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Sharon Qiu

Sharon Qiu

Qiu did fieldwork about the elders' living situation in nursing homes in China. Later on, her research interests shifted to Cuba. Qiu then conducted intermittent fieldwork in Santiago de Cuba and Havana between 2018 to 2022. She is interested in Cuba because Cuba shares asynchronous popular responses...

Webinar | Human Rights, Ethics, and the Importance of Evidence-Based Research

Past Event
Thursday, March 21, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Zoom Webinar

What is the role of science in work on ethics and human rights? This webinar outlines the intimate relationship between human rights and ethics, and discusses how empirical, evidence-based research plays a critical role in revealing important, often counter-intuitive, findings about human rights. Pr...

Rick W. A. Smith

Rick W. A. Smith

I am a biocultural anthropologist working at the intersections of genomics and feminist, queer, and Indigenous Science and Technology Studies (STS). I completed my Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the faculty at Mason, I completed a three year postdoctoral fellowsh...

Christian Rafael Suero

Christian Rafael Suero

Christian Rafael Suero is a doctoral student of sociology at George Mason University who studies labor, class, well-being, within higher education. He currently works as a Resident Director for George Mason University's Housing and Residence Life and research assistant for School of Integrative Studi...

Haagen Klaus

Haagen Klaus

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

Thomasina Borkman

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 ...

Lester R. Kurtz

Lester R. Kurtz

Lester Kurtz is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (4 vols., Elsevier Academic) and The Warrior and the Pacifist (Routledge), co-editor of Women, War, and Violence (2 vols., Praeger), Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell), The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movemen...

Dae Young Kim

Dae Young Kim

Dae Young Kim is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University.  He received his B.A. in Sociology and Spanish from SUNY-Binghamton and his Ph.D. in Sociology from CUNY Graduate Center.  His articles and book chapters on immigrant integrat...

Fellowships

Dissertation fellowships provide support to Ph.D. students in the research and writing phases of the doctoral dissertation. Typically, to accept such an award a student must be advanced to doctoral candidacy, meaning they must have completed all required coursework and received formal approval for th...