Jennifer Leeman’s research and teaching focus on the sociopolitics of language, with particular attention to multilingualism, Spanish in the US, and the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language. Her work is interdisciplinary and employs the theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches of cr...
Farzin Farzad received a B.A. in political science from McDaniel College in political science with a concentration in international studies. He received his first M.A. in International Affairs from the School of International Service at American University, focusing on the Middle East. Following his ...
Terilee Edwards-Hewitt is a PhD student in Cultural Studies. She teaches anthropology as an adjunct faculty member at several colleges in the Washington, DC area. In addition to teaching, she also works in the museum field. Her research interests include the intersectionality of gender, disability an...
Jessica Scarlata is an associate professor of English and film and media studies and the director of the Screen Cultures minor (formerly Film and Media Studies) in CHSS. Her work addresses questions of incarceration, contested geographies and memories, and an approach to globalization that emphasizes...
Dr. Craig is an Associate Professor of Communication at George Mason University. He has been a part of the university and the Department of Communication since the fall of 2009. Dr. Craig received his BA in Journalism from Olivet College, his MA in Telecommunications Management from Michigan State U...
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...
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...
As a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies, Austin's research interests look at the lived experiences of students of color in historically white fraternities. His current fields of research are titled “From Men’s Studies to Masculine Theory” and “Film and Media Studies,” both focusing masculine iden...
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...
Tony Samara is the Director of Land Use and Housing at Urban Habitat (http://urbanhabitat.org/). Tony has conducted extensive research focused on the politics of development and the marginalization of low-income communities, with an emphasis on housing, gentrification, and displacement. Since 2007 he...