Keith Renshaw, Ph.D.

Dr. Keith Renshaw is Professor of Psychology, and currently serving as George Mason University's Senior Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education. He received his Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003.  Dr. Renshaw specializes in anxiety, stress/trauma, and interpersonal relationships, with a particular focus on the experiences of service members/veterans and their families. More recently, Dr. Renshaw has focused on the development, evaluation, and promotion of scalable mental health care. In particular he, is focusing on (a) community-level mental health promotion (e.g., mental health literacy), (b) stepped care models of mental health care that include paraprofessionals delivering lower levels of care, and (c) dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments within community agencies. He has received over $3 million in extramural funding, has over 90 peer-reviewed publications and given more than 150 conference presentationsas well as numerous invited talks.

Dr. Renshaw has also won multiple teaching awards, including the Distinguished Mentor Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of Military Psychology (2021) and the Teaching Excellence Award from George Mason University (2015). He has also held numerous leadership positions at Mason, including Chair of the Faculty Senate, Faculty Representative to the Board of Visitors, Chair of the Faculty Matters Committee, and a member of the Senate Executive Committee.

In 2020, Dr. Renshaw led the formation and launch of the Military, Veterans, & Families Initiative at Mason, and operates as the Director of this initiative. This work seeks to leverage Mason's resources as the largest and most diverse public research university in the region to serve the military and veteran population at Mason, in the surrounding region, and beyond.