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  • Marty Abruzzo

    Marty Abruzzo

    Academic Advisor

    Career counseling, academic advising, teaching, social justice initiatives and preparing college students for their education and beyond.

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  • Sophia Balakian

    Sophia Balakian

    Assistant Professor

    Migration and borders, humanitarianism, securitization, kinship and family, East Africa, the Horn of Africa, North America

  • Hideko Hamada Bassett

    Hideko Hamada Bassett

    Assistant Professor

    Social & Emotional Development; Emotion Socialization; School Readiness

  • Laura Buckwald

    Laura Buckwald

    Adjunct Faculty

    Democracy and well-being, well-being and public policy, resilience and well-being in the Middle East, nature and well-being

  • M Susan Burns

    M Susan Burns

    Professor

    Development and learning of young children (preschool through Grade 3); young children's approaches to learning, cognition, and language; Effective professional development for adult learners

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  • Claudia Cabello Hutt

    Claudia Cabello Hutt

    MAIS Concentration Head, Women and Gender Studies

    Associate Professor

    Latin American and Latine feminist and queer thought and history, decolonial theory.

  • Sharron Caldwell

    Sharron Caldwell

    Academic Advisor

  • Christopher Carr

    Christopher Carr

    Instructor

    Leadership policy with STEM and higher education

  • Benedict Carton

    Benedict Carton

    Associate Director, Center for Mason Legacies

    Associate Professor

    Africa, South Africa, transnational race, imperialism, cultural and oral history

  • Cher Weixia Chen

    Cher Weixia Chen

    Associate Professor

    International Studies, Legal Studies, and Social Justice and Human Rights

  • P Daniel Chen

    P Daniel Chen

    Chair

    Associate Professor

    Higher Education Accountability and Institutional Effectiveness; Assessment of Student Learning and Student Success; Ethics and Spirituality in Higher Education; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education

  • Kristopher R. Cleland

    Kristopher R. Cleland

    Graduate Lecturer

    Higher Education; Environmental Sustainability; AI's Impact on Education and Sustainability; Food Insecurity, Sovereignty, & Waste; Qualitative Methods; Pedagogy; Critical Theory; and Evaluation

  • David Powers Corwin

    David Powers Corwin

    Associate Professor

    LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; Appalachian Studies; gender and sexuality in higher education; qualitative research methods

  • Bernadette C Costello

    Bernadette C Costello

    Instructor

    Leadership and talent development

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  • Maria M Dakake

    Maria M Dakake

    MAIS Concentration Head, Religious Studies

    Associate Professor

    Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

  • Kelly Dunne

    Kelly Dunne

    Associate Chair for Academic Affairs & Operations

    Senior Instructor

    History, Childhood Studies, and Education

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  • Kim Eby

    Kim Eby

    Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

    Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

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  • Alexandra L Fee

    Alexandra L Fee

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    academic advising, educational technology

  • Emily S Freeborn

    Emily S Freeborn

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Elizabeth Freeman

    Elizabeth Freeman

    Interim Executive Director, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation

    Associate Professor

    Wildlife conservation, behavioral endocrinology, behavioral ecology

  • Samuel L. Frye

    Samuel L. Frye

    MAIS Concentration Head, Social Entrepreneurship

    Associate Professor

  • Al Fuertes

    Al Fuertes

    Professor

    Facilitation and dialog, global education, psychosocial trauma healing, conflict resolution/transformation, theology of struggle, liberation theology, peacebuilding, anti-human trafficking, and displacement issues

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  • Michael R Gabel

    Michael R Gabel

    Emeritus Faculty

    Mathematics

  • Austin Gallas

    Austin Gallas

    Graduate Lecturer

    Police reform, public sexuality, undercover surveillance, sex work, New York City, social history, archives

  • Felicia Garland-Jackson

    Felicia Garland-Jackson

    Adjunct Faculty

    Institutions and Inequalities, Ethnomusicology, Military Family Sociology

  • Pamela Watkins Garner

    Pamela Watkins Garner

    Professor

    Social and emotional development of young children

  • Jamie Gentille

    Jamie Gentille

    Adjunct Faculty

    Biobehavioral Health, Child Life Specialist

  • Chrystal A. George Mwangi

    Chrystal A. George Mwangi

    Director of Graduate Programs and HEP

    Professor

    Structures of opportunity for historically underrepresented, immigrant, and international students moving into and through higher education; mobility, migration, and the internationalization of higher education; African and African Diaspora populations in higher education; race, diversity, and equity in higher education

  • Michael Gilmore

    Michael Gilmore

    Associate Professor

    Ethnobiology, community-based conservation, biocultural diversity, sustainable development

  • Jeff K. Grim

    Jeff K. Grim

    Assistant Professor

    Organizational Behavior; Organizational Theory; Academic Careers & Leadership; Student Access & Success; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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  • Janet Ha Poirot

    Janet Ha Poirot

    Assistant Professor

  • Christopher H. Hamner

    Christopher H. Hamner

    MAIS Concentration Head, War and Military in Society

    Associate Professor

    War and American society, the individual experience of combat, technological change and warfare

  • Eunjin Han

    Eunjin Han

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Students’ Mental Health, Academic Success, Counseling Services, Career Development

  • Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

    Sharrell Hassell-Goodman

    Affiliate Faculty

    First-generation college students, Black women in higher education, DEI pedagogy, anti-racist research approaches, social justice advocates in higher education, identity and leadership, and critical participatory action research, and anti-racist/ decolonial research methods

  • Cheryl Hoffman

    Cheryl Hoffman

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Sara K Hoffman

    Sara K Hoffman

    Adjunct Faculty

  • Kiernan B Hogan

    Kiernan B Hogan

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Energy & Sustainability, renewable energy, hybrid energy systems, energy resilience

  • Robert W Holder

    Robert W Holder

    Adjunct Faculty

    Ethics and Leadership

  • Susan Howard

    Susan Howard

    Associate Professor

    Design-thinking, One Health, global health, sustainability, conservation decision-making, application of social marketing, game-based learning and emerging digital and social technologies for behavior change

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  • Younsung Kim

    Younsung Kim

    Professor

    Environmental governance, climate change policy, corporate environmentalism and public policy, public policy analysis and evaluation

  • Misty Krell

    Misty Krell

    Director of INTS/EVSS/HDFS

    Instructor

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  • Nick Lennon

    Nick Lennon

    Director, Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement

    Instructor

    Leadership, Behavioral Ethics, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Intercultural Engagement, Values Based Leadership

  • Nance Lucas

    Nance Lucas

    Associate Professor

    Ethics, positive psychology, and leadership

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  • Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

    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

  • Shayna Maskell

    Shayna Maskell

    Director of MAIS

    MAIS Concentration Head, Individualized Studies

    MAIS Concentration Head, Social Justice and Human Rights

    Associate Professor

    Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.

  • Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Associate Professor

  • Marintha Miles

    Marintha Miles

    Adjunct Faculty

    Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, digital activism, social movements, media, language politics, family, gender, healthcare, religion, ethnography, Central Asia, Tajikistan

  • Sara Montiel

    Sara Montiel

    Associate Director of Student Services INTS

    Instructor

    Higher education access and retention; first- and second-generation immigrant students; first-generation college students; and women in higher education leadership.

  • Janette Muir

    Janette Muir

    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor

    Political communication

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  • John S O'Connor

    John S O'Connor

    Emeritus Faculty

    Learning communities, integrative learning, community-based learning, civic engagement

  • Regina Ohenewah Ofori

    Regina Ohenewah Ofori

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Gender Equality and Inclusion in Higher Education. Mentorship and networking for women in educational leadership.

  • Julie E. Owen

    Julie E. Owen

    Associate Professor

    the intersections of leadership identity and women’s adult development, critical and emancipatory research methods, the scholarship of liberatory leadership teaching and learning.

  • Barbara O’Connell

    Barbara O’Connell

    Administrative Assistant

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  • Katie Richards

    Katie Richards

    Senior Graduate Coordinator

  • Dale Rothman

    Dale Rothman

    MAIS Concentration Head, Computational Social Science

    Associate Professor

    Modeling and Simulation, Climate Science, Environmental Science and Policy, Sustainability

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  • Laura Aileen Sauls

    Laura Aileen Sauls

    Assistant Professor

    land rights, forests, biodiversity conservation, climate change, extractive industries, migration, earth observation, political ecology, Central America

  • Kelly Schrum

    Kelly Schrum

    Assistant Provost for Graduate Academic Affairs

    Professor

    graduate education, scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), history of higher education, digital pedagogy, digital humanities

  • Stephanie X. Sejas-Castro

    Stephanie X. Sejas-Castro

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Digital Marketing; Content Creation; Social Media Management

  • Julia Madeleine Shadur

    Julia Madeleine Shadur

    Associate Professor

    Social-emotional development, emotion regulation, parenting, family systems, substance use, children of caregivers with substance use disorders

  • Aparna Shastri

    Aparna Shastri

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Global media industries, streaming platforms, spectatorship, post-colonial studies, visual culture, Indian cinema,

  • Jessica Shindler

    Jessica Shindler

    Academic Advisor

  • Nate Sleeter

    Nate Sleeter

    Research Assistant Professor

    Gifted children, cultural history, teaching and learning, digital

  • Mary Slone-O'Neill

    Mary Slone-O'Neill

    Academic Advisor

  • Nichole Michelle Smith

    Nichole Michelle Smith

    Graduate Lecturer

    Reproductive and Productive Labor, Marxist Feminism, Online Culture and Social Media, Social Movements and Social Change, Labor Movements, Anti-Rape Activism

  • Zavin R Smith

    Zavin R Smith

    Instructor

  • Richard Todd Stafford

    Richard Todd Stafford

    MAIS Concentration Head, Energy and Sustainability

    Instructor

    Cultural study of science and technology, culture and political economy, environment and culture, political ecology, visual culture

  • Rachel M Stevenson

    Rachel M Stevenson

    Graduate Coordinator

    Higher Education, Student Affairs Administration, Student Development

  • Derek Sweetman

    Derek Sweetman

    Graduate Lecturer

    Peace and Conflict Resolution, Social Movements and Resistance, Systemic Violence, Systemic Transformation, Nonviolence

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  • Osman Tariq

    Osman Tariq

    Graduate Research Assistant

  • Mark Thurston

    Mark Thurston

    Associate Professor

    well-being, consciousness, mindfulness, holistic health, and personal transformation

  • Laura J Todd

    Laura J Todd

    Instructor

    Contemporary Students, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Pedagogy for Adult Learners

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  • Gregory Unruh

    Gregory Unruh

    Arison Chair in Values Leadership

    Associate Professor

    Sustainable Business Strategy and Social Innovation

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  • Levi Van Sant

    Levi Van Sant

    Assistant Professor

    Environmental Politics; Food and Agriculture; Sustainability; Land and Property

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  • Mariah Wakefield

    Mariah Wakefield

    Graduate Lecturer

  • Rachel Williams

    Rachel Williams

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Black visual cultures, Music videos, Animation, Race and representation studies

  • Andrew Wingfield

    Andrew Wingfield

    Associate Professor

    Fiction and nonfiction writing, sustainability studies

  • Thomas C Wood

    Thomas C Wood

    Associate Professor

    Conservation Studies

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  • Diana Kyu Yacob

    Diana Kyu Yacob

    Adjunct Faculty

    Family Financial Literacy and Resource Management

  • Aoi Yamanaka

    Aoi Yamanaka

    Director of BIS

    Associate Professor

    social justice issues in higher education, cultural leadership, and civic engagement in a diverse environment

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