The President’s Office is interested in publicizing any lectures and forums the academic units are hosting related to the Israel-Gaza war on a University resource page and via an email. Please send titles of presentations, speaker names and titles, intended audience, and a short description to Kristen Koehler at kkoehle@gmu.edu to forward as CHSS entries.

From November 18 through December 4, you can help Mason's Patriot Pantry provide personal hygiene items to students while Mason is closed for winter break. Please bring donations to the Dean’s Office, Horizon Hall 6th floor. All donations are welcome!

Please join us in honoring our CHSS colleagues for their years of service to George Mason University. University Green and Gold Day events were held on November 8 and November 9.

Please join us for the 2023 Mary Roper award celebration on Tuesday, December 5 at 10:00 a.m., in George’s (Johnson Center 3rd Floor).

The Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence, to be announced in spring 2024, recognize outstanding members of our community for excellence in teaching, research, social impact, and diversity and inclusion. Learn more, and submit your nominations by December 6.

George Mason University's Winter Commencement Ceremony will be held on December 14 at 9:30 a.m. at the EagleBank Arena, and the CHSS Degree Celebration will be held on December 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the EagleBank Arena. Learn more about the ceremonies and how to request tickets.

Dean Ann Ardis debunks misconceptions about the value of a humanities degree, citing new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mason's Media Production program has again been recognized by the local chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its exceptional student talent with a Student Production Award. Luke Givens, a producer within the program, secures the Student Production Award in the commercials category for his team project, The Dip Clip.

Stillhouse Press launched two new novels in November, T.N. Eyer’s Finding Meaning in the Age of Immortality and Josh Denslow’s Super Normal. These publications represent the first novels and the first works of speculative fiction published by Stillhouse Press, an independent teaching press staffed by students and alumni of George Mason University's graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs and affiliated with Mason’s Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice.

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.

Chair Professor Willis sits down with CHSS to discuss his academic journey, his research surrounding criminal justice, and his favorite Mason memories.

Alison Heinhold Melley, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, is developing an open educational resource (OER) for her large-enrollment introductory psychology courses, made possible through a Content Creation grant from VIVA Open. VIVA Open grants focus on reducing the costs of higher education for Virginia students by eliminating course material costs.

The CHSS internal deadline is six business days prior to the sponsor submission deadline on or before 10 a.m. All proposal documents must be complete and in final form when submitted to the CHSS Pre-Award Research Administrator (RA) assigned to the proposal. In the event of university holiday breaks or closures, the timeline will be two business days prior to the deadlines set by OSP.

The Pre-Award Team is offering scheduled office hours, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Thursday, November 16 and Tuesday December 5, for an initial consult to discuss your ideas for submitting a grant proposal for external funding.

The Spencer Foundation is accepting LOIs due January 24, 2024, 1:00 p.m. EST for the Large Research Grants on Education Program. This program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years.

Proposals due December 1 are due to OSP by Monday, November 27 and due to CHSS by Tuesday, November 21. Proposals due December 18 through January 5 are due to OSP by Friday, December 8, and due to CHSS for review by Wednesday, December 6.

IIR Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr. Marissa Kiss, and IIR Affiliate, Dr. Earl Smith, are featured in the ABC News Podcast, “Reclaimed: The Forgotten League”. This six-part series examines Black baseball players who played in the Negro Leagues in the 19th and 20th century. The podcast can be found on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Research about curiosity conducted by Todd Kashdan, Department of Psychology, is mentioned in CNN article about coping with change.

In Inside Higher Ed, Ann Ardis talks about findings from a career study of humanities majors, based on a study by Mason alum Robert Townsend.