In this workshop, you will learn and practice some techniques for seeing strengths and weaknesses in your own drafts and for revising accordingly.
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‘As Tame as a Holiday Postcard’: A Conspiracy Narrative About Big Pharma as Critique of Power in Modern Democracies
CSSR's Education & Health Research Hub is excited to announce our 2022-23 Speaker Series, featuring new research on social and community-engaged aspects of education and health from scholars at George Mason University. This year's series includes 5 virtual events where scholars from anthropology, English, higher education, nursing, and sociology will present their work.
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This workshop draws on research in the field of second language pronunciation to show that speaking English with an accent does not necessarily mean you are not as intelligible as a native speaker.
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Social Consequences of Uncertainty in U.S. Legal Permanent Residence Processing, 2007-2021
How does the process of waiting for U.S. legal permanent residence (e.g. a green card) shape visa-holders’ well-being, everyday lives, settlement trajectories, and longer-term integration? How do visa-holders make sense of and navigate this process of waiting? This talk will explore the experiences of temporary visa-holders in the United States waiting for legal permanent residence processing within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as the service arm of the U.S. immigration bureaucracy.
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