List of George Mason University people

Last updated July 21, 2024

Notable faculty

Nobel laureates

Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist VernonSmith2.jpg — Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist

James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist (1986)
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2002)

Pulitzer Prize winners

Steven Pearlstein, Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary in 2008
Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer
Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of the Watergate scandal (along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) while he was working at The Washington Post ; retired

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

William Sims Bainbridge
Shaul Bakhash, scholar of Persian studies; husband of Haleh Esfandiari
Mary Catherine Bateson, former Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English; Professor Emerita
Robert Bausch, novelist
Rei Berroa, poet
Andrés Boiarsky
Courtney Angela Brkic, poet
Alan Cheuse, novelist
Arthur W. Chickering
Jeremy Crampton, cartographer

Wilfrid Desan
Bùi Diễm, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States
Robert J. Elder, Jr, Air Force commander
Marita Golden, novelist
Gerald L. Gordon
Joshua Greenberg
Hugh Gusterson
Helon Habila
Deanna Hammond
Frances V. Harbour
Hugh Heclo, professor of American politics and winner of John Gaus award
Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Susan Hirsch, legal and linguistic anthropologist
Mark N. Katz
Peter Klappert, poet
Gary L Kreps
Thelma Z. Lavine, philosopher
Suzannah Lessard, writer
Lawrence W. Levine, historian
Samuel Robert Lichter, former professor at Princeton University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Yale, and Columbia University
Peter Mandaville, professor of international affairs and scholar of political Islam
Nadine Meyer, poet
Robert Nadeau, English professor
Eric Pankey, poet
Roy Rosenzweig
Richard E. Rubenstein
Clare Shore
Susan Shreve
Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian; former director of five presidential libraries^[1]
Rod Smith, poet
Peter Stearns, American historian and former provost
Lev Vekker, psychologist
Rex A. Wade, professor of Russian history
Margaret R. Yocom
Mary Kay Zuravleff, novelist

Department of Economics

Peter Boettke
Donald J. Boudreaux
Henry N. Butler
Bryan Caplan
Tyler Cowen
Christopher Coyne
Richard H. Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries
Joseph L. Fisher, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
Jack A. Goldstone
Wendy Lee Gramm
Robin Hanson
Laurence Iannaccone
Manuel H. Johnson, former vice governor of the Federal Reserve
Daniel B. Klein
Arnold Kling
Don Lavoie
Peter T. Leeson
Kevin McCabe
Maurice McTigue, former Minister for Labor in New Zealand
James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
Jennifer Roback Morse
Russ Roberts, host of EconTalk
George Selgin
Alex Tabarrok
Robert Tollison
Gordon Tullock, developed the public choice theory
Richard E. Wagner
Lawrence H. White
Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
Bart Wilson
Bruce Yandle, executive director of the Federal Trade Commission

School of Art

Chawky Frenn

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Kevin Avruch, Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Resolution and Professor of Anthropology and Dean of S-CAR
Marc Gopin, James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Susan Hirsch, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Anthropology
Richard E. Rubenstein, University Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs

Donald G. Costello College of Business

Anthony Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance
Ajay Vinze, dean of the School of Business

Antonin Scalia Law School

Jonathan H. Adler, legal commentator and law professor
Peter Berkowitz
David Bernstein
Lawrence J. Block, federal j
Frank H. Buckley
Henry N. Butler, Republican candidate for member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th congressional district
Susan Dudley, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President George W. Bush
Victoria Espinel, United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
Adrian S. Fisher, lawyer, diplomat, and politician during the 1960s and 1970s
Sandra Froman, president of the National Rifle Association of America
Sigrid Fry-Revere, founder and president of Center for Ethical Solutions
Ernest Gellhorn
Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court
Neil Gorsuch, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
William Kovacic, former member of the Federal Trade Commission
Michael I. Krauss, former Commissioner for Québec's Human Rights Commission
William H. Lash, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
James LeMunyon, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Robert A. Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute
Leonard Liggio, vice president of Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Deborah Platt Majoras, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
Henry Manne
James C. Miller III, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan
John Warwick Montgomery ^[6]
Timothy Muris, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
Paul F. Nichols, former delegate to the Virginia General Assembly
Raymond O'Brien
Daniel D. Polsby, Dean of Law
Jeremy A. Rabkin
Steve Ricchetti, served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration; counselor to Vice President Joe Biden
Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia; former U.S. Senator
Kyndra Miller Rotunda, Army JAG officer
Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Loren A. Smith, Federal Judge
Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]
Michael Uhlmann
Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
Todd Zywicki, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission

School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism

Steve Baumann, Chief Executive of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
Charley Casserly, General Manager of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans
Craig Esherick, former head coach of the Georgetown basketball team

Notable alumni

Corporate/non-profit

Muna Abu-Sulayman, secretary general and executive director, Alwaleed Philanthropies
Erden Eruç, president, CEO, Around-n-Over
Zainab Salbi, president, Women for Women International
Will Seippel, executive
Roy Speckhardt, executive Director, American Humanist Association
Martin Andrew Taylor, former senior executive corporate VP of Windows Live and MSN

Government, politics, and economics

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, President of Puntland and former Prime Minister of Somalia
David Bobzien, member of the Nevada Assembly
Denise Bode, energy expert, member of President George W. Bush's Energy Transition Advisory Team
Anna E. Cabral, Treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush
Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Sandra Cauffman, NASA
John Cobin, American-born Chilean economist and politician, former U.S. Libertarian Party candidate, and founder of the Galt’s Gulch Libertarian Compound in Chile; known for his involvement in the 2019 Reñaca shooting during the 2019–2021 Chilean protests
Sean Connaughton, Virginia Secretary of Transportation and former U.S. Maritime Administrator
Garrison Courtney, Chief Public Affairs of the Drug Enforcement Administration
Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General of Virginia
Bob Deuell, Texas State Senator
Christine Fox, former acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
Michael Frey, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Nancy Garland, member of the Ohio house of representatives
Juleanna Glover, press secretary to Vice President Dick Cheney
Bethany Hall-Long, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
William D. Hansen, US Deputy Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush
Charniele Herring, former Majority Leader Virginia House of Delegates ^[7]
Deborah Hersman, National Transportation Safety Board
Cathy Hudgins, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
David Jolly, member of the United States House of Representatives
Mohammad Khazaee, Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN
Kaye Kory, Virginia House Delegate
Sherri Kraham, deputy VP at the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Nathan Larson, former politician, arrested in Denver, Colorado and faces child kidnapping and child pornography charges
Patrick Lechleitner, acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Mark B. Madsen, Utah State Senator
Harold T. Martin III, National Security Agency contractor convicted of theft of classified information
Mike Mazzei, Oklahoma State Senator
William W. Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana
John Morlu, Liberian presidential candidate
Paul F. Nichols, Virginia House Delegate
Liam O'Grady, United States federal judge
Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign
David Ramadan, member of the Virginia House of Delegates ^[8]
Steve Ricchetti, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
Denise Turner Roth, former Administrator of the GSA
James M. Scott, Virginia House Delegate
William P. Winfree, NASA
Richard L. Young, United States federal judge
Chris Wood, director of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorism Center

Literary and media

Richard Bausch, novelist
Robert Bausch, novelist
David Michael Conner, author
Stuart Cosgrove, Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television executive
Sharon Creech, novelist
Chad Ford, sports journalist and founder of ESPN Insider
Angie Goff, news anchor, NBC 4 Washington WRC-TV
Hala Gorani, news anchor, CNN International
Brian Krebs, journalist
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia ^[9]^[10]
J. Michael Martinez, poet
Nadine Meyer, poet
Stephen Moore, journalist, policy analyst, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News
Evan Oakley, poet
Nancy K. Pearson, poet
Susan Rook, news anchor, CNN
Clayton Swisher, journalist, Al Jazeera English
Rebecca Wee, poet
Mark Winegardner, author

Sports and entertainment

Julius Achon, Ugandan distance runner, 800m American collegiate record holder
Joe Addo, soccer player
Mark Adickes, football player
Murielle Ahouré, NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships All-American in the 60-meter dash
Jorge Andres, anchor and NFL analyst for NBC Universal; former Sportscenter anchor for ESPN
Negar Assari, artist
Abdi Bile, Olympic runner
Justin Bour, baseball player, Miami Marlins
Brent Brockman, soccer player
Bill Brown, George Mason baseball coach
Lamar Butler, basketball player
Shawn Camp, baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
Folarin Campbell, basketball player
Rebecca Cardon, actress
Keri Chaconas, basketball player
Terri Dendy, Olympic track and field athlete
Jennifer Derevjanik, basketball player
Ben Dogra, sports agent
John Driscoll, actor
Chad Dukes, radio host, WJFK-FM
Jerry Dunn, basketball coach
Ryan Ellis, NASCAR driver
George Evans, basketball player
Denis Hamlett, soccer coach
Luke Hancock, former George Mason basketball player; current Louisville basketball player
Richard Hatch, winner of the first season of Survivor
Nikki Hornsby, Grammy voting singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, founder of CJP-NHRecords
Jake Kalish, baseball player
King Kamali, Iranian bodybuilder
Archie Kao, actor
Joelle Khoury, musician (pianist and composer)^[11]
Sarah Kozer, television personality, appeared on Joe Millionaire
Jim Larranaga, Mason's head men's basketball coach 1997–2011
Jai Lewis, basketball player
Bob Lilley, soccer player and head coach
Tamir Linhart, soccer player
Jason Miskiri, former NBA basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets
Dayton Moore, general manager, senior VP, Kansas City Royals
Mike Morrison, basketball player
Paige Moss, actress
Rob Muzzio, decathlon champion, Olympic athlete
Anthony Noreiga, soccer player
Gabe Norwood, Philippine Basketball Association player
Ryan Pearson, basketball player
Richard Phillips, Jamaican sprinter; competed in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Summer Olympics
Jennifer Pitts, Miss Virginia, Miss Virginia USA
Mark Pulisic, soccer player
Charlie Raphael, soccer player
Rob Rose, former NBA basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers
Dianna Russini, ESPN anchor
Kenny Sanders, basketball player
Rhea Seehorn, actress
Ritch Shydner, comedian
Tony Skinn, basketball player
Tommy Steenberg, ice skater
Shawn Stiffler, college baseball coach at VCU
Will Thomas, basketball player
David Verburg, 400m sprinter; won the gold medal in the 2013 World Championship 4 × 400 m relay
Alan Webb, American record holder in the mile
Chris Widger, former MLB baseball player
Aimee Willard, lacrosse player
Ricky Wilson, former NBA basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs and the New Jersey Nets
Carlos Yates, basketball player
Jesse Young, basketball player; member of the Canada national team that participated in the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games
Kate Ziegler, world record distance swimmer

Other

Ali al-Tamimi, convicted terrorist
Amir Ansari, venture capitalist
Anousheh Ansari, space tourist
Sandy Antunes, astronomer
Randall C. Berg, Jr., lawyer
M. Brian Blake, professor
Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute
Alan M. Davis, engineer and businessman
Chris DiBona, Google Public Sector Director
Taylor Edgar, stand-up comic and musician
Sibel Edmonds, former Federal Bureau of Investigation translator
Fred E. Foldvary, economist
Graham Foust, professor and poet
Steven Horwitz, economist
Raynard Jackson, Republican political consultant
Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks
Jonathan Klick, professor
Robert A. Levy, Chairman of the Cato Institute
Jeb Livingood, professor and writer
Daniel Mann, lawyer
George Michael, professor
Kendrick Moxon, lawyer and Scientologist
Sareh Nouri, fashion designer
Angela Orebaugh, cyber security technologist and professor
Mark Perry, professor
Brad Pfaff, USDA Wisconsin Farm Service Agency executive director
David Prychitko, economist
Jose Rodriguez, political activist
Stephen Slivinski, economist for the Goldwater Institute
Victoria Stiles, makeup artist
Edward Stringham, professor
Jeffery Taubenberger, virologist
Deborah Willis, photographer and professor

References

↑ Biography of Richard Norton Smith. Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov (2005-09-06). Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
1 2 3 Getahun, Hannah (April 30, 2023). "Scalia Law is a haven for conservative SCOTUS justices: NYT". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
1 2 3 "George Mason's Scalia Law School is a generous employer for Supreme Court justices, records show". The Week. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
1 2 3 Eder, Steve; Becker, Jo (2023-04-30). "How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-13.
1 2 3 "Antonin Scalia Law School moved up in rankings after it cultivated ties with Supreme Court justices". ABA Journal. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
↑ Rivera, Carla (11 January 1989). "A Flair for Controversy". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 10 November 2012.
↑ "Charniele L. Herring's Speech for the Celebration of the Class of 2020".
↑ Ramadan, David. "David's Story". David Ramadan – official website. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
↑ Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
↑ Official Site of Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda – Poet, Artist, Educator, Poet Laureate of Virginia. Carolynforonda.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
↑ Joelle Khoury listed as graduate of George Mason University on page at brunel.ac.uk

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[1] Biography of Richard Norton Smith. Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov (2005-09-06). Retrieved on 2011-03-11.

[:12-2] 1 2 3 Getahun, Hannah (April 30, 2023). "Scalia Law is a haven for conservative SCOTUS justices: NYT". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-06-13.

[:23-3] 1 2 3 "George Mason's Scalia Law School is a generous employer for Supreme Court justices, records show". The Week. Retrieved 2023-06-13.

[:0-4] 1 2 3 Eder, Steve; Becker, Jo (2023-04-30). "How Scalia Law School Became a Key Friend of the Court". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-13.

[:1-5] 1 2 3 "Antonin Scalia Law School moved up in rankings after it cultivated ties with Supreme Court justices". ABA Journal. Retrieved 2023-06-13.

[6] Rivera, Carla (11 January 1989). "A Flair for Controversy". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 10 November 2012.

[7] "Charniele L. Herring's Speech for the Celebration of the Class of 2020".

[8] Ramadan, David. "David's Story". David Ramadan – official website. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.

[9] Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia

[10] Official Site of Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda – Poet, Artist, Educator, Poet Laureate of Virginia. Carolynforonda.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-11.

[11] Joelle Khoury listed as graduate of George Mason University on page at brunel.ac.uk

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