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LaNitra M Berger

Associate Professor

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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Benedict Carton

Associate Director

Associate Professor

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

Robinson Professor

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Alyssa Toby Fahringer

Librarian II

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Steve A. Harris-Scott

Instructor

Research: Colonial Virginia, Early Modern Atlantic World, bound/unfree labor (slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship), environmental history and history of diseases/pandemics
Lynda Herrera

Assistant Professor

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Cynthia A. Kierner

Professor

Colonial and revolutionary America; early republic; Old South; women and gender; disasters in history

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Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

Associate Director

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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George Oberle

Director, Center for Mason Legacies

Associate Professor

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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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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Jennifer Ritterhouse

Professor

20th century U.S.; U.S. South; African American history; women and gender; children and childhood
Stephen Robertson

Professor

20th century US history, digital history, legal history, urban history, spatial history, history of sexuality

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Andrew Stevens

Librarian II

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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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Bob Vay

Assistant Professor

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Rosemarie Zagarri

Distinguished University Professor

Early American history (colonial-1820s); Early American women; 18th-century transatlantic history and global history