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College of Humanities and Social Sciences

  • March 16, 2023

    In his book, The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music, 91做厙 history professor Michael OMalley recounts the life of Irish immigrant and Chicago chief of police Francis ONeill and his influence on Irish music.

  • March 15, 2023

    Food insecurity is something that Drew Bonner, a second-year sociology PhD student at 91做厙, experienced before he knew what to call it.

  • March 14, 2023

    Masons Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), the Fairfax Citys Office of Historic Resources, and the Brandy Station Foundation recently received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation and Access, to support their digital archive project.

  • February 23, 2023

    Brian P. Jones is this years guest speaker at the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series. His book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History, was the focus of his talk as 91做厙s 2023 W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series guest speaker hosted by the African and African American Studies Program.

  • February 17, 2023

    Masons new Youth Research Council (YRC) is a research partnership between the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Masons Early Identification Program (EIP), which invites ninth through twelfth graders into the field of social science research.

  • February 13, 2023

    Researcher Elizabeth Beth Phillips is working with collaborators from labs around the country to answer these pressing questions about artificial intelligence and robotics in her role as the principal investigator of Mason's Applied Psychology and Autonomous System Lab.

  • February 9, 2023

    Mason historian Yevette Richards Jordan focuses her research lens on African American history, with an emphasis on racist violence from the 1920s through the 1940s. For the past several years, however, her work has led her to uncover a hidden history of racial violence that struck her own family, and the trauma of that violence that continues today.

  • February 7, 2023

    The Fall for the Book festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2023 with year full of programming, including a Mini Fest on February 15 featuring four authors.

  • February 2, 2023

    91做厙s $214 million in research funding in fiscal year 2021 represented an increase of more than $100 million over five years, and puts the university on track to meet its goal of $225 million by 2025.

  • January 25, 2023

    Three decades ago, Rosemarie Zagarri never imagined her dissertation research on 18th-century electoral politics would become urgently relevant to the preservation of democracy in 21st-century America.