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Dr. Yasemin Ipek will discuss how different communities in Lebanon talk about and problematize sectarianism, based on ethnographic research she conducted between 2012 and 2015.

New course taught by Dr. Johanna Bockman will count toward synthesis or a concentration

Oumama Kabli, a December 2017 graduate of the Global Affairs program, received an English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and is spending a year teaching English at a public university in Tetouan, Morocco.

GLOA 450 Special Topics courses allow students the opportunity to focus on particular regions, issues, and skill sets in a dynamic learning environment. This fall there are four sections of GLOA 450 offered, each with a unique topic and the ability to count towards a GLOA concentration.

Students have the exciting opportunity to explore globalization in a range of specific contexts in GLOA 400: Global Affairs Capstone. Drawing on faculty members’ research expertise and experience in the field, GLOA 400 is designed to bring the skills students gained in their interdisciplinary core and concentration courses into the exploration of a pressing global issue.

“Ipek is very excited to be part of the Global Affairs program at George Mason, as the diversity of its faculty and students, its orientation towards both comprehensive and specialized degrees, and its unique combination of rigorous and applied research will allow her to expand on her interdisciplinary research and teaching

During the Summer 2018 break, Global Affairs MA student Valeria Lamarra spent two months in historic Vladimir, Russia, studying Russian language and culture on a Department of State Critical Language Scholarship.

"I’ve been able to incorporate some of my research on refugees and even my capstone research on Citizenship and Statelessness when I lead the Art tours. Our current exhibit – Uprooted – is about art made by refugees about refugees from around the world. This exhibit highlights how refugee crises are more than humanitarian crises, but also an issue of great concern in international development."

The Global Affairs Program is very excited to announce that Ilana Feldman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University, will be speaking at Mason.

Professor Bockman is a sociologist who teaches classes in the Global Affairs Masters degree and the Sociology PhD program.