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Applications are open for our CHSS Student Ambassadors Program. CHSS Ambassadors are an honorary group of students selected to represent the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in social events, they enhance prospective and current students’ knowledge about the various programs and support services offered at the college, and assist in the delivery of outreach programs and services to promote college enrollment.

Academic advisors in CHSS received multiple recognitions, including the V. Ann Lewis Academic Advisor of the Year award, during the annual Academic Advisor Awards Ceremony this May.

The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss freedom of expression, the true purpose of education, and reading dangerously.

Prof. Wayne Froman passed away on March 5, 2023 after a long and fruitful career in philosophy at George Mason University.

Rising senior Alaina Ruffin, the incoming president of Mason's NAACP chapter, received the 2022 Gloster B. Current Organizer of the Year Award and the Medgar Wiley Evers Youth Leadership Award in the College Short Story Category.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences celebrated with its bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree recipients in two ceremonies held on May 20, 2022.

Dowling is graduating from Mason this May with a bachelor of arts degree in integrative studies, with a concentration in liberal arts for the teaching profession and a minor in social justice.

Mason's Commencement will be in-person on Friday, May 20, at 10:00 am. The college's Degree Celebration for the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies, including the School of Integrative Studies, takes place May 20 at 2:00 pm; the Degree Celebration for the Social Sciences takes place May 20 at 6:00 pm.

Meet Charlotte Woodward, a senior sociology student who is a voice for those with disabilities: on social media, through her work with the National Down Syndrome Society, and before the Virginia General Assembly. Year: Senior Major: Sociology ​with a concentration in Inequality and Social Change

As George Mason University recognizes 50 years as an independent university, the College of Humanities reflects on how it has been an important part of Mason from the very start.