Join your colleagues for a coffee hour in the Horizon Hall 6th floor kitchen for refreshments and socializing to welcome in the new academic year!

Following the launch of the university's new institutional logo, George Mason's Office of University Branding has been creating updated logos for academic departments and programs. We have received most of the new logos for CHSS academic units, and they are now available on the CHSS Marketing and Communications SharePoint site. Here’s what you need to know.

ITS is providing resources for the migration away from MESA, including trainings covering SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive.

The application period for the 2024-25 National Humanities Leadership Council is now open. The Council is open to any undergraduate students from NHC-sponsoring institutions with an interest in the humanities. Applications will be accepted through October 11, 2024.

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends grant program provides $8,000 to individuals to support two consecutive months of full-time summer support on humanities projects. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources.

Applications for two different faculty study leave programs for the 2025-2026 academic year must be submitted by Friday, October 11, 2024. Tenured instructional faculty submit their study leave applications to the CHSS Associate Dean for Research. Term instructional faculty submit their applications to the CHSS Faculty Affairs Associate Dean.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to announce that several CHSS faculty have been awarded 4-VA collaborative research grants in 4-VA's latest competition round.

The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) has recently released their analysis of the FY 2025 Senate Appropriations Bills for Federal Science Agencies and their analysis of the FY 2025 House Appropriations Bills for Federal Science Agencies.

George Mason University’s Creative Writing Program joins Watershed Lit and Mason’s University Libraries in presenting the Fall 2024 Visiting Writers Series, celebrating fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

The Global Affairs 2024-25 colloquium series will examine how various actors are involved in global wars and to what ends. Inspired by GLOA students who have raised questions about who does what about ongoing global wars, violence, and genocide and what else can be done, the series will host distinguished speakers from diverse disciplines focusing on the role of various global actors.

On June 20, George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP) held its largest symposium to date, focused on “Hard Questions for Evidence-Based Crime Policy,” bringing together practitioners, scholars, and members of the community to collaborate on the advancement of evidence-based crime policy.

George Mason University hosted a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Higher Education, deepening humanities engagement among future higher education leaders.

This summer, Professor Gabrielle Tayac led a group of eight students on a series of site visits and field trips with the stated goal of "uplifting local Native history and contemporary Indigenous intertribal, Andean, and Central American communities."

Global affairs student Ayman Habib writes how her life experience combined with her education at George Mason made her the perfect candidate for her internship with the Migration and Refugee Services office at Catholic Charities.

Did Homo naledi bury their dead? Netflix says yes, but new research published by Kimberly Foecke, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, says no!

The distinguished professor of Criminology, Law and Society and executive director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, is the first criminologist to be elected to the Academy.

Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron is an associate professor of leadership studies as well as a core faculty member of the Higher Education Program in the School of Integrative Studies at George Mason University, and is a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR). 

Welcome to our monthly compilation of good news, gathered from CHSS faculty and staff!

On WTOP News, Keith Clark, Department of English, is mentioned for his part in the James Baldwin Centennial Series, celebrating the 100th birthday of the writer and activist.

In the Guardian, research by the Institute for Immigration Research is cited in a story about the number of foreign-born or second-generation immigrants who help make up the U.S. Olympic Team.

In Harvard Business Review, Lauren Kuykendall, Department of Psychology, co-authors op-ed describing a four-step process that breaks goals into values and definitions of success.

Kevin Matthews, Department of History and Art History, participates in panel discussion about the Labour party's victory in the 4th of July general election. The program was part of a series called “The Heat” on the CGTN network.

In the New Yorker, Michael Clemens, Department of Economics, is quoted in a story about new U.S. immigration policy.