Elizabeth R. Varon
Elizabeth R. Varon (born December 16, 1963) is an American historian, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. Life. Varon graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A.,1985), and from Yale University, (Ph.D., 1993). She was professor of history at Wellesley College, and Temple University. She is an Organization of American Historians lecturer. She was co-director of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. She and her husband, William I. Hitchcock, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have two children.