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Professor G. Chesler (they/them) directs, produces, and writes fiction and documentary films that address sexuality, the body, gender and racial justice. Their films have been exhibited at hundreds of film festivals, museums, community centers, and galleries worldwide. They teach courses in fiction d...
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Doorways for Women and Families Fall 2014
For over 30 years, Doorways for Women and Families has created pathways ou...
My research focuses on Black women’s maternal mental, perinatal, and behavioral health experiences and the intersectional racisms contextualizing and driving these experiences. I engage directly with Black women and their advocates within the communities where they live, eat, play, and pray. I utiliz...
Heidi Y. Lawrence teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in professional writing and rhetoric. Her research focuses on the rhetorics of medical and scientific controversies, specifically public debates about vaccinations. She studies the role that professional communication produced by physicians...
Samirah Alkassim is Assistant Professor of Film Theory in the Film and Video Studies program at George Mason. She has taught filmmaking and film studies at the American University in Cairo, Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, and several institutions in the US. Her research interests include MENA cine...
Nichole is a PhD Student of Cultural Studies at George Mason University, having a research interest in the rise of online social media as a conduit for social justice movements. She received her Bachelors in Sociology with a minor in Gender Studies at Monmouth University and a Masters in Women's, Gen...
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...
Jo-Marie Burt is associate professor of political science and Latin American Studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. At Mason, she has served as Director of Latin American Studies, Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies, and Associate Chair for Undergrad...
In celebration of International Women's Day 2024, Professor Anu Aneja, Director of the Women and Gender Studies program, was invited to deliver a podcast hosted by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. The podcast, intended for distance education students of IGNOU located across ...
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...