The Movement Engaged Research Hub Team
Hub Director:
John G. Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Movement Engaged at George Mason University. He was a Science and Technology Innovation Program Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (2019-20) where he researched the digital transformation of human rights, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Research Fellow (2021-22) exploring efforts to integrate human rights into national policies on AI and robotics. He serves as Scientific Advisor on the European Research Council-Consolidator Project “Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes.” Dr. Dale was elected Council Member of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Human Rights (2019-2022) and to the Steering Committee of the Science & Human Rights Coalition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018-24). He is author of Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and co-author of Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2009), and co-editor (with Raluca Grosesçu) of Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Activism across the World (Spring Nature, 2026).
Graduate Research Assistants: