College of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr. Deborah Willis, PhD Cultural Studies '03, is an award-winning educator, historian, curator, photographer, filmmaker. She brings her expertise in visual arts to her new post as director of New York University's Institute of African American Affairs.

Fall for the Book will turn 20 years old in style with a star-studded lineup of headliners including novelists Tayari Jones, Elizabeth Kostova, and Elizabeth Strout; YA author Angie Thomas; and Congressman John Lewis. Other major writers will include Paul Hawken, Tom McAllister, Leslie Pietrzyk, Khaled Beydoun, and Katharine Weber.

Sociology professor and interim senior associate dean Shannon Davis has been named as the recipient of the 2018 Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Photo: Evan Cantwell/Creative Services/George Mason University.

Dr. Andrew Peterson (Assistant Professor, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and Department of Philosophy) has been awarded a major career-development grant from the Greenwall Foundation. In Fall 2018, Dr. Peterson will become a Greenwall Faculty Scholar. The award was made to support Dr. Peterson's ground-breaking work on the ethical and policy issues arising from the diagnosis of severe brain injury.

Four students from the Russian and Eurasian Studies program have been awarded the Critical Language Scholarship in Russian for summer 2018.