Cortney Hughes Rinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Director of the Global Affairs program. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminist Studies and Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies. ...
Dr. Rachael D. Goodman is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling and Development Program at George Mason University. Dr. Goodmans interests focus on social justice issues in counseling, with an emphasis on trauma counseling, including historical/transgenerational trauma, systemic oppression/mar...
Rachel Lewis earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University and is an Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Program at George Mason University. She is also the graduate director for the graduate certificate and MAIS concentration in Women and Gender Studies. Prior to joining George Mason, she w...
Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at George Mason University, where she teaches courses in bioethics and a range of topics in global health ethics. Her research centers broadly on vulnerability and structural health injustice, with special interests in mig...
Jessica Hurley is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University, where she teaches classes and supervises research in science fiction, multi-ethnic American, Indigenous, and wor...
Yevette Richards is a specialist in African American history, U.S. women’s history, labor studies, and Pan-Africanism. She has published Maida Springer, Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000) and the oral history companion book entitled, Conversations wi...
Paula Ruth Gilbert (Ph.D. French, Columbia University) is Professor Emerita of French, Canadian, and Women and Gender Studies in Modern and Classical Languages/Women and Gender Studies and a faculty affiliate in Cultural Studies and New Century College/School of Integrative Studies. She is also Dean...
2016-2017 Michelle Davidson (Affiliated Faculty) Books Ladewig, P.L., London, M.L., & Davidson, M.R. Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care. 9th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2017. London, M.L., Ladewig, P.W., Davidson, M.R., Ball, J. W., Bindler, R.C. & Cohen, K.J. Maternal & Child Nursi...
by Lindsay Lowry History of The Sojourner Truth Lecture Each year at Mason, Women and Gender Studies and African and African American Studies co-sponsor the Sojourner Truth Lecture Series during the spring in honor of Black History and Women’s History months. In the past, our speakers have included...
Three sociology doctoral students, Karthik Balaji Ramanujam, Deepika Hooda, and Kevin Nazar, organized Mason's first Global South Graduate Student Conference, held on May 5-6, 2022. These students are active in the Global South Research Hub of the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR), affiliated...
