• Lisa Andion
  • Education
  • 1996 BA in International Politics of Latin America and Spanish Language Area Studies, American University, Washington, D.C.
  • 2001 MA in Latin American Studies, American University, Washington, D.C.
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  • Conference papers
  • "New Frontiers and the Linguistic Space: Neutral Accents in Telenovelas Produced for Audiences in the United States" Presented at: Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 29-30 September 2006.
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  • Teaching experience
  • Elementary Spanish, American University, Washington, D.C.
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  • Intermediate Spanish, American University, Washington, D.C.
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  • Latin America: History, Art & Literature, American University, Washington, D.C.
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  • América Latina: Historia, Arte y Literatura, American University, Washington, D.C.
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  • Research interest
  • Latin American History, Cultural Movements, Media and Migration
  • Sean Johnson Andrews
  • Education
  • 1999 BA in Communications, minors in English and Theatre, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
  • 2002 MA in English Literature, emphasis in Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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  • field statements
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  • Conference papers
  • "Who's Right and Who's Left: The Cultural Politics of the Anti-Globalization Movements." Presented at: Late Modern Planet: Modernism, Globalization, Cultural Studies, 11th Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Kansas State University, 7-9 March, 2002.
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  • "Who's Right and Who's Left: The Cultural Politics of the Anti-Globalization Movements." Presented at: Globalizations: Cultural, Democratic, Economic, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 11-13 April 2002.
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  • "Is There No Alternative?(Hegemony and the Challenge[?] of the Expose." Presented at: Democratic Communications and Global Justice, Union for Democratic Communication, State College, PA, 10-13 October 2002.
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  • "Ambituous Vehicles: Cultural Studies and/of The Hummer." Presented at the 2nd Annual Cultural Studies Association (US) Conference, Boston, MA, Northeastern University, 5-9 May 2004.
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  • "Let's Define Culture: Clarifying the Object of Cultural Studies and Halting the Expansion of the Latest Enclosure Movement." Presented at the 3rd Annual Cultural Studies Association (US) Conference, Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona, 21-24 April 2005.
  • David Arditi
  • Education:
  • 2007 MA in Political Science, Graduate Certificate: Alliance for Social, Political and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
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  • 2005 BA in Political Science, Minor in Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)
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  • Published Book:
  • Criminalizing Independent Music: The Recording Industry Association of America's Advancement of Dominant Ideology: VDM Verlag, 2007.
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  • Honors and Awards:
  • Virginia Tech Graduate Congressional Fellowship, 2006
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  • Interests:
  • American Government; Critical Cultural Theory; Popular Music; Hip-Hop; Interest Groups; Politics of Technology
  • Elaine Cardenas
  • Elaine is researching fashion, body adornment and sexuality, using visual ethnography. She has also conducted research on teens' online diaries. Professionally, she has worked for more than 25 years for Washington, D.C.-based social policy think tanks and market research firms, including Abt Associates, Chilton Research (a subsidiary of Disney/ABC) and The Gallup Organization, where she has conducted research on such social issues as substance abuse, mental health, unemployment and criminal justice. She also has directed national information development and dissemination programs on substance abuse. She is currently conducting research in support of a national program to eliminate the stigma associated with mental illness and writing a book on drug courts. She has published numerous government manuals, newsletters, and monographs, and has made many presentations at professional conferences. Elaine is the CEO of Redwood, Incorporated, a woman-owned business specializing in social marketing research and knowledge applications.
  • Pablo Castagno
  • Education
  • Ph.D. (ABD) Cultural Studies, George Mason University
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  • MA Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
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  • BA Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina;
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  • Areas of Specialization
  • Culture and social change in world capitalism. Marxist political economy. Sociology of knowledge and intellectuals. Social and cultural theory. Argentina's history of culture.
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  • Honors, Awards, Fellowships, Grants
  • The MLG Michael Sprinker Essay Prize for Cultural Practices in the
  • International House of the Spanish Big Brother, 2005
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  • George Mason University Fellowship, 2003-2005
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  • Fulbright Fellowship, 2001-2003
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  • Spanish Agency of International Cooperation (AECI) Scholarship, 2000-2001
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  • Argentina National Institute of Public Administration Fellowship (INAP), 1997
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  • Course Taught
  • Undergraduate courses:
  • Media and Globalization; Communications Theory and Research Techniques; Directed Study Critical Social Theory. AUP, France, 2005-2006
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  • Research Positions
  • Research Assistant, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales Gino Germani. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999-2000
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  • Research Assistant-Technical Coordinator, Fundación Raúl Prebisch. Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Argentina, 1998-2000
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  • Other Studies
  • MA (coursework completed) Procesos de Integración Regional con énfasis en el MERCOSUR, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997-1999
  • Joanne Clarke Dillman
  • holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University and an M.F.A. from Columbia University in film. Her areas of general interest include film and feminist studies, star and performance issues, gender, media and narrative.
  • Randall Cohn
  • Education
  • 2006 MA in International Relations, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
  • 1999 BFA in Acting, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY.
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  • Conference Papers
  • Dec, 2005: 2nd Annual International Conference of Social Science Research, Orlando, FL, "Democratic Paradoxes and the Pan-Liberal Identity Narrative"
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  • April, 2005: California State University Social Science Research and Instructional Council 29th Annual Student Research Conference, Fresno, CA, "The Alienating Effects of Globalization and the Creation of Historical Identity"
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  • Theater Work
  • 2000-2004 Producer and Artistic Director, EMS Theater, Kansas City, MO, winning several honors, including:
    • "Best Avant-Gardism", PitchWeekly 2001
    • "Best Shakespeare", PitchWeekly 2002
    • "100 Top Moments in Arts and Entertainment,", Kansas City Star, 2002
    • "Spotlight on Emerging Artists," Kansas City Star 2002
  • Directed, designed and/or performed in works with Coterie Theater, Kansas City; foolsFury, San Francisco; NaCl Theater, New York; We Players, San Francisco
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  • Dramaturgical Intern, "The Laramie Project", Tectonic Theater, New York, 1999
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  • Service
  • Cultural Studies Program Colloquium Planning Committee, George Mason University
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  • President, Masters in International Relations Student Association, San Francisco State University
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  • Director of Operations, Masters in International Relations Student Association, San Francisco State University
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  • Interests
  • Narratives of political resistance in the European avant-garde
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  • Democratic theory and international law
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  • National trauma and identity construction
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  • Utopian art communities
  • Matthew Condon
  • B.A. English, Pennsylvania State University
  • M.A. English, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Lynne M. Constantine
  • is Associate Chair and Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University . She earned an M.A. and an M. Phil. in English language and literature from Yale University and a B.A. summa cum laude in English and philosophy from Canisius College .
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  • Her dissertation in progress is entitled "Murder, Mourning, and Public Meaning: The Murdered Woman's Body as Spectacle, Social Text, and Cultural Transaction." Research interests include critical theories of visuality, art theory/art culture, vernacular photography, art and social engagement, violence and subjectivity, theories of embodiment, and feminist cultural theory.
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  • She co-founded the annual Visual Culture[s] Symposium at George Mason University and is a member of the interdisciplinary planning group for Encounters with Culture, an initiative that brings Mason faculty and students to reflect on pressing social issues through the medium of the arts.
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  • Upcoming conference presentations include a workshop on democratic dialogue in the classroom at the Association for Integrative Studies annual conference and a paper on vernacular photography entitled "The Histories We Would Like to Have" at the Mid-Atlantic regional meeting of the Society for Photographic Education.
  • Claire Deal
  • Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Hampden-Sydney College
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  • Education
  • 1990 MFA Directing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC.
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  • 1985 MA Education (concentration in English), Furman University, Greenville, SC.
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  • 1983 BA Speech and Dramatic Art, Psychology, Secondary Education, Mercer University, Macon, GA.
  • Teacher Certification: Theatre Arts, K-12; Speech Communication, 9-12; English, 9-12; Psychology, 9-12
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  • Publications
  • "Translating Identities Through Photographs: Collaborative Learning between Hampden-Sydney College and Piedmont Regional Jail. " Pam Fox, co-author. Special issue "Teaching Through Translation." Transformations. Publication forthcoming.
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  • "Learning with Conviction: Service Learning, Social Documentary, and Transformative Research. " InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies. Vol. 2, Issue 1, Article 2. link
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  • "Living with Conviction," Exhibition (photography with text), ArtSpace Gallery, Richmond, VA, April 2006.
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  • "Living with Conviction: Connecting and Empowering Inmates and Students through Service-Learning, Social Documentary, and Photography." Pam Fox, co-author. National Civic Review, a quarterly publication of the National Civic League. 95.2 (2006): 59-63.
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  • "Captive Audience: Exploring Identities of Privilege and Marginality through a Service-Learning Partnership between College Students and Inmates at a Regional Jail." Pam Fox, co-author. eSharp: electronic social sciences, humanities and arts review for postgraduates, the University of Glasgow's online peer-reviewed journal. Issue 6: Identity and Marginality. November, 2005. http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/
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  • "The View from the Top: (Re)envisioning how men of privilege view gender and sexuality." Ohio Communication Journal. 41/42 (2005): 21-44.
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  • "Regional Studies and the Liberal Arts: Appalachia Up Close." alcalines: Journal of the Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia, a National Council of Teachers of English refereed journal. XI (2005):12-14.
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  • Chapter accepted for publication in A Survival Guide to Teaching against Resistance: Strategies for Enhancing the Classroom Experience, forthcoming. Robert Westerfelhaus, Pamela A. Kaylor, Shawn A. Townes, and Sweety Law, editors.
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  • "Living with Conviction," Exhibition (photography with text), Piedmont Regional Jail, Farmville, VA, June 2005.
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  • "Living with Conviction," Exhibition (photography with text), Hampden-Sydney College, May 2005.
  • Hampden-Sydney College Speaking Center Online: http://people.hsc.edu/faculty-staff/cdeal, Online publication, Summer 2000. (a multi-tiered website)
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  • Conference Presentations
  • "Engaged Scholars: Communicating Common Ground," presenter, Eastern Communication Association Conference, New York City, April 2002
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  • "Communicating Common Ground: Hampden-Sydney College and the Prince Edward County Schools," presentation, National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, November 2001
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  • "Service Learning: A Partnership between Hampden-Sydney College and the Prince Edward County Schools," presentation, The Association for General and Liberal Studies National Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2001
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  • "Not- for - Profit Nets High Return: Expanding participants' visual and verbal communication skills through service - learning in the not-for-profit sector," presentation, Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Quebec City, May 2001
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  • "Collaborative, Intercollegiate Development of Digital Delivery: Creating the HSC Speaking Center Online," presenter, Excellence at the Center: A National Conference for Communication Lab Directors, University of Richmond, April 2001
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  • Honors and Awards
  • 2001 Recipient of Grant for Communicating Common Ground from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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  • 2000, 2001, Recipient of Summer Research Grant, Hampden-Sydney College, VA.
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  • 2000, 2001, 2002 Recipient of grant from the Prince Edward Public Schools Endowment foundation for Communicating Common Ground,
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  • Fall 2000 Proposal selected by the National Communication Association as an Inaugural partner for "Communicating Common Ground,"
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  • Stand alone courses taught
  • University:
  • Assistant Professor of Rhetoric / Director of Hampden-Sydney College Speaking Center, Hampden-Sydney College, Farmville, VA, Fall 1999 to present.
  • Courses: Public Speaking; Principles and Practice of Good Writing; Advanced Public Speaking; Small Group Communication; Social Constructions of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
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  • Adjunct Instructor, College of Mount Saint Joseph, Delhi, OH, 1991-92
  • Courses: Drama Workshop, Oral Communication, Composition
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  • Adjunct Instructor, University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, 1991-92
  • Course: Public Speaking
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  • Adjunct Instructor, Southern Ohio College, Ft. Mitchell, KY, 1991-92
  • Courses: Critical Thinking Skills, Short Fiction
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  • Lecturer and Interim Head of Communication Education Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1990-91
  • Courses: Teaching Methods for Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, Public Speaking, Vocal Performance and Dialect Reduction
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  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of NC at Greensboro, 1988-90
  • Course: Vocal Performance and Dialect Reduction
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  • Secondary:
  • Speech/ Theatre/ English Teacher, McAuley High School, Cincinnati, OH, 1992 - 1999
  • Courses: Public Speaking, Survey of British Literature, Women's Studies, Stagecraft, Acting 1, Acting 2, Improvisation, Children's Theatre Tour Troupe
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  • Theatre Teacher and Director, Holy Cross High School, Covington, KY, 1991-92
  • Course: Introduction to Theatre
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  • Theatre Teacher and Director, Northern High School, Durham, NC, 1985-88
  • Courses: American Literature, Acting 1, Acting 2, Children's Theatre Tour Troupe
  • Rachel Delgado-Simmons
  • holds an M.A. from George Mason University, (interdisciplinary studies). Indigenous studies in Latin America (Mayan Indians of Guatemala); museology and syncretic art forms in Mayan textiles and art, cultural iconography, ritual and native religion in visual and performance culture, critical ethnography, museum theories in exhibiting cultures, and technological research methodologies.
  • Martha Deutscher
  • Martha Deutscher is the chief of the communications division at the Department of Defense Business Transformation Agency (BTA) where she leads a staff of strategic specialists, web designers, graphic artists, writers, editors and other communications professionals toward accomplishing the agency’s strategic communication goals. The mission of the BTA is to guide the transformation of business operations throughout the Department of Defense and to deliver Enterprise-level capabilities that align to war-fighter needs.
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  • Prior to joining the BTA, Martha was spokesperson and chief communication officer at the Defense Security Service maintaining effective relationships with the public, the media, and Congress on national security topics.
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  • Martha served as acting chief of communications for the Department of Defense Education Activity - the DoD’s international school system operating in twelve foreign countries, seven states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Her accomplishments there include oversight and construction of a new digital TV production facility in Arlington VA.
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  • As a foreign affairs officer at the US State Department, Martha produced international speaker programs and conducted seminars for Foreign Service and civilian staff on public diplomacy tradecraft in Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and at the National Foreign Affairs Training center in Arlington, VA.
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  • Martha led the State Department’s Global Technology Corps to provide media training for college students in South Africa. For the US Agency for International Development in Sarajevo, she coordinated the development of Bosnia’s first post-war multi-ethnic TV network. At the US Information Agency she produced live broadcasts with Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Kofi Annan and other international policy experts for audiences worldwide. As information officer for the US Embassy in Zambia, she ran the press center for journalists covering the civil war in Angola and edited and distributed a daily English-language Newspaper, The Washington Line.
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  • Martha is the recipient of the Secretary of State’s Certificate of Appreciation for Extraordinary Service to the American People in Support of the State Department’s Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001; the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau’s Meritorious Honor Award for producing the first VOA TV broadcasts in Farsi and Arabic, and the Academic Achievement Award from the University of the District of Columbia’s School of Business and Public Management.
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  • Martha holds a BA in Mass Media Communication from the University of Akron in Akron, OH; a MA in Public Administration from the University of the District of Columbia and is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Cultural Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA where her two fields of study are Cultural Studies of Food and Theorizing the Nation State.
  • Rebecca Forrest
  • Education
  • M.A.I.S - Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2006
  • Thesis- Torch: The changing views of Jan Palach's self-immolation in Prague
  • B.A. Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2000
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  • Interests
  • Music, the construction and negotiation of identity, Media Studies, Fandom, Elvis
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  • Professional Experience
  • George Mason University Libraries, External Relations/ Development Assistant, 2004 - present
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  • Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and Disney on Ice, Feld Entertainment, Inc., Marketing & Sales Manager, 2000 - 2004
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  • Music Marketing & Promotions: Arista Records, Beatville Records, RAS Records, CMJ Magazine, 1998-2000
  • Robert Gehl
  • Click here for personal homepage
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  • Education: M.A. in English from Western Michigan University. B.S. in English, History, and Museum Studies at Central Michigan University.
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  • Fields: Marxist political economy; science and technology studies
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  • Book:
  • Under Contract. With Vicki Watts. The Politics of Cultural Programming in Public Spaces. Cambridge Scholars Press.
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  • Published papers:
  • "YouTube_As_Archive: who will curate this digital wunderkammer?" The International Journal of Cultural Studies (12) 1: 41-58.
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  • "Something is stirring in the East: Racial identity, confronting the other, and miscegenation in Othello and The Lord of the Rings." In Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Languages., MacFarland, 2006.
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  • "'I Came to Life on the Wrong Side of the Fence': A Straight White Male Exploration of Boundaries in the Genre of Lesbian Fiction." Mindfire Renew (Fall 2004).
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  • "'Why Aren't We Seeing This Now?': Public(ized) Torture in The Passion of the Christ and Fahrenheit 9/11." Nebula 1.2 (Sept. 2004).
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  • "The Box Office Ballot: The Passion of the Christ and the Bush Campaign." Clamor Communiqués 50 (Sept/Oct 2004).
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  • Recent conference presentations:
  • 2009 - "Building a Blog Cabin in a Financial Crisis." Presented at MIT6, Cambridge, MA.
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  • 2008 - "The rules of engagment: The dialectic of the American Right in 2004." Presented at the Histories of Violence Graduate Conference, George Mason University.
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  • 2007 - Moderator, Plenary Panel, The Politics of Cultural Programming, George Mason University
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  • 2007 - "Digital Primitive Accumulation: Or, What Marx Can Teach Us about Labor on the WWW." Presented at the Cultural Studies Colloquium, George Mason University.
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  • 2007 - "YouTube_as_Archive: Who Will Curate this Digital Wunderkammer?" Presented at Media in Transition 5, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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  • 2006 - "The Boots on the Ground: Being a Technology Across the Curriculum GRA in the Social Work Department." Presented at Innovations 2006, George Mason University.
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  • 2006 - "The Rules of Engagement: Abu Ghraib and Ohio's Issue One." Presented at International Week 2006, George Mason University.
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  • 2004 - "'It's His World Now, Not Mine:' Exploring the Mythology of Adventure in Steinbeck's Travels with Charley." Presented at the M/MLA Conference in St. Louis, MO.
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  • Courses taught:
  • Cultural Studies 320: Globalization of Culture
  • English 111, 112 (Freshman composition)
  • English 3: Developmental writing
  • Music Appreciation
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  • Service work:
  • Co-chair, Student Organizing Committee (2006-2008).
  • Reviewer, GLBT Division, National Communications Association (2007).
  • Robert Goler
  • completed his A.B. at Yale University and his M.A. at Case Western Reserve University. His areas of interests include American philanthropy and health policy. He recently presented a research paper on interim leadership in arts organizations to the Association for Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations.
  • Ellen Gorman
  • Education
  • B.A. English Literature, University of Virginia, 1981
  • M.A. English Literature, George Mason University, 2001
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  • Areas of Specializtion
  • Aesthetics, Feminisms, Art Criticism, Critical Theory
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  • Paper Presentations and Publications
  • "'Art's Useless Utility': Theories of Aesthetic Value in a Jeff Koons Boot," Organizing Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of the US, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2003
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  • "The Minimalist Sculpture of 'Primary Structures': Truth in the 'Social Labour of the Spirit'," Organdi Quarterly Review (Online), April 2002
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  • "Dinah's Choice: A Feminist Reading of George Eliot's Adam Bede", Graduate Humanities Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2001
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  • Stand-alone courses taught
  • George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
  • ENGL 101 - Composition (Linked with DANCE 101/Improvisation)
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  • ENGL 201 - Reading and Writing About Texts
  • George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
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  • ENGL 010 - Writing Cultural Studies
  • Ludy Grandas
  • Education
  • B.A. in Spanish and English Language, Pedagogic and Technological University Tunja, Colombia.
  • Specialization Program in Higher Education. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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  • Masters in Methodology for the Teaching of English as a Second Language, Universidad Distrital, Bogota, Colombia.
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  • Stand-alone courses taught
  • Before coming to Mason: Methodology for the teaching of English; Teaching Practicum Supervisor.
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  • At Mason: Taught Spanish at the Modern Languages Department Spring, Summer and Fall, 2001.
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  • Fellowships
  • George Mason University Fellowship, 2001
  • Jennifer Headley
  • Education
  • Jennifer is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Cultural Studies and recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. She also holds a BA from Point Park University in Applied Arts and a MFA from George Washington University. Her focus in the CS program is on contemporary art; her field statements America Performance and Installation Art, 1960-2000 and Feminist Art History, 1970-2000 covered contemporary art, criticism, and theory. Her dissertation is on the history of the Arlington County Public Art Program.
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  • Research Interests
  • Her research interests are focused on contemporary art including installation, performance, and new media. She is also interested in art theory and criticism.
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  • Stand alone courses taught
  • Jennifer has taught photography at George Washington and Georgetown Universities as an adjunct professor, and was a faculty member at the Art Institute of Washington from 2003-2005 teaching studio art, art history, and communications history. She is now a Museum Program Specialist at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a Federal Agency within the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. She has worked with museums for over ten years in varying capacities, and hopes to someday be a museum curator.
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  • Exhibitions and Publications
  • Jennifer is a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, (Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, 2005) and has three essays in the forthcoming African American National Biography (Oxford University Press/Harvard University, 2007). She also completed curatorial research on artist biographies for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and has exhibited her artwork throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
  • Jennifer has exhibited locally and nationally with her most recent solo shows at the Arlington Arts Center in 2001 and the Gallery at the Art Institute of Washington in 2003. Her work and articles have appeared in numerous publications, from the literary journal Yawp! to the graphic design publication FullBleed. Her work is housed in numerous private and public collections in the Washington DC and Pittsburgh, PA areas.
  • Olga Ulloa Herrera
  • Education:
  • M.A. Art History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1989)
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  • B.F.A. Ceramic Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1985)
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  • Advance Museum Training Program, Smithsonian
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  • American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1989-1990)
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  • Areas of Interest:
  • Visual culture, contemporary and Latin American art, transnationalism and globalization
  • Phil Hutchison
  • Education
  • 2000 BA, Chicano Studies/Asian American Studies from California State University Northridge.
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  • 2002 MA, Asian American Studies from UCLA.
  • Awards and Honors
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  • 2000 Kenyon Chan Leadership Award, CaIfornia State Northridge.
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  • 2000-01 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA.
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  • Subjects of Interest
  • Racism and culture
  • Randa Kayyali
  • Education:
  • M.A., Anthropology/Sociology, American University in Cairo
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  • B.A., Politics, Oberlin College
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  • Additional Education
  • Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities, University of Amsterdam, 2005
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  • Certificate in Non-Profit Management, MPA program, George Mason University, 2002
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  • Fields of Specialization
  • Topical: Globalization; Public Culture; Migration; Political Economy; Social Movements and Cultural
  • Change; Higher Education
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  • Areal: American Studies; Middle Eastern Studies
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  • Publications
  • The Arab Americans. Greenwood Press, Westport CT/London, 2005.
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  • Report on Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Arab-Americans, Washington DC: ADC Research Institute, 1997.
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  • - "The People Perceived as a Threat to Security: Arab Americans since September 11," Migration Information Source, a monthly online publication of the Migration Policy Institute (July, 2006).
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  • - Encyclopedia entries for Facts on File: Kuwait, Huda Shaarawi, Shirin Ebadi (publication forthcoming)
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  • - Book review. "The Space Between our Footsteps" by Naomi Shihab Nye, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XVII, No. 5 (July/August 1998): 124
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  • Papers, talks, and panels
  • 2006. Three book talks on The Arab Americans at Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL; Palestine Center, Washington DC; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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  • 2006. Lecturer. "Arab Americans: The Salience of Multi-Layered Identities" Georgetown University Outreach Program, Washington DC
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  • 2006. Moderator. Graduate student panel, "Mediated Images: New research on Media in the International Circuit" George Mason University, Fairfax VA
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  • 2005. Guest Lecturer. "Invisible in America: Minorities
  • and Marginalization" Dean's Seminar, George Washington University, Washington DC
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  • 2003. Presenter. "Arab-American Identity: Multi-layered and Multi-faceted" Africa & Europe Regional Forum, Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund for International Peace, American University in Cairo
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  • Prior to 2003. Speaker on three panels: "Binding Lebanese Youth in Diasporas to Youth in Lebanon," Rene Mouwad Foundation Conference, Washington DC
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  • (October 1999); "Youth Panel" ADC Convention,
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  • Washington DC (June 1999); "Facilitating New Thought Through Workshops and Research" AAUG Conference,
  • Detroit, MI (October 1998)
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  • Courses Taught
  • Instructor: Globalization and Culture, Fall 2006
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  • Co-instructor: Globalization and Culture, Fall 2005
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  • Graduate teaching assistant: U.S. History, Fall 2004; Spring 2005
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  • Professional Associations
  • American Anthropological Association
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  • Cultural Studies Association
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  • Middle East Studies Association
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  • Honors and Awards
  • 2004 - present - Departmental Scholar with teaching assistantship, George Mason University, Cultural Studies Department
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  • 2002 - Fellow, Carl & Lily Pzhorheimer Fellowship for Public Service
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  • 1999 - Mentor, Nisan Young Women's Leadership Exchange Program for Arab and Jewish Young Women
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  • 1994 - 1996. Scholarship recipient (full tuition), Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund for International Peace, American University in Cairo
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  • Languages
  • Arabic: Advanced in Modern Standard Arabic; advanced in Egyptian and Levantine spoken dialects (second language)
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  • French: Fair
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  • Fieldwork
  • Lebanon. Ethnographic research and interviews for M.A. thesis, "The War Generation of Beirut"
  • J. Scott Killen
  • Education
  • M.A. Anthropology, San Diego State University, 2007.
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  • Single Subject Teaching Credential in English, California State University Bakersfield, 2003.
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  • B.A. Program of Liberal Studies and Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, 2001.
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  • Publications
  • 2007 The Theater and Its Vicissitudes: The Masses as Metonym Within Contemporary Western Cinema. Published Master’s Thesis. Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, Montezuma Publishing, San Diego, CA.
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  • Conferences
  • 2009 Workshop Moderator. “Urban Politics After Bush.” at America After Bush: Presented by The Chesapeake area chapter of the National American Studies Association and The George Mason University Cultural Studies and African-American Studies Programs, Fairfax, VA.
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  • 2007 Frazier, Freud, and Taboo: Seducing Sympathy from the Forbidden. Paper presented at the Association of Graduate Students in English conference, Northridge, CA.
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  • Teaching and Research Experience
  • 2008-Present
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Cultural Studies Program, George Mason University.
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  • 2005-2008
  • English Instructor at El Cajon Valley High School, El Cajon, CA.
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  • 2004
  • Graduate Research Assistant, San Diego State University Ethnographic Field School, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • 2001-2003
  • English Instructor at Auburn Community School, Bakersfield, CA.
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  • Awards and Grants
  • 2008-Present George Mason University Presidential Scholar
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  • 2004 Office of International Programs Graduate Research Travel Grant
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  • 2001 Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology
  • Sangmin Kim
  • Education
  • M.A. Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2002
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  • B.S. Industrial Design, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, 1993
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  • Interests
  • Visual Culture, Media Studies, Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, Post-structuralism, Politics of Visual Representation
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  • Stand alone course taught
  • Understanding Popular Arts, University of Suwon, Korea, 2003
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  • Published Books (co-translations)
  • R. L. Rutsky, High Technē: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetics to the Posthuman, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999 (Seoul: Sigongsa, 2004).
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  • Jan van Toorn ed., design beyond Design: Critical reflection and the practice of visual communication, Amsterdam: Jan van Eyck akademie, 1998 (Seoul: Sigongsa, 2004).
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  • Haechoen Park ed., Design Anthology, Seoul: Sigongsa, 2004 (Includes Manuel De Landa, Alain Findeli, and Johanna Drucker)
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  • Professional Experience
  • Assistant Programmer, Korean Film Festival DC 2004
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  • Departmental Assistant, Dept. of Aesthetics, Seoul National University
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  • Secretary, The Korean Society of Aesthetics
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  • Ground Controller, Republic of Korea Air Force
  • Jessica Lang
  • Education
  • MA in the Teaching of Writing and Literature, George Mason University
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  • BA in English: Professional Writing, Kutztown University
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  • Certificate in Radio Production, Columbia School of Broadcasting
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  • Certificate in Television Production, Columbia School of Broadcasting
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  • Awards
  • Cultural Studies Fellowship, 2006
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  • Nominated for the Advisor of the Year, 2005
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  • Nominated for the Advisor of the Year, 2006
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  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, George Mason University
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  • Named Outstanding Graduate Student in Teaching of Writing and Literature at George Mason University
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  • Courses Taught
  • ENGL 101: English Composition
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  • ENGL 201: Reading and Writing About Texts
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  • Engl 302B: Advanced Composition for Business
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  • Engl 302H: Advanced Composition for the Humanities
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  • Engl 302S: Advanced Composition for the Social Sciences
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  • Engl 302N: Advanced Composition for the Natural Sciences
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  • Professional Workshops
  • Teaching Culturally Distant Texts
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  • Teaching Historically Distant Texts
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  • Teaching Advanced Composition Social Sciences (302S)
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  • Teaching Advanced Composition Humanities (302H)
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  • Teaching Advanced Composition Business (302B)
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  • Service
  • Co-chair of the Student Organizing Committee for the Ph.D. in Cultural Studies Program
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  • Cultural Studies Program Student Matters Committee
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  • Adjunct English Instructor, George Mason University
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  • Adjunct Mentor for Teaching Assistants, George Mason University
  • Gyu Tag Lee
  • Education
  • B.A.: From Dept. of English Language and Literature at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (March 1997 - February 2001)
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  • - Studied at University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) as an interchange student of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (October 2006 - April 2007)
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  • M.A.: From Dept. of Communication at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (September 2004 - August 2007)
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  • Service Work
  • Republic of Korea Air Force (March 2001 - June 2004)
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  • Served as a First Lieutenant in the Air Defense Artillery. Assumed the chief of one company included 120 soldiers.
  • JZ Long
  • holds an individualized B.A. in Political and Cultural Economy from Virginia Wesleyan College and an M.A. in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University. Prior to attending George Mason, he taught mass media and popular culture courses full-time in the relaxed yet colder Bowling Green climate. Current research interests include the changing uses and roles of mass media in contemporary society (especially of cinema and television), the development of critical media literacy through innovative pedagogies, and the intersections of communications technologies with politics, economics, and public policy making.