Cultural Studies, PhD at George Mason University

The Cultural Studies PhD program grounds the study of cultural objects (e.g. texts, institutions, media, events, everyday practices) in an analysis of the particular political, economic, and social conditions in which cultural meanings are produced, circulated, received, and contested. It joins faculty and students in an intellectual community of advanced study, with the aim of educating academics and professionals to understand the constitution of both past and present social formations in the interests of a more humane and equitable future. The program traffics with a broad range of scholarship and theory that examines the relation of cultural objects to their conditions of existence, e.g., Marxism, the Frankfurt School, the Birmingham School, French structuralism and poststructuralism, and ongoing attempts to understand various modes of subjugation (labor, gender, sexuality, race) wit

Faculty: College of Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Duration: 78-81 credits  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Fairfax, VA, United States

What you will study

Total 78-81 credits. Curriculum courses listed include Histories of Cultural Studies; Histories of Cultural Studies II; Research Seminar in Cultural Studies; Student/Faculty Colloquium in Cultural Studies 1; Culture and Political Economy; Gender and Sexuality.

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