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CHR Third Annual Research Symposium: Democracy, Disposability, and Repair (April 11-12, 2024)

Upcoming Event
April 11, 2024, 4:00 PM to April 12, 2024, 3:30 PM EDT
Merten Hall 1204 (Thursday) & 1201 (Friday)

Registration required, please use this form to register for one or both days. CHR's third annual research symposium (April 11-12, 2024) centers on our annual theme for 2023-24, Democracy, Disposability, and Repair.  Forms of disposability have been characteristic (or even constitutive) of modes of ...

Journalistic Labor

Past Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Online Location

The technological changes and ongoing collapse of publishing business models that continue to destabilize the news industry are borne most immediately by workers. As a result, terms like precarity, surveillance, and intensification have become familiar concepts for describing the experiences of journ...

Andrew Light

Andrew Light

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...

Shannon N Davis

Shannon N DavisMason Korea Campus

Dr. Shannon Davis has served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at George Mason University - Korea since May 2021. Dr. Davis received her BA in Sociology in 1997 with distinction as an Undergraduate Research Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  She received he...

John G. Dale

John G. Dale

John G. Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is also Director of Movement Engaged, the social movement research hub of the Center for Social Science Research. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and was National Endowmen...

Landon S Wilkins

Landon S Wilkins

Landon Wilkins is an alumnus of the University of Virginia. During his time there, he developed a passion for discovering stories of the past that have impacted our present but have long been forgotten. As part of the requirements for completing his Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, he wrote a t...

Nancy W Hanrahan

Nancy W Hanrahan

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...

May Santiago

May Santiago

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...

Gabrielle A Tayac

Gabrielle A Tayac

Dr. Gabrielle Tayac, a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation, is an activist scholar committed to empowering Indigenous perspectives. She earned her PhD and MA in sociology from Harvard University, and her BS in social work and American Indian studies from Cornell University. Her scholarly research ...

Jessica Hurley

Jessica Hurley

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 speculative fiction, multi-ethnic American, Indigenous, and...