Full-time Faculty
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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
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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
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Johanna Bockman
Affiliate Faculty (Global Affairs)
Associate Professor
Globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology, Eastern Europe, socialism and postsocialism, gentrification, Washington, DC
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Joan C. Bristol
Associate Professor
World History: Latin America, African Diaspora, history of commodities
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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
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Charles Chavis
Associate Professor
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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
Director of Undergraduate Art History Programs
Associate Professor
Art History: Art History: medieval European art; medieval art theory; craft and manufacture; museum histories
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C Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Associate Professor
U.S. History: 19th-Century, Indigenous Histories, Public History, Washington D.C.
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Michele Greet
Director of the MA Program in Art History
Professor
Art History: Twentieth-century Andean art, Latin American artists in Europe
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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
Associate Professor
World History: Islamic history, Middle East, Women's Studies, Global history
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Christopher H. Hamner
Associate Professor
U.S. History: War and American society, the individual experience of combat, technological change and warfare
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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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Jane Hooper
Director of Undergraduate History Programs
Professor
World History: Global and world history; Indian Ocean history; History of Madagascar; history of slavery and slave trade
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Samuel Clowes Huneke
Associate Professor
European History: Modern Europe, Modern Germany, History of Sexuality, Legal History, History of Democracy
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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
Chair
Professor
World History: Modern Latin American history: twentieth-century Argentina, cultural history
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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
Associate Professor
U.S. History: 20th-century US, the Vietnam War, war and American society, veterans, collective memory, consumerism, militarism
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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
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Heidi Y. Lawrence
Associate Professor
Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology
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Sam Lebovic
Professor
U.S. History: 20th century culture and politics; civil liberties; media history; foreign relations; national security; democracy; political institutions and political economy; cultural globalization, constitutional history.
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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
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Wendi N. Manuel-Scott
Affiliate Faculty (School of Integrative Studies)
Professor
Critical Race Pedagogy, African American History, Black Feminist Theory, Critical University Studies, Black Queer History, Student Protest Movements, Critical Black Geographies, and Black Childhood History
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Douglas McRae
Postdoctoral Fellow
World History: Latin America, Brazil, environmental history, urban history, digital history
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Lincoln A. Mullen
Professor
U.S. History: American religious history, digital history, 19th-century U.S. history
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Michael O'Malley
Professor
U.S. History: 19th and 20th century US, cultural history, history of technology
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George Oberle
Associate Professor
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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Jessica Marie Otis
Associate Professor
European History: British history, early modern history, history of science and mathematics, digital history
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Sun-Young Park
Associate Professor
European History: 19th-century Europe, modern France, architectural and urban history, history of medicine, cultural historiography and methods
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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, Staff Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.
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Brian W. Platt
Director, Digital Public Humanities Graduate Certificate Program
Associate Professor
World History: Japan, East Asia
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Jennifer Ritterhouse
Professor
U.S. History: 20th century U.S.; U.S. South; African American history; women and gender; children and childhood
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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
Professor
U.S. History: US history, urban history, history of technology, public policy, research methods.
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Kelly Schrum
Affiliate Faculty (Higher Education Program)
Professor
graduate education, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), history of higher education, digital pedagogy, digital humanities
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Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Director, Art History Program
Professor
Art History: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture of the United States; periodical studies; history of technology
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Randolph Scully
Associate Professor
U.S. History: colonial and revolutionary America, race, gender, religion, Southern history, Virginia history
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Nate Sleeter
Research Assistant Professor
U.S. History: Gifted children, cultural history, teaching and learning, digital
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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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Vadim Staklo
Associate Professor
European History: Digital Archives, Latin American History, Russian/Soviet History, Communism in Latin America
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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
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
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Gabrielle A Tayac
Associate Professor
Public History Native American and Indigenous Studies Museum Studies Community Engaged Methodology
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Jacquelyn Williamson
Associate Professor
Art History: Ancient Egypt, The Amarna Period, Gender and Women's Studies, Religion, Archaeology
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John C Winters
Postdoctoral Fellow
U.S. History: 18th and 19th century, Native American history, museum and public history, memory studies
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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
Distinguished University Professor
U.S. History: Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history
