Congratulations to Tahmina Rahman, Honors College Advisor, for being the recipient of this year’s V. Ann Lewis Academic Advisor of the Year Award!
Honors College Term Faculty member Nadeen Makhlouf brings her expertise in public administration, collaboration, and organizational capacity to classes on public service and public-private partnerships.
Richard Todd Stafford is the director of communications in the Honors College; co-organizer of the Center for Humanities Research Environmental Justice reading group; and a scholar studying culture, energy, and the environment.
Blake Silver collects and analyzes data to enable the Honors College to fulfill its mission. His research in Sociology focuses on higher education, inequality and mobility, second-generation immigrant studies, and the transition to adulthood.
Zofia Burr is the founding dean of George Mason's Honors College. She is a poet and has researched African American literature and the reception of modern American poetry.
For political communication guru Lis Smith, working in politics is working to build a better world.
“There’s something grand about being able to shape American public life – to shape the policies that we live under every day,” she says to Robinson Professor Steven Pearlstein during the First Tuesday political talk series.
When a candidate chooses to run for public office, they are agreeing to place not only their policies, but also their character up for critique.
People want to know who they are really voting for and the media will do its best to dig up all they can on what may lurk in their past. For that reason, the job of an “opposition media consultant” is imperative to have on the campaign team.
The just-released documentary investigates a growing movement of Native Americans hoping to reclaim their vibrant, rich identities through traditional foodways, despite facing generations of trauma inflicted on their communities by settler colonialism and genocide.