Hannah LeComte is a first year PhD student and Teaching Assistant. Her research includes United States women and gender history, with emphases on childhood, activism, and public history. Before attending George Mason, Hannah earned her MA in Public History from Duquesne University, and she holds a BA...
Following a forty year career in corporate public affairs from 1973 to 2013, has taught political science and history at GMU and Marquette Universities (2012 to present).
Sam Lebovic is an historian of U.S. politics, culture, civil liberties, and foreign relations. He teaches broadly in these areas; his research focuses on the ways that democratic life and the public sphere have been shaped by capitalism and imperialism in the twentieth century. Educated at the Univer...
Wes is a home-grown addition to the GMU staff. A military brat, Wes moved to northern Virginia in the mid-1980s, earned his Associate's from NVCC, then transferred to GMU for his BA and graduate school. After 10 years teaching for Northern Virginia Community College, he ventured down the road and too...
Zachary M. Schrag [silent c, rhymes with bag and flag] studies cities, technology, and public policy in the United States in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of four books: The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro; Ethical Imperialism: Instit...
Kevin Matthews earned a Ph.D. in History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000. Earlier, he received a B.A. in History at Northern Kentucky University, and master’s degrees from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky and th...
For more information, please also consult the guidance for current MA students in history or contact the director of the MA program Professor Stephen Robertson, srober30@gmu.edu. Who seeks an MA in history? Does one need a BA in history to seek an MA in history? What are the strengths of Mason...
An internship provides you with a more concrete dimension to your historical study. It allows you to see and engage in the practice of history in a professional setting such as an archive, a museum, an historic site, or a government agency for GMU course credit. An internship is a meaningful way to a...
