Tenure-line Faculty

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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

C

  • 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.

  • 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

D

  • 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

E

  • Kim Eby

    Kim Eby

    Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

    Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

F

  • Elizabeth Freeman

    Elizabeth Freeman

    Interim Executive Director, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation

    Associate Professor

    Wildlife conservation, behavioral endocrinology, behavioral ecology

G

  • Pamela Watkins Garner

    Pamela Watkins Garner

    Professor

    Social and emotional development of young children

  • 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

H

  • 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

L

  • Nance Lucas

    Nance Lucas

    Associate Professor

    Ethics, positive psychology, and leadership

M

  • Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron

    Associate Professor

    Leadership theory, ethics and leadership, social change, and leadership and organizational problem-solving.

  • Janette Muir

    Janette Muir

    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education / Associate Professor

    Political communication

O

  • 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.

R

  • Dale Rothman

    Dale Rothman

    MAIS Concentration Head, Computational Social Science

    Associate Professor

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

S

  • 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

  • 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

U

  • Gregory Unruh

    Gregory Unruh

    Arison Chair in Values Leadership

    Associate Professor

    Sustainable Business Strategy and Social Innovation

V

  • Levi Van Sant

    Levi Van Sant

    Assistant Professor

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

W

  • Andrew Wingfield

    Andrew Wingfield

    Associate Professor

    Fiction and nonfiction writing, sustainability studies

  • Thomas C Wood

    Thomas C Wood

    Associate Professor

    Conservation Studies