The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2023-24 annual theme, "Democracy, Disposability, and Repair." Congratulations to all of our new faculty and graduate fellows! Learn more abou...
Dr. Dakake researches and publishes on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She is one of the general editors and contributing authors of the The Study Quran (HarperOne, 2015), which comprises a translation and ...
Past Event
April 11, 2024, 4:00 PM to April 12, 2024, 3:30 PM EDT
Merten Hall 1204 (Thursday) & 1201 (Friday)
Registration required, please use this form to register for one or both days. *Updated to reflect Nancy Fraser will be joining us VIRTUALLY rather than in person as originally planned. Thanks for your understanding! CHR's third annual research symposium (April 11-12, 2024) centers on our annual the...
The Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences consists of multiple established degree paths that exist in partnership with academic units and faculty across the University. It offers a home for students with broad academic interests who seek a master'...
My area of expertise is rhetoric. As a consultant, I work with sales organizations to help them close business-to-business deals. As a professor, I enjoy learning and discovering along with students. I have worked in non-profit organizations (a symphony and a hospital) and in public secondary schoo...
Dr. Sarwar Alam is currently Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public Policy at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he served as Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor until the Spring of 2019. Before that, he was a post-doctoral fello...
Andrew D. Thrasher has taught religious studies at George Mason University since 2019 and has been teaching religious studies at the community college level since 2015. While growing up in a household of nominal Christians and nones in Virginia Beach, VA, he began studying comparative theology and Hi...
Ann Birkelbach teaches courses on Religion and Art at George Mason University. She teaches courses in Art History at Northern Virginia Community College, and Islamic Art and Architecture at various colleges in the area. Ann has conducted lectures on Islamic Art and Architecture for the Smithsonian Re...
Professor John Barclay Burns: Dr. Burns is Associate Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies. Though retired he continues to take a keen and sympathetic interest in the department. Retirement provides a welcome freedom from meetings, budgets, student enrollments and bureaucratic interference, but all...
On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven Jews who were worshiping at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. In the year following the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history, journalist Mark Oppenheimer researched the impact on the close-knit, hist...
