Anu Aneja is Professor and Director of the Women and Gender Studies program at George Mason University. She has research interests in the areas of transnational feminist theory and aesthetics, in particular their inventive crossings across South Asia and the west. She has explored these in her monog...
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...
Leslie Dwyer is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, the politics of memory and identity, critical medical and psychological approaches to social suffering, and globalizing discourses of human rights, social activ...
Rashmi Sadana (PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2003) is a cultural anthropologist whose field research focuses on changing forms of identity (class, caste, gender, religious, linguistic) in postcolonial, urban India. She is especially interested in how Indians express their modern and increas...
Dr. Hamdani received her B.A. from Georgetown University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University in the field of Islamic history. Her book, Between Revolution and State: the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy (I.B. Tauris 2006) examines the development of legal and historical literature by the I...
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 Felicia Baez (WGST Minor)Recipient, Outstanding Student Award - School of Integrative StudiesRecipient, Dennis Weathers Award for activism and academic work that focuses on social justice. This award is given by the African and African American Studies program. Shin Khang (WGST Minor)Rec...
The Women and Gender Studies Center houses a library of over 1,000 books related to current topics in Women and Gender Studies, including books necessary for our courses, and other unique and interesting topics. Students may check out books for a three-week period. We ask that individuals be prepared...
Meet the Women and Gender Studies Staff! Dr. Anu Aneja (she/her), Director Anu Aneja has joined George Mason as Associate Professor and Director of Women and Gender Studies and is excited to work with faculty and students to lead this vibrant, diverse and welcoming program! She has most re...
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...
