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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor John Robinson, MA Sociology '10, with the Distinguished Alumni Award in sociology and anthropology. Robinson is an assistant professor of sociology, associated faculty in African American Studies, and the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptor at Princeton University.

We invite students, faculty, and staff to join us in planning our Teach-In. Together, we can take responsibility for system change and help build the next system. Another world is possible. A next system is necessary. This work is in your hands.

We are pleased to announce that Next System Studies is now accepting applications from George Mason University students to the Spring 2026 cohort of Next System Fellows! 

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Shawn Camp, BA Sociology '21, with the 2025 Distinguished Staff Alumni Award. Camp has led the George Mason Patriots baseball team to historic success in his third season as head coach. Under his leadership, the 2025 team posted a 40-21 record—the program’s best since 2009—and broke the NCAA record for runs in a single inning.

Manski and alum Pearl Renwick discuss the benefits of a cooperative business model, particularly for farmers.

Professor Yasemin İpek’s new book, Crisiswork, presents a story of Lebanon through the lens of activist lifeworlds, showing how, amid crisis, both political structures and everyday life become a terrain of generative possibility.

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.

Klaus speaks about his craft of building model airplanes and how he incorporates history into his hobby.

In a recently published article, Abu Bakkar Siddique, former IIR researcher Sandip Sureka, and former IIR Director and current IIR Board member Jim Witte examine the relationship between immigrant populations and entrepreneurship in U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) between 2000 and 2022. Their findings suggest that higher proportions of immigrants at the MSA level are significantly linked to increased overall self-employment rates. The analysis indicates that immigrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs and contribute to broader entrepreneurial activity, potentially creating additional employment opportunities for native-born individuals rather than displacing them.