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Karina Korostelina

Karina Korostelina

Karina V. Korostelina is a Professor and Director of Peace Lab on Reconciling Conflicts and Intergroup Divisions and of the Program on History, Memory, and Conflict at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, GMU. Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on dynami...

Johanna Bockman

Johanna Bockman

Professor Bockman works in globalization studies, economic sociology, urban studies, and East European Studies. Her book Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism was published by Stanford University Press. In her research and teaching, Bockman uses comparative and hist...

Mills Kelly

Mills Kelly

Mills Kelly is a Professor of History and a Senior Scholar at George Mason's award-winning Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). He was the director of RRCHNM from 2019-2023. His most recent book and is Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail and he is the host of The Green Tunnel podca...

CHR Fellows Think Through Democracy, Disposability, & Repair

CHR Fellows Think Through Democracy, Disposability, & Repair

Over the course of Fall 2023, the cohort of CHR Residential Fellows discussed and presented work related to the Center's annual theme of Democracy, Disposability, and Repair. This theme called attention to the ways that forms of disposability have been characteristic (and even constitutive) of modes ...

Michael D. Marino honored with distinguished alumni award

Michael D. Marino honored with distinguished alumni award

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Michael D. Marino, BA Russian Studies '11, with the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award in Russian and Eurasian Studies. Marino is the director of class giving, Columbia College Fund, at Columbia University. He holds a BA in Russian studies...

George Mason University at 50

George Mason University at 50

From its origins as a branch campus of the University of Virginia to its current status as Virginia’s largest, most inclusive, and most innovative university, George Mason University has experienced 50 remarkable years of growth and achievement. In just 50 years Mason has grown from a small Universit...

Joseph Brandt honored with distinguished alumni award

Joseph Brandt honored with distinguished alumni award

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Joseph Brandt, BA Area Studies '86, with the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award in Russian and Eurasian Studies.  Brandt founded and serves as president and chief executive officer of a start-up global power generation company, ContourGlob...

Get Involved!

Students in the Russian and Eurasian Studies (REST) program have plenty of opportunities to participate in co-curricular activities at Mason or in the surrounding community, as well as on study abroad programs in Russia or Eurasia. Students can participate in Russian Club, which organizes a range of ...

Russian Films

Adventures of Mr. West - 1924. 100 minutes. B/W. Silent w/Subtitles. VHS. A prejudiced American visitor, Mr. West, arrives in Moscow expecting to find ruffians and bandits. A gang of Russians assists him to see what he expects. An inteligent and humorous satire on the foolish notions of Western cultu...