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...
Cortney Hughes Rinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Director of the Global Affairs program. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminist Studies and Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies. ...
Amy L. Best is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University, where she also serves as the director of the Center for Social Science Research. Her research focuses primarily on the study of social inequalities, with specific interest in how gender, ...
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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...
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...
Tim Gibson is an Associate Professor of Communication and Faculty Affiliate in the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University. Tim Gibson's research interests include critical media studies, the political economy of communication, and urban studies. He has published articles at the int...
My research specializations are in cultural sociology, critical theory, feminist theory and sociology of music. I received my Ph.D. in 1994 from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research. Before my academic career, I spent ten years in the music busi...
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...
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...
"The 20th century saw the large-scale introduction of new environmental health risks into daily American life. We are only now understanding the toll that these poisons have taken on human health and who the responsible parties were. High-stakes toxic tort litigation has unleashed once-secret documen...