Administrative Team
Director, George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Associate Professor of History
(814) 863-8947
Associate Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Assistant Research Professor of History
Assistant to the Director
Administrative Support Coordinator 3
(814) 863-0151
Pre-Doctoral Fellows
Post-Doctoral Fellows
2023-2024 Richards Center/Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Scholar in African American History
Faculty Fellows
Affiliated Faculty
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
(814) 865-6398
Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and English
Associate Director, Center for Black Digital Research
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and African Studies
(814) 865-8719
Professor of Latin American History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-2278
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
(814) 865-9123
Head, Department of History
George Winfree Professor of American History
(814) 863-0162
Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts
Professor of African American Studies
(814) 865-7691
Associate Teaching Professor
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Colonial Latin American History
Anthropology and Women's Studies
Director of Latin American Studies
(814) 863-1121
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, History, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5005
Affiliated Graduate Students
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ph.D. Candidate in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality 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
(814) 863-2658
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