The deadline to complete the CHSS Pulse Survey for Staff and A/P Faculty has been extended to Friday, October 6, 2023. The CHSS Staff and Administrative Faculty Advisory Council encourages all CHSS classified staff, administrative/professional faculty, or non-student wage employees to participate in the survey. You should have received an email from Gallup on September 18th with your link to the survey.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes nominations for the 2023 Mary Roper Award. The award gives us a unique opportunity to recognize and reward the exceptional accomplishments of individual CHSS classified staff members who have made outstanding contributions and demonstrated excellent performance during the year. Nominations are due by Oct. 13.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to host Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman, a MacArthur Fellow and an award-winning educator, author, scholar, and mentor, for two workshops on Oct. 26 and 27. Click through to express your interest by Oct. 16.

Fall for the Book preview events are underway now through Oct. 10, with the festival happening Oct. 11–14. Events for all ages are hosted at the Fairfax Campus and at off-campus locations around Fairfax. Get the full schedule here.

Join the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution to commemorate President and Mrs. Carter’s contributions to making the world more peaceful, with a charge for how we can collectively continue their good works.

The Mason community is invited to join the University Libraries to celebrate the opening of the Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan papers. Please click through to RSVP by Oct. 10.

The conference addressed crucial questions regarding refugee and immigrant policy at the local, state, and national levels, access to higher education, and entry paths to the STEM workforce.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond spoke about his personal experiences with poverty and his encounters with others affected by social-economic injustices at this year's Wilkins Lecture.

CHSS faculty and staff can express their support for our college by opting for payroll deduction, an efficient means to make contributions to the program, scholarship, or initiative of their choice at Mason.

The CLS sponsors U.S. students to learn a critical language overseas during the summer.

The 2026 CHSS Community and Catalysts awardees will be celebrated on November 7 Horizon Hall. Faculty and staff are invited to attend and are encouraged to RSVP.

Mason anthropologist Jamie Clark and students spent part of the summer on an archaeological expedition in Sefunim Cave, Israel, excavating a site with deposits going back about 21,000 years.

A real-life scenario inspired Mason professor and alum Susan Howard to create Go Nisha Go, a game that provides more than 250,000 players in India with essential resources in the real world they can access directly from the game.

Need help in preparing and submitting an external grant proposal? The Pre-Award Research Administration team consists of highly trained and knowledgeable research administrators who are ready and eager to help you with your proposal submissions.

Are you submitting a proposal to a new program or funder for the first time? Are you working on a resubmission?  Do you have an idea for a grant but are unsure if it is a good fit? If so, reaching out to a Program Officer is a very helpful part of submitting a successful proposal for funding.

Please join ITS for vendor demonstrations from two selected finalists, Qualtrics and QuestionPro, and for the opportunity to learn more about each platform and provide the committee with valuable feedback.

A Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for the Combating Overdose through Community-level Intervention (COCLI) has been posted. Applications are due Monday, November 6, 2023 although the sponsor will begin accepting applications in mid-October.

Sociology and Anthropology Professor Rashmi Sadana’s 2022 book The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure was chosen as one of two finalists for the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award, given by the Chicago Council for Global Affairs.

Jennifer Leeman, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, was interviewed for a podcast on New Books Network en español about her recent co-authored book Hablar español en Estados Unidos: La sociopolítica del lenguaje (Speaking Spanish in the US: The sociopolitics of language).

In Inside Higher Ed, Bryan Caplan, Department of Economics, is quoted about the value of unpaid internships.

Amina Skouti (MA Global Affairs ‘23) is quoted in the Hill about participating in a walk through D.C. to spread awareness for refugees.