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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 ...

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...

Andrew Light

Andrew Light

Andrew Light is temporarily on leave from George Mason University where he is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Atmospheric Sciences, to serve as Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was nominated for this posi...

PHIL 338-001: Philosophy, Race, and Gender

Spring 2024 -  Rachel Jones 

On this course, we will explore how key concepts in modern western philosophy both contributed to and were shaped by ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality. We will examine how older ideas about sexual difference were ‘over-coded’ and transformed by the emergence of the modern western concept of race...

Jesse Kirkpatrick

Jesse Kirkpatrick

Jesse Kirkpatrick is a Research Associate Professor and the Acting Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. Jesse is also an International Security Fellow at New America and serves as a consultant for numerous organizations. His most recent consulting eng...

Robert Luzecky

Robert Luzecky

Rob Luzecky works on continental philosophy. Broadly construed, his research interests include aspects of the early phenomenological movement and post-structuralism. His primary areas of research specialization is the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. It should also be observed that Rob has a deep affini...

Shannon Fyfe

Shannon Fyfe

Shannon Fyfe is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. Her previous work includes a fellowship with the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (2014), where she advised the organization regarding best practices ...

Rachel Jones

Rachel Jones

Professor Jones received her B.A. in Philosophy and German from St. John's College, Oxford University, and her MA and PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick. Her teaching and research interests include key thinkers and themes in continental and feminist philosophy (such as Ka...

Lisa Eckenwiler

Lisa Eckenwiler

Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at George Mason University, where she teaches courses in bioethics and a range of topics in global health ethics. Her research centers broadly on vulnerability and structural health injustice, with special interests in mig...

PHIL 694-003: Ways of Knowing/Global Justice

Spring 2024 -  Lisa Eckenwiler   -  Section Syllabus

In this class we will focus on the intersection of ethics and epistemology, and in particular, consider the connection between epistemic injustice and global injustice, understood from a structural perspective. We will start with an examination of a relational approach to understanding global injusti...