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.

Jim Ambuske

Historian and Co-Head of R2 Studios

Donna Baker

Grants Administrator

Charles Chavis

Senior Scholar

Kathryn Gehred

Affiliate Scholar

Christopher Hamner

Senior Scholar

Jason Heppler

Senior Web Developer

Kristin Jacobsen

Digital Project Coordinator

Matt Karush

Senior Scholar

Mills Kelly

Senior Scholar and Former Director

Timmia King

Graduate Research Assistant

Alison Langford

Office Manager

Hannah Lecomte

Graduate Research Assistant

Amanda Madden

Affiliate Faculty

Alexandra Miller

Graduate Research Assistant

Deepthi Murali

Affiliate Faculty

Lincoln Mullen

Executive Director

Mike O'Malley

Senior Scholar

Jessica Otis

Director of Public Projects

Jeanette Patrick

Co-Head of R2 Studios

Stephen Robertson

Faculty and Former Director

Roy Rosenzweig

Founder and Director (1950–2007)

Kelly Schrum

Senior Scholar

Savannah Scott

Graduate Research Assistant

Nate Sleeter

Director of Educational Projects

Annabelle Spencer

Graduate Research Assistant

Tony Trinh

Systems Administrator

John Turner

Senior Scholar

Rachel Whyte

Graduate Research Assistant

Roy Rosenzweig

Founder and Director (1950–2007)

Roy Rosenzweig was Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, where he also headed the Center for History and New Media (CHNM). He co-authored with Elizabeth Blackmar The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, which won several awards including the 1993 Historic Preservation Book Award and the 1993 Urban History Association Prize for Best Book on North American Urban History. He also co-authored (with David Thelen) The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, which has won prizes from the Center for Historic Preservation and the American Association for State and Local History. He was co-author of the CD-ROM, Who Built America?, which won James Harvey Robinson Prize of American Historical Association for its “outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history.” His other books include Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 and edited volumes on history museums (History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment), history and the public (Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public), history teaching (Experiments in History Teaching), oral history (Government and the Arts in 1930s America), and recent history (A Companion to Post-1945 America). His most recent book (co-authored with Daniel Cohen) was Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has lectured in Australia as a Fulbright Professor. He recently served as Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association. As founder and director of CHNM, he was involved in a number of different digital history projects including websites on U.S. history, historical thinking, the French Revolution, the history of science and technology, world history, and the September 11, 2001 attacks. All of these are available through the CHNM website. His work in digital history was recognized in 2003 with the Richard W. Lyman Award (awarded by the National Humanities Center and the Rockefeller Foundation) for “outstanding achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities.” Roy’s vita is available here.