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Sam Lebovic

Sam Lebovic

Sam Lebovic is an historian of U.S. politics, culture, civil liberties, and foreign relations. He teaches broadly in these areas; his research focuses on the ways that democratic life and the public sphere have been shaped by capitalism and imperialism in the twentieth century. Educated at the Univer...

Elizabeth Anne Gibson

Elizabeth Anne Gibson

Elizabeth is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Arts from Monmouth University. She holds a Masters degree in Business from Webster University, a Master of Arts in National Security Affairs-Latin American Studies from the Naval Postg...

janine Wedel

janine Wedel

Janine R. Wedel writes about governing, corruption, foreign aid, and influence elites through the lens of a social anthropologist. A university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, Wedel is a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics dominate...

Tony Roshan Samara

Tony Roshan Samara

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...

Jessica Scarlata

Jessica Scarlata

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...

Iccha Basnyat

Iccha Basnyat

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...

Yasemin Ipek

Yasemin Ipek

Yasemin İpek is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program. Her research is situated at the intersection of the anthropology of politics, activism, and inequality; critical studies of humanitarianism and refugees; decoloniality studies; and studies of Islam, sectarianism, and na...

Amaka Okechukwu

Amaka Okechukwu

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...

Stephen Robertson

Stephen Robertson

Stephen Robertson is a cultural and social historian of the twentieth-century United States. Since 2003, digital history has occupied a central place in his research. In 2024 he published Harlem in Disorder, a spatial analysis of a racial disorder in 1935 in the form of a digital monograph. The multi...

Amy L Best

Amy L Best

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, ...