Narrative / en Mason students map the Russia-Ukraine war through personal stories /news/2022-05/mason-students-map-russia-ukraine-war-through-personal-stories <span>Mason students map the Russia-Ukraine war through personal stories</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/276" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Mariam Aburdeineh</span></span> <span>Mon, 05/09/2022 - 13:17</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_associated_people" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-associated-people"> <h2>In This Story</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-associated-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">People Mentioned in This Story</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/aozerdem" hreflang="und">Alpaslan Özerdem</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/ckoroste" hreflang="und">Karina Korostelina</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/ssimmon5" hreflang="und">Solon Simmons</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p><span class="intro-text">Despite being more than 5,000 miles away from the war in Ukraine, students at AV’s <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/">Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a> are actively assessing the conflict dynamics, with hopes that their research could improve the situation.</span></p> <figure role="group" class="align-left"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/2022-05/Keil%20Eggers%20300x300.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="Headshot of Keil Eggers" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <figcaption>Keil Eggers is part of a team at AV that is digitally mapping the Ukraine-Russia war.</figcaption></figure><p><span><span>“A lot of students in [<a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/profiles/ssimmon5">Solon Simmons’</a> Peace Engineering and Participatory Approaches to Narrative] class felt it would be important to do what we could locally with our set of methods and tools to try and help,” said Keil Eggers, Peace Engineering Lab manager and Carter School PhD student.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>They’re creating a digital map of the war through peoples’ lived experiences.</span></span></p> <h3><span><span><strong><span>Mapping the Conflict</span></strong></span></span></h3> <p><span><span>The team, which includes faculty and seven students ranging from the undergraduate to PhD levels, is creating this map using <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRe7Xg7pk4">SenseMaker</a>, a program that allows for a large-scale collection of narratives.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Their <a href="https://peaceengineering.carterschool.gmu.edu/sensemaking-in-ukraine/">SenseMaking in Ukraine</a> project asks participants—ranging from U.S. citizens to those impacted on the ground in Ukraine and Russia—to answer one of three prompts. Responses can be submitted in English, Ukrainian or Russian:</span></span></p> <figure class="quote"><ul><li>How can ordinary people support peace in Ukraine? Share one of your lived experiences that shows how help can be given or how it has been blocked.</li> <li>Start a conversation: Tell us one of your lived experiences that you would want people who are on the other side to hear.</li> <li>What have you noticed about the conflict in Ukraine that makes you hopeful or concerned about a peaceful future</li> </ul></figure><p><span><span>A unique aspect of SenseMaker is that participants evaluate their submissions through questions, including a series of triangles, where each point represents an opinion. </span></span></p> <figure role="group" class="align-right"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/2022-05/situation%20will%20improve%20when%20people%20triangle.png" width="300" height="300" alt="A diagram of one of the SenseMaker triangles with coordinates scattered within it, indicating where participants placed their answers. " loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <figcaption>SenseMaker Triangle showing where participants placed their answer among the three choices within the triangle.</figcaption></figure><p><span><span>For the question, “The situation will improve when people…,” the points represent:</span></span></p> <ol><li><span><span>Thoughtfully react to the needs of the present</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Overcome historical divides</span></span></li> <li><span><span>Achieve security over the long term</span></span></li> </ol><p><span><span>“By placing their dot as a balance between one of those factors, you get quantitative data for each person’s story,” Eggers said, adding that Mason students designed the survey questions and will support the data analysis. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>The data will help uncover patterns, he said, and will become part of a public dashboard the team is creating to support understanding and next steps.</span></span></p> <h3><span><span><strong><span>Impacting Change</span></strong></span></span></h3> <p><span><span>This is the first time the school has used SenseMaker in an active conflict, Eggers said. The class hopes to influence change by hosting workshops about the narratives.</span></span></p> <figure class="quote"><span><span>“Most of the time in those stories, you start to ask people, ‘What can you do tomorrow to create more stories like ones you want to see and fewer stories like the ones you don’t,’” Eggers said, quoting SenseMaker thought leader Dave Snowden. </span></span></figure><p><span><span>“You get people directly thinking about what they can do in their own lives, whether that’s giving aid, doing some kind of really local small action, or for somebody who’s actually making decisions, to change policy.”</span></span></p> <h3><span><span><span><strong><span><span>More Than a Story</span></span></strong></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span>“The SenseMaking tool is one way to uncover the very complex process of meaning-making in how people see the peace process,” said <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/profiles/ckoroste">Karina Korostelina</a>, professor and director of the <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/research-and-impact/programs-and-projects/program-prevention-mass-violence" target="_blank">Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence</a>.</span></span></p> <figure role="group" class="align-right"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/2022-03/Karina%20Korostelina%20Thumbnail.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="Headshot of Professor Karina Korostelina. She is smiling at the camera wearing a blue and white dress and beaded necklace." loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <figcaption>Karina Korostelina, professor and director of George Mason's Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence. </figcaption></figure><p><span><span>In Ukraine, she said, peacemaking will likely include territorial concessions, which create moral dilemmas. Another dynamic, she said, is that people on both sides view the conflict drastically differently because of <a href="/news/2022-03/conflict-ukraine-fueled-putins-information-war-carter-school-expert-says-heres-what">Putin’s information war</a>.</span></span></p> <p>“Helping reveal these complex patterns, and how people think about the issues, is very important for informing the peace process because governments and international actors have to know how people see and think about it,” she said.</p> <p><span><span>The class, which is part of the school’s <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/research-impact/carter-school-peace-labs/peace-engineering-lab">Peace Engineering Lab</a>, exemplifies the Carter School’s key principles of innovation, integration of research and practice, and global impact, said Dean <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/profiles/aozerdem">Alpaslan Özerdem</a>.</span></span></p> <figure class="quote"><span><span><span><span><span>“At the Carter School, we always strive to incorporate the cutting edge of scholarship and practice in our classroom experience,” Simmons added. “This project is a great example of how to do just that.”</span></span></span></span></span></figure><figure role="group" class="align-left"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/2022-05/Solon%20Simmons_Thumbnail.jpg" width="300" height="300" alt="Headshot of Solon Simmons" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <figcaption>Solon Simmons, Associate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason.</figcaption></figure><p><span><span>Students also benefit from the experience, as their contributions have peace-impacting potential.  </span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>“SenseMaking in Ukraine brings an innovative way of responding to the war, and preparing our future capacities and knowledge base for the war’s end, so that the Carter School could respond to its peacemaking and peacebuilding challenges from a more informed basis with solid partnerships on the ground,” </span>Özerdem said.<span> “It shows the real impact that our Peace Labs have started to have.”</span></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1241" hreflang="en">Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6916" hreflang="en">Carter School Leadership</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3096" hreflang="en">Peacebuilding</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3586" hreflang="en">peacemaking</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/336" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/116" hreflang="en">Campus News</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/15776" hreflang="en">Peace Engineering Lab</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/15151" hreflang="en">Ukraine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/8866" hreflang="en">Russia</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6796" hreflang="en">Narrative</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 09 May 2022 17:17:45 +0000 Mariam Aburdeineh 69846 at Reconstructing their narratives: $300,000 DOJ grant elevates Mason’s lynching research /news/2020-12/reconstructing-their-narratives-300000-doj-grant-elevates-masons-lynching-research <span>Reconstructing their narratives: $300,000 DOJ grant elevates Mason’s lynching research</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/276" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">Mariam Aburdeineh</span></span> <span>Fri, 12/11/2020 - 12:43</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2971" hreflang="en">Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1241" hreflang="en">Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2976" hreflang="en">John Mitchell Jr Program for History Justice and Race</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6791" hreflang="en">Justice and Race</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2206" hreflang="en">Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6796" hreflang="en">Narrative</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6381" hreflang="en">Black African Heritage</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3331" hreflang="en">Black Lives Matter</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4641" hreflang="en">undergraduate research opportunities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1271" hreflang="en">Undergraduate Education</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/116" hreflang="en">Campus News</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_associated_people" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-associated-people"> <h2>In This Story</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-associated-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">People Mentioned in This Story</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/cchavis2" hreflang="und">Charles Chavis</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p><span class="intro-text">Of the more than 4,000 lynchings of Black Americans that took place in the United States between 1865 and 1950, at least 43 cases occurred in Maryland. </span></p> <p><span><span>AV’s <a href="https://www2.gmu.edu/news/2020-09/masons-john-mitchell-jr-program-putting-activism-action">John Mitchell Jr. Program</a> (JMJP), housed within the <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/">Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a>, has been helping research several of these cases since 2019 to support the <a href="https://msa.maryland.gov/lynching-truth-reconciliation/">Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission</a>. In October, they received news that they will be taking their research to the next level, thanks to a $300,000 Department of Justice grant they helped secure for the commission.</span></span></p> <figure role="group"><div> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/styles/extra_large_content_image/public/2023-03/Charles%20Chavis%20Teaching.jpeg?itok=EJNV2SnG" width="653" height="478" alt="Charles Chavis speaking at a dialogue event. He is seated with his left arm outstretched." loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <figcaption>Charles Chavis speaks at a dialogue on memorialization in December 2019. Photo provided.</figcaption></figure><p><span><span>“States, in terms of their narratives, don’t shed light on these historic traumas,” said Carter School professor <a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/profile/view/575191">Charles Chavis</a>, who is on the board of directors for the <a href="https://www.mdlynchingmemorial.org/">Maryland Lynching Memorial Project</a>. “We wanted to give life to the relatives of victims whose loved ones had been forgotten.”</span></span></p> <p><span><span>The grant, which is part of the <a href="https://bja.ojp.gov/program/emmett-till-cold-case-investigations-program/overview">Emmett Till Cold Case Investigations Program</a>, will allow the commission and JMJP to supercharge their research.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>“We work directly with the relatives in the sentence that we identify because we believe there is a direct line that can be drawn from the racial terror and lynchings of old to the existing racial terror and anti-blackness that we continue to see manifest in 2020,” Chavis said. “[With the grant] we’re now able to hire expert genealogists to help us track down the relatives [of lynching victims] so that they can be a part of the process.”</span></span></p> <p><span><span>$100,000 is set aside for the communities and families of the victims for restorative justice reform, said Chavis, who founded JMJP to address narrative change and social transformation. The rest of the funds will go toward live reconciliation-style hearings.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>“We work through each individual case in the various communities with key expert witnesses, relatives, descendants bearing witness to this history,” Chavis said. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>Before that happens, Chavis said the Mason team helps with forensic reconstruction, which involves leaning on existing research and records to put together a mosaic of the case. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>The <a href="https://msa.maryland.gov/">Maryland State Archives</a> have been key to their efforts.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>“Students have been able to work directly with the research, documenting cases, doing census data, pulling death certificates, verifying biographical data and pulling together narratives of individuals,” Chavis said.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>In the process, undergraduate and graduate students are gaining hands-on activist and research experience. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>“What has been most important for me is being able to put some of what I learned about narrative approaches to racial and social justice into practice,” said <a href="https://masononline.gmu.edu/programs/conflict-analysis-and-resolution-ms/">master’s in conflict analysis and resolution</a> student Audrey Williams, who is one of five students supporting the commission. </span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>She said the project has also helped her better understand her role in creating change.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>“You have to recommit to confronting anti-Black racism every day,” Williams said. “What that means for people who already benefit from the system is committing, with humility, to listening to and platforming the voices of colleagues, friends, and community members who have been harmed, and to becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable. The best place for this entire process to start is in our own hallways, classrooms and relationships.”</span> </span></span></p> <hr /></div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2971" hreflang="en">Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1241" hreflang="en">Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2976" hreflang="en">John Mitchell Jr Program for History Justice and Race</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6791" hreflang="en">Justice and Race</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/2206" hreflang="en">Conflict Resolution</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6796" hreflang="en">Narrative</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/6381" hreflang="en">Black African Heritage</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3331" hreflang="en">Black Lives Matter</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4641" hreflang="en">undergraduate research opportunities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1271" hreflang="en">Undergraduate Education</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/116" hreflang="en">Campus News</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:43:08 +0000 Mariam Aburdeineh 43816 at Seth Hudson /profiles/shudson3 <span>Seth Hudson</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">admin_alpha</span></span> <span>Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:27</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_headshot" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-headshot"> <div class="field field--name-field-headshot field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/2023-03/Hudson%20headshot%202015%20copy%20Small_Seth%20A%20Hudson.png" width="256" height="320" alt="Portrait of Seth Hudson" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_org_positions" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-org-positions"> <div class="field field--name-field-org-positions field--type-text-long field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Titles and Organizations</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Associate Professor of Game Writing, Computer Game Design Program, College of Visual and Performing Arts</p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_contact_information" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-contact-information"> <h2>Contact Information</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-contact-information field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="profile-bio-section"><span class="info-staff"><strong>Email:</strong> shudson3@gmu.edu</span></div> <div class="profile-bio-section"><span class="info-staff"><strong>Phone</strong>: </span>703.993.1110<br /><strong>Campus:</strong> Fairfax<br /><strong>Office: </strong>Art and Design Building Room 2024<br /><span class="info-staff"><strong>Mail Stop</strong>: </span>MSN 1C3<br /><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:shudson3@gmu.edu">shudson3@gmu.edu</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_bio" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-bio"> <h2>Biography</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-bio field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="profile-bio-section"> <p>Seth Hudson is Associate Professor of Game Writing in AV’s Computer Game Design Program, situated in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Hudson received his PhD in Education, with a specialization in Higher Education, from AV in 2018. Hudson’s scholarship explores playful approaches to teaching; game writing pedagogy; portfolio-focused curriculum development; and undergraduate student research and creative activity. Over the past decade, he has presented work at a number of national conferences, including: DiGRA, the East Coast Game Conference, GDC, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (4C’s), and the Serious Play Conference.</p> <p> Professor Hudson received the Mentoring Excellence Award from Mason’s Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activity, and Research (OSCAR) in 2020, and was recognized as a Teacher of Distinction by AV’s Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning in 2019. In the classroom, Hudson’s teaching has included: Story Design for Computer Games, History of Video Game Design, Research Methods and Criticism, Character Development, English Composition, Principles of Inquiry and Research, Introduction to Game Design, and Pre-Internship Seminar. In addition to working with students on original research projects, he co-founded and served as faculty advisor/mentor for Mason's undergraduate Games-Engaged Analysis and Research Group (GEAR) from 2014-2018.</p> <p> Currently he continues his pursuit of scholarship and meaningful collaboration to support student learning and enhance instruction across fields.</p> <h3>Selected Publications & Presentations</h3> <p>Hudson, S. (2022). Approaching a pedagogy of game writing. Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003277668<br /> Hudson, S.A. (2021). A research-based approach to game writing pedagogy. ToDiGRA (Online), 5(3). https://doi.org/10.26503/todigra.v5i3.124<br /> Hudson, S. & Willis, B. (2019). A dancer and a writer walk into a classroom. In A. James & C. Nerantzi (Eds.), The power of play in higher education: Creativity in tertiary learning (pp. 253-261). Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.<br /> Smith, L., Constantine, L. S., Sauveur, A. Samaras, A. P., Casey, A., Evmenova, A. S., Hudson, S., Lee, S., & Reid, E. S., with contributions from Ericson, R., Ewell, M., Lukes, L., Muir, S., Nelson, J. & Poms, L. (2018). Dwelling in the question: Professional empowerment through complex visual self-study. In Ritter, J. K., Lunenberg, M., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Samaras, A. P., & Vanassche, E., (Eds.) Teaching, learning, and enacting self-study research (pp. 275-295). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.<br /> Hudson, S.A. (2018). Developing industry-relevant pedagogy. Serious Play Conference. Manassas, VA, July 10th.<br /> Hudson, S., Smith, G., Pinckard, J., Packwood, D., Dilloway, L., McClure, A., & Mateas, M. (2018). Educators soapbox. Game Developers Conference. San Francisco, CA, March 20th.<br /> Colby, R, S., Eyman, D., Hudson, S.A., Magelssen-Green, M., Reed, S., Sierra, W. (2018). Transforming experience into research: Empirical methods for game studies in writing and rhetoric. Conference on College Composition & Communication. Kansas City, MO, March 16th.<br /> Hudson, S. & Eyman, D. (2017). Anyone can play: Forming undergraduate interdisciplinary research around video games. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 37(4), 41. doi: 10.18833/curq/37/4/4<br /> Hudson, S.A., (2017). Forming and appreciating identity in the games design curriculum. In A. Shahriar & G.K. Syed, (Eds.), Student culture and identity in higher education (pp. 111-125). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.</p> <h3>Education</h3> <ul><li><strong>MA, English and Comparative Literature</strong><strong>, </strong> University Cincinnati, 2009</li> <li><strong>PhD, Education, </strong> AV, 2018</li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:27:01 +0000 admin_alpha 62046 at Sara Cobb /profiles/scobb <span>Sara Cobb</span> <span><span lang="" about="/user/1" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="" xml:lang="">admin_alpha</span></span> <span>Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:24</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_headshot" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-headshot"> <div class="field field--name-field-headshot field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq291/files/profile-headshot/CobbSara_200x280.jpg" width="200" height="280" alt="Photo of Sara Cobb" loading="lazy" typeof="foaf:Image" /></div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_org_positions" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-org-positions"> <div class="field field--name-field-org-positions field--type-text-long field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Titles and Organizations</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Professor Emerita, Carter School</p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_contact_information" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-contact-information"> <h2>Contact Information</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-contact-information field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="profile-bio-section"><span class="info-staff"><strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:scobb@gmu.edu">scobb@gmu.edu</a><br /><strong>Phone</strong>: 703-993-4452</span><br /><strong>Campus:</strong> Arlington<br /><strong>Building:</strong> Arlington: Vernon Smith Hall<br /> Room 5078<br /><span class="info-staff"><strong>Mail Stop</strong>: 4D3</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:profile:field_bio" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodeprofilefield-bio"> <h2>Biography</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-bio field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="profile-bio-section"> <p>Dr. Sara Cobb, (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) is Professor Emerita at the <a href="http://carterschool.gmu.edu">Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution</a> at AV, where she was also the Director for 8 years. In this context she teaches and conducts research on the relationship between narrative and violent conflict; she is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Narrative and Conflict Resolution at the Carter School that provides a hub for scholarship on narrative approaches to conflict analysis and resolution. Formerly, she was the Director of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and has held positions at a variety of tier one research institutions such as University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Connecticut, and more recently at the University of Amsterdam. She has also consulted to and/or conducted training for a host of public and private organizations, including UN High Commission on Refugees, UNDP, La Caxia Bank, and Exxon, the American Bar Association, Fox Learning Academy as well as a number of universities in Europe and Latin America. Dr. Cobb is widely published. Her book, Speaking of Violence: The Politics and Poetics of Narrative in Conflict Resolution offers a narrative perspective on both conflict analysis and conflict resolution. She has been a leader in the fields of negotiation and conflict resolution studies, conducting research on the practice of neutrality, as well as the production of “turning points” and “critical moments” in negotiation processes. Some of this research is based on case studies from her field research in Guatemala, Chile, Rwanda and the Netherlands. The blend of academic research, program development, and practice enables Dr. Cobb to develop research projects that can yield practical understanding and generate effective interventions.</p> <h3>Honors and Awards</h3> <ul><li><strong>Psychotherapy with Women Award, </strong> American Psychological Association</li> </ul><h3>Affiliations</h3> <ul class="faculty-profile-bio-affil"><li> <div class="profile-affil-info"> <div class="profile-affil-title"><strong>Member of Global Advisory Board at <a href="http://www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/board.php">Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies</a></strong></div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="profile-affil-info"> <div class="profile-affil-title"><strong>Associate at the <a href="https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-associates/east-us/virginia/sara-cobb">Taos Institute</a></strong></div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="profile-affil-info"> <div class="profile-affil-title"><strong>Honorary Fellow at the <a href="http://www.acctm.org/directory.cfm">American College of Civil Trial Mediators</a></strong></div> </div> </li> </ul><h3>Media Appearances</h3> <ul><li><a href="http://wjla.com/features/good-morning-washington/the-isis-narrative-a-long-term-strategy-for-peace"><strong>ABC 7 News</strong></a> The ISIS Narrative: A long term strategy for peace<br /> November 22, 2015</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/narrative-inquiry/dr-sara-cobb-and-the-narrative-practice-7b95d7020d0"><strong>Medium</strong></a> Dr. Sara Cobb and the Narrative Practice<br /> November 10, 2015</li> </ul><h3>In the News</h3> <ul><li>12th Annual Communication and Social Action Conference to ‘Reframe Blame’ Next Week<br /> Published on March 14, 2011<br /><strong><a href="http://www.cm-life.com/article/2011/03/12th-annual-communication-and-social-action-conference-ready-to-reframe-the-blame">Full article</a></strong></li> <li>Washington Post Features ICAR Director Sara Cobb and Point of View<br /> Published on November 14, 2017<br /><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/13/AR2007111302590.html?sub=AR">Full article</a></strong></li> </ul><h3>Degrees</h3> <ul><li><strong>PhD, Communication, </strong> University of Massachusetts, Amherst</li> <li><strong>MEd, Counseling, </strong> University of Puget Sound</li> <li><strong>BA, English (Honors), </strong> Albertus Magnus College</li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:24:01 +0000 admin_alpha 66471 at