Lisa Rabin is Associate Professor of Spanish at George Mason University, where she teaches Spanish-language film, media and cultural studies in the Department of Modern & Classical Languages and is an affiliate of the Cultural Studies Program. She received her B.A. in Spanish & French from ...
Born into a home of politicians she chose the world of the arts starting her career in fashion eventually to become a filmmaker. Her first short film, Vivian: A Period Piece(2002) won several awards and was a finalist in the BETJ Best in Shorts national competition. While she continues to make women-...
May is a third-year PhD student and a film scholar. Her work focuses on using cinema as a cultural studies tool for colonized film economies in the Caribbean with a focus on Puerto Rico. She possesses a BFA, producing Little Girls (2013) as her undergraduate thesis film as part of a study of teen fil...
Professor Landsberg is a scholar in the field of memory studies. Her book, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Columbia UP, 2004) considers the way in which individuals are increasingly able to take on memories of events they did not live through...
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...
David started the PhD program in Cultural Studies at George Mason University in 2014. Prior to his PhD studies, David worked for the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, volunteered with Project Hope in the West Bank, worked on a traveling circus ship in Eastern Europe, and taught in South Kore...
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...
Ashley Richardson is a Cultural Studies doctoral student. Holding a BA and MA in American Studies, Ashley's research interests include contemporary film and television, digital social media, and the American entertainment industry.
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...
Melissa Beard received a BA in journalism from Michigan State University and an MA in Film and Media Studies from Wayne State University. She is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at George Mason University and currently serves as an Intercultural Specialist for Native American and Indigenous Students...