Affiliate Faculty

Samirah Alkassim

Assistant Professor

global cinema, genre studies, cinema and media of the Middle East, film and politics

Iccha Basnyat

Associate Professor

Culture, gender and health; global health communication; South and South East Asia

Amy L Best

Professor

Education, social inequalities, youth, identity and intersectionality, children's health, community sociology, micro sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of everyday life, consumer markets and commercial life, sociology of food, farm to school, food access and food insecurity, feminist and qualitative approaches to social research, ethnography, program evaluation

Meagan Call-Cummings

Associate Professor

Cher Weixia Chen

Associate Professor

International Studies, Legal Studies, and Social Justice and Human Rights

Rose M Cherubin

Associate Professor

Ancient philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, African American philosophy

G. Chesler

Professor

documentary film, fiction film directing, transmedia, social issue media production

Maria M Dakake

Associate Professor

Islamic Thought; Qur'anic Studies; Shi'ite and Sufi Traditions; Women and Gender

Shannon N Davis

Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, George Mason University, Korea

Sociology of families and intimate relationships, gender ideologies, gender inequality, research methods

Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

Associate Professor

Social movements, oral history, intersectionality, feminist pedagogy, and contemplative education

Kim Eby

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Development.

Community Psychology, Leadership, Faculty Development

Lisa Gilman

Professor

Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.

Rachael Goodman

Associate Professor

Trauma counseling, intergenerational trauma, and resilience Immigrant and refugee women and families Counselor training and development Mindfulness practices in counseling and counselor training Community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices and social action

Karen Trister Grace

Assistant Professor

Reproductive coercion, Intimate partner violence, Pregnancy intention, Midwifery, Nursing, Health disparities, Health equity, Reproductive justice

Cortney L. Hughes Rinker

Professor

Medical anthropology, aging and end-of-life care, pain management, reproductive health, Islam, technology, gender, Middle East and North Africa, the United States

Jessica Hurley

Associate Professor

Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies, gender and sexuality studies.

Maria Karametou

Associate Professor

Vicki Kirsch

Associate Professor

Feminist psychology and psychotherapy, women’s sexualities and spiritualities, trauma and recovery

Lisa Koch

Professor

Teen/Young Adult Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Multi-Ethnic American Literature; African American Literature; Women Writers; Harry Potter

Michelle LaFrance

Associate Professor

Feminist research/feminist rhetoric, creative nonfiction, community writing, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines, ethnography, writing program administration and pedagogy

Heidi Y. Lawrence

Associate Professor

Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology

Samaine Lockwood

Associate Professor

nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory

Michael G Malouf

Professor

Modernism (Joyce and Woolf); Postcolonialism (spec. Ireland and Caribbean); Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & energy transition; theories of World Literature and Global English; Energy Law and Literature

Shayna Maskell

Associate Professor

Popular and youth culture, music, social movements, and subcultures.

Manjusha Nair

Associate Professor

Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Development, Decolonizing Methods, Postcolonialism, Labor Movements, India, China, Ethiopia, South Africa

Julie E. Owen

Associate Professor

the intersections of leadership identity and women’s adult development, critical and emancipatory research methods, the scholarship of liberatory leadership teaching and learning.

Christy L Pichichero

Associate Professor

Early Modern, Enlightenment, Revolutionary History, Literature, Art, & Music of the French Empire; Theories, Histories, and Practices of African Diaspora; Slavery & its Afterlives; War & Culture; Critical Race & Mixed-Race Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Human Rights & Social Justice; Theater; Film; Digital Humanities; Medical History; History of Emotion; Women’s Writing & History; History of News & Information Networks; Critical Pedagogy; Inclusive Pedagogy & Curricular Design; Student, Faculty, Staff Wellbeing; Faculty, Graduate, Undergraduate Recruitment, Retention, & Mentoring; Academic and Community Activism, Academe & Politics.

Rashmi Sadana

Professor

Urban space, gender, and social mobility; infrastructure, design, and the built environment; language politics and ideologies; cultural identity formation; ethnography of literature; postcolonial theory, globalization, India

Kristin Samuelian

Professor

British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.

Rick W. A. Smith

Assistant Professor

Genomics; Ancient DNA; Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies.

Janani Umamaheswar

Associate Professor

Social inequality, punishment and incarceration, the life course, qualitative research methods

Bethany M. Usher

Affiliate Faculty

Bioarchaeology, Evolution of Health and Disease, Growth and Development, Osteology, Diet

Alexandria Zylstra

Professor