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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Casey Klemmer, MAIS '23, with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award in women and gender studies. Klemmer is a humanitarian aid worker and LGBTQ rights advocate supporting refugees in Samos, Greece. Klemmer has worked across Europe and on the border in Greece, Serbia, and Morocco, providing psychosocial support and essential services to displaced communities.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Mary Jo Lopez Duckwitz, BA Religious Studies '06, MAIS '09, with the Distinguished Alumni Award in religious studies. Lopez Duckwitz is a longtime adjunct instructor in Latin American politics, and serves on her staff council to foster institutional growth and cultural development.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Christopher Michael Johnson, MAIS '11, with the Distinguished Alumni Award in interdisciplinary studies. Johnson was named president of the University of West Georgia, effective August 1, 2025. He leads a comprehensive regional public university, which offers more than 100 academic programs and serves more than 14,000 students across multiple Georgia locations.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Nena Rogers, MAIS ’19, with the 2025 Distinguished Staff Alumni Award. Rogers has dedicated nearly three decades to George Mason University Athletics. As deputy athletics director for student services and performance and the department’s senior woman administrator, she champions holistic student-athlete development.

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.

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. 

The David J. King Teaching Award is given annually to a faculty member who has made significant, long-term contributions to the overall educational excellence of the university. Higher Ed Professor Kelly Schrum has been named the 2025 David J. King Teaching Award Winner. 

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.

On December 2nd, 2024, MAIS students, faculty, and staff met virtually to celebrate the research and scholarship of Interdisciplinary Studies students and presented two students the MAIS Celebration of Scholarship Award.