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MAIS in Interdisciplinary Studies

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'...

Learn more about next year's fellows!

Learn more about next year's fellows!

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...

BA in Religious Studies

The BA in religious studies is designed to give students an understanding of the major religious traditions of the world. The degree has a comparative and cross-cultural perspective that relates to global issues. Areas of study include Eastern religious traditions (Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Hin...

Ahmet Tekelioglu

Ahmet Tekelioglu

Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu joined Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies in 2016 as the Editor for the Center’s online publication, Maydan. Tekelioglu holds a PhD in Political Science from Boston University and a Masters in International Relations from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, ...

CHR Third Annual Research Symposium: Democracy, Disposability, and Repair (April 11-12, 2024)

Upcoming 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. CHR's third annual research symposium (April 11-12, 2024) centers on our annual theme for 2023-24, Democracy, Disposability, and Repair.  Forms of disposability have been characteristic (or even constitutive) of modes of ...

Nathan Lean

Nathan Lean

Nathan Lean is an author and scholar of religion, specializing in Islam and Christianity, anti-Muslim prejudice, and religion and American culture. He earned his PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from Georgetown University, where his dissertation focused on American jazz musicians who converted ...

Frederick C Webster

Frederick C Webster

Frederick C. Webster, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at GMU since January 2020, is an archpriest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. Fr. Alexander (as he is more commonly known) retired in August 2019 as Dean and Professor of Moral Theology Emeritus at Holy Trinity Seminary i...

Maria M Dakake

Maria M Dakake

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 ...

Ultimate Concerns

On one hand, the academic study of religion entails the examination of and even comparison between the socio-historical contexts of explicitly religious institutions, infrastructure (e.g., temples, kivas, mosques, stupas, churches, altars, etc.), images and symbols, ritual and ethical practices, writ...

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George Mason’s Religious Studies Department offers a wide selection of courses and degree programs for an intensive study into a singular religion, comparative study across various religions, and cross-disciplinary study on the engagement between religion with other areas of human life, like politics...