Andrea Bartoli is the Dean of S-CAR, previously the Director since July 2009. In August 2007 Dr. Bartoli was named the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution where he continues his work on the Genocide Prevention Program and on Peacemaking. Before joining the ICAR faculty, Dr. Bartoli founded and directed the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CICR) at Columbia University. A Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, a Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University, and at the University of Siena, Dr. Bartoli taught at SIPA since 1994 and chaired the Columbia University Seminar on Conflict Resolution. He is a member of the Dynamical Systems and Conflict Team and a Board member of Search for Common Ground.
He has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of St. Egidio, and has published books and articles on violence, migrations and, conflict resolution. He was co-editor of Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of International Media in Wars and International Crisis. Dr. Bartoli served as Associate Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University from 1992-99. He was a lecturer at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata, 1987-92, and director of the Center for the Study of Social Programs, 1986-92. He was president of Unita Sanitaria Locale 7, 1983-87 and a consultant to Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro, 1980-84. An anthropologist from Rome, Dr. Bartoli completed his Italian dottorato di ricerca (Ph.D. equivalent) at the University of Milan and his laurea (BA-MA equivalent) at the University of Rome.
Marc Broderick, Vice President for University Development and Alumni Affairs, oversees George Mason University's fundraising efforts as well as strategies to engage the more than 130,000 alumni worldwide. He has 16 years of experience as a development and alumni affairs professional.
He joined George Mason in 2007 after serving as Senior Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Temple University in Philadelphia. During his tenure there, Mr. Broderick coordinated development and alumni affairs across the university's 14 schools and colleges and oversaw fundraising for several programs, including the Temple health and library systems, athletics, the Temple Press, public radio station WRTI, and the Temple School Partnership Program.
Prior to Temple, Mr. Broderick was the Director of Development for the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta. He also served as Director of Development for the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University and as the Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at The George Washington University.
Broderick holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and criminal justice from The George Washington University.
Thomas G. Calhoun was appointed as George Mason University's Vice President of Facilities in February 2006. In this capacity, he is responsible for all planning, design, construction, and facilities management at all four of the University's Northern Virginia campuses. For the year prior, he served as Director of Facilities Planning.
Prior to joining George Mason University, Mr. Calhoun served for 26 years as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer in the United States Navy. During this naval career, he served two overseas tours with the Seabees, two construction management tours with the United States Marine Corps, and several construction management assignments in the Washington, DC and Seattle, Washington areas. He led planning efforts for the Navy in Naples, Italy and for the Marine Corps in Washington, DC. He concluded his naval career as Commanding Officer of Engineering Field Activity, Washington which was responsible for all planning, environmental, design and construction for Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force installations in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. He retired with the rank of Captain in 2004.
Mr. Calhoun earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Master's Degree in Construction Management from Stanford University. He also attended the Executive Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mr. Calhoun lives in Fairfax Virginia with his wife, the former Joy Audet of North Miami Florida, and their two children, Briana and Thomas.
A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Censer became the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University in 2006. He earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. After three years at the College of Charleston, Dr. Censer came to George Mason in 1977. Beginning as an assistant professor, he was promoted to full professor in 1987. He served as the Chair of the Department of History & Art History from 1995-2006. He has given numerous guest lectures and regularly presents his work at national conferences. He has held visiting professor appointments at Cornell University and the University of Maryland.
Dr. Censer's research has examined the French Revolution, intellectual history, and the press. Previous publications include: Exploring the French Revolution; Visions and Revisions in Eighteenth-Century France; The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment; and The French Revolution and Intellectual History. Dean Censer's latest work, On the Trail of the DC Sniper: Fear and the Media, was published in March 2010 by the University of Virginia Press.
For more than 15 years, Vikas Chandhoke has taught in biology programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. Course topics include biochemistry, general biology, biology of ultrastructure, and bioinstrumentation.
Chandhoke earned a PhD at the University of Maine, Orono, and an MSc (Honors) and a BPharm (Honors) from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India.
His research interests are centered around recent advances in biological sciences and technology to investigate complex problems in an integrated manner using the system biology approach. His current studies include genomics of liver diseases, obesity and metastolic disorders, and development of a large-scale relational database integrating clinical and gene expression data.
As the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI, Chandhoke has received instrumentation grants and contracts from various federal and corporate sources. He is codirector of the George Mason University-Inova Translational Research Institute has developed several corporate and institutional partnerships, which include Georgetown Medical Center, Naval Research Laboratories, University of Virginia, and Inova Health Care Systems.
Chandhoke is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
Rick Davis, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education since August 2007, also serves as Professor of Theater and Co-Artistic Director of Theater of the First Amendment (TFA). He served as Interim Director of the Institute of the Arts in 2000-01, and Associate Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts from 2001-2007. Under his leadership TFA, Mason's resident Equity theater, has been nominated for more than thirty Helen Hayes Awards and has won the award twelve times, including outstanding resident production and outstanding new play.
Prior to coming to Mason in 1991, Rick worked for six seasons at Baltimore's Center Stage, as Resident Dramaturg and Associate Artistic Director. A member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, he has directed theater and opera in professional venues across the country as well as dozens of college and university productions. He has served as a National Endowment for the Arts panelist on many occasions, and as a site visitor for more than twenty years.
Rick's volume of translations and commentaries, Calderón de la Barca: Four Great Plays of the Golden Age, was published in 2008. He is also the co-author of three books, Ibsen: Four Major Plays (1994) and Ibsen in an Hour (2010) with Brian Johnston, and Writing About Theatre (1999) with Christopher Thaiss. He wrote the libretto for Love's Comedy, an opera by composer Kim D. Sherman, premiered in 2008 by the Mason Festival of the Arts. He and Ms. Sherman also wrote "The Songbird and the Eagle," a concert oratorio, premiered in December, 2006 by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. His co-translations of Ibsen have been performed at many leading regional theaters and at many colleges and universities. He has contributed to publications such as American Theatre, Theater, The Journal of Social History, and Theater Three, and is the author of three entries in the new Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama and a major article in the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World.
Rick has also taught at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and guest lectured at institutions such as NYU, Carnegie Mellon, and Yale School of Drama. He has been a speaker or panelist at conferences such as the International Federation for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Ibsen Society of America, National Ibsen Symposium, and the East-Central Theatre Conference.
At Mason he teaches directing, dramatic literature, and theater history, as well as courses in the Master of Arts Management program, and directs both theater and opera. He serves as host and Associate Producer for Studio A, a televised series of conversations with notable filmmakers for GMU TV and the Film and Video Studies program. In 1997 he was honored with Mason's Teaching Excellence Award and was named the Alumni Association "Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year" in 2006. Rick was educated at Lawrence University (BA) and the Yale School of Drama (MFA, DFA).
Dean Flagel became Dean of Admissions at George Mason University on July 10, 2001. Andrew was previously the Director of Admissions at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. He served as the Director of Enrollment Management for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council, and as Assistant Director of Admissions at The George Washington University (GW). Andrew has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and psychology and a master of arts in education and human development from GW, and a Ph.D. in Education from Michigan State University. He began teaching as an adjunct faculty member in Fall 2002, is executive director of the Washington Journalism and Media Conference and the Washington Youth Summit on the Environment, Program Director for the Bachelor of Applied Sciences, sponsor for the Mason Ambassadors student group, and is academic advisor to Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, Alpha Phi Sorority, and the Jewish Student Association.
Andrew is the Virginia representative to the national ACT council and serves on the Virginia ACT executive council; on the Educational Advisory Board for the National Young Leaders Conference; the Postsecondary Working Group for the U.S. Department of Education National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC); and is former Chair of the Membership Committee of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. He was Chairman of the Enrollment Management Committee for the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and an executive board member and Chairman of the Joint Relations Committee for the Michigan Association for College Admissions Counseling. He served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Admission Standards for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Mathematics, and co-chaired the Fairfax County Public Schools Southwest Regional Planning Committee. He was the 2006 commencement speaker for Robinson High School, the 2007 commencement speaker at Battlefield and South Lakes High Schools, and is the PTO Vice President at Bonnie Brae Elementary School. He is the featured admissions columnist on the My College Options Website.
Mark R. Ginsberg joined George Mason University on August 1, 2010, as dean of the College of Education and Human Development. Dr. Ginsberg's career spans a 30-year period as a professor, psychologist, and as a skilled administrator.
Dr. Ginsberg served as the executive director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) from January 1999 until July 2010. NAEYC is the nation's largest professional association dedicated to improving the quality and accessibility of early care and education programs for children from birth through age eight. The association is a leading publisher of professional resources and provider of professional development for early childhood educators. NAEYC also sponsors a national accreditation program for early childhood programs that serves more than 1,000,000 young children daily and sponsors higher education accreditation initiatives at the associate, bachelor's, and graduate levels. Recent funded projects at NAEYC have totaled more than $8M.
Prior to joining NAEYC, Dr. Ginsberg was chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services in the Graduate Division of Education at The Johns Hopkins University. He had served in various capacities at Johns Hopkins, beginning in 1993, including as a faculty member of both the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Ginsberg held the position of executive director of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy in Washington DC, from 1986 to 1993. From 1981 to 1986 he was a senior member of the management staff of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Ginsberg has published extensively in the areas of education, human development, and human services. He has lectured and presented at over 200 conferences, seminars, and other educational meetings and professional development events both within the United States and internationally.
He is president-elect of the International Step by Step Association, a nongovernmental organization of 30 education-focused NGOs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Since 2008, Dr. Ginsberg has served as treasurer of the Washington, DC-based Children's Leadership Council, a consortium of over 40 national organizations focused on children and youth. He also is a past-president of the Society of Psychologists in Management, a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Maryland Psychological Association, and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Dr. Ginsberg completed his master's degree in 1978 and his doctoral degree in 1981 at The Pennsylvania State University, after having been awarded a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Cortland. In 2006, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the State University of New York.
He is married to Elaine A. Anderson, chair of the Department of Family Science at the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland. They have two grown children, Andrew and Robert.
Lloyd Griffiths was named Dean of the Volgenau School of IT & Engineering at George Mason University in July, 1997. In that position, he oversees approximately 4,200 engineering students. Since Dr. Griffiths' arrival, several new degree programs have been added including two new undergraduate degrees: a BS degree in Computer Engineering and a BS degree in Information Technology (with current enrollment of over 1,000 students). At the graduate level, several new degrees have been added:, a MS degree in Computer Engineering, a MS degree in E-Commerce, a MS degree in Information Security and Assurance, a MS degree in Telecommunications, and a new MS degrees in Information Technology and in Computer Forensics. Finally, four new Ph.D. degrees have been added to the School in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics, and Civil Engineering.
The Volgenau School currently consists of approximately 120 full-time faculty, and 30 full-time staff. Over 70 adjunct faculty from industry are employed each year by the School and the annual budget expenditures exceed $28M. The School has the largest graduate program at George Mason University and leads the University in the rate of growth of its research expenditures. Annual research expenditures for the School are currently $18M.
On October 28, 2005, the School announced its $20 million "2010 Campaign" which was initiated with a gift of $10 million from Ernst and Sara Volgenau. The gift is the largest individual contribution in the history of the university and served as the kickoff for the Volgenau School of IT&E's. A second major gift to the School was provided in October, 2009 by Visitor Long Nguyen and his wife Kimmy. The gift consisted of $5M to name our new building as the Long and Kimmy Nguyen Engineering Building Total gifts toward the 2010 Campaign which ends in December 2010 are now well in excess of the $20M initial goal.
Prior to joining George Mason, Lloyd was Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His administrative experience also includes six years at the University of Southern California where he held the title of Associate Dean for Research and Administration in the School of Engineering.
Dr. Griffiths' undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering was awarded by the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering were awarded by Stanford University.
Dean Griffiths is a fellow of the IEEE and has been recognized with the IEEE Browder J. Thompson prize paper award. He currently sits on the board of directors of three privately-held companies and on the Board of GTSI, a publically traded company.
Jorge Haddock is currently the Dean of the School of Management. Prior to joining George Mason University, Dr. Haddock was the Dean of the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond and Associate Dean and Professor in the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Under his leadership at the University of Richmond, BusinessWeek ranked the Robins School as 12th among undergraduate programs and 14th among part-time MBA programs.
Dr. Haddock earned academic degrees from University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Rensselaer and Purdue University. His primary teaching interests include Operations Research, Production Planning and Information Technology courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His primary research interests involve the design and implementation of effective information technology, production and service systems, as well as their effect on corporate culture.
He has authored or co-authored over seventy publications, including his most recent book titled, Creating Global Business Leaders: Business Education at the Intersection of Innovation, Technology, and Globalization (Aspatore Books). His research has been funded by the US and New York State Governments (NSF, NASA), Alcoa, GM, GE, and Kodak. Dr. Haddock has also been a consultant to several companies including Mackie Designs, CSX World Terminals, Peavey/Crest, Baxter, Citicorp, Citibank (Wall Street), Michelin, Jiffy Lube, and Cedel. He has served in numerous national and international professional organizations. He received both the Outstanding Young IE Award and the Excellence for Minority Advancement Award from IIE, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty/Staff Award, the Darrin Counseling Award and RAA Teaching Award at Rensselaer and the Hispanic Educator of the Year Award in New York State. Dr. Haddock is a co-inventor of the patent, Method of System for Providing Credit Support to Parties Associated with Derivative and Other Financial Transactions.
Linda Harber was named Associate Vice President for Human Resources & Payroll and Chief Human Resources Officer in September 2006.
Ms. Harber is responsible for HR & Payroll services and programs for all faculty and staff. This includes benefits, compensation and classification, employee relations, recruitment and retention, work/life, reward and recognition, training, payroll, HR operations and onboarding. Additionally, she co-chairs the Quality of Worklife Committee, and chairs the Investment Policy Committee, the Benefits Committee, and the Classified Compensation Committee.
Ms. Harber joined George Mason University in September 2003 as Assistant Vice President for Human Resources & Payroll and Chief Human Resources Officer. She came to Mason with twenty-five years of experience at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where she held a range of positions, serving as Executive Director of Human Resources for nine years before coming to Mason.
She has served on both the national and regional boards of directors for the College & University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). Additionally, Ms. Harber served as Southern Region chair, and has presented sessions at both national and regional conferences over the past fifteen years.
Ms. Harber was awarded the National Distinguished Service Award in 2005 for leadership and service to CUPA-HR, the CUPA-HR Southern Region Distinguished Service Award in 1998, and the CUPA-HR National Creativity Achievement Award in 1992.
Ms. Harber earned her bachelor's degree from Indiana University and her Master's degree from the University of Kansas.
She and her husband Harlan have two grown sons, Adam and Joshua.
Dr. Hennessey is a career professional with more than thirty years of progressively responsible leadership and management experience in public service, University administration, organizational research, and the classroom. He received his bachelor's degree in English and History and his Masters of Public Administration from Eastern Kentucky University. He was one of the first doctoral graduates of the Institute of Public Policy, now the School of Public Policy, at George Mason University.
His research and teaching center on public service, management of change in public organizations, and organizational theory. He has written and taught extensively on the "Reinvention of Government." On behalf of the University he has served as Director, Excellence in Government Program, Acting Executive Director, The Northern Virginia Business Roundtable, Executive Director, Congressional Institute for the Future and Program Director, Lead the Future. Externally, Dr. Hennessey serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Commonwealth Homeland Security Foundation (CHSF) and Past Chair of the Board of the Virginia Economic Bridge, Incorporated (VEB) and was appointed by Governor Kaine to the Secure Commonwealth Panel.
Prior to joining George Mason University, Dr. Hennessey served with the United States Army for 28 years in successively responsible leadership positions and retired as a Colonel from the Army's Intelligence and Security Command. His most recent assignments included Deputy Chief of Staff, US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Chief, European Division. Political-Military Affairs, Joint Chiefs of Staff and US Military Attaché, American Embassy London, United Kingdom.
Since 1997, Dr. Hughes has been Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at George Mason University and also a member of the faculty of the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering. In addition to providing executive leadership for the IT organization, the university's libraries, and a television station that reaches over 700,000 homes, she assists the president in accomplishing his strategic initiatives, including talent recruitment, donor cultivation, and corporate relations.
She is also a Board member and university liaison for a 501-3C Washington DC cable corporation that has provided the University with over 7 million dollars in cash donations and an equivalent amount in in-kind contributions.
Since 2009, Dr. Hughes has had executive responsibility for the Confucius Institute@Mason, a joint project of George Mason University, the Beijing Language and Culture University, and the Chinese Government.
Previous CIO positions held were at Oregon State University, University of New York-Potsdam, and the University of Charleston.
Her current IT initiatives include assisting Internet2 with the design and creation of a Cloud Computing membership service and working with IBM on a multi-state virtual computing lab project.
From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Hughes chaired Microsoft's Higher Education Advisory Group. In 2008, she was named as one of the top 100 IT Leaders in the nation by Computerworld. In 2007, she was recognized by the Information Security Executives Association for outstanding national leadership. In 2006, she was recognized by the March of Dimes as a "Heroine in Technology." In 2009, 2006, 2002, and 2000, her unit was awarded the Virginia Governor's Award for Innovation in Technology. In 2001, her unit won the EDUCAUSE National Award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Hughes holds the Ph.D. in Information Systems, M.S. in Computer Science, and M.S. in Mathematics.
Mr. Jackson currently serves as Assistant to the President/Director of the Office of Equity and Diversity Services.
Prior to joining George Mason University, Mr. Jackson served as the Director for Diversity and Inclusion for three years at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Mr. Jackson was instrumental in developing the first diversity and inclusion department at the NCAA. His work in that department focused on developing and implementing strategies, policies and programs that will facilitate a diverse and inclusive environment in intercollegiate athletics. At the NCAA, He also served for three years as an Assistant Director of Student-Athlete Reinstatement where he issued disciplinary decisions and argued appeals at administrative hearings regarding the athletic eligibility for student-athletes who violated NCAA legislation.
Mr. Jackson came to the NCAA from Washington, DC where he was employed as Legislative Counsel for a member of the United States House of Representatives. He also served as a contract attorney in the antitrust department at a law firm in Washington.
Mr. Jackson earned his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech University and his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law. He is originally from Houston, Texas and is on the board of the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance For Minority Participation and a member of the Maryland Bar; National Association of College and University Attorneys; American Association for Affirmative Action; Maryland State Bar Association; American Bar Association; and, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Betty Jolly joined George Mason University in November 2008 as Director of State Government Relations and Senior Vice President. She is responsible for leading the legislative, executive and state government efforts for funding and higher education policy that support Mason's mission.
Ms. Jolly has also served as state and federal government liaison for the University of Virginia Health Science Center and James Madison University. She has been the CEO of a government relations group representing agri-business, hospital systems, universities and municipalities.
Past experiences include political director for Senator Mark R. Warner during his candidacy for Governor; Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; Center of Excellence administrator of the Charles O. Strickler Transplant Program at the University of Virginia; Hospice founder and administrator at Rockingham Memorial Hospital; Director, Policy Education, Department of Health Professions; Consultant, Department of Defense electronic records for military and lead staff for two governors for Virginia's Electronic Health Record Task Force. Other duties have been service as a member of the federal Steering Committee for the Adoption of Standards Collaborative for Health IT and lead auditor for Governor-elect Warner for the Secretariat of Health and Human Resources.
Ms. Jolly has been appointed by both Republican and Democratic Governors to Board of Visitors of James Madison University; the Board of Medical Assistance Services and the Institutional Review Board for Research. She served as a state director on the Board of the Sorenson Institute and is listed in Who's Who of Women Executives, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.
Her groundbreaking work with hospice as an addition to the health care field was the subject of several honors as well as the editorial subject of Daily News Record for work in founding the second hospice in the United States.
Ms. Jolly has been a newspaper reporter and columnist; has had faculty appointments at both the university and community college level and is the author of numerous articles and a speaker at national conventions on the politics of health care delivery.
Christine LaPaille joined George Mason University in 2005 and is responsible for internal and external strategic communications for the university. She manages seven departments that promote and shape the image of the university to key stakeholders, including Media and Public Relations, Events Management, Community Relations, Creative Services, Web Communications, and University Information.
Christine serves as Chair of the Major Events Group, Marketing Committee, and the University Naming Committee as well as co-Chair of the Emergency Management Executive Committee. She is also a member of the university's Legislative Advisory Council, Executive Council, ACT Executive Review Committee, and the Parking and Master Transportation Plan Executive Committee.
Prior to joining Mason, she was the director of the Office of Communications for the National Governor's Association (NGA) for five years. In her capacity as chief communications officer, she worked with the nation's governors and their executive staff to develop and implement strategies to support NGA's federal legislative priorities and research initiatives. Additionally, she served as the association's chief spokesperson and was responsible for generating national, state, and local news coverage of the NGA and its priorities. Prior to her work with NGA, Christine spent ten years as President of Agenda Communications, a Chicago-based public affairs firm. The firm won numerous awards for public relations campaigns on behalf of clients that included associations, Fortune 500 corporations, and not-for-profit institutions.
Before she started her company, Christine LaPaille worked for the Illinois legislature, serving as Chief of Staff to the House Minority Leader. She began her career as a reporter, working for the Chicago Tribune and WLS-TV in Chicago.
Christine LaPaille lives in Potomac, Maryland with her husband Gary and their three children.
Dr. Michelle A. Marks is the Associate Provost for Graduate Education at George Mason University. In this capacity, she works at the university level and in collaboration with Mason's 100+ graduate programs to strengthen graduate education at Mason. She is also an Associate Professor of Management in Mason's School of Management. She earned her undergraduate degree from James Madison University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from George Mason University. Prior to her faculty appointment at George Mason, Dr. Marks was an assistant professor at Florida International University; a Consortium of Universities Research Fellow at the U.S. Army Research Institute, and a project manager for Management Research Institute. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Psychology and a Board Member of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research.
Dr. Marks has spent her career studying leadership development and teamwork in organizations. She has published theoretical models and empirical studies that illustrate the dynamic nature of the collaborative processes used by organizational teams and the critical roles of team leaders. Dr. Marks has authored and delivered more than 75 peer review journal articles and national conference research presentations. In 2006, Dr. Marks won the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award and in 2008 she won the Executive MBA Professor of the Year award. She teaches courses in organizational behavior, leadership, global business and human resource management in executive, MBA and undergraduate programs. She has led GMU graduate student short-term study abroad courses to the United Arab Emirates, China, Japan, France, Hungary, Austria, England, and the Czech Republic where students study global business and cross-cultural adaptability.
Alan G. Merten became president of George Mason University on July 1, 1996.
Dr. Merten was previously the Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management of Cornell University. He was Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Florida and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Computing Services at the University of Michigan. Dr. Merten has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Wisconsin. He has held academic appointments in both engineering and business, and academic and business positions in Hungary and France.
Dr. Merten was chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Workforce Needs in Information Technology. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Inova Health System Board of Trustees, a real estate investment trust, a mutual fund trust, and a banking institution. Dr. Merten was a member of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education and served as program chairman of the 1998 World Congress on Information Technology held at George Mason University.
He has been recognized for his contributions to the Northern Virginia technology community, as a leader of the Greater Washington, D.C. business community, for promoting volunteerism and service to the community, and for his contributions to the use of information technology in the federal government.
He and his wife, Sally, have two children and four grandsons.
Tom Moncure was named as University Counsel for George Mason University by Attorney General Judith Williams Jadgmann in January of 2006. Prior to this appointment, he had served as Senior Counsel to two Attorneys General with the primary responsibility of managing Special (outside) Counsel throughout the Commonwealth. Additional duties as Senior Counsel involved the active representation of several state agencies - to include one educational institution - and the drafting of official legal opinions. He served as the Attorney General's designee on the Virginia Military Advisory Council and the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council.
Admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1979, he began his legal career as a general trial practitioner in courts of the Commonwealth. He was also appointed by the Circuit Judges as Assistant Commissioner of Accounts with the responsibility for auditing and approving fiduciary reports. Additionally, he was appointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia to serve on Medical Malpractice Review Panels. Other significant legal experience includes employment as Assistant General Counsel for the National Rifle Association and election as Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Stafford. Legal publications include two law review articles and book reviews for "The Virginia Lawyer."
He is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates where he served on the Courts of Justice Committee. He is currently in his third term as appointee of the Speaker of the House to the Virginia Code Commission.
He is a retired career Military Police Officer in the Army National Guard and Army Reserves, following 26 years of commissioned service. Significant duty assignments were as Division Provost Marshal, Operations Officer (S-3), Physical Security Officer, Administrative Officer (S-1), and Company Commander. Decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Military Police Officer Basic and Advanced Courses.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the Virginia Military Institute and Master of Arts degree in History from George Mason University. He took and passed the Bar under the auspices of the Virginia Law Reader Program.
Tom O'Connor is currently in his 15th year at George Mason University and his fourth decade in NCAA Division I athletics. He was named the athletic director at George Mason on November 1, 1994, and he is widely regarded as an innovative, conscientious and visionary administrator whose bold leadership has advanced four Division I institutions.
At the NCAA level, O'Connor recently completed his five-year term on the 10-member NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Committee and served as Chair for the 07-08 year. O'Connor is the first representative in Colonial Athletic Association's history to be appointed to the committee, which has control, direction and supervision of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. He has held a seat on the prestigious Management Council and was a member of the Division I Strategic Planning Committee and the Selection Review Committee. He was involved with the NCAA restructuring process as a member of the business/finance cabinet and served a term as a member of the NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the NACDA Division I-AAA Athletic Directors Association. He completed a two-year term as the President of the Colonial Athletic Association on July 1, 2004.
A native of Union City, NJ, O'Connor earned a B.A. degree in 1968 from Assumption (Mass) College, where he was a four-year basketball letterwinner. He is a member of the Assumption College Athletic Hall of Fame and recently was honored as the recipient of the 2008 Father Louis Dion A.A. '35 Outstanding Achievement Award. He recently was named 2007 Southeast Division AstroTurf AD of the Year (NACDA) and was inducted into the 2007 class at the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame. He received the Pathfinder Award at the 2004 New England Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
James L. Olds received his bachelor's of art degree in Chemistry from Amherst College in 1978 and a Ph.D. in neurosciences from the University of Michigan in 1987. He trained as a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology (LMCN), NINDS at the National Institutes of Health. Laboratory Chiefs of LMCN included, among others then, Dr. J. Craig Venter and Dr. Daniel L. Alkon. In 1994 Dr. Olds was appointed as a senior staff fellow in the newly formed Laboratory of Adaptive Systems (LAS), NINDS.
He was Executive Director of the American Association of Anatomists from 1995 until the summer of 1998, when he accepted his current position as Director at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Concurrently, Dr. Olds is The Krasnow University Professor of Neuroscience and serves as chair of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience at Krasnow. He has an additional academic faculty appointment in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2009, Olds was re-appointed to a five year term as editor-in-chief of The Biological Bulletin, one of this country's oldest peer reviewed journals.
Affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, since 1978, he was elected a member of the MBL Corporation in 1991. In a volunteer capacity, Olds has served on many professional and governmental bodies including serving a 3-year term on the Board of Directors of Americans for Medical Progress, where he was on the Executive Committee. He is currently serving as chair of the Sandia National Laboratories' Cognitive Sciences Review Board and is on the investment committee of the George Mason Foundation.
Dr. Olds' research is directed toward understanding and simulating the molecular mechanisms that permit neurons and neuronal assemblies to store and recall memories, both under normal and pathological conditions. His current research is geared towards modeling the neuronal interactions that subserve spatial learning.
Dr. Pober is a Professor in the Department of Communication at George Mason University where he also directs the university's nationally-ranked Forensics Team. Dr. Pober is the only forensics director in history to orchestrate a top-ten team national placement for 21 consecutive years. Dr. Pober is honored to continue Mason's 39-year tradition in forensics, one that has garnered 30 national top-ten placements.
Before arriving in Fairfax in the fall of 2003, Dr. Pober directed the University of Texas at Austin's Forensics Team to 32 Individual, Team, and Program National Championships. He has been honored as the keynote speaker for more than 20 state conventions and myriad corporation gatherings. He is the Vice President of the American Forensic Association National Individual Events Tournament Committee, a former President of the Texas Speech Communication Association, directed the 6-state region of TX, LA, OK, KS, MO, and AR for 13 years for the American Forensic Association, and was honored by both that district and the national association with the Distinguished Service Award in 1998. He was given the Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association Educator of the Year Award in 1994 and the Texas College and University Educator of the Year by the Texas Speech Communication Association in 2002. Dr. Pober served as scholar-analyst for myriad U.S. and Canadian publications during the 2008 Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates. He is also the Faculty Senate Chair at GMU.
Peter directs the George Mason Institute of Forensics, the largest and demographically most diverse comprehensive high school forensics workshop in the nation. He has written numerous articles on the marked communication that takes place both within and between marginalized groups and is thrilled to call George Mason University home.
Dan Polsby is Dean of the George Mason University School of Law. He received a B.A. in English from Oakland University in 1964 and was graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1971.
Polsby was law clerk to the late Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was an associate of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering from 1972-1974 and counsel to Commissioner Glen O. Robinson at the Federal Communications Commission from 1974-1976.
Polsby joined the Northwestern University law faculty in 1976, where he remained until 1999 when he came to George Mason as Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the law school. From 1990 through 1999, Polsby held the Kirkland & Ellis chair in law at Northwestern. He has also held visiting appointments at Cornell Law School, the University of Michigan School of Law and the University of Southern California School of Law.
Torts, Criminal Law and Family Law are among the numerous subjects that Polsby has taught through his law school career. His scholarship on criminal law and criminology, family law and the constitutional law of federal elections is widely cited.
Dean William Reeder has enjoyed a 30-year career in education, management, philanthropic administration and the arts. Currently serving as the founding Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University, Bill oversees seven academic divisions: The School of Music, School of Art, School of Dance, Theater Department, Arts Management Masters Program, Film and Video Studies Program and Computer Game Design Program.
As Dean, Bill also manages two campus-based regional performing arts centers, the Center for the Arts in Fairfax, and the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia.
A member of Phi Beta Delta, international scholars' fraternity, Bill represented Mason at the African--U.S. Initiative Conference in Rwanda in 2008. This led to the creation of the International Center for the Management of Education, Arts and Culture (ICMEAC).
Bill also serves as Co-Director of Mason's Confucius Institute. Funded by the Chinese government, the Institute is a partnership between Mason and the Beijing Language and Cultural University.
Prior to joining George Mason, Bill was Vice President and General Manager of the Washington Performing Arts Society. For two years, Bill was with the Sallie Mae Corporation. From 1993 to 1997, Bill was Executive Director of the Levine School of Music, in Washington D. C. For eight years, Bill was a leading operatic tenor engaged by the Zurich, Switzerland Opera Company.
Bill holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed 55 hours of Doctoral credits at Indiana University, Bloomington, and holds a Certificate in Fund Raising Management from the Indiana University/Purdue University Center on Philanthropy. He is currently a Doctoral candidate in Mason's Doctorate of Arts in Community College Education and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the Community College Honor Society.
Edward Rhodes is Dean of the School of Public Policy. Dean Rhodes's research investigates core questions of American foreign and national security policy and of international behavior. A principal focus of his work has been on the intellectual foundations of America's engagement with the world outside its borders, particularly on the effect of alternative understandings of liberalism, democracy, and republicanism in shaping American attitudes toward intervention and global involvement.
Prior to joining George Mason University, Dean Rhodes was a member of the faculty of Rutgers University, serving as founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Global Security and Democracy and as Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. From 2007 to 2009, he was a visiting professor at Princeton University, and has held research appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell Universities. As a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dean Rhodes served in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in the Strategy and Concepts branch of the U.S. Navy Staff. From 2000 to 2001, he posted overseas as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Latvia. From 2003 to 2009, Dean Rhodes served on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, the Congressionally-mandated body overseeing the preparation and release of the official record of American foreign policy.
Dean Rhodes received his A.B. from Harvard University and his MPA and Ph.D. degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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Dr. Scherrens has held the position of Senior Vice President (SRVP) since 1996. In this role he retained all former responsibilities as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, and assumed expanded responsibility to include the direction and management of Facilities, Construction Management, Physical Plant, Campus Police, Institutional Planning and Research, and Support Service Operations. As SRVP, responsibilities include increased visibility with state legislators and executive officials in Richmond, Virginia, while sharing executive management responsibilities for the internal operations of the University with the Provost. As SRVP, Dr. Scherrens provides oversight and development responsibilities for a $900M annual operating budget, as well as leadership and operational guidance to Intercollegiate Athletics, Fiscal Services, Human Resource Management, Auxiliary Enterprises, Legal Affairs, Budget/Planning and Regional Campus Operations. Responsibilities also include increased coordination with business and community leaders within the surrounding local jurisdictions. Dr. Scherrens has served George Mason University in a variety of other managerial capacities since 1973.
His service to the University and to the academic community across the country is reflected in his fifteen years of participation in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools institutional assessment process as well as the NCAA re-certification process. His consultation and advice, assistance in performance measure evaluation, and review of potential "best practices" has been provided to over 30 institutions through his SACS involvement, and he has chaired numerous NCAA Intercollegiate Athletic Program re-certifications.
Dr. Scherrens authored a best practices business book in 1999 entitled "Agile Archers; Moving Targets" which was published by the National Association of Colleges and University Business Officer (NACUBO).
Dr. Scherrens received his Doctorate in Higher Education, (Ed.D.) from the University of Southern California in 1988, his Juris Doctor, (JD) from George Washington Univ. in 1976, a Masters in Business Administration, (MBA) Central Michigan Univ. in 1971, and a Bachelors in Business Administration, (B.S.) Central Michigan Univ. in 1970.
Dr. Sandy Scherrens is Vice President for University Life at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. She holds a doctorate in international and multicultural education from the University of San Francisco (1998).
An internationally recognized leader in student affairs, Dr. Scherrens has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) based in Washington, D.C. She is co-founder of two major global initiatives in the field: the International Symposium which provides professional development opportunities for student affair educators from around the world and the International Exchange Program, which facilitates faculty and administration exchanges for both US and international delegations. Dr. Scherrens was also a J. Fullbright Scholar in 2002.
NASPA recognized Dr. Scherrens with the 2003 Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Services as Dean of Students and the Fred C. Turner Award in 2002 for exemplary contributions to professional development in student affairs. In 2001, she was selected to attend Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management, an intensive leadership forum for executives in higher education. She served as the Program Chair for the 2006 NASPA Conference held in Washington, D.C., and currently holds the position of Associate Editor for International Affairs for the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice.
Prior to joining the Mason community in 2004, Dr. Scherrens served as Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at Menlo College in Atherton, California. Her higher education career, which began in 1983, has included student affairs positions at San Jose State University, Mills College, and the University of Southern California.
In 2005 and 2006, Dr. Scherrens was awarded the Administrator of the Year Award by George Mason's Student Government. She has also been inducted as an honorary member of Golden Key International Honor Society and Alpha Lambda Delta.
Dr. Schiller received her Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, and her Master of Arts and Doctoral degrees from Cornell University. She has also completed advanced intensive foreign language study programs at Satya Wacana University in Salatiga, Indonesia and at the Lorenzo de'Medici Institute in Florence, Italy. Dr. Schiller has been involved in international research, teaching, and administration from the earliest years of her career.
Prior to Dr. Schiller's appointment as Interim Vice President for Global Strategies, she served as Associate Provost for International Projects at Mason. Before coming to Mason, Dr. Schiller was Alumni Outstanding Professor at North Carolina State University. Her experiences in the administration of international programs have included serving as the Director of the International Studies Program at NC State, serving as Co-director of two internationally-oriented undergraduate dual-degree programs at NC State; serving as Director of International Programs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State, and serving as Director of the Anthropology Graduate Program at NC State. She has also established and supervised study abroad programs in Asia and Western Europe and served on advisory boards related to international education in the US and in Europe. Dr. Schiller was recognized for her service at NC State with the Jackson Rigby International Service Award from the Sigma Iota Ro International Honor Society. Most recently, in 2010, Dr. Schiller was awarded a Fulbright International Educators Award to Korea.
As a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Schiller has conducted research on relationships among culture, religion, and ethnicity for more than twenty years. Most of her anthropological studies have been carried out in Indonesia and Italy. Her work among the Ngaju Dayaks, a rainforest people of Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), and the Kenyah Dayaks of East Kalimantan has been supported by numerous grants and awards including from the Fulbright Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Institute, Sigma Xi, and other sources. Her current research concerns issues of cultural identity and heritage preservation efforts in a historic outdoor marketplace in Florence, Italy. The results of her research have appeared in scholarly books, book chapters, articles, and featured in a film produced by the National Geographic Society.
Linda Schwartzstein is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Enrollment Services at George Mason University. Dr. Schwartzstein has been a member of the law faculty since 1979. In 1997, she became a senior fellow in the provost's office and was appointed Vice Provost for Strategic Planning in 1998. Dr. Schwartzstein became the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs in 2000. In 2005, she was also named the Vice President for Enrollment Services.
Dr. Schwartzstein received her A.B. degree magna cum laude with honors in psychology from Brandeis University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan, and an LL.M in taxation from New York University. She also holds a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. She is a member of the bars of Maryland, the District of Columbia, New York and New Jersey.
Dr. Schwartzstein has taught in the areas of taxation, business associations, organizational conflict, higher education administration, and higher education law. She has written articles and book chapters on taxation, public choice and the Austrian School of economics.
Dr. Schwartzstein was a recipient of the Virginia Women Attorneys' Association Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award and of the Annual Student Award for Outstanding Second Year Professor. She was the Connolly Distinguished Visiting Professor in Business Ethics at Georgetown University.
Peter N. Stearns became Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University on January 1, 2000. He has taught previously at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon; he was educated at Harvard University.
Dr. Stearns has authored or edited over 100 books. He has published widely in modern social history, including the history of emotions, and in world history. Representative recent or forthcoming works include: Globalization in World History; Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities: Challenges and Opportunities; World History: The Basics; and Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society. He has also edited encyclopedias of world and social history, and since 1967 has served as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Social History.
In most of his research and writing, Dr. Stearns pursues three main goals. First, as a social historian he is eager to explore aspects of the human experience that are not generally thought of in historical terms, and with attention to ordinary people as well as elites. Second, he seeks to use an understanding of historical change and continuity to explore patterns of behavior and social issues. Finally he is concerned with connecting new historical research with wider audiences, including of course classrooms. Dr. Stearns is also eager to promote comparative analysis and the assessment of modern global forces – for their own sake and as they illuminate the American experience and impact.
While under Dr. Stearns' leadership, George Mason University was awarded the 2006 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education.
Dr. Stough's education includes a BS in International Trade, Ohio State University; a MA in Economic Geography, University of South Carolina; Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. He also holds a Honoris Causa Doctor degree from Jonkoping University (Jonkoping, Sweden). His research specializations include leadership and entrepreneurship in regional economic development, regional economic modeling and transport analysis and planning. During the past 10 years Dr. Stough has been heavily involved in China and India in the development of research entrepreneurship training, and education programs including advising enterprise development and incubation centers there.
His publication record includes several hundred scholarly and professional publications and more than 30 books with sponsored research and matching awards totaling more than $80,000,000 from a variety of sources in the U.S. and abroad. One of his new books (with Robert Stimson and Maria Salazar) is entitled Leadership and Institutions in Regional Endogenous Development (Heidelberg: Springer 2009). He has supervised and/or participated on numerous Ph.D. dissertation committees and his students hold various positions around the world including professional and administrative posts in universities, government agencies, corporations, think tanks and in international donor agencies.
Dr. Stough served as President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) (2007-2008) and has been the joint editor-in-chief of the Annals of Regional Science since 1994. He holds a variety of other editorial positions. He is also the President of the Technopolicy Network (TPN), a global membership organization that promotes the use of science and technology in the development process. TPN is based in South Holland, the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Western Regional Science Association and a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International, the highest professional recognitions of these organizations.
Before accepting the position of Vice President for Research & Economic Development in the summer of 2008, Dr. Stough was the Associate Dean for Research, External Relations and Development in the School of Public Policy at Mason where he also directed the Mason Enterprise Center, the National Center for ITS Deployment Research (until 2007) and the National Center for Transport and Regional Economic Development.
Dr. Shirley Travis is Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgia State University and her PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Dr. Travis' research and publications address the patterns of care that dependent older adults and their family caregivers require over time. Her research on end of life care focused on transitions in care from active curative treatment to palliation modes of care in long-term care settings. Dr. Travis' awards and honors include the Janssen Eldercare Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the healthcare of older Americans, Academic Gerontologist of the Year by the Southern Gerontological Society for her record of applied research in long-term care, and the Springer Geriatric/Gerontological Nursing Research Award for her end of life research. From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Travis was a Pope Eminent Scholar of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving and served on the Institute's Board of Directors from 2004 through 2008. Dr. Travis has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles, books, and book chapters on aging and long-term care. She is a frequent reviewer of manuscripts dealing with long-term care issues and remains on the Editoral Boards of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing and Nursing and Health Sciences.
Dr. Travis is a Past President of the National Gerontological Nursing Association. She is also a Past Chair of the Clinical Medicine Section (now Health Sciences Section) and Vice President of the Gerontological Society of America, the national research society dedicated to studies of aging. Dr. Travis is a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, the Gerontological Society of America, the National Gerontological Nursing Association, and the American Academy of Nursing.
Mr. Zenelis has been leading Mason's libraries for the past twelve years, while also fulfilling additional responsibilities as Associate Vice President for the last nine years. He came to George Mason University from Temple University where he served first as Associate, then as Deputy, and afterwards as acting University Librarian. Earlier, he held progressively higher level management positions at Columbia University's library system. He began his career in research librarianship at The Research Libraries, The New York Public Library.
Under Mr. Zenelis's leadership, Mason's libraries have transformed into an innovative organization. Its services and programs are closely aligned with the academic and research programs of the university's schools and colleges. And, with its emergence as a research-level library system, it has steadily accrued recognition for Mason.
Some recent advances of the University Libraries include:
Another significant achievement has been the implementation and subsequent expansion of the Libraries' external relations and development-fund raising program, including grants development/seeking activities.
Mr. Zenelis's current professional and academic service includes representing and coordinating the interests of the University externally, while serving in leadership roles, with the following organizations:
His consulting and teaching activities have included: external reviewer at several colleges and universities for library and academic information technology services; external expert for the Ministry of Education of Greece, engaging in final reviews and authorization of library/archives and information science graduate and undergraduate level programs prior to official submission for European Union funding appropriations; and adjunct faculty member, School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America.
Mr. Zenelis has a number of academic and professional publications to his credit, and has made presentations at various professional conferences and organizations. His educational background includes political science with degrees from Temple University (B.A.) and the Graduate School & University Center, The City University of New York (M.A.), and library and information science (MLS) from the University of Pittsburgh. He also completed doctoral studies (ABD) in administration of higher education, Temple University.