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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Kira Clark, BA Foreign Languages; Russian Studies '03, with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni award in Russian and Eurasian studies. Clark is the founder the nonprofit organization, K9s Serving Vets, and a U.S. Army veteran.

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.

Meet Anka Whelan, a Global Affairs and Eurasian Studies double major who graduated this spring, in 2025. As an accelerated master's student, she will complete her MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution with a concentration in the Dynamics of Violence here at George Mason. With her interdisciplinary education and strong understanding of the Russian language and culture, she hopes to bring this expertise into the field of international security, where she can research and analyze the war in Ukraine and its human rights and security implications.

Dr. Johanna Bockman, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, presented her ongoing research project titled "Beyond Debtors as Undisciplined, Ignorant Others: Socialist Yugoslavia as Creditor and Debtor" on March 19 to other residential program fellows, faculty, and staff.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Leena Halabi, BA Global Affairs; Russian and Eurasian Studies '14, with the 2024 Distinguished Alumni award in Russian and Eurasian studies. Halabi is a social media analyst with Voice of America.

The Fall 2023 cohort of CHR Residential Fellows have spent the semester addressing various aspects of the annual theme Democracy, Disposability, and Repair.

The Road to Freedom: Estonia’s Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations on Earth recounts the fall of Estonian freedom when, for five decades, it was trapped in the Soviet Union. Eventually, following a mostly-peaceful revolution, Estonians regained their freedom and reformed their nation quickly to become one of the freest nations on earth.

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 from George Mason University (2011) and a MEd in college student affairs administration from the University of Georgia (2015).