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Audrey Yñigez-Gutierrez
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Audrey Yñigez-Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at William & Mary. Her research interests include organic chemistry, synthetic methodology, and the development of new chemical reactions.
Michael Blakey
· College of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Nathan Kidwell
Director for Engineering Innovation · College of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
A. Benjamin Spencer
Dean and Trustee Professor · William & Mary Law School
Civil Procedure; Class Actions; Federal Courts; Jurisdiction; Military Law
A. Maurits van der Veen
Associate Professor, Government · College of Arts & Sciences
Ideas and identity in foreign policy; European integration; the political economy of international altruism; agent-based modeling; identity politics in Western Europe; human rights and humanitarianism
Aaron Griffith
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
metaphysics (truth, truthmaking, grounding, time, freedom) and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. He also has interests in social ontology, feminism, philosophy of race, phenomenology, and philosophy of religion.
Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl
Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law and Kelly Professor for Excellence in Teaching · William & Mary Law School
statutory interpretation, federal courts, and the legislative process
Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl
Kelly Professor and Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law · William & Mary Law School
Professor Bruhl teaches and writes on statutory interpretation, federal courts, and the legislative process.
Abdoulie Jabang
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Environmental History; Histories of Development, Technology, Energy, Imperialism, Citizenship; Regimes of Power: Class, Gender, Class, Masculinity, Generational and Religious Difference, and Inequality
Adam Potkay
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities & English · College of Arts & Sciences
Eighteenth-Century & Romantic Literature
Admasu Shiferaw
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
microeconomic aspects of development economics and industry dynamics in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa; firm behavior and dynamics in SSA and their implication for labor market outcomes
Adrian J. Bravo
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
identifying who is most susceptible to the development of substance use and mental health disorders, under what conditions individuals engage in health risk behaviors that lead to poor mental health outcomes and problematic substance use, and what factors may decouple (specifical…
Adriane Michaelis
Assistant Professor · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
human dimensions, aquaculture and fisheries, social-ecological systems
Alan Braddock
Professor of Art History · College of Arts & Sciences
American and Global Art, ecology, environmental justice, and animal studies
Alan J. Meese
Ball Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Law & Markets · William & Mary Law School
Antitrust Law; Constitutional Law; Business Associations; Economic Analysis of Law; and Political Economy
Alan J. Meese
Harihara Baskaran | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · William & Mary Law School
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alexander Angelov
Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Medieval Christianity; Eastern Orthodoxy; Byzantine and Balkan history; Conversion; Inter-religious relations; Atheism and Secularization; Cultural Anthropology; Theories of Religion
Alexander Prokhorov
Professor of Russian Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Film & Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Contemporary Cultural Politics
Alicia Andrzejewski
Hillel Chiel | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Arts & Sciences
Early modern literature and culture, with an emphasis on drama and performance studies; queer and feminist theory; LGBTQ+ studies; the medical humanities; and critical race theory
Alicia Andrzejewski
Assistant Professor of English · College of Arts & Sciences
Early modern literature and culture, with an emphasis on drama and performance studies; queer and feminist theory; LGBTQ+ studies; the medical humanities; and critical race theory
Allen, Jody L.
Associate Professor, History · College of Arts & Sciences
Regional Areas of Research: United States
Thematic Areas of Research: U.S., African American, Women, Higher Education (slavery and Jim Crow)
Alyssa Quintanilla
Assistant Professor of Art History and American Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Latine/x Art and Culture, Memory studies
Amanda Simpfenderfer
PhD Student · William & Mary School of Education
Higher Education, Intergenerational Mobility, Quantitative Research Methods
Amber Hardison
PhD Student · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Carbon and nitrogen cycling, Organic geochemistry
Amber Pope
Assistant Professor in Counselor Education · William & Mary School of Education
LGBTQ+ Affirmative Counseling, Human Sexuality, Couples and Relationship Counseling, Culturally Responsive Counselor Education & Supervision, Innovative Training Methods in Counselor Preparation
Ameni Mehrez
Assistant Professor of Government · College of Arts & Sciences
Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Middle East and North Africa
Amy Malek
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Migration; citizenship; memory; visual culture; diaspora and transnationalism; Iranian and Southwest Asian diasporas
Amy Oakes
Associate Professor, Government · College of Arts & Sciences
International security, national security strategy, foreign policy analysis, and international relations theory
Amy Quark
Professor, Sociology · College of Arts & Sciences
Globalization; Uneven Development; Transnational Governance; Food and Agriculture
Amy Quark
Professor, Sociology · College of Arts & Sciences
Globalization; Uneven Development; Transnational Governance; Food and Agriculture
Andrea Wright
Associate Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology, Director of Global Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Anthro-history, cultural anthropology, citizenship, energy production, governance, kinship, labor, migration, rights, South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula
Andrew Scheld
PhD Student · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Fisheries economics and policy
Andrew Tobolowsky
Walter G. Mason Associate Professor of Religious Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Hebrew Bible, Ancient Israel, Greek Mythology, Ancient History
Andrew Wargo
Associate Professor · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Andy Fisher
Associate Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
United States, Imperialism and Colonialism, Environmental, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, North American West, Pacific World/Pacific Rim, Race and Ethnicity
Angelina Dichiera
Assistant Professor · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Fish physiology, adaptation and plasticity, conservation
Anna Perez Chason
Professor of the Practice of Law · William & Mary Law School
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anne K. Rasmussen
Professor of Music/Ethnomusicology, Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Music of the Middle East and Islamicate worlds, with a focus on Indonesia and the Arabian Peninsula, and music and community in a multicultural United States
Annie Blazer
David L. Holmes Associate Professor of Reformation Studies and American Religious History · College of Arts & Sciences
religion in North America; religion and popular culture; gender and sexuality; critical race studies; anthropology of religion; religion and urbanization
Anya Hogoboom
Gerald Saidel | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anya Hogoboom
Associate Professor of Linguistics and English, Director of Linguistics · College of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Archana Kaku
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Violence, Necropolitics, Feminist Politics, Queer Theory
Arthur Knight
Chair - Associate Professor of English · College of Arts & Sciences
African Americans and U.S. cinema (and popular and mass cultures more generally), film and music reception studies
Arthur Knight
Associate Professor of English and American Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
African Americans and U.S. cinema (and popular and mass cultures more generally), film and music reception studies
Arturo Castellanos
Assistant Professor · Raymond A. Mason School of Business
Business Analytics, FinTech, Blockchain, Systems Analysis and Design, Conceptual Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare Analytics
Audrey Horning
Arts & Sciences Vice Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, and Forrest D. Murden Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Historical Archaeology; Atlantic World; Comparative Colonialism; Ireland; Chesapeake; Archaeological Ethics; Heritage and Conflict Transformation.
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
Associate Professor of History, Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Pre-modern Middle East, with a focus on Anatolia and the Balkans under Ottoman rule; Cultural and social history; religion; constructions of heresy and orthodoxy; sectarianism; Sufism; Alevi-Bektashi communities; Ottoman-Safavid relations; women, gender, and sexuality; historiogr…
Ball, Christopher
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bethany Smith
Associate Director for Formal Education · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Ocean Literacy, K-12 Professional Development, K-12 Student Programs
Betsy Konefal
Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering · College of Arts & Sciences
Her research interests include race and ethnicity, indigenous organizing, human rights, and oppositional politics in Guatemala’s recent civil war.
Betty B. Barrack
Budget Director · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bongkeun Song
Professor of Marine Science; Chair, Ecosystem Health · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Microbiome ecology and biogeochemistry
Brad Weiss
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies: Anthropology · College of Arts & Sciences
Africa; The Anthropology of Food; The Body; Space, place, and locality; Urban transformation; Popular Culture; Socio-cultural theory; Theories of Value; Ritual and Religious Practice
Braddock, Alan C.
Department Chair, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History, Environmental Humanities, and American Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
American and Global Art, ecology, environmental justice, and animal studies
Brent Kaup
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Political Economy, Globalization & Development
Brent Kaup
Professor of Sociology · College of Arts & Sciences
Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Political Economy, Globalization & Development
Brett Wilson
Associate Professor of English · College of Arts & Sciences
British culture, 1660-1837; drama; gender studies; history of political thought; history of the novel
Brian Castleberry
Michael Keith | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Arts & Sciences
Fiction, Nonfiction, & Screenwriting.
Brian Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor · Raymond A. Mason School of Business
auditor judgment and decision-making, how client relationship factors influence audit quality
Brian Kreydatus
Professor of Art · College of Arts & Sciences
Printmaking and Life Drawing
Buck Woodard
Assistant Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Cultural and historical anthropology; Indigenous/Native Studies; kinship; material culture; cosmology & ritual life; political economy
Caroline Hanley
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Earnings and Employment Inequality; Race, Class and Gender; Economic Sociology; Spatial Inequality; State and Local Economic Development Policy
Catherine Forestell
Professor of Psychological Sciences & Vice Dean for Natural & Health Sciences, Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
My research interests intersect the areas of learning and memory, developmental psychology, and sensation and perception, with a specific focus on the mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of food preferences and eating habits from infancy to adulthood. This work…
Catherine Levesque
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Dutch Baroque Art, Netherlandish Art, Italian Renaissance Art
Charles McGovern
Associate Professor of American Studies & History · College of Arts & Sciences
Cultural/Intellectual, Economic History and Capitalism, Popular Culture and Media
Charles Palermo
Professor of Art History · College of Arts & Sciences
French art and literature from Symbolism through the early1930s and the history and theory of art photography (especially the work of James Agee, Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter Henry Emerson, Walker Evans, Michel Leiris, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso);…
Cheryl L. Dickter
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
My main area of research focuses on using a social cognitive approach to examine how individuals perceive members of different social groups. More specifically, I am interested in how attention is allocated to members of different social groups during categorization and how this …
Chima Osakwe
Assistant Professor of English & Africana Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
African literature; postcolonial literature and theory; African diaspora studies; intertextuality; literature and social justice; modern drama; and dramatic theory.
Chinua Akimaro Thelwell
Associate Professor of Africana Studies & History · College of Arts & Sciences
Afro-diasporic history, history of the idea of race, blackface minstrelsy as a popular culture export, performance studies, post-colonial hybridity theory, Asian American history, and hip-hop studies. Regional Areas of Research: Ancient to Modern Africa, United States. Thematic A…
Chinua Akimaro Thelwell
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History · College of Arts & Sciences
Afro-diasporic history, history of the idea of race, blackface minstrelsy as a popular culture export, performance studies, post-colonial hybridity theory, Asian American history, and hip-hop studies.
Chitralekha Zutshi
Class of 1962 Professor, History · College of Arts & Sciences
South Asia and the Indian Ocean, Islam, Imperialism and Colonialism, Historiography and Historical Memory, Nationalism and National Identity, British Empire, and Cultural/Intellectual History
Chon Abraham
Lawrence B. Pulley Principled Achievement Professor · Raymond A. Mason School of Business
cybersecurity related topics, business intelligence, data management, and health information management
Chris Patrick
PhD Student · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
The central themes of my research are understanding two sets of processes: 1) those that control the assembly and maintenance of biological communities across space and time, and 2) those by which ecological communities deliver and maintain ecosystem functions and services. These…
Christine Petrovits
Pamela J. and James D. Penny Associate Professor · Raymond A. Mason School of Business
Financial reporting, Nonprofit sector, Corporate litigation
Christopher 'Chuck' Bailey
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Structural Geology, Tectonics, & Landscape History
I am a structural geologist with broad interests. Much of my research focuses on the geometry and history of deformed rocks from an array of tectonic settings. I am particularly interested in ductile fault zones and work to elu…
Christopher A. Del Negro
Chancellor Professor of Applied Science · William & Mary School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics
We seek to understand the neural origins of rhythmic behaviors such as walking, running, swimming, breathing, and chewing, among others.
We address this general problem using respiration (breathing) as a model system. The need to breathe is obvious: inspiratory breathing movemen…
Christopher A. Del Negro
Chancellor Professor of Applied Science · College of Arts & Sciences
We seek to understand the neural origins of rhythmic behaviors such as walking, running, swimming, breathing, and chewing, among others.
We address this general problem using respiration (breathing) as a model system. The need to breathe is obvious: inspiratory breathing movemen…
Christopher Ball
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Cognitive psychology
Memory processes
Relationship between memory and psychopathology
Christopher Carone
Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Professor of Physics · William & Mary School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christopher Gareis
Professor · William & Mary School of Education
Curriculum Development, Instructional Leadership, Classroom Assessment, Performance-Based Assessment, Program Evaluation, Teacher Mentoring
Christopher Grasso
Professor of History · College of Arts & Sciences
Atlantic World, Early America, United States, Cultural/Intellectual, Religion
Christopher Hein
PhD Student · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Coastal populations, infrastructure, and ecological communities are currently under threat from atmospheric warming, accelerated sea-level rise, changes in the frequency and intensity of coastal storms, and variability in sediment-supply rates. The response of sedimentary coastal…
Christopher J. Abelt
Andrei Maiseyeu | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Arts & Sciences
Physical organic chemistry, organic photochemistry, fluorescence, sensors.
Christopher Tucker
Francis S. Haserot Professor, Department Chair · College of Arts & Sciences
Chris is primarily interested in epistemology, philosophy of religion, ethics, and their intersection. Much of his work in epistemology, including religious epistemology, is devoted to developing and defending phenomenal conservatism: if it seems to someone that a claim is true, …
Cindy Forrester
PhD Student · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Claire Pamment
Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance, and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
South Asian theatre and performance, marginalized performance communities in Pakistan and its diaspora, at the intersections of class, gender, sexuality, religion, and race.
Clémentine 'Clem' Hamelin
Sean Abbott-Klafter | Case School of Engineering | School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Arts & Sciences
Metamorphic Geology/Petrology, High-Temperature Geochemistry, Tectonics, Orogenesis
Courtney K. Harris
Alumni Professors · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
3-D modeling to improve understanding of sediment transport in continental shelves and estuarine environments.
Cristina Stancioiu
Assistant Professor of Art History · College of Arts & Sciences
Early Christian, Byzantine and Medieval Art
Cyanne Topaum
Assistant Professor of English · College of Arts & Sciences
20th and 21st century Native American literatures, Native American studies, and contemporary Native American genre fiction (particularly horror, postapocalyptic, and speculative fictions)
Cynthia V. Ward
Professor of Law · William & Mary Law School
Criminal Law; Criminal Responsibility; Domestic Violence; Law and Psychology; Law and Sexual Violence; Legal Theory
Da'Von Boyd
Assistant Professor of Government & Africana Studies · College of Arts & Sciences
Political Theory; Twentieth Century African American Political Thought and Social and Intellectual History; Social Movements; Political Theology
Dan Miller Runfola
Chair of Data Science · William & Mary School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daniel Cristol
Chancellor Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Ecotoxicology of mercury in birds and food webs. Animal Behavior, Behavioral Ecology, Ornithology.
Daniel Maliniak
Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy · College of Arts & Sciences
International Relations/Political Economy, Environment
Daniel Maliniak
Associate Professor of Government · College of Arts & Sciences
international relations, focusing on international political economy and the environment. His doctoral work examined electoral geography across many areas, with a focus on trade, foreign aid, and the environment. He is currently examining the Republic of Georgia.
Daniel Ogunyemi
Director of Inclusive Excellence & Belonging · Virginia Institute of Marine Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Danielle Dallaire
Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
Danielle Dallaire is a Professor of the Department of Psychological Sciences at The College of William & Mary. She earned her B.A from the Pennsylvania State University in 1997 and her doctorate degree in developmental psychology from Temple University in 2003. Her research exami…
Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
Director of the Thomasina E. Jordan American Indian Resource Center · College of Arts & Sciences
Cultural anthropology, American Indians, museology, life history; North America
David Dominique
Associate Professor · College of Arts & Sciences
the music of Beat Furrer, noise and chaos in popular genres, and the critical discourse surrounding Sly Stone and his album "There's a Riot Goin' On."