Schar Faculty

Areas of Research: International Security, Wartime learning and adaptation, Conventional deterrence, Taiwanese defense reform

Areas of Research: Education Policy, Social Welfare Policy, Urban Policy

General Michael Hayden is a retired four-star general who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency when the course of world events was changing at a rapid rate.

Areas of Research: Energy Policy, Innovation Policy, Manufacturing Policy, Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Politics

Bassam Haddad is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

Jack A. Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mercatus Center, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Director of Schar’s Center for the Study of Social Change, Institutions and Policy (SCIP).

Areas of Research: Comparative Politics, Diversity, Europe, Immigration Policy, International Migration, Islam, Middle East, Minority Politics, Muslim Politics, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, United States

Areas of Research: Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, Public Administration, Public Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Third-party (Collaborative) Governance