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Administrative Team

Acting Director, 2022-2023, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History
Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Associate Professor of History
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Associate Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Assistant Research Professor of History
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Assistant to the Director
Administrative Support Coordinator 3
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Managing Editor, The Journal of the Civil War Era

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

2022-2023 Predoctoral Scholar
2022-2023 Predoctoral Scholar

Post-Doctoral Fellows

2021-2023 Richards Center Postdoctoral Scholar
2022-2023 Richards Center Postdoctoral Scholar
2022-2023 Richards Center and Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Scholar

Affiliated Faculty

Assistant Teaching Professor of History
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
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Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and English
Associate Director, Center for Black Digital Research
Assistant Teaching Professor of History
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Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and African Studies
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Professor of Latin American History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies and History
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
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George Winfree Professor of American History
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Assistant Professor of Latin American History
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Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
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Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts
Professor of African American Studies
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Assistant Professor of History
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Associate Professor of History
Assistant Professor of History
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Associate Professor of Latin American History and African American Studies
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Associate Teaching Professor
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor in History
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Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Colonial Latin American History
Anthropology and Women's Studies
Director of Latin American Studies
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Professor of History
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McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era
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Associate Professor of History
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Affiliated Graduate Students

Dual-title Ph.D. candidate, History & African American Studies
Ph.D. candidate
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Ph.D. Candidate in History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Student in History and African American Studies
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Student in History and African American Studies

Emeriti

Ferree Professor Emeritus of Middle American History
Director Emeritus / Richards Civil War Era Center
Founding Editor / The Journal of the Civil War Era
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Professor Emeritus of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
McCabe Greer Professor Emeritus in the American Civil War Era
George Winfree Professor Emeritus of American History
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Academic Advisory Board

Academic Advisory Board Member
Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Emeritus
History Department
Vanderbilt University
Academic Advisory Board Member
Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty; Professor of History
History Department
Princeton University
Academic Advisory Board Member
Professor
Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences
The University of Alabama
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
Academic Advisory Board Member Ex-officio
Wyndham Robertson Editorial Director
University of North Carolina
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
Academic Advisory Board Member
Associate Professor of History
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Wayne State University

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