Faculty

See below for contact info. Click links for faculty biographies, research and course information.

Department Chair

Nora Hui-Jung Kim
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of History, American Studies, and Sociology
Monroe 228 / 540-654-1637 / hkim4@umw.edu


Faculty

Nabil Al-Tikriti
Professor of History
Ottoman History, Modern Iraq, and Human Rights
Monroe 219 / 540-654-1481 / naltikri@umw.edu

Eric Bonds
Professor of Sociology
Environmental sociology, political sociology
ebonds@umw.edu

Tracy B. Citeroni
Associate Professor of Sociology
tciteron@umw.edu

Erin Devlin
Associate Professor of American Studies
American Studies Program Coordinator
American Studies, Public History and Museum Studies, 20th Century US History
Monroe 231 / 540-654-1480 / edevlin@umw.edu

Susan R. Fernsebner
Professor of History
Director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies (2026-27)
Modern China and East Asia, History of Childhood, Colonialism
Monroe 227 / 540-654-1473 / sfernseb@umw.edu

Claudine Ferrell
Professor of History
American Legal and Constitutional History, African-American History, U.S. and Vietnam, 20th-century U.S.
Monroe 217 / 540-654-1476 / cferrell@umw.edu

Steven E. Harris
Professor of History
Modern Russia, Europe, and the Second World War
Monroe 215 / 540-654-1390 / sharris@umw.edu

Will B. Mackintosh
Professor of History
Early America, Early Republic and Antebellum U.S. History
Monroe 230 / 540-654-1474 / wmackint@umw.edu

Kristin Marsh
Professor of Sociology
kmarsh@umw.edu

Leslie Martin
Professor of Sociology
lmartin@umw.edu

Jeffrey McClurken
Professor of History
University Chief of Staff / Clerk of the BOV, Office of the President
Nineteenth Century U.S. History, Gender, Families, Mental Institutions, Technology, Digital History
Monroe 228 / 540-654-1475 /  jmcclurk@umw.edu

Krystyn Moon
Professor of History
History of U.S. Immigration, Ethnicity, Popular Culture
Monroe 225 / 540-654-1479 / kmoon@umw.edu

Jason Sellers
Associate Professor of History
History Program Coordinator
Colonial U.S History
Monroe 218 / 540-654-1471 / jseller4@umw.edu

Troy Paino
Professor of American Studies, Affiliated Faculty
President, University of Mary Washington

Emeriti Faculty

Porter Blakemore
Associate Professor
Military History, European Diplomatic History, Modern Germany
pblakemo@umw.edu

William B. Crawley, Jr.
Distinguished Professor and Visitor’s Chair (emeritus)
U.S. History, History of the South
wcrawley@umw.edu

Timothy Crippen
Professor of Sociology
tcrippen@umw.edu

Bruce O’Brien
Professor
British Isles, Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe
bobrien@umw.edu

Joan Toms Olson
Professor of Sociology
jolson@umw.edu

Allyson Poska
Professor
History of Spain and Latin America, Gender and Social History
aposka@umw.edu