CHSS is excited to announce the recipients of the 2024 Mary Roper Award and the Staff and A/P Faculty Awards! Please join us for a celebration to honor recipients on Tuesday, December 3 at 10:00 a.m. at George’s (Johnson Center 3rd Floor). This event is open to all CHSS faculty and staff.

Mark your calendars for a CHSS coffee hour on Wednesday, December 4 from 9-10 a.m. in the Horizon Hall 6th floor kitchen. RSVP link coming soon.

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!

As a reminder, CHSS A/P faculty, instructional/research faculty, research staff, and non-probationary classified employees who are graduating with a degree or certificate this semester may be eligible to receive a one-time degree or certificate recognition bonus as a token of appreciation for their hard work and dedication.

George Mason University's Winter Commencement Ceremony will be held on December 19 at 9:30 a.m., and the CHSS Degree Celebration will be held at 2:00 p.m. Both ceremonies will be held at the EagleBank Arena.

The CHSS Pre-Award Lunch and Learn series webinar scheduled for Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 12-1 p.m has been POSTPONED and will be rescheduled. The webinar will focus on developing accurate budgets and writing strong budget justifications.

All CHSS Pre-award Request for Proposal Assistance (PRA) forms must be submitted by Monday, November 25 for any grant proposals to be submitted between December 3 and January 9. CHSS Thanksgiving and winter break grant proposal submission deadlines are approaching!

Interested in learning how to search for funding opportunities? CHSS faculty can submit a request, and one of the CHSS Pre-Award team members can help faculty find funding opportunities in their area of interest.

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) from the Office of Research Integrity and Assurance (ORIA) has announced a new initiative to populate records in RAMP called "RAMP Transition by IRB." This new process, created based on feedback from researchers, involves the RAMP/ORIA team automatically transitioning the most recently approved documents from IRBNet on behalf of PIs.

The NEH Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE) seeks input from all members of the public, including humanities researchers, practitioners, and students, on a limited grant program to fund a convening or series of convenings on the topic “Measuring the Humanities.” Share your thoughts by Friday, November 22 at 11:59 p.m. 

The National Humanities Alliance has released a new resource, "Humanities for All: Documenting the Public Humanities in Higher Education, 2017–2023," which compiles elements of their Humanities for All initiative into a durable publication. The resource also includes a new public humanities bibliography to orient researchers and learners to public humanities literature.

George Mason's NSF ART team is hosting a webinar introducing the Seed Translational Research Project (STRP) Program to George Mason faculty interested in applying for spring 2025. Faculty participants in the STRP program will receive funding, training, and mentorship to explore and hone their value proposition.

Please join us in honoring our CHSS colleagues for their years of service to George Mason University!

A two-time George Mason alumna, Richards, the senior graduate program coordinator in the Higher Education Program, is in her 10th year of working at George Mason.

Charles Chavis Jr. was honored with the Kay Family Award at the Anti-Defamation League In Concert Against Hate, which celebrates everyday heroes who speak out against hate and make a difference in their communities. Read more about Chavis' prolific work in civil rights education.

Marijana Grbeša-Zenzerović is a Fulbright visiting scholar in the Department of Communication and a CARP Research Lab Affiliate.

Amobire Akolga joins the Global Affairs Program from the University for Development Studies in Ghana. His research focuses on Africa's quest for global governance reforms, regionalism, and the African democratic trajectory.

As the executive director of teacher education, Sibaja will provide leadership to the directors of the College of Arts and Sciences' teacher education programs.

Erte Xiao of Monash University, has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). An elected body of leading researchers and professionals in the social sciences, ASSA honored Xiao as an economics expert and social science leader in her field.

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

In an new article at the AWP website, Mason Creative Writing director Gregg Wilhelm reflects on the 2024 Fall for the Book festival and explores the opportunities available to Mason creative writing students through Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice.

Using ethnographic research as well as conducting in-depth and narrative biographical interviews, Cherian's article explores the perspectives of Indian middle-class aspirations regarding international migration and how they navigate educational mobility.

In this episode of the podcast, Flores shared his views on the challenges of being a college president right now.

Shelley Broberg, Communication Center director, appeared on the Keystone Concepts in Teaching: A Higher Education podcast to discuss how to support multilingual learners, assignment design, assessment, and more.