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Marty Abruzzo

Academic Advisor

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

Sophia Balakian

Assistant Professor

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

Hideko Hamada Bassett

Assistant Professor

Social & Emotional Development; Emotion Socialization; School Readiness

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

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

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

Academic Advisor

Christopher Carr

Instructor

Leadership policy with STEM and higher education

Benedict Carton

Associate Director, Center for Mason Legacies

Associate Professor

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

Cher Weixia Chen

Associate Professor

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

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

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

Associate Professor

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

Bernadette C Costello

Instructor

Leadership and talent development

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

Associate Chair for Academic Affairs & Operations

Senior Instructor

History, Childhood Studies, and Education

Kim Eby

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

Alexandra L Fee

Graduate Professional Assistant

academic advising, educational technology

Emily S Freeborn

Adjunct Faculty

Elizabeth Freeman

Interim Executive Director, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation

Associate Professor

Wildlife conservation, behavioral endocrinology, behavioral ecology

Samuel L. Frye

MAIS Concentration Head, Social Entrepreneurship

Associate Professor

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

Michael R Gabel

Emeritus Faculty

Mathematics

Austin Gallas

Graduate Lecturer

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

Felicia Garland-Jackson

Adjunct Faculty

Institutions and Inequalities, Ethnomusicology, Military Family Sociology

Pamela Watkins Garner

Professor

Social and emotional development of young children

Jamie Gentille

Adjunct Faculty

Biobehavioral Health, Child Life Specialist

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

Associate Professor

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

Jeff K. Grim

Assistant Professor

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

Janet Ha Poirot

Assistant Professor

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

Graduate Research Assistant

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

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

Adjunct Faculty

Sara K Hoffman

Adjunct Faculty

Kiernan B Hogan

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Robert W Holder

Adjunct Faculty

Ethics and Leadership

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

Younsung Kim

Professor

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

Misty Krell

Director of INTS/EVSS/HDFS

Instructor

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

Associate Professor

Ethics, positive psychology, and leadership

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

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

Associate Professor

Marintha Miles

Adjunct Faculty

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

Sara Montiel

Associate Director of Student Services

Instructor

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

Janette Muir

Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor

Political communication

John S O'Connor

Emeritus Faculty

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

Regina Ohenewah Ofori

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

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

Administrative Assistant

Katie Richards

Senior Graduate Coordinator

Dale Rothman

MAIS Concentration Head, Computational Social Science

Associate Professor

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

Laura Aileen Sauls

Assistant Professor

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

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

Graduate Professional Assistant

Graduate Professional Assistant

Digital Marketing; Content Creation; Social Media Management

Julia Madeleine Shadur

Associate Professor

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

Aparna Shastri

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Jessica Shindler

Academic Advisor

Nate Sleeter

Research Assistant Professor

Gifted children, cultural history, teaching and learning, digital

Mary Slone-O'Neill

Academic Advisor

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

Instructor

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

Graduate Coordinator

Higher Education, Student Affairs Administration, Student Development

Derek Sweetman

Graduate Lecturer

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

Osman Tariq

Graduate Research Assistant

Mark Thurston

Associate Professor

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

Laura J Todd

Instructor

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

Gregory Unruh

Arison Chair in Values Leadership

Associate Professor

Sustainable Business Strategy and Social Innovation

Levi Van Sant

Assistant Professor

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

Mariah Wakefield

Graduate Lecturer

Rachel Williams

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Andrew Wingfield

Associate Professor

Fiction and nonfiction writing, sustainability studies

Thomas C Wood

Associate Professor

Conservation Studies

Diana Kyu Yacob

Adjunct Faculty

Family Financial Literacy and Resource Management

Aoi Yamanaka

Director of BIS

Associate Professor

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

Margaret Zeddies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Children and Youth, Cultural Sociology, Globalization, Humanitarian Aid, International Development, Public Sociology, Political Economy, Postcolonialism, Study Abroad

Stephanie A Zeher

Operations Manager

Elizabeth Zelensky

Adjunct Faculty

Fu (James) Zhao

Senior Budget Analyst