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...
Past Event
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Bistro
Are you ready to stir up some meaningful connections while sipping on delicious mocktails? Join us for an evening of networking and mingling at our Mocktails & Mingling event! Appetizers and mocktails will be served while you get a chance to practice your networking skills through guided casual c...
Jessica Hurley is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University, where she teaches classes and supervises research in science fiction, multi-ethnic American, Indigenous, and wor...
Amaka Okechukwu is an interdisciplinary scholar engaged in research on social movements, race, urban studies, and Black archives. She joined George Mason University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Fall 2017. Dr. Okechukwu’s research agenda concerns the intersection of collective acti...
I am a fourth year graduate student living in Dallas, TX while enrolled in George Mason’s Cultural Studies PhD program. My two primary fields of study are digital media theory and political economy of the natural environment. Though these fields appear disparate, I usually find them intersecting with...
Rashmi Sadana (PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2003) is a cultural anthropologist whose field research focuses on changing forms of identity (class, caste, gender, religious, linguistic) in postcolonial, urban India. She is especially interested in how Indians express their modern and increas...
Professor Emeritus Linda Seligmann is a sociocultural anthropologist who has worked in the Andean region of Latin America for over forty years. She studied at Pomona College (BA, Anthropology), The Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas-Austin (MA, Anthropology and Spanish-Ame...
“We must now speak environment, economy, foreign policy, health, and human rights in the same breath,” says Sheila Watt-Cloutier. In this globe-spanning talk, Watt-Cloutier provides a clear, meaningful, and comprehensive understanding of the way environment, economy, foreign policy, health, and huma...
The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2022 and spring 2023 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2022-23 annual theme, "Connecting/Not Connecting: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy." Congratulations to our third c...
"We often think of the culture industries as green, certainly in comparison with the extractive or manufacturing sectors. And when it comes to the relationship between the media and the environment, we generally consider issues such as how to communicate the science of climate change effectively. But...
