Full-time Faculty

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  • Steve Barnes

    Steve Barnes

    Associate Professor

    European History: History of modern Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Soviet Union, history of Gulag, history of concentration camps, history of totalitarianism

  • Lisa Passaglia Bauman

    Lisa Passaglia Bauman

    Professor

    Art History

  • LaNitra M Berger

    LaNitra M Berger

    Associate Professor

    Art History: Art of the African Diaspora, African-American art history, South African modern art, Intersections of the African and Jewish Diasporas, lynching photography, art and social activism, African and African American Studies, social justice and international education, women artists, racial injustice and public monuments and memorials

  • Johanna Bockman

    Johanna Bockman

    Affiliate Faculty (Global Affairs)

    Associate Professor

    Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC

  • Joan C. Bristol

    Joan C. Bristol

    Associate Professor

    World History: Latin America, African Diaspora, history of commodities

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  • Michael G. Chang

    Michael G. Chang

    Associate Professor

    World History: political, social, cultural and economic histories of late imperial/early modern China (1500-1800); ethnicity; state-formation; court studies

  • Charles Chavis

    Charles Chavis

    Assistant Professor

  • Samuel Collins

    Samuel Collins

    Associate Professor

    European History: Early medieval, religion

  • Spencer Crew

    Spencer Crew

    Robinson Professor

    U.S. History

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  • Robert D. DeCaroli

    Robert D. DeCaroli

    Director of the MA Program in Art History

    Professor

    Art History: Interactions of early South Asian Buddhism with popular religious practice, the origin of the Buddha image and the social, political, religious factors that led to its codification and spread

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  • Christopher C Elzey

    Christopher C Elzey

    Director, Sport and American Culture minor

    U.S. History: History of basketball; sport and ethnicity; Olympics; sport and race; sport and scandal; sport and film

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  • Heidi Catherine Gearhart

    Heidi Catherine Gearhart

    Associate Professor

    Art History: Art History: medieval European art; medieval art theory; craft and manufacture; museum histories

  • C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

    C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: 19th-Century, Indigenous Histories, Public History, Washington D.C.

  • Benjamin W. Goossen

    Benjamin W. Goossen

    Assistant Professor

    Environmental History, Global and International History, Modern European History, History of Science and Technology

  • Michele Greet

    Michele Greet

    Director, Art History Program

    Professor

    Art History: Twentieth-century Andean art, Latin American artists in Europe

  • Chris A. Gregg

    Chris A. Gregg

    Professor

    Art History: Topography and urbanism of Ancient Rome and Pompeii; gender and sexuality in the Classical world; Roman imperial sculpture

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  • Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Sumaiya A. Hamdani

    Associate Professor

    World History: Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history

  • Christopher H. Hamner

    Christopher H. Hamner

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: War and American society, the individual experience of combat, technological change and warfare

  • Steve A. Harris-Scott

    Steve A. Harris-Scott

    Affiliate Faculty (INTO Mason)

    Instructor

    U.S. History: Research: Colonial Virginia, Early Modern Atlantic World, bound/unfree labor (slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship), environmental history and history of diseases/pandemics

  • Angela Ho

    Angela Ho

    Director of Undergraduate Art History Programs

    Associate Professor

    Art History: Renaissance and Baroque Europe

  • Jane Hooper

    Jane Hooper

    Director of Undergraduate History Programs

    Associate Professor

    World History: Global and world history; Indian Ocean history; History of Madagascar

  • Samuel Clowes Huneke

    Samuel Clowes Huneke

    Assistant Professor

    European History: Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy

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  • Yevette Richards Jordan

    Yevette Richards Jordan

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: African American history, women's history, history of lynching, labor history, Pan-Africanism

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  • Matthew B. Karush

    Matthew B. Karush

    Chair

    Professor

    World History: Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history

  • Mills Kelly

    Mills Kelly

    Professor

    U.S. History: Digital humanities, public digital history, historical pedagogy, Appalachian Studies, modern East Central Europe, Environmental history

  • Cynthia A. Kierner

    Cynthia A. Kierner

    Professor

    U.S. History: Colonial and revolutionary America; early republic; Old South; women and gender; disasters in history

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  • Meredith H. Lair

    Meredith H. Lair

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: 20th-century US, the Vietnam War, war and American society, veterans, collective memory, consumerism, militarism

  • Alison Landsberg

    Alison Landsberg

    Director, Center for Humanities Research

    Professor

    U.S. History: the politics of memory, affective engagements with the past, political subjectivity, visual culture, the Frankfurt School, race in mass culture, politics of aesthetics

  • Sam Lebovic

    Sam Lebovic

    Professor

    U.S. History: 20th century culture and politics; democracy; constitutional history; civil liberties; foreign relations; national security; political institutions and political economy; media history; cultural globalization.

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  • Amanda G Madden

    Amanda G Madden

    Assistant Professor

    European History: Digital History, Spatial History. Renaissance and Early Modern Italy, Social History, History of Crime and Violence, Women and Gender, Pedagogy

  • Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Affiliate Faculty (School of Integrative Studies)

    Professor

    Race, gender, the African American experience, and the history of black women in the Atlantic World

  • Heather M McGuire

    Heather M McGuire

    Assistant Professor

    Art History

  • Douglas McRae

    Douglas McRae

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    World History: Latin America, Brazil, environmental history, urban history, digital history

  • Lincoln A. Mullen

    Lincoln A. Mullen

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: American religious history, digital history, 19th-century U.S. history

  • Deepthi Murali

    Deepthi Murali

    Research Assistant Professor

    Art History: Art History of South Asia; Digital History

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  • Michael O'Malley

    Michael O'Malley

    Professor

    U.S. History: 19th and 20th century US, cultural history, history of technology

  • George Oberle

    George Oberle

    Librarian IV

    U.S. History: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American History, History of Education and Knowledge Institutions, Civil Societies, History of Science and Technology, George Mason and the Mason family, and the Old South

  • John R. Orens

    John R. Orens

    Professor

    European History

  • Jessica Marie Otis

    Jessica Marie Otis

    Assistant Professor

    European History: British history, early modern history, history of science and mathematics, digital history

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  • Sun-Young Park

    Sun-Young Park

    Associate Professor

    European History: 19th-century Europe, modern France, architectural and urban history, history of medicine, cultural historiography and methods

  • Christy L Pichichero

    Christy L Pichichero

    Associate Professor

    Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student/Faculty Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.

  • Brian W. Platt

    Brian W. Platt

    Director, Digital Public Humanities Graduate Certificate Program

    Associate Professor

    World History: Japan, East Asia

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  • Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Professor

    U.S. History: 20th century U.S.; U.S. South; African American history; women and gender; children and childhood

  • Stephen Robertson

    Stephen Robertson

    Director of the MA Program in History

    Professor

    U.S. History: 20th century US history, digital history, legal history, African-American urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality

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  • Zachary Schrag

    Zachary Schrag

    Professor

    U.S. History: US history, urban history, history of technology, public policy, research methods.

  • Kelly Schrum

    Kelly Schrum

    Affiliate Faculty (Higher Education Program)

    Professor

    scholarship of teaching and learning, history of higher education, online learning, scholarly digital storytelling, digital humanities

  • Vanessa Meikle Schulman

    Vanessa Meikle Schulman

    Associate Professor

    Art History: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture of the United States; periodical studies; history of technology

  • Susan E. Schulze

    Susan E. Schulze

    Associate Professor

    European History

  • Randolph Scully

    Randolph Scully

    Associate Professor

    U.S. History: colonial and revolutionary America, race, gender, religion, Southern history, Virginia history

  • Nate Sleeter

    Nate Sleeter

    Research Assistant Professor

    U.S. History: Gifted children, cultural history, teaching and learning, digital

  • Suzanne E. Smith

    Suzanne E. Smith

    Director of the PhD Program

    Professor

    U.S. History: African American, 20th century Cultural History, History of Death in America, American Popular Music, African American Religious History

  • Vadim Staklo

    Vadim Staklo

    Associate Professor

    European History: Digital Archives, Latin American History, Russian/Soviet History, Communism in Latin America

  • Peter N. Stearns

    Peter N. Stearns

    Distinguished University Professor

    World History: Modern European and American and comparative social history, history of emotions, world history

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  • Brandon Tachco

    Brandon Tachco

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    World History: Maritime History, Environmental History, Modern Europe, Modern Southeast Asia, United States and the World, Comparative Colonialism and Empire, Company-State and Business Imperialism, Public History

  • Gabrielle A Tayac

    Gabrielle A Tayac

    Associate Professor

  • John Turner

    John Turner

    Professor

    American Religion; Mormonism; History of Colonial New England

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  • Jacquelyn Williamson

    Jacquelyn Williamson

    Associate Professor

    Art History: Ancient Egypt, The Amarna Period, Gender and Women's Studies, Religion, Archaeology

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  • Huseyin Yilmaz

    Huseyin Yilmaz

    Associate Professor

    World History: Ottoman History; Middle East; Early Modern Political Thought; Translation and Transmission of Knowledge

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  • Rosemarie Zagarri

    Rosemarie Zagarri

    Distinguished University Professor

    U.S. History: Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history