Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/George Mason University
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About George Mason University edit
George Mason University is a public research university located approximately 14 miles from Washington, D.C., with over 30,000 students. Global education and research are a fundamental part of the university’s mission to serve its diverse and international student body.
About the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media edit
Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. The center itself is a democratic, collaborative space where over fifty scholars, technologists, and researchers work together to advance the state of the art.
RRCHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education and understanding. Each year RRCHNM’s many project websites receive over 20 million visitors, and over a million people rely on its digital tools to teach, learn, and conduct research.
RRCHNM is part of the Department of History and Art History.
Current Visiting Scholars edit
Wehwalt edit
Wehwalt (talk · contribs) has been a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University since 2014, focusing on historical figures and coinage.
- Highlights
- Wehwalt is one of Wikipedia's most prolific editors of Featured Articles. As a Visiting Scholar at GMU he has taken 50 articles to that level, some of which were first Good Articles. 15 appeared on the Main Page with Did You Know hooks.
Alabama Centennial half dollar- Babe Ruth
- Benedetto Pistrucci
- Benjamin Tillman
- Boroughitis
- California Diamond Jubilee half dollar
- Casey Stengel
- Cincinnati Musical Center half dollar
- Cleveland Centennial half dollar
- Coinage Act of 1873
- Coinage Act of 1965
- Florin (British coin)
- Franklin Pierce
- George Mason
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- Hawaii Sesquicentennial half dollar
- History of the British penny (1901–1970)
- Horace Greeley
- Huguenot-Walloon half dollar
- Illinois Centennial half dollar
- James A. Garfield
- John Hay
- John Tyler
- Judah P. Benjamin
- Kalākaua coinage
- Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial half dollar
- Maine Centennial half dollar
- Mary Margaret O'Reilly
- McKinley Birthplace Memorial dollar
- Millard Fillmore
- Mr. Dooley
- Norse-American medal
- Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
- Panama-Pacific commemorative coins
- Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar
- Spiro Agnew
- The Bread-Winners
- The Founding Ceremony of the Nation
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Three-cent nickel
- United States Assay Commission (improved existing FA)
- United States Sesquicentennial coinage
- Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar
- Warren G. Harding
- Wendell Wilkie
- William Borah
- William H. Seward
- William Henry Harrison presidential campaign, 1840
- William Howard Taft
- William McKinley presidential campaign, 1896
- Media
- Welcome, Wikipedia Affiliate - Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media news (5 March 2014)
- Are you the next Wikipedia Visiting Scholar? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (25 April 2014)
- What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (17 March 2015)
- Wehwalt is George Mason University's Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (6 October 2015)
- First Featured Article from a Wiki Ed Visiting Scholar: Boroughitis - Wiki Education blog (10 November 2015)
- Read a Visiting Scholar's Featured Article on Founding Father - Wiki Education blog (20 January 2016)
- Today's featured article by GMU Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (3 November 2016)
- Wehwalt is ensuring the quality of Wikipedia’s coverage of American political history - Wiki Education blog (26 April 2018)
- How access to academic sources empowers already prolific Wikipedia editors - Wiki Education blog (7 May 2018)
Position announcements edit
George Mason University is not currently accepting applications. Please see Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Apply for other options.