Michael G. Chang is a specialist in the history of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). He received his A.B. in sociology and East Asian Studies from Princeton University and his Ph.D in Chinese history from the University of California, San Diego. In addition to a full-length monograph, A Court on Horsebac...
Chelsea Wenzhu Xu is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies. She received her Bachelor of Arts from China and her Masters from the University of Rochester. She is interested in visual culture, feminist theory, neoliberalism in China. She is currently teaching Global Affairs at George Mason Universi...
Iccha Basnyat (PhD, MPH) is an Associate Professor of Global Health Communication in the Global Affairs Program with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication. Dr. Basnyat received her B.A. in Communication from the University of Utah, MPH from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, an...
Qiu did fieldwork about the elders' living situation in nursing homes in China. Later on, her research interests shifted to Cuba. Qiu then conducted intermittent fieldwork in Santiago de Cuba and Havana between 2018 to 2022. She is interested in Cuba because Cuba shares asynchronous popular responses...
Andrew Light is temporarily on leave from George Mason University where he is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Atmospheric Sciences, to serve as Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was nominated for this posi...
Iccha Basnyat, Associate Professor in Global Affairs and Communication, George Mason University Professor Basnyat is a new faculty member at Mason, having been hired with tenure in Global Affairs and Communication last year. She specializes in health inequalities and health communication, and has co...