AJ Ryan is the recipient of the Women and Gender Studies 2024 Outstanding Thesis Award. This thesis examines a nine-year precedence of undocumented Filipinos in broadcast network television. Looking at three characters, Mateo Liwanag of NBC’s Superstore, in addition to Thony and Fiona De La Rosa from...
David is an assistant professor in the School of Integrative Studies and teaches courses for Women and Gender Studies, the Composition program, and the Honors College. Most of their courses focus on gender and sexuality in popular culture, friendship studies, rhetoric, and LGBTQ+ studies. They also s...
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...
Maria Karametou is a mixed media artist who has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally including at The Ludwig Museum for International Art, Aachen, Germany; The Vorres Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; The National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Apartman Projesi, Istan...
Areas of Expertise: Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter Lisa Koch teaches literature, research & writing, and humanities courses, including 21st-Century Young Adult Novels, Teen Cu...
Congratulations to Dr. David Powers Corwin for receiving a 2023 Term Faculty Development Grant to fund their project: Representations in Television Across Decades. This award comes with $5,000 in support of their course redesign. With Lindsay Lowry (WGST Major) as their research assistant, they wil...
How to Reserve the Center for Group Meetings and Events We welcome the use of our space by Mason faculty, staff, students, departments, and organizations. The center accommodates about 25 people but is also suitable for smaller gatherings of just a handful of people. We have an large round table ...
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...
On October 11, the Women and Gender Studies Department partnered with Fall for the Book to sponsor author Gabe Montesanti. Montesanti’s memoir Brace for Impact discusses Montesanti’s discovery of roller derby and recovery from past trauma of growing up queer in the conservative Midwest. Montesanti’s...
We would like to congratulate our faculty member and associate director, David Powers Corwin, for winning a term faculty development grant to broaden the curriculum that CHSS offers. With this grant, they hope to develop a course titled: Friendships in Our World that can be offered across departments...
