Affiliate Faculty

  • Chicago White Sox Fan, Participant in Trying to Repair Our World, Loving Grandfather

    Rabbi Bruce D. Aft was the spiritual leader at Adat Reyim in Springfield, VA, from 1991 until 2020.
  • Portrait of Tawnya Azar

    Assistant Director of Composition, Term Assistant Professor of English

    Tawnya (Ravy) Azar is a Term Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. She is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and received her M.A. and PhD. in English at George Washington University.
  • Headshot of Supriya Bailey in professional attire.

    Associate Dean for Academic Administration, Carter School
    Professor, Carter School
    Professor, Co-Director Center for International Education

    Supriya Baily is an activist, a scholar, and an educator. Her work, spanning thirty years, began as a teenager in India as a community organizer and leader. Currently, she is Professor of Education at George Mason University She is also the Co-Director for the Center for International Education.
  • Pronouns: She, Her

    Adjunct Instructor, Honors College; Student Success and Inclusion Librarian, George Mason University Libraries

    Ashley Blinstrub is the Student Success and Inclusion Librarian at George Mason University Libraries.
  • Assistant Professor in English

    My research includes how cultural studies (including, but not limited to, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, women and gender studies, and class theory) intersects with writing studies and the teaching of writing.
  • CEC Associate Dean and Deputy Title IX Coordinator; Office of Outreach, Student Success, and Engagement (OSSE)

    Dr. Christopher Carr is the Associate Dean of Outreach, Student Success, and Engagement in the College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University, where he leads initiatives that advance student success and engagement across the university. As faculty, Dr. Carr takes a student-centered, experiential approach to learning. His teaching emphasizes active learning, real-world problem-solving, and cross-disciplinary engagement. His research interests include building human-centered, ethical, and inclusive systems in engineering, computing, education, and public service.
  • Professor of English and African and African American Studies

    Keith Clark is a Professor of English and African and African American Studies. He earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary (1985) and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993).
  • David is an associate professor in the School of Integrative Studies and teaches courses for Women and Gender Studies, the English Composition program, and the Honors College. Most of their courses focus on gender and sexuality in popular culture, friendship studies, rhetoric, research methods, and LGBTQ+ studies. They also strive to make any course they teach writing intensive and use principles from the field of writing and rhetoric in their assignment design, feedback, and overall pedagogy.
  • Clarence J. Robinson Professor, Honors College

    Spencer Crew has worked in public history institutions for more than twenty-five years.  He served as president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution for twenty years.  Nine of those years he served as the director of NMAH.  At each of those institutions he sought to make history accessible to the public through innovative and inclusive exhibitions and public programs.
  • Amy Crockett is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at George Mason University.  Amy earned her MA in Teaching at the Relay Graduate School of Education, and her BS in Systems Engineering and Economics at George Mason University.