Cultural Studies
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Center for Social Science Research, along with students and faculty from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Global Affairs and Cultural Studies programs, held this inaugural event on May 5-6, 2022.

Cultural Studies professor Alison Landsberg will deliver a keynote speech at the International Network for Theory of History annual conference hosted by the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’ at the Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP). Read more here.

As part of GMU's Cultural Studies colloquium series in Spring 2022, second-year PhD student Carl Leak interviews Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University, Dr. Amaka Okechukwu. Dr. Okechukwu’s research agenda concerns the intersection of collective action and racial justice, as well as urban spatial politics. In this interview, Dr. Okechukwu talks about her work surrounding the historiography of Freddy "Fab Five Freddy" Brathwaite, an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer, and what tracing his genealogy reveals about Black urban life in the twentieth century.