The College FixPublic health researchers who want to advance “anti-racism” and be “inclusive” can get money from George Mason University.provided grants to two College of Public Health doctoral students, Samantha Kanselaar and Julia Mandeville, for their projects.
However, the taxpayer-funded university declined to give many specifics on how much money would be spent on each project nor what the proposals entailed. The university “has many research projects in development on a wide range of issues that seek to address society’s grand challenges, with funding from many sectors,” Michelle Thompson, the communications director for the public health college, told“While Mason does not share student research proposals, information on the grant is available here,” Thompson wrote. “More details on Mason research can be found at research.gmu.edu.”did not provide any information on funding.
“Immigrant women of color experience high levels of IPV and its consequences, and current explanations typically use gender or culture lenses,” the university’s news release stated. “Less attention has been given to the impact structural racism has on driving IPV.”