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. Works Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy, Oxford University Press, USA, 2003, References External links Category:21st-century American historians Category:University of Virginia faculty Category:Swarthmore College alumni Category:Wellesley College faculty Category:Temple University faculty Category:Yale University alumni Category:Living people Category:American women historians Category:1963 births Category:21st-century American women writers