Faculty News

The latest issue of Fast Capitalism (a journal run by GMU Cultural Studies alum David Arditi) was edited by Paul Smith and centers on issues surrounding this year's FIFA World Cup, offering critical insights into political economy, sportswashing, mediatization, geopolitics, and environmental concerns.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Roger Lancaster's landmark ethnographic work, Life Is Hard. It's being translated for the first time by the Argentinian publisher Prometeo.

Dr. LaNitra Berger recognized by Diverse Magazine as one of 40 "Leading Women in Higher Education" in 2025

"The Struggle to Be Gay" reveals that the particular dilemmas of the queer scene in a particular country revolve, after all, around matters of the heart."

Roger Lancaster was recently interviewed by Jason Myles for an episode of the podcast This is Revolution. They discussed his latest book, "The Struggle to be Gay (In Mexico, For Example)."

Roger Lancaster's forthcoming book, "The Struggle to be Gay - In Mexico for Example" is being published by the University of California Press and is currently set to be released in February of 2024. 

His most recent book examines circuits and circulation in a variety of historical contexts including military communication, medicine and health, policing and surveillance, automobility and transportation, and optics.

Her current research seeks to recognize Shakespeare and his work as inevitably imbricated in the contemporary market of cultural commodities, a recognition that has consequences for how we “feel” about any given instance of that work.

As Amazon changes the face of capitalist business, it is also changing global culture in multiple ways. This book brings together some of the most important analyses of Amazon’s pioneering business practices and how they intersect with and affect the components of everyday culture.