Mark J. Rozell is a political scientist. He is the dean and Ruth D. and John T. Hazel chair in public policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government of George Mason University.^[1] His research concerns various topics in United States politics and government such as executive privilege, the presidency, the intersection of religion and politics, and federalism, among other topics.^{[citation needed]}

Rozell received his BA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982.^[2] He went on to complete an MA in public administration at the University of Virginia in 1983, and a PhD from the same institution in 1987.^[2]

Among his books are Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability (2020, University Press of Kansas), and the co-written volumes The Unitary Executive: A Danger to Constitutional Government (2020, University Press of Kansas), Federalism: A Very Short Introduction (2019, Oxford University Press), and The South and the Transformation of US Politics (2019, Oxford University Press).^[3][4]

Rozell contributes frequent opinion columns and commentary to major US media such as the Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, The Hill, and Politico.^[5][6][7][8] He writes a twice monthly column on Virginia politics for the Washington Post.^[9]