Affiliate Faculty

Black History with a focus on Caribbean American experiences, Black feminism, youth development and community organizing

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Matt Sedlar is a data and policy analyst at the Center for Economic Policy and Research, where he researches the role of public catastrophe insurance programs. Before working with CEPR, Matt worked as a web communications specialist for SEIU-UHW in California and at various news organizations. He also hosts a podcast called Sociology Ruins Everything.

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.

Dr. Peter N. Stearns became Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University on January 1, 2000, serving as Provost until June 30, 2014.  He was named University Professor in January 2011. He has taught previously at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon; he was educated at Harvard University.

Virgil H. Storr is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is also the Senior Director of Academic & Student Programs at the Mercatus Center. He holds a Ph. D. in Economics from George Mason University and did his undergraduate work at Beloit College.