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The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2023-24 annual theme, "Democracy, Disposability, and Repair."
Congratulations to all of our new faculty and graduate fellows! Learn more abou...
I am a biocultural archaeologist who studies the intersection of migration, kinship, placemaking, and resilience of the Ancient Maya via isotope geochemistry and ancient DNA. I received my PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Before joining Mason, I was a postdoc in the Department of G...
Past Event
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Hybrid Event in Horizon Hall 6325 and on Zoom
Blake's research seeks to provide a sociological examination of the relationships between suburban housing development, urbanization, and land-use intensification within the United States. Coming to understand the economic, political, and socio-environmental drivers that influence land-use intensific...
Marwa Bakabas has conducted ethnographic research to understand the ways of dwelling and life transformations through disaster faced by refugees living in a state of temporality in informal settlements in Lebanon and transit camps in Greece. Through volunteering and research, her work has focused on ...
Earl Smith, is Emeritus Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Wake Forest University. He earned his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. His teaching and research focuses on urban sociology, sociology of sport, criminal justice, and race. He is the author...
Coming to George Mason University in 2013, my teaching and research center on the bioarchaeology of the north coast of Peru. My work also spans human skeletal biology and anatomy, pathophysiology, burial taphonomy, and forensic anthropology. I teach sections of Anthropology 135 (Introduction to Biolo...
Thomasina Borkman retired from GMU in 2007 as Professor Emerita after serving in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for 32 years. In “retirement” she has continued many professional activities part time. These include editing a specialty quarterly journal in her area of specialization—the ...
In this course, we will learn the ways in which sex and gender organize our social lives. We will examine the ways in which gender determines our place in society, our perceptions of others locally and globally, and our prospects for the future. We will critically explore how the interlocking experie...