Yasemin İpek is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program. Her research is situated at the intersection of the anthropology of politics, activism, and inequality; critical studies of humanitarianism and refugees; decoloniality studies; and studies of Islam, sectarianism, and na...
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Dr. Tracy Corley is the second Next System Speaker for 2024. Please be certain to register here: https://forms.gle/4a6AaUZSWi7yVWqM9 Scientists have engaged everyday people in research for centuries. But, in recent decades, community-engaged and participatory practices are engaging researchers in...
Abdallah Hendawy, Ph.D., specializes in the study of mass mobilization and social movements with a particular focus on radicalization and violent insurgency in the Middle East. He has been actively engaged in several grassroots organizations and managed transnational action movements. Hendawy previo...
This list is in addition to the courses listed for each concentration in the University Catalog. For the day, time, and location of the course, see the current Schedule of Classes on Patriot Web. Some of these courses may have prerequisites and/or permission of the instructor - check the course listi...
Global affairs is an interdisciplinary major that introduces students to the global processes affecting all societies. Drawing on the broad international expertise of George Mason faculty, the bachelor's degree leads students to examine transnational and international processes in a wide range of are...
Yasemin Ipek, assistant professor in the Global Affairs Program, has published her most recent article on Lebanon in American Ethnologist (AE), one of the most prestigious journals of the anthropology discipline. Titled “Entrepreneurial activism: Ethical politics and class-based imaginations of chang...
Yasemin Ipek, assistant professor in the Global Affairs Program, has received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This prestigious grant supports early career scholars “whose work has the potential to transform our understanding of what it mean...
This list contains courses that have been pre-approved to count for each concentration. Other relevant courses may be applied to a concentration with the permission of the program. Some of the courses listed here may have prerequisites and/or require permission of the instructor before you can enroll...
