Spring 2022 Workshop Series:

How to Be an Anti-Racist Researcher

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. – Audre Lorde, 1979

Critical scholars have long recognized that theory and research methods are deeply entrenched in the production of structural racism and systemic oppression of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC). Institutions of higher education like Mason and related professional organizations (e.g., American Psychological Association) have acknowledged their roles in perpetuating BIPOC harms (e.g., Enslaved Children of Mason Project, Mason Land Acknowledgment) and have called for reparative structural change. Indeed, Mason has committed to Anti-Racist Inclusive Excellence. In support of this new mission, we have created this workshop series to introduce a new way of producing knowledge - new tools - that center an explicitly anti-racist and decolonizing stance, which can allow us to expose, challenge, and potentially repair some of the harms previously committed by and in the name of "research".


Spring 2022 Workshop Series: How to Be an Anti-Racist Researcher

Sponsored by the College of Education and Human Development

  • February 2, 1-3pm: What is anti-racist research?

  • February 23, 1-3pm: Taking concrete steps as an anti-racist researcher

  • March 23, 1-3pm: Navigating constraints and locating possibilities


All workshops will be held on Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to those who have registered at least 24 hours before each workshop.

Pre-registration is required, and attendance at all three workshops is strongly encouraged, as we seek to build a cohort of learners who will support each other and as each workshop will build on the previous one.

To register, click here, or paste the following link into your browser: https://gmucehd.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8FuafchzIepGDA

Content is suitable for research-active faculty and graduate students across all disciplines, as well as administrators who are involved in research activities.

More information and resources can be found here, or paste the following link into your browser: https://cehd.gmu.edu/faculty-and-research/anti-racist-research-methods/

Questions? Contact Meagan Call-Cummings (mcallcum@gmu.edu)