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Joseph M. Hall Jr.

Associate Professor of History

environmental history, Native American history, North American history before 1840, U.S. history

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

Frances R. Bell

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Africana Studies, Age of Revolutions, Atlantic History, History and the Archive, Migration Studies, Slavery Studies

Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Central America, Ethnicity and identity performance, gender and sexuality, language revitalization, migration, social movements

Peter H. Casares

Lecturer in Physical Education

Mara C. Tieken

Associate Professor of Education

college access and persistence, community and parent engagement, community organizing, education organizing, education reform, educational equity, higher education, portraiture, race and class in rural communities, rural communities and schools, rural education

Liana J. Brent

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

Funerary Archaeology, Latin Inscriptions, Roman Burial Practices, Roman Slavery, Roman Society and Culture

Charles I. Nero

Benjamin E. Mays '20 Distinguished Prof of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies

African American literary studies, African-American studies, American studies, critical race theory, cultural studies, film studies, LGBTQ issues in film and literature, literary and rhetorical criticism, popular culture studies, queer theory and studies, race and Hollywood film

Erin H. Nolan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Archives, Digital Art History, Global Art Histories, Histories of Photography, Islamic Art, Middle Eastern studies, migration, Modernism, Nineteenth Century, Photographic theory, portraiture, Survey Practices, trans-Mediterranean studies, Transnational Studies