List of George Mason University people

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This list includes alumni and faculty of George Mason University.

Notable faculty[]

James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Nobel laureates[]

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
  • Michael Bunn
  • Alan Cheuse, novelist
  • Arthur W. Chickering
  • 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
  • Jeremy Crampton, cartographer

Department of Economics[]

Gordon Tullock, developed the public choice theory
  • Peter Boettke
  • Donald J. Boudreaux
  • Henry N. Butler
  • Bryan Caplan
  • Tyler Cowen
  • Christopher Coyne
  • Richard H. Fink, Executive Vice President of the 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

School for Conflict Analysis and 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

Schar School of Policy and Government[]

Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA
United States Ambassador to Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina

College of Science[]

School of Systems Biology[]

  • Valery Soyfer

School of Business[]

Antonin Scalia Law School[]

  • Jonathan H. Adler, legal commentator and law professor
  • Peter Berkowitz
  • David Bernstein
  • Lawrence J. Block, Federal Judge
  • 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
  • , founder of the Patent Resources Group, Inc. (PRG)
  • 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[2]
  • 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
  • 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[]

Notable alumni[]

Corporate/non-profit[]

Government, politics, and economics[]

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, President of Somalia
Anna Cabral Treasurer of the United States
Kathleen Casey Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Literary and media[]

Sports and entertainment[]

Other[]

  • 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
  • Dean Emeritus Graduate School. Member New Jersey State Board of Education.
  • George Michael, professor
  • Kendrick Moxon, lawyer and Scientologist
  • Sareh Nouri, Luxury Bridal 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
  • Ali al-Tamimi, convicted terrorist

References[]

  1. ^ Biography of Richard Norton Smith. Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov (2005-09-06). Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
  2. ^ Rivera, Carla (11 January 1989). "A Flair for Controversy". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. ^ https://www.gmu.edu/news/2020-12/charniele-l-herrings-speech-celebration-class-2020
  4. ^ Ramadan, David. "David's Story". David Ramadan – official website. Archived from the original on 4 June 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  5. ^ Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
  6. ^ Official Site of Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda – Poet, Artist, Educator, Poet Laureate of Virginia. Carolynforonda.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-11.
  7. ^ Joelle Khoury listed as graduate of George Mason University on page at brunel.ac.uk
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