He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2002. His dissertation, a history of the Washington Metro, was awarded the John Reps Prize by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. A revised version, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in spring 2006. Schrag’s articles have appeared in the Journal of Urban History, Washington History, and Technology and Culture. Schrag taught full-time at Baruch College and Columbia University before coming to George Mason in 2004.