Research

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce an opportunity for faculty to seek nomination to participate in the NHC's Summer Residency Program or Scholarly Writing Institute that will be held during the summer of 2027. Interested scholars must submit required information to CHSS by November 16 to be considered for nomination.

The Center for Climate Change Communication has announced the latest version of the Climate Change in the American Mind (CCAM) interactive dashboard and data visualizer – the CCAM Explorer. The tool and dataset, which include data going back to 2008, is updated to include data from 2025, letting you investigate changes in Americans’ opinions about climate change over time and across different demographic and political groups.

WHYY News explores the impact that creativity and arts programming has on the development on school-aged children. Thalia R. Goldstein is quoted.

Cher Weixia Chen hopes being mindful of human rights will one day be just as automatic as looking both ways before crossing the street. The George Mason University professor is spearheading an innovative project she hopes will give educators and students, along with NGOs, government, technological, and business leaders, the tools to better approach human rights issues.

CHSS research took center stage on September 1, 2026, as leaders from the college’s chartered research centers and institutes showcased their work and achievements in three-minute, single-slide presentations for Provost and Executive Vice President Marion Underwood during her visit to the college.

Fall for the Book and the Institute for Immigration Research’s New American Voices Award recognizes recently published works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing. The 2026 Longlist has just been announced.

Two faculty from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) have recently received awards for their digital projects. Jessica Otis has been awarded the Renaissance Society of America’s Digital Innovation Award for 2026 for her project, Death by Numbers, and Stephen Robertson won the Angel David Nieves Book Award from the American Studies Association and received an honorable mention for the Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize from the American Society for Legal History for his project, Harlem in Disorder.

The American Council on Education (ACE) Virginia Network will be holding their 2026 Annual Conference on June 5 at Fuse at Mason Square in Arlington, Virginia. This year’s conference, “Navigating Rough Waters,” will explore how leaders at all stages of their academic and administrative careers chart their way through complexity with clarity, compassion, and strength. Registration is required.

Hosted by Institute for Immigration Research, a CHSS Chartered Research Center, the symposium focuses on immigration, displacement, and belonging, with a particular emphasis on how arts, culture, and storytelling can be effectively used to build community, shift public attitudes, and inform immigration-related policy in the United States. The symposium is free and open to the public. Please register.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences would like to congratulate Tamara Harvey and Jacqueline M. Burek from the Department of English for being selected for the 2026 National Humanities Center four-week summer residency program this June at the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina.