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Pamela Watkins Garner

Pamela Watkins Garner

Pamela W. Garner is Professor of Childhood Studies in the School of Integrative Studies and Human Development and Family Science at George Mason University. She conducts research on the social and emotional development of children from minoritized groups and studies the contributions of parents and t...

Internships

Current Internship Openings Domestic Violence Action Network Fairfax Historic Courthouse, 4000 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 Intake & Information Line: (703) 246-4573 Doorways for Women and Families Fall 2014 For over 30 years, Doorways for Women and Families has created pathways ou...

Shannon N Davis

Shannon N DavisMason Korea Campus

Dr. Shannon Davis has served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at George Mason University - Korea since May 2021. Dr. Davis received her BA in Sociology in 1997 with distinction as an Undergraduate Research Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  She received he...

Lisa Eckenwiler

Lisa Eckenwiler

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...

Susan Tichy

Susan Tichy

Poet Susan Tichy (MA, Univ. of Colorado, 1979) is the author of four volumes of poetry and, most recently, Trafficke, a mixed-genre book of poetry and historical narrative focused on her family's 200 years of slave-holding. Her poetry books include A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan); The Ha...

Margaret Yocom

Margaret Yocom

Folklorist Margaret R. Yocom (PhD, English, U of Massachusetts, Amherst) specializes in traditional narrative, material culture, family folklore, and gender studies. The director of the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive, she established the English Department's Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Co...

Janani Umamaheswar

Janani Umamaheswar

Dr. Janani Umamaheswar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, where she co-directs (with Dr. Robert J. Norris) the Social Justice Collaborative--an intellectual community devoted to normative and empirical explorations of social justice and equity issues that ar...

Alexandria Zylstra

Alexandria Zylstra

Alexandria is an Associate Professor of Business Legal Studies and an affiliate faculty member of Women and Gender Studies. She earned her Juris Doctor at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  She then practiced family law at Legal Aid in Kansas City, Missouri, providing free legal services to victim...

Rachael Goodman

Rachael Goodman

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...

Women and Gender Studies concentration in the BA in Integrative Studies

By choosing to pursue work in women and gender studies, students at all levels engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of gender in social, political, cultural, and economic life; gender in history; women and the media; feminist theory; the relationship between sex and gender; the impact of sex, r...