577
Dr. Lynda Yankaskas

Collateral Assistant Professor

Specialties

  • American history

Yankaskas photo

E-mail: lyankaskas@vcu.edu
Voicemail:  804.828-9714

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