Affiliated Faculty

Stephen Cushman is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English.

He is the author of Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (University Press of Virginia, 1999), Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), and The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). He is also the co-editor of Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works (Louisiana State University Press, 2021) and Civil War Writing, 1866-1989: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (Louisiana State University Press, 2019). In addition, he is the author of eight volumes of poems and two critical studies of American poetry, and he is the general editor of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Cushman was named Cavalier Distinguished Professor for 2014-16, and he won a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstand Faculty Award in 2015.

Corinne Field is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality at the University of Virginia.

She is the author of The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) and co-editor of Age in America: Colonial Era to the Present (New York University Press, 2015) and The Global History of Black Girlhood (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Her research focuses on the political significance of chronological age and life stage in US history.

Lisa Goff is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia.

A cultural historian who studies the American landscape, she teaches classes in cultural landscapes, public history, theories and methods of American Studies, the history of journalism, and gender and social media. She recently launched a new digital history project, Take Back the Archive, dedicated to the history of sexual violence at the university. She is also director of the Institute for Public History, which places students in paid internships at museums, archives, and historic sites in central Virginia.

She is the author of Shanytown, U.S.A.: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor (Harvard University Press, 2016). The book argues that shantytowns constitute an alternative vision of American urban space between 1820 and 1940, and that conflicts over shantytowns as places and symbols of working-poor culture were an essential element in the formation of twentieth-century class difference in the United States.

Grace Elizabeth Hale is the Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia where she teaches courses in US cultural history, the history of the US South, documentary studies, and sound studies.

She is the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (Vintage, 1999), The Romance of the Outsider: How Middle Class Whites Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (Oxford University Press, 2011), Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), and In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning (Little, Brown and Company, 2023). Hale has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the American Scholar, the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, Southern Exposure, and Southern Spaces. She is the editor of the new University of North Carolina Press series Studies in US Culture, and a member of the editorial board of Southern Spaces: A Journal of the South. She has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the National Humanities Center, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She served as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at Erfurt University in Erfurt, Germany and as the Japanese American Studies Association-Organization of American Historians visiting scholar in Japan in 2014.

Justene Hill Edwards is a scholar of African-American history who specializes in the history of slavery in the United States.

She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. in African New World Studies from Florida International University, and a B.A. in Spanish from Swarthmore College. Her first book, Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina, interrogates the ways in which enslaved peoples’ independent economies influenced the plantation economy in South Carolina between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. She has received a number of fellowships and grants, including the Consortium Dissertation Fellowship at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Princeton University Writing Program’s Quin Morton Teaching Fellowship, the Carnegie Fellowship, and the Mellon New Directions Fellowship.

Ervin L. Jordan Jr. is an Associate Professor and Research Archivist at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library.

He specializes in Civil War and African-American history, and is the author of three books including Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (University Press of Virginia), named by Publisher's Weekly as one of 1995’s best nonfiction books. He has more than 60 essays and articles in books, historical journals, dictionaries, and encyclopedias including: The Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century; The Oxford Companion to American Military History; Virginia's Civil War; Virginia at War 1861, and, Virginia at War 1865.

Professor Jordan was an advisor for The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, the 2003 motion picture Gods & Generals, and the PBS documentary series The American Experience: Robert E. Lee. He serves on the Advisory Board of the National Civil War Chaplains’ Research Center and Museum, the Gettysburg Foundation Board of Directors, and is a former member of the Museum of the Confederacy’s Board of Trustees and the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission Advisory Council. During the 11th Annual Donning of the Kente Ceremony for graduating fourth-year students in May 2015, he was one of two faculty members who received special recognition by UVA’s Office of African-American Affairs for contributions and dedication to students.

Jessica Lowe studies eighteenth and nineteenth century U.S. legal history, with a special interest in the history of the American South, and is an Associate Professor at the Law School.

She is the author of Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She has held fellowships from, among others, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Princeton Center for Human Values, and most recently, the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ. She has a B.A. from the University of Virginia, a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Loren Moulds is the Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Virginia Law Library and a member of the General Faculty of the University.

Loren leads the library's efforts to develop online research tools and to promote, create, and preserve its digital collections. He consults with the Nau Center on issues regarding the creation and preservation of digital archives projects, the Digital Humanities community and its relationship to History, and Digital History generally. He has served as the director of the Project for Technology in History Education at the University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History, the technology coordinator for UVA's Digital Classroom Initiative, and project programmer for the Virginia Center for Digital History. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and B.A. from Kalamazoo College.

Louis P. Nelson is Professor of Architectural History and the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.

He is a specialist in the built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with published work on the American South, the Caribbean, and West Africa, and is a leading advocate for the reconstruction of place-based public history. At UVA and in Charlottesville, this work has taken the form of scholarship that contextualizes the four monuments installed at the height of Jim Crow segregation, walking tours and movies that seek to disseminate a broader understanding of how racism is inscribed in the local landscape, a university renaming commission, partnership on a new website for and a narrative interpretation of the new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and co-editing both a digital series on UVA and the History of Race and Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University. He was also the lead author and co-PI on Race, Place, and Equity, a $5 million Andrew Mellon Foundation funded grant.

Cynthia Nicoletti is a legal historian and a professor of law at Virginia Law.

She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the William Nelson Cromwell Prize for the best dissertation in legal history, American Society for Legal History, in 2011. Her work focuses on the legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her first book, Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, won the 2018 Cromwell Book Prize, given by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation each year for excellence in scholarship to an early career scholar working in the field of American legal history. She holds a B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

James D. Savage is a Professor in the Department of Politics and at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

His research and teaching focus on comparative budgetary, fiscal, and macroeconomic policy, with an emphasis on the United States, the European Union, Iraq and Japan. He is particularly interested in the development of macrobudgetary rules, procedures, and institutions in these countries, and how they influence fiscal outcomes. He is the author of Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions: Coalition State Building after Saddam (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and The Enforcement of Maastricht (Oxford University Press, 2007); Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel (Cambridge University Press, 2000); and Balanced Budgets and American Politics (Cornell University Press, 1990).

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