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Cortney Hughes Rinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Director of the Global Affairs program. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminist Studies and Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies. ...
Past Event
Friday, March 1, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
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Governing Death, Making Persons:The New Chinese Way of Death
By Huwy-Min Lucia Liu
Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel th...
I received my PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University in 2017, I was a tenure-track assistant professor of anthropology at Clarkson University. My research interests center on pharmaceutical politics, extrac...
Daniel H. Temple received a BA in anthropology from Arizona State University in 2001 and Ph.D. in biological anthropology from The Ohio State University in 2007. He teaches courses that focus on bioarchaeology, human growth and development, the social histories and epistimes underlying the developmen...
Sociology MA students, Alexia Ferguson and Jill Howard, are putting their High Impact Grants to good use this semester by developing community support toolkits as their Capstone Projects.
Alexia, who works with Mason’s Contemporary Student Services office, is developing a toolkit supporting justic...
2023 Revolutionizing Research for Social Change Summer Institute fellows gather at Mason’s Point of View retreat facility in Lorton. Photo Credit: Katharine Rupp
In early June, a cohort of select students interested in careers in social science research participated in George Mason University’s Re...
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...