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<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">If you are interested in Cultural Studies, please consider applying for our PhD program at George Mason University. Our program is the oldest of its kind
 in the U.S.: a stand-alone, post-MA doctoral program providing interdisciplinary training in the traditions of cultural studies. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">We have fully funded graduate assistantships available for qualified applicants in Fall 2021, and call specific attention to our Graduate Inclusion & Access
 Scholarship </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><https://cehd.gmu.edu/students/student-engagement/student-success-blog/2018/11/16/graduate-inclusion-and-access-scholarship/> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Topicality is our watchword. We offer course work in gender, sexuality, race, biopolitics, globalization, science and technology, and political economy,
 as well as mass, visual, textual, and digital culture.  </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our faculty can support a broad range of research interests. Recent dissertations include research on: the Radical Faeries; Whole Foods; the business of
 “mindfulness;” the iconography around President Obama; the birth of the modern organ transplant industry; the current place of literature outside the academy; excessive policing; greeenwashing, and much more… </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our student body is diverse and international. Our alumni have had notable success as researchers and instructors. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 8pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">For more information, please visit
</span><a href="https://to.gmu.edu/N1YyZ1" title="https://to.gmu.edu/N1YyZ1"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">our website</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <https://to.gmu.edu/N1YyZ1>
 or contact our program’s interim director </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Roger</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Lancaster <rlancast@gmu.edu>.</span></p>
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