Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Faculty
	Al-Tikriti, Nabil, Assistant Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti (naltikri@umw.edu) received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004 and joined the UMW faculty the same year. Having spent several years working in international emergency relief, his scholarly interests include Ottoman History, Modern Iraq, and Human Rights. He is mainly responsible for the department's offerings in Middle East History. Read more about Dr. Al-Tikriti>>
	Blakemore, Porter R., Associate Professor Porter Blakemore (pblakemo@umw.edu) holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He has been at Mary Washington since 1979, and is also a member of the adjunct faculty of the U.S. Naval War College. His areas of academic specialization include military history, European diplomatic history, and modern Germany. Among numerous other courses, he regularly teaches seminars on the Great War and Nazi Germany.
	Crawley, William B., Jr., Distinguished Professor, Rector and Visitors’ Chair Bill Crawley (wcrawley@umw.edu) earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. His primary teaching fields are recent American history and history of the South. He is the author of Bill Tuck: A Political Life in Harry Byrd’s Virginia. In 1994 he received the College’s annual Grellet C. Simpson Award for outstanding teaching and in 2005, the graduating seniors chose him for the Mary W. Pinschmidt Award as the professor who had the greatest impact on students' lives. He currently serves as Historian of the College and is at work on a history of the institution to be published in 2008.
	Fernsebner, Susan, Associate Professor Susan Fernsebner (sfernseb@umw.edu) received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 2002 and joined our department after a year at the University of Vermont and an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. She teaches courses in Asian History and specializes in the cultural and social history of modern China. Currently completing a book manuscript on China’s participation in world’s fairs and expositions, she is also author of "A People's Playthings: Toys, Childhood, and Chinese Identity, 1909-1933," published in Postcolonial Studies (November, 2003).
	Ferrell, Claudine L., Professor Claudine Ferrell (cferrell@umw.edu) holds a Ph.D. from Rice University where her doctoral research focused on lynching in the South. A member of the Mary Washington history faculty since 1984, she has offered a wide range of courses in American history including legal, constitutional, and African-American history. Among her advanced courses are the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the Vietnam War. Her newest book is The Abolitionist Movement (2005).
	Harris, Steven, Assistant Professor Steve Harris joins the faculty after two years as a post-doctoral fellow at George Mason University. His Ph.D. comes from the University of Chicago. His research interests include the Soviet Union and Russia, and he teaches classes on the history of modern Europe.
	Hudgins, Carter L., Distinguished Professor, Florian N. Hofer Chair Carter Hudgins (chudgins@umw.edu) holds a Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, where he specialized in Colonial American history. At Mary Washington from 1984 to 1994, he chaired the Department of Historic Preservation. In 1994 he became executive director of the Historic Charleston Foundation, returning to Mary Washington in 2000 as a member of the history faculty, with primary responsibility for offerings in early American History. He is the author of, among other works, Gender, Class and Shelter (1995). He served as the chair of the department from 2002 to 2008.
	McClurken, Jeffrey W., Associate Professor, Department Chair Jeffrey McClurken (jmcclurk@umw.edu) is a graduate of Mary Washington College, having received his BA degree in history in 1994. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2003. His recent monograph, To Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Virginia's Confederate Veteran Families, examines the long-term consequences of the Civil War for veterans and their families in Southside Virginia. He is mainly responsible for the Department’s offerings in nineteenth-century American social and cultural history, technology, gender studies, and digital history. He currently serves as the chair of the department. See more about Prof. McClurken here.
	Moon, Krystyn R., Assistant Professor Krystyn Moon joins the faculty after four years at Georgia State University. Her Ph.D. is from Johns Hopkins University (2003) and her area of specialty is the history of US Immigration and Ethnicity. Her first book, Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s, was published in 2005.
	O’Brien, Bruce, Professor Bruce O'Brien (bobrien@umw.edu) joined the Mary Washington faculty in 1990 from Yale University where he earned his Ph.D. He is primarily responsible for the Department’s offerings in ancient Greek and Roman history and medieval history. His most recent book is God’s Peace and King’s Peace: The Laws of Edward the Confessor (1999).
	Poska, Allyson, Professor Allyson Poska (aposka@umw.edu) received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1992 and joined the Mary Washington faculty the same year. Primarily a social historian, she regularly teaches upper-level courses on the histories of Spain and Latin America and frequently offers seminars dealing with gender issues. Her most recent book is Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (2006) which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize, given by the Sixteenth Century Studies Association (the early modern history professional society) to the best book in early modern history or theology. Read more about Dr. Poska>>
	Rigelhaupt, Jess, Assistant Professor Jess Rigelhaupt (jmr@umw.edu) received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2005. He joins the faculty at the University of Mary Washington after serving as a postdoctoral research specialist in the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include American studies, twentieth century United States social and cultural history, oral history, urban politics, and comparative ethnic studies. He is writing a book on mid-twentieth century progressive social movements and politics in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Adjunct Faculty
	Chalmers Hood Chalmers Hood graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy before taking a commission in the Marines, where he spent ten years, including one tour in Vietnam. He later earned his M.A. at the University of Maine in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1979, specializing in twentieth-century France. He is the author of a sociopolitical history of the French Naval officer corps between the World Wars and is currently conducting research for a biography of Admiral Francois Darlan.
	Christine Devine Christine Devine holds a Ph.D. in Early American History from the College of William and Mary, where her dissertation topic was "The Winds of War and Change: The Tuscarora War, 1711-1713." A specialist in colonial and revolutionary American history, Dr. Devine has done extensive work in historical archaeology and public history and has published and spoken widely in those fields.
Retired Faculty
	Campbell, Otho C., Associate Professor Emeritus Otho Campbell earned his Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and joined the Mary Washington faculty in 1968. He recently retired after over thirty years of teaching, during which his courses included U.S. diplomatic history, the Civil War, and the history of Virginia, as well as a seminar on American Presidents. His current professional focus is on a biography of John Sergeant Wise, a prominent political and economic figure in late 19th-century Virginia.
	Tracy, Arthur, Associate Professor Emeritus Art Tracy was a member of the Mary Washington history faculty from 1968 to 2008. Primarily a cultural and intellectual historian, he has taught a wide range of courses including the history of the Civil War. For many years he has also served as director of the American Studies program. In 1981 he received the College’s annual Grellet C. Simpson Award for outstanding teaching.
	Warner, Richard, Professor Emeritus Dick Warner recently retired after having been a member of the Mary Washington history faculty since 1968, during which time he was primarily responsible for the Department’s offerings in Early Modern Europe, as well as for upper-level courses in Russian and French history. A widely published authority on Peter the Great, he also has particular interest in maritime history and is completing a biography entitled Captain John Deane: Mercenary, Diplomat, and Spy.
Department Secretary
	Lisa Patton, Department Secretary Lisa Patton (lpatton@umw.edu)

Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Faculty

Al-Tikriti, Nabil, Assistant Professor

Blakemore, Porter R., Associate Professor

Crawley, William B., Jr., Distinguished Professor, Rector and Visitors’ Chair

Fernsebner, Susan, Associate Professor

Ferrell, Claudine L., Professor

Harris, Steven, Assistant Professor

Hudgins, Carter L., Distinguished Professor, Florian N. Hofer Chair

McClurken, Jeffrey W., Associate Professor, Department Chair

Moon, Krystyn R., Assistant Professor

O’Brien, Bruce, Professor

Poska, Allyson, Professor

Rigelhaupt, Jess, Assistant Professor

Adjunct Faculty

Chalmers Hood

Christine Devine

Retired Faculty

Campbell, Otho C., Associate Professor Emeritus

Tracy, Arthur, Associate Professor Emeritus

Warner, Richard, Professor Emeritus

Department Secretary

Lisa Patton, Department Secretary