The course examines the underlying causes of the increased violence and oppression African Americans faced post-Reconstruction and the organizational responses of blacks to the drastic curtailment of their basic rights. During this period of Jim Crow ascendancy, African American life was circumscribe...
In this course we’ll use our own university as a case study, following its growth from a small, all-white, commuter college to the most ethnically diverse campus in the U.S., to explore what GMU’s story can tell us about the political, social, and cultural history of the U.S. over the last sixty year...
Michael O'Malley is the author of Keeping Watch: A History of American Time; Face Value: the Entwined History of Race and Money in America, and The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music. Keeping Watch explores the transition from natural to mechanical sources for time, an...
Jennifer Ritterhouse earned her B.A at Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Discovering the South: One Man's Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s (UNC Press, 2017) and Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Sou...
Recipient of the 2021 Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion & 2022 NAACP Arlington President's Award for GMU Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE) Task Force Dr. Christy Pichichero (pronounced \pi-‘ki-kə-rō\) holds a joint appointment as Associate Professo...
Randolph Scully is a social and cultural historian of early America, with a particular focus on issues of religion, race, and gender. A graduate of Williams College, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and began teaching at George Mason the same year. His book, Religion...
Suzanne E. Smith received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in African American history with a particular interest in exploring how the history of African American entrepreneurship can transform our understanding of African American culture. Her current research agenda focuses on the h...
I am a graduate research assistant at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. I am interested in race, gender, space, memory, and digital humanities in U.S. history. I earned a Master's in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2019 from Georgia State University, where I completed my ...
Alexandra Miller is a doctoral student at George Mason University. She works as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. She previously studied at Truman State University (BA History) and the University of South Carolina (MA Public History). Miller researc...
Janine is a PhD student who focuses on U.S. history in the 20th century with an emphasis on the military and race relations. Her dissertation focuses on Fort Dix in New Jersey during the first two decades following World War II to see how the Army struggled with integration efforts as it also adjust...
