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Kelly Schrum

Kelly Schrum

Kelly Schrum is a professor in the Higher Education Program (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University). Her research and teaching focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, history of higher education, and teaching and learning in the digital age, including online le...

Anne Dobberteen

Anne Dobberteen

Anne is a Ph.D. candidate in history at George Mason University. Her dissertation explores the aerial visual culture of Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region, during the World War II years. Her broader research interests include: the visual culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cit...

Angela Ho

Angela Ho

Angela Ho received her undergraduate degree from the University of Sydney, M.A. from Williams College, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Before coming to George Mason, Ho taught at the University of Tennessee and the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on European pictorial art and ...

Michael G. Chang

Michael G. Chang

Michael G. Chang is a specialist in the history of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). He received his A.B. in sociology and East Asian Studies from Princeton University and his Ph.D in Chinese history from the University of California, San Diego. In addition to a full-length monograph, A Court on Horsebac...

Joan C. Bristol

Joan C. Bristol

Joan C. Bristol is the author of Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century (University of New Mexico Press, Diálogos series). Her articles appear in the Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial Histo...

Alison Landsberg

Alison Landsberg

Professor Landsberg is a scholar in the field of memory studies.  Her book, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia UP, 2004) considers the way in which individuals are increasingly able to take on memories of events they did not live through...

Hands-On History: Kristen Cockerill Interns at Alexandria Archaeology Museum

Hands-On History: Kristen Cockerill Interns at Alexandria Archaeology Museum

Where was your internship and how did you find it? My internship was with the Alexandria Archaeology Museum, and I found it through George Mason’s history internship website. I was interested because I had previously attended a ceramics workshop with them at their Shuter’s Hill site while I was a st...

Jane Hooper receives NEH grant to fund Slave Voyages project

Jane Hooper receives NEH grant to fund Slave Voyages project

Dr. Jane Hooper, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History and Art History, has received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support an expansion of the acclaimed Slave Voyages website.  The award is from NEH’s “Digital Projects fo...

History and Art History Department Leads Nation in NEH Funding

History and Art History Department Leads Nation in NEH Funding

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article on the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is a primary source of funding for research in the humanities.  The article included a list of universities that have received the most funding from NEH over the last decade. George Mas...