College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Horizon Hall, at the center of George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus, was conceived as a crossroads where faculty and students in many disciplines can meet and exchange ideas. The multistory Word Wall that greets visitors in the building’s atrium embodies this vision.

In March 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning, Mason graduate student and autism advocate Christine M. Condo published an essay in The Washington Post that changed her life.

“For some people, it will be tough to go back,” said Keith D. Renshaw, chair of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Psychology Department and director of the Military, Veterans and Families Initiative. “Many of us have spent the year with reduced human interactions. For people with anxiety, this has meant they’ve been able to turn off the technology when they needed to unplug.”

Allison Redlich, a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a colleague at Central Michigan University have received a collaborative National Science Foundation grant of $385,000 to study wrongful convictions within the U.S. criminal justice system.

Andrew Peterson is honored by SCHEV with an Outstanding Faculty Award

Virtual study uses advanced health research technology to examine health, well-being, social and economic effects of COVID-19 on people of all walks of life.

Activists Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and Mason alumna Aja Clark highlight the 21st Annual Sojourner Truth Lecture with their discussion about the role of politics and protests.

Jen Barnard of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages is the March Employee of the Month.

Faculty teaching pandemic-related classes say that students are particularly engaged in learning because their classes help them better understand the world into which they have been thrust.