Steve A. Harris-Scott
Steve A. Harris-Scott
Instructor
Research: Colonial Virginia, Early Modern Atlantic World, bound/unfree labor (slavery, indentured servitude, apprenticeship), environmental history and history of diseases/pandemics
Currently Academic Director at INTO George Mason. Also, an Affiliate Professor with the Department of History and Art History, the Center for Mason Legacies, and the Institute for Immigration Research. Finally, Director and creator of a Minor in Health, Disease, and Culture.
Current Research
- Degrees of Unfreedom in Early Colonial Virginia
- The Fairfax Proprietary in colonial Virginia
- Immigration in Early English America
- International Student Adjustment and Engagement in U.S. Higher Education
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Diseases and Pandemics
Grants and Fellowships
- Huntington Library Fellow (2012)
- Colonial Williamsburg Fellow (2011)
Courses Taught
HIST 125: Introduction to World History
HIST 387: Global History of Disease
INYO 501, 502, 504: Graduate Transitions for International Students
HNRS 110: Principles of Research and Inquiry
HNRS 240: Reading the Past
Education
George Mason University, Ph.D., History, 2016
University of New Orleans, M.A., History, 2005
Millsaps College, B.S., Physics, 2000