History & Art History

Randolph Ferguson Scully received his B.A. from Williams College (1992) and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). A Northern Virginia native, he returned to the area to teach at George Mason in 2002. He is the author of Religion and the Making of Nat Turner’s Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840 (University of Virginia Press, 2008) and several articles. He is currently researching a new project on the household politics of antislavery activism in the revolutionary South. Undergraduate courses he has taught include Cultural Encounters in Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the History of Virginia to 1800. Graduate courses include Colonial America, the Early American Republic, Religion and Culture in America to 1860, and Gender and Sexuality in Early America.

Early America, race, gender, religion, Southern history, Virginia history