George Mason University

If you are interested in Cultural Studies, please consider applying for our PhD program at George Mason University. Our program is the oldest of its kind in the U.S.: a stand-alone, post-MA doctoral program providing interdisciplinary training in the traditions of cultural studies.

We have fully funded graduate assistantships available for qualified applicants in Fall 2021, and call specific attention to our Graduate Inclusion & Access Scholarship.

Topicality is our watchword. We offer course work in gender, sexuality, race, biopolitics, globalization, science and technology, and political economy, as well as mass, visual, textual, and digital culture.

Our faculty can support a broad range of research interests. Recent dissertations include research on: the Radical Faeries; Whole Foods; the business of “mindfulness;” the iconography around President Obama; the birth of the modern organ transplant industry; the current place of literature outside the academy; excessive policing; greeenwashing, and much more…

Our student body is diverse and international. Our alumni have had notable success as researchers and instructors.

For more information, please visit our website or contact our program’s interim director Roger Lancaster .