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Mason's Center for Humanities Research has announced that five faculty members have received Summer 2022 Research Grants to support ongoing projects related to the humanities.

An in-person, week-long workshop on anti-racist and decolonizing research with opportunities to connect with mentors for ongoing collaboration. For full consideration, please apply by June 17, 2022. Workshop attendance is free (including room and board for those not local to Fairfax). Travel is not included.

The Center for Social Science Research, along with students and faculty from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Global Affairs and Cultural Studies programs, held this inaugural event on May 5-6, 2022.

CHSS recently launched a new site dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at the college level. The site includes resources for faculty, staff, and students; the college inclusive excellence plan; and will continue to grow as our DEI and inclusive excellence work continues.

Amaka Okechukwu, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has received a grant from the highly selective National Endowment for the Humanities 2022 Summer Stipend program.

As part of GMU's Cultural Studies colloquium series in Spring 2022, second-year PhD student Carl Leak interviews Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University, Dr. Amaka Okechukwu. Dr. Okechukwu’s research agenda concerns the intersection of collective action and racial justice, as well as urban spatial politics. In this interview, Dr. Okechukwu talks about her work surrounding the historiography of Freddy "Fab Five Freddy" Brathwaite, an American visual artist, filmmaker, and hip hop pioneer, and what tracing his genealogy reveals about Black urban life in the twentieth century.

Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, author of "Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice," headlines a series also featuring Jeremy Brecher (author of "Common Preservation"), Joe Guinan (co-author of "The Case for Community Wealth Building"), Yvonne Yen Liu (Solidarity Research Center), and Melissa Scanlan (author of "Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy").

The Center for Humanities Research is now accepting applications for Summer 2022 faculty research grants. Grants of up to $3,000 are available to support humanities-related research. Applications due April 11.

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A team from Mason, including doctoral candidate Ayondela McDole, junior sociology major LaShawn Coleman, and interim African and African American Studies director Professor Charles Chavis, worked to preserve artifacts at the Charles H. Chipman Cultural Center in Salisbury, MD.