People
- Director
- Director's Team
- Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Affiliated Faculty
- Affiliated Graduate Students
- Emeriti
- Academic Advisory Board
Director
Rachel A. Shelden
- Associate Professor of History
- Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
(814) 863-0151
Director's Team
Matthew Isham
- Managing Director, Richards Civil War Era Center
- Managing Editor, The Journal of the Civil War Era
(814) 863-6702
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Maryam K. Aziz
- 2020-2021 Richards Center/Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Scholar
Affiliated Faculty
Robert Bernasconi
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
(814) 865-6398
Amira Rose Davis
- Assistant Professor of History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-4134
J. Marlena Edwards
- Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and African Studies
(814) 865-8719
Martha Few
- Professor of Latin American History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-2278
Gabrielle Foreman
- Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History
Keith Gilyard
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies
- Director of Graduate Studies
(814) 865-9123
Clarence Lang
- Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts and Professor of African American Studies
(814) 865-7691
Zachary Morgan
- Associate Professor of Latin American History and African American Studies
(814) 863-8080
Crystal Sanders
- Associate Professor of History and African American Studies
- Director, Africana Research Center
(814) 863-7303
Dara Walker
- Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5005
Cynthia Young
- Department Head, African American Studies
- Associate Professor of African American Studies and English
Affiliated Graduate Students
Megan Kessler Hildebrand
- Dual-title Ph.D. candidate, History & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Carolyn Levy
- Dual-title Ph.D. candidate, History & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Emeriti
William Blair
- Ferree Professor Emeritus of Middle American History
- Director Emeritus / Richards Civil War Era Center
- Founding Editor / The Journal of the Civil War Era
Academic Advisory Board
Richard Blackett
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Emeritus
- History Department
- Vanderbilt University
Laura F. Edwards
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Department of History
- Princeton University
Lesley Gordon
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Professor
- Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History
- Department of History
- College of Arts & Sciences
- The University of Alabama
Ari Kelman
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History
- Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Academic Programs
- College of Letters and Science
- University of California, Davis
Mark Simpson-Vos
- Academic Advisory Board Member Ex-officio
- Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director
- University of North Carolina
Elizabeth R. Varon
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History
- Associate Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
- Corcoran Department of History
- University of Virginia
Kidada E. Williams
- Academic Advisory Board Member
- Associate Professor of History
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Wayne State University