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

Dr. Linda Seligmann, Professor Emerita in Anthropology, has been appointed by Governor Ralph Northam to a three-year term to the Virginia Humanities Foundation Board. The Virginia Humanities Board of Directors, made up of individuals who are passionate about the humanities, oversees organizational policy and programming. The board members are broadly representative of the citizens of the Commonwealth and its various civic, ethnic, and minority group interests.

"[Alan] believed that if we could understand people in other cultures, there would be greater harmony and peace in the world. And he believed that the key to gaining that understanding was by reading books written by writers in other countries."

The Mason community is invited to register for the October 21, 2021, investiture of Dr. Gregory Washington as Mason's eighth president.