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John G. Dale

John G. Dale

John G. Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is also Director of Movement Engaged, the social movement research hub of the Center for Social Science Research. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and was National Endowmen...

Suzanne E. Smith

Suzanne E. Smith

Suzanne E. Smith received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in African American history with a particular interest in exploring how the history of African American entrepreneurship can transform our understanding of African American culture.  Her current research agenda focuses on the h...

janine Wedel

janine Wedel

Janine R. Wedel writes about governing, corruption, foreign aid, and influence elites through the lens of a social anthropologist. A university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, Wedel is a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics dominate...

Tracy Corley: Transformative Science for Transitional Times

Upcoming Event
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Van Metre Hall (formerly Founders Hall), #121

Dr. Tracy Corley is the second Next System Speaker for 2024. Please be certain to register here: https://forms.gle/4a6AaUZSWi7yVWqM9 Scientists have engaged everyday people in research for centuries. But, in recent decades, community-engaged and participatory practices are engaging researchers in...

IIR Migration Working Group - May

Upcoming Event
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT

  Join us on May 1st to discuss research from: Kellie Wilkerson, Institute for Immigration Research Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Student, Sociology and Anthropology Department, George Mason University Dr. Lisa Gring-Pemble, Associate Professor, Costello College of Business, George Mason...

Journalistic Labor

Past Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Online Location

The technological changes and ongoing collapse of publishing business models that continue to destabilize the news industry are borne most immediately by workers. As a result, terms like precarity, surveillance, and intensification have become familiar concepts for describing the experiences of journ...

Akina Canady

Akina Canady

S. Akina Canady spent much of her career as a newspaper journalist before pursuing a Ph.D. Akina's doctoral research focuses the power of personal stories in Black women's health care navigation in the U.S. She examines Black women's lived experiences through Black feminist thought, biopolitics and t...

Elizabeth Anne Gibson

Elizabeth Anne Gibson

Elizabeth is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts from Monmouth University. She holds a Masters degree in Business from Webster University, a Master of Arts in National Security Affairs-Latin American Studies from the Naval Postg...

Ray Ashton LeBlanc

Ray Ashton LeBlanc

Ray LeBlanc received a BA in Anthropology and Women's & Gender Studies and an MA in Anthropology with a minor in Women's & Gender Studies from Louisiana State University. Their master's thesis focused on the construction, performance and meanings of drag queening men's bodies, drawing on auto...

Esma Husniye Celebioglu

Esma Husniye Celebioglu

Esma H. Celebioglu received her B.A. in Philosophy at Bogazici University and her M.A. in Cultural Studies program at Istanbul Sehir University. Her M.A. thesis examines the role of communication technologies in shaping social movements. During her education, she worked as assistant in different medi...