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Fall meeting times announced!

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor T. Garey Davis, BIS ‘01, African and African American Studies Minor, with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni award in African and African American Studies. Davis is a champion for student mentoring and experiential learning and serves as associate director in George Mason’s Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement.

This year, the School of Integrative Studies awarded $13,000 worth of scholarship funds to our students! Read more to learn about our Spring 2025 SIS Scholarship winners.

Tasha Bayard, a BIS Senior, presented on The Lived Experiences of African American and Black Physicians, Fellows, Residents and Medical Students in the Workplace. She said the support of her department has been very encouraging, especially as she juggles class, work, and raising a young child as a non-traditional student.

Interdisciplinary Studies alumni Mischa Geracoulis' first book Media Framing and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage: News Narratives about Artsakh and Gaza was published in April as a part of the Routledge Focus on Media and Humanitarian Action series. 

At SIS, we celebrate the accomplishments of our students who go above and beyond in their academic pursuits and community involvement. This year, we are thrilled to spotlight 4 exceptional students who have made significant contributions to the Mason community and beyond, as our 2025 SIS Outstanding Graduating Students. The Academic Excellence Award goes to those who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship and grade point averages during their time at Mason.  They each have earned the highest GPA from the major’s graduating class.

February is packed with events to prepare for the Career Fair on February 18-20th; including: workshops, resume clinics, and more. Check it out!

SIS Associate Professor Chrystal A. George Mwangi's latest co-authored book Hidden in Blackness: Being Black and Being an Immigrant in U.S. Schools and Colleges, is set to publish February 2025 as a part of Columbia University's Teachers College Press - Multicultural Education Series.

Dr. Al Fuertes, professor at SIS was one of the invited speakers at the 2025 Anti-Trafficking Symposium: Collaborating to Combat, hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT) on January 15-16 in Pentagon City, Arlington, VA.