{"id":522,"date":"2013-05-01T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnfourlas.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:13:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-492 \" src=\"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-29-at-2.04.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"473\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">I am currently a senior researcher with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityincontext.com\/team\">Security in Context<\/a>, where I co-direct the race\/gender\/class and (in)security research track. Formerly the SHIFT Endowed Associate Professor of Applied Ethics at <em style=\"font-size: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshire.edu\/academics\/faculty\/george-fourlas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hampshire College<\/a><\/em>, I have also held positions at Franklin and Marshall College, Worcester State University, the University of Oregon, and Globernance (Instituto de Gobernanza Democr\u00e1tica).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">I am also a UX researcher working in the ML\/AI sphere, with an explicit focus on responsible AI.* I wear many hats! I also wear a few belts&#8211;specifically a second dan black belt in WTF\/ITF Tae Kwon Do and a <a href=\"https:\/\/jiujitsu1.com\/about\/\">brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My teaching and research take place at the intersection of social-political philosophy, applied ethics, critical race theory, conflict resolution, decolonial theory, responsible tech (ML\/AI), and global studies. I am equipped to teach a range of courses that draw on my international and UX research, and I am eager to take students out of the classroom to more fully ground their studies in meaning-making encounters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am also interested in the fine arts, martial arts, and being outside. I especially enjoy remote and isolated spaces. Most of all I like spending time with my family.<\/p>\n<p>I can be contacted via email: George [at] SecurityInContext [dot] org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*A<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">ny opinions expressed in my writing are solely my own and not representative of any companies I may work\/contract for\/with.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently a senior researcher with Security in Context, where I co-direct the race\/gender\/class and (in)security research track. Formerly the SHIFT Endowed Associate Professor of Applied Ethics at Hampshire College, I have also held positions at Franklin and Marshall College, Worcester State University, the University of Oregon, and Globernance (Instituto de Gobernanza Democr\u00e1tica).\u00a0 I &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/about\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-asimplied","post-522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnfourlas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}