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Mason anthropology professor Rashmi Sadana has been working for nearly ten years on chronicling the new Metro in Delhi, India and its impact on the city and its people. Her work has recently been funded with three prestigious research awards.

These firsthand accounts were collected as part of George Mason University sociology professor’s Dae Young Kim’s undergraduate sociology classes.

You can hear and congratulate award winner Angela Hattery at the DC Sociological Society Annual Banquet this Thursday, May 23, 6 pm, at Busboys & Poets (14th & V). She’ll be a panelist discussing Sociology and the #MeToo Movement. For more info and to register, go to https://www.dcsociologicalsociety.org/events.html. But please act fast!

In Spring 2019 the IIR hosted three excellent events featuring top experts and researchers. Videos from all three events are now available at iir.gmu.edu/about/iir-events.

Sociology major Charlotte Woodward made history this month as the first student with Down syndrome to be inducted into the discipline of sociology honors society, Alpha Kappa Delta. As an advocate for disability rights, Charlotte is putting her sociology to good use. We are very proud of her and all our hardworking and smart sociology students!

We are proud to have you as our newest members of sociology and anthropology honor societies.

Jay Lee will be presenting his research on "Arab representation in post-9/11 Hollywood media" at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

Claire will be studying Polish at the University of Pittsburgh's Slavic, Eastern European and Near Eastern Summer Language Institute to support her dissertation research.