Our People

Our collaborators span many academic fields and technical specialties.

Our team includes scholars, researchers, developers, programmers, designers, project managers, educators, multimedia producers, and graduate and undergraduate students. Our backgrounds include history, museum studies, computer science, graphic design, teaching, and journalism.

RRCHNM is part of the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Center directors are faculty in the department. Students from GMU work as research assistants on faculty-led projects, and may also undertake their own digital history research projects as graduate affiliates.

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Shae Corey

Graduate Affiliate

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Kathryn Gherd

Affiliate Scholar

Ronny Grundig

Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History

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Jason Heppler

Senior Web Developer

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Matt Karush

Senior Scholar

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Mills Kelly

Emeritus Faculty and Former Director

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Timmia King

Graduate Research Assistant

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Alison Langford

Office Manager

Alison is the Office Manager for RRCHNM, where she helps keeps things running smoothly. She has a BA in English from George Mason University.

Paige Magoto

Graduate Research Assistant

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Amanda Madden

Affiliate Faculty

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Alexandra Miller

Graduate Research Assistant
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Deepthi Murali

Affiliate Faculty

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Lincoln Mullen

Director

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Mike O'Malley

Senior Scholar

Michael O’Malley received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at GMU since 1994. Publications include Keeping Watch: A history of American Time (1994) and The State of Cultural History (forthcoming 2008). He is at work on a book on the history of money and value in 19th century America. As Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media he has done extensive work in digital media, including publications and presentations on web design and digital pedagogy as well as the production of video and audio for web based educational projects. An amateur musician, O’Malley is also interested in the history of recorded sound and recorded sound technology.
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Jessica Otis

Associate Director

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Jeanette Patrick

Head of R2 Studios

Jeanette Patrick is the Head of Studio for R2 Studios, RRCHNM’s podcast studio. She is a public historian and has an M.A. in Public History from James Madison University. At R2 Studios, she oversees the development and production of all the studio’s podcasts including The Green Tunnel, Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant, Antisemitism: U.S.A.: A History, and Worlds Turned Upside Down. Patrick previously worked in the museum industry where she played a pivotal role in creating digital public history projects. 

Stephen Robertson

Associate Director

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Roy Rosenzweig

Founder and Director (1950–2007)

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Kelly Schrum

Senior Scholar

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Savannah Scott

Graduate Research Assistant

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Nate Sleeter

Associate Director

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Annabelle Spencer

Graduate Research Assistant

Annabelle Spencer is a Ph.D. student and is a graduate research assistant at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. She primarily focuses on race and gender in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. 

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Rachel Whyte

Graduate Research Assistant

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Christopher Hamner

Senior Scholar