Faculty & Staff
Julie K. Berebitsky 
Professor of History and Women's Studies and Chair, Women's Studies Program
Julie K. Berebitsky teaches a variety of courses in U.S. women's history and Women's Studies.
Harold J. Goldberg 
Professor of History
Harold J. Goldberg, the David E. Underdown Distinguished Professor of History, teaches Russian and Asian history. His specific courses focus on Russia and the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam War, World War II, and the History of Socialism.
Roger S. Levine 
Associate Professor of History
Roger Levine teaches courses on African, environmental and colonial history in the History Department, as well as the Environmental Studies and International and Global Studies programs. He is a cultural historian of modern South African and African history.
Andrea Mansker 
Associate Professor of History
Andrea Mansker is a modern Europeanist who specializes in French and Francophone cultural, intellectual, and gender history. Her research interests include the history of honor, sexuality, and feminism in Third Republic France.
Carmen E. McEvoy 
Professor of History
Carmen E. McEvoy teaches a wide variety of courses on Latin America, including the European background to the discovery and colonization of the New World. She is an expert on 19th century Peru and Chile and has written extensively on these subjects.
Charles R. Perry 
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History
Charles R. Perry's interests cover the whole course of British history; his special expertise is in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
Woody Register 
Professor of History
Woody Register teaches post-Civil War U.S. history and directs the American Studies Program. His interests include the history of American popular culture, business, and gender.
Susan J. Ridyard 
Professor of History and Director of the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium
Susan J. Ridyard's major field is medieval European and British history; she also teaches the history of ancient Greece and Rome.
Houston B. Roberson 
Professor of History
Houston B. Roberson offers courses in United States History, specializing in religion, African American history and the American Civil Rights Movement.
Nicholas E. Roberts 
Assistant Professor of History
Nicholas E. Roberts teaches Middle Eastern and Islamic history. His research interests include the history of Islam, religious nationalism, and colonial reform in the British Mandate for Palestine.
Taylor Spence 
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Taylor Spence teaches courses in Colonial America, 18th and 19th century United States History, American Environmental History, Western American History, and Indigenous Histories.
Kelly J. Whitmer 
Assistant Professor of History
Kelly Whitmer is an historian of early modern Europe who specializes in the history of science, education and childhood and offers courses in these areas.
John C. Willis 
Professor of History, Chair
John C. Willis teaches U.S. history from the American Revolution to the recent past, with emphasis on the role and changes of the South. He has published on slavery in antebellum Virginia and the New South frontier of the Mississippi Delta, and is currently exploring the environmental history of the Cumberland Plateau.