Research

The National Endowment for the Humanities, in a round of funding announced April 7, awarded two prestigious Summer Stipend grants to CHSS faculty members Maria Dakake and Benjamin Gatling.

In 2017, five undergraduate students received an OSCAR grant for a summer research project. Today, their research is transforming Wilkins Plaza.

Chase LaDue is an applied ecologist studying elephant behavior, physiology, and conservation. His study of elephant hormones and behavior in Sri Lanka was interrupted by bombings in spring 2019.

With a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Mills Kelly and his team will create a digital historical guide of the evolution of the Appalachian Trail over the past century.

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.

Mason's College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media revisit the past with ReSounding the Archives, a new database of sheet music and recordings.

A Mason religious studies professor is leading a team of scholars who are translating a rare 16th century Maya text.

Students from Mason's Folklore Studies Program collected legends, myths and stories from those who tend to be overlooked by academia.

Lincoln Mullen’s recent book, The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America (Harvard University Press, 2017), has just been awarded the “Best First Book in the History of Religions Award” by the American Academy of Religion.

Dr. Jaime Lester, interim director of the higher education program, is part of a Mason research team that recently received a National Science Foundation grant to introduce a more active-learning approach that would improve student understanding, increase retention, and increase the numbers of women and minorities in STEM fields.