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Lester R. Kurtz

Lester Kurtz is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (4 vols., Elsevier Academic) and The Warrior and the Pacifist (Routledge), co-editor of Women, War, and Violence (2 vols., Praeger), Nonviolent Social Movements (Blackwell), The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movemen...

John G. Dale

John G. Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is also Director of Movement Engaged, the social movement research hub of the Center for Social Science Research. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and was National Endowmen...

Daniel H Temple

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...

Johanna Bockman

Professor Bockman works in globalization studies, economic sociology, urban studies, and East European Studies. Her book Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism was published by Stanford University Press. In her research and teaching, Bockman uses comparative and hist...

Linda J Seligmann

Professor Emeritus Linda Seligmann is a sociocultural anthropologist who has worked in the Andean region of Latin America for over forty years. She studied at Pomona College (BA, Anthropology), The Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas-Austin (MA, Anthropology and Spanish-Ame...

David W Haines

David W. Haines received his M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies and Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University. Prior to coming to George Mason University in 1997, he had worked for the federal government's refugee resettlement program and served as a senior manager at the Virginia Workers' Compensa...

CSSR Urban Research Hub presents a talk by Malini Ranganathan

Past Event
Monday, April 15, 2024 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
Horizon Hall, 6325

In urban India, the loss of land rights, unsafe sanitation work, and flood and climate change risk—what I refer to as "environmental unfreedoms"—are structured by caste violence, Islamophobia, and gender and class hierarchies in ways that critical scholarship has yet to take stock of. Based on a book...

Lili Deveneau

Lili Deveneau is a sociology master’s student with a passion for social justice and human rights. Through research, policy, and collaboration, her goal is to eliminate child sexual abuse via collaborative education and multi-pronged preventive efforts. She received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology fr...

Stephanie Trapnell

Stephanie Trapnell is a practitioner-scholar working at the intersection of democracy and international development, with a specific focus on democratization, transnational movements, and quantification/knowledge production. In addition to her academic work, she has published a range of articles and ...

Huwy-min Lucia Liu

Dr. Huwy-min Lucia Liu received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Boston University, an MPhil and an MA in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a BA in Journalism at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, she was a tenure track ...