Affiliate Faculty

  • Adjunct Faculty

    I am a retired administrator, now enjoying the opportunity for more contact with students. Prior to retirement, I served as Assistant Provost of Academic Affairs at Mason, overseeing academic accreditation and program development. Previously, I served as Director of Academic Program Development for the University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Portrait of Shauna Rigaud

    Community Based Learning Coordinator Graduate Teaching Assistant, SOC Professional Development Co-Chair

    Black History with a focus on Caribbean American experiences, Black feminism, youth development and community organizing
  • Portrait of Jennifer Ritterhouse

    Professor

    Jennifer Ritterhouse earned her B.A at Harvard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Discovering the South: One Man's Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s (UNC Press, 2017) and Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race (UNC Press, 2006), as well as several articles.
  • Portrait of Laurie Robinson

    Clarence J. Robinson Professor

    Laurie Robinson is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society. She joined the CLS faculty in 2012 after more than three decades of involvement in national criminal justice policy.
  • Portrait of Nathaniel Ropski

    Honors College Admissions Counselor; Lecturer, Honors College

    I work in Mason's Office of Admissions on behalf of the Honors College
  • Honors College Admissions Counselor; Lecturer, Honors College

    I work in Mason's Office of Admissions on behalf of the Honors College. In this capacity, I teach coursework on the college admissions process, represent the Honors College in external events, and read all applications to the HC. I also help to head up the Honors College Recruit Team (HCRT), serve on the Honors Strategic Communications Committee, and liaise directly between the HC and central Admissions regularly. Education MA, Political Science, and Government, University of Pittsburgh, 2017 BA, History & Political Science, Gannon University, 2015
  • Portrait of Kristin Samuelian

    Associate Chair
    Associate Professor

    Kristin Samuelian received her PhD from Boston University in 1992. She teaches courses in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, the nineteenth-century novel, and research methods.
  • Portrait of Zach Schrag

    Director of the MA Program in History
    Professor

    Zachary M. Schrag studies cities, technology, and public policy in the United States in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
  • Portrait of Randolph Scully

    Associate Professor

    Randolph Scully is a social and cultural historian of early America, with a particular focus on issues of religion, race, and gender. A graduate of Williams College, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and began teaching at George Mason the same year
  • Portrait of Suzanne Smith

    Professor

    Suzanne E. Smith received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in African American history with a particular interest in exploring how the history of African American entrepreneurship can transform our understanding of African American culture.  Her current research agenda focuses on the history of African American religion in modern America. She regularly teaches courses in African American history, American popular music, and civil rights and citizenship.