Mary Loeffelholz
Dean, School of Continuing Education
Education
- Yale University, PhD
- Stanford University, MA
- Stanford University, BA
The Program in American Studies offers an interdisciplinary study of the United States and the many ways to interpret the American experience. The program explores the themes, trends and patterns that characterize the American past and present using multiple perspectives and methodologies. You create your own path through the major, which includes courses in history, politics, popular culture, visual studies, law, literature, race and ethnic studies, etc.
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Kristen Warner
Associate Professor
Education
-Ph.D. Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
-MA. Media Arts, University of Arizona, 2005
-BA. Print Journalism, Louisiana State University, 200
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Michell Chresfield
Assistant Professor
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Victoria Serafini
Juliana Hu Pegues
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D., American Studies, University of Minnesota, 2013
- B.A., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Minnesota, 2003
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Jodi A. Byrd
Associate Professor
Education
- B.A., English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993
- M.A., English, University of Iowa, 1996
- Ph.D., English, University of Iowa, 2002
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Lenora Warren
Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D, English, New York University, 2011
- M.A., English, New York University, 2007
- B.A., English, New York University, 2001
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Tamika Nunley
Associate Professor and Sandler Family Faculty Fellow
Publications
BOOKS
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, April 2023)
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, February 2021)
*Winner of the 2021 Pauli Murray Book Prize
*Winner of the 2021 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize
*Winner of the 2021 Mary Kelley Book Prize
*Honorable Mention, 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award
*Finalist for the ASALH Book Prize
*Shortlist for the MAAH Stone Book Award
ARTICLES/ESSAYS
“Thrice Condemned: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Practice of Leniency in Antebellum Virginia Courts” Journal of Southern History 87, No. 1 (February 2021)
*Winner of the 2021 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for Best Article
*Winner of the 2021 Anne Braden Prize for Best Article in Southern Women’s History
“Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Genius in the Age of Revolution” (forthcoming in Journal of Women’s History 36, no. 1 Spring Issue).
“Race, Freedom, and the Intimate Worlds of Women,” Journal of Women’s History 35, no. 2 (June 2023).
"Slavery and the Political Touchstones of a Young Republic," The William and Mary Quarterly (79) 1
“The New Civil War Revisionism,” with Edward L. Ayers, Gregory Downs, Daniel Crofts, Christopher Phillips, and Matthew E. Stanley, Civil War History 65, No. 4 (December 2019)
“’I Know What Liberty Is’: Elizabeth Keckly’s Union War” New Perspectives on the Union War eds. Gary Gallagher and Elizabeth Varon in The North’s Civil War Series (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019)
“By Stealth’ or Dispute: Freedwomen and the Contestation of American Citizenship” in The Civil War and the Transformation of the American Citizenship, ed. Paul Quigley (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018)
“Teaching in Climes of Unrest: BLM, Slavery, and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Student Protest at Oberlin” in The Panorama, a digital publication of the Journal of the Early Republic (Aug. 21, 2017)
BOOK REVIEWS
Thavolia Glymph, The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Homes, Freedom, and Nation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020) forthcoming in The English Historical Review (2021)
Loren Schweninger, Appealing for Liberty: Freedom Suits in the South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) William and Mary Quarterly 76, no.3 (July 2019).
Tera Hunter, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017) in American Journal of Legal History 58, no.1 (Spring 2018).
Amber D. Moulton, The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). Journal of the Civil War Era December 2016.
Jessica Millward, Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015) Civil War Book Review August 2016.
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia, History
M.A., University of Virginia, History
M.A., Columbia University, African American Studies
B.A., Miami University, African American Studies/History
If you would like to reach Tamika Nunley regarding journal article reviews, manuscript reviews, book blurbs, documentary film blurbs, book reviews, historic site consultations, personal/family research questions, or external programmatic reviews, you may use the following email account: tnunley@cornell.edu
If you would like to reach Tamika Nunley for a speaking engagement outside of Cornell University, please contact Camry Wilborn at CCMNT Speakers: cwilborn@ccmntspeakers.com
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Tejasvi Nagaraja
Assistant Professor
Publications
Tejasvi Nagaraja (et al). 2020. "AHR Conversation: Black Internationalism" — American Historical Review. 125(5):1699–1739
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Aziz F. Rana
Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law
Publications
- “How We Study the Constitution: Rethinking the Insular Cases and Modern American Empire,” The Yale Law Journal Forum, November 2, 2020
- “Constitutionalism and the American Imperial Imagination,” coauthored with Aslı Bâli, University of Chicago Law Review 85, p. 257 (2018)
- “Progressivism and the Disenchanted Constitution,” in The Progressives’ Century: Democratic Reform and Constitutional Government in the United States, eds. Stephen Skowronek, Stephen Engel, and Bruce Ackerman (Yale University Press, 2016)
- “Colonialism and Constitutional Memory,” U.C. Irvine Law Review 105 , p. 263 (2015)
- “Constitutionalism and the Foundations of the Security State,” California Law Review 103, p. 335 (2015)
Education
- A.B., Harvard University, 2000
- J.D, Yale Law School, 2006
- Ph.D. (Government), Harvard University, 2007