Full-time Faculty

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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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  • C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

    C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

    Associate Professor

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

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  • 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

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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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  • 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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  • Lincoln A. Mullen

    Lincoln A. Mullen

    Associate Professor

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

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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, 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.

  • 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

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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