Sara is a sociology doctoral student and a graduate research assistant in Next System Studies at Mason. She earned her Master's degree in Sociology from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. In her masters thesis, she explored cultural traumas and memories that shape Arab American identity in the US and how s...
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...
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis. U.S. surgeon general recently warned of a devastating mental health crisis among adolescents and the suicide rate has reached its highest level since 1941. Depression and anxiety rates are at an all-time high. What is going on? Drawing on ethnography and...
Sociologists examine culture in a wide variety of forms, exploring beliefs, values, language, norms, customs, rituals, collective memory, art, music, fashion, and architecture, to name a few. The sociology of culture pursues questions about anything made by people, from the food we eat, to the symbol...
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 ...
Gergana N. Hardy is an MA sociology student at George Mason University. She served as a graduate research assistant at the College of Health and Human Services from May 2022 to March 2023, working on qualitative research on memory decline in older adults. Her research interests include sociology of w...
Juhee Park is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology and a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Communication. She received her master’s degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a paper titled “Disgruntled but Unorganized: An Analysis of How ...
2020 OLLI Scholarship Recipient I have spent many years working with indigenous peoples organizations and multidisciplinary research projects in the Asia Pacific region on issues of public health, community psychology, indigenous sovereignty, and human rights. My research interests pick up themes of...
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...
