American Studies
Jolene Hubbs
jhubbs@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Southern fiction, 1865-present
Michael Innis-Jiménez
ij@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Southern Latino Studies
Jeffrey Melton
jmelton@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Mark Twain
Anthropology
Elliot Blair
ehblair@ua.edu
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Southeastern archaeology, the archaeology of colonialism, identity and materiality, social network analysis
Ian Brown
ibrown@ua.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Southeastern archaeology, Native Americans during the contact period, gravestones and cemeteries
Art and Art History
Rachel Stephens
rachel@ua.edu
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Jacksonian-era portraiture, Civil War visual culture, antebellum art and architecture
English
Lauren Cardon
lscardon@ua.edu
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Ethnic American literature, twentieth century and contemporary American and Southern literature, cultural studies
Catherine Davies
cdavies@ua.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Southern discourse and linguistics
Trudier Harris
tharris13@ua.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: African American literature and folklore; African American writers and the South; lynching; domestic work; narratives of southern identity
Cassander Smith
clsmith17@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: representations of race in early America; narratives of cultural contact in southern/Atlantic spaces
Gender and Race Studies
Utz McKnight
utz.mcknight@ua.edu
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Areas of Interest: Critical race theory, political theory, social policy and racial politics
History
Margaret Abruzzo
mabruzzo@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of interest: Southern intellectual history, Debates over slavery
Lisa Lindquist Dorr
lisa.dorr@ua.edu
Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Area of Interest: Southern women’s history
Kari Frederickson
kari@ua.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Modern South, especially the intersection of politics, economic development, and culture
John Giggie
jmgiggie@ua.edu
Associate Professor and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South
Areas of Interest: African American history, southern religious history
Sharony Green
sagreen1@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Gender, race, urban history, black-white intimacies, and transnationalism
Heather Miyano Kopelson
heather.m.kopelson@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Race and religion in early America
John Ratliff
jratliff@ua.edu
Senior Instructor
Areas of Interest: Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century South, lynching and violence
Joshua Rothman
jrothman@ua.edu
Professor and Department Chair
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth Century South, slavery and race
Jenny Shaw
jenny.shaw@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Atlantic History, early modern Caribbean, race and slavery in the Americas
Journalism
Rick Bragg
rbragg@ua.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth and twentieth century southern history, working-class and poor southerners, mill workers, Native Americans
New College
Michael Steinberg
mksteinberg@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Environmental conservation in the South
Political Science
Stephen Borrelli
sborrell@ua.edu
Professor
Area of Interest: Southern politics
Richard Fording
rcfording@ua.edu
Professor
Areas of Interest: Poverty, civil rights, race and politics, southern politics
Religious Studies
K. Merinda Simmons
merinda.simmons@ua.edu
Associate Professor
Areas of Interest: Religious practice and identity in the American South, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Migration Studies
University Libraries
Donnelly Walton
dfwalton@ua.edu
Associate Professor, Archival Access Coordinator at Hoole Special Collections
Areas of Interest: University history; nineteenth-century South; slavery
Lorraine Madway
lmadway@ua.edu
Professor, Associate Dean for Special Collections