George Mason is a member of the Folger Institute’s Consortium, so students and faculty have access to its wealth of scholarly resources. Samantha "Chevi" Chung is capitalizing on this collaboration and conducting research for her thesis, “Black Sheroic Couplets in Shakespeare, Black Female Actors Playing Eponymous Male Roles in Shakespeare's Plays from 1821 to 2025.”

Building on relationships through community-based service-learning, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages has built a partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools to bolster the growth of literacy in Spanish and Korean.

Department of History and Art History Associate Professor Gabrielle Tayac hopes the project coinciding with America's 250th anniversary will serve as a teaching opportunity for the wider public.