For Department Chairs

Strong departmental leadership is vitally important to George Mason University.

The responsibilities covered by departmental leaders cover the gamut of operations in the academic environment.

Department heads:

George Mason University acknowledges and honors the hard work involved in the tasks of department leaders.

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Interim Dean, College of Education and Human Development	Robert Baker	rbaker2	3-2004
Division Director, Advanced Professional Teacher Development and International Education	Rebecca Fox	rfox	3-4123
Division Director, Child, Family, and Community Engagement	Julie Kidd	jkidd	3-8325
Division Director, Education Leadership	Farnoosh Shahrokhi	fshahrok	3-2009
Division Director, Educational Psychology, Research Methods, & Education Policy	Michelle Buehl	mbuehl	3-9175
Division Director, Elementary, Literacy, and Secondary Education	Amy Hutchison	ahutchi9	3-2166
Division Director, Learning Technologies	Nada Dabbagh	ndabbagh	3-4439
Interim Director, PhD in Education and Human Development	Sheri Berkeley	sberkele	3-9689
Director, School of Kinesiology	Amanda Caswell	aalleni	3-9914
Interim Director, School of Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Management	Laurence Chalip	lchalip	3-5061
Division Director, Special Education and disAbility Research	Pamela Baker	pbaker5	3-1787

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, College of Health and Human Services	Germaine Louis	glouis	3-1918
Chair, Global and Community Health	Carolyn Drews-Botsch	cdrewsbo
Chair, Health Administration and Policy	P.J. Maddox	pmaddox	3-1982
Chair, Nutrition and Food Studies	Larry Cheskin	lcheskin	3-6264
Interim Chair, Rehabilitation Science	Rose Higgins	rhiggin	3-1952
Director, School of Nursing	Martha Kubik	mkubik
Chair, Social Work	Emily Ihara	eihara	3-2023

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Ann Ardis	aardis	3-8720
Director, African and African American Studies Program	Mark Hopson	mhopson	3-4414
Chair, Communication	Anne Nicotera	anicoter	3-1090
Chair, Criminology, Law and Society	James Willis	j willis4	3-4387
Director, Cultural Studies	Roger Lancaster	rlancast	3-2851
Chair, Economics	Daniel Houser	dhouser	3-4856
Chair, English	Debra Lattanzi Shutika	dshutika	3-1170
Director, Global Affairs	Courtney Hughes Rinker	chughe13	3-1441
Director, Higher Education	Daniel Chen	pchen23	3-6363
Chair, History and Art History	Matthew Karush	mkarush	3-1250
Director, Individualized Study	Kurt Lazaroff	klazarof	3-4572
Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Studies	Ben Gatling	bgatling	3-1160
Interim Director, Latin American Studies	Lisa Breglia	lbreglia	3-9185
Director, Middle East and Islamic Studies	Bassam Haddad	bhaddad	3-5802
Chair, Modern and Classical Languages	Rei Berroa	rberroa	3-1228
Chair, Philosophy	Rachel Jones	rjones23	3-3431
Chair, Psychology	Keith Renshaw	krenshaw	3-5128
Chair, Religious Studies	Abdulaziz Sachedina	asachedi	3-5449
Interim Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies	Steven Barnes	sbarnes3	3-5422
Director, School of Integrative Studies	Kelly Dunne	kdunne	3-1454
Chair, Sociology and Anthropology	Amy Best	abest	3-1426
Interim Director, Women and Gender Studies	Tamara Harvey	tharvey2	3-1160

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, College of Science	Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm	fmiralle	3-1362
Chair, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Earth Sciences	Jim Kinter	ikinter	3-5773
Chair, Biology	Geraldine Grant	ggrant1	3-1031
Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry	Gerald Weatherspoon	grobert1	3-1456
Chair, Computational and Data Sciences	Jason Kinser	jkinser	3-3785
Chair, Environmental Science and Policy	Alonso Aguirre	aaguirr3	3-7590
Director, Forensic Science	Mary Ellen O'Toole	motoole2	3-5059
Chair, Geology and Geoinformation Science	Dieter Pfoser	dpfoser	3-6029
Director, Advanced Biomedical Sciences Programs (GeorgeSquared)	Bill Hahn	whahn2	3-7054
Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience	Saleet Jafri	sjafri	3-8420
Chair, Mathematical Sciences	David Walnut	dwalnut	3-1478
Chair, Physics and Astronomy	Paul So	paso	3-4377
Director, School of Systems Biology	Iosif Vaisman	ivaisman	3-8431
Executive Director, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation	Cody Edwards	cedward7	3-4564

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts	Rick Davis	rdavi4	3-8624
Interim Director, Arts Management	Bill Reeder	wreeder	3-9069
Director, Computer Game Design	Sang Nam	snam5	3-4362
Director, Film and Video Studies	Cynthia Fuchs	cfuchs	3-3287
Director, School of Art	Hasan Elahi	helahi	3-8898
Director, School of Dance	Karen Reedy	kreedy	3-9767
Director, School of Music	Linda Monson	lmonson	3-5082
Interim Director, School of Theater	Kevin Murray	kmurra3	3-2195

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, Honors College	Zofia Burr	zburr	3-1110
Associate Dean, Honors College	Jan Allbeck	jallbeck	3-1101
Assistant Dean, Honors College	Andy Hoefer	ahoefer	3-2918

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Executive Director, INTO Mason	Todd Rose	trose2	3-2150
Academic Director	Karyn Kessler	kkessle3	3-5014

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution	Alpaslan Ozerdem	aozerdem	3-1300
Director, Graduate Programs	Thomas Flores	tflores2	3-9409
Director, Undergraduate Programs	Mara Schoeny	mschoeny	3-9191

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, Schar School of Policy and Government	Mark Rozell	mrozell	3-8171
Program Director, Biodefense	Greg Koblentz	g koblent	3-1266
Program Director, Government and International Politics	Robert J. McGrath	r mcgrat2	3-4567
Program Director, International Commerce and Policy	Ken Reinert	k reinert	3-8212
Program Director, International Security	Ellen Laipson	elaipson	3-4161
Program Director, Organization Development & Knowledge Management	Tojo Thatchenkery	thatchen	3-3808
Program Director, Political Science	Mariely Lopez-Santana	mlopezs1	3-9479
Program Director, Public Administration - Undergrad	Robert J. McGrath	rmcgrat2	3-4567
Acting Program Director, Public Administration - Master's	Alan Abramson	aabramso	3-8189
Program Director, Public Policy - Master's	Bonnie Stabile	bstabile	3-8566
Program Director, Public Policy - PhD	Jim Olds	jolds	3-3700
Program Director, Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics	Laurie Schintler	lschintl	3-2256

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, School of Business	Maury Peiperl	mpeiperl	3-1880
Chair, Accounting	JK Aier	jaier	3-4546
Chair, Business Foundations	Jackie Brown	jbrown39	3-2598
Chair, Finance	Alexander Philipov	aphilipo	3-9762
Chair, Information Systems and Operations Management	Nirup Menon	nmenon	3-3723
Chair, Management	Claus Langfred	clangfre	3-9662
Chair, Marketing	Saurabh Mishra	smishra8	3-1880

Title/Unit	Name	Email	Phone
Dean, Volgenau School of Engineering	Kenneth Ball	ball	3-1500
Chair, Bioengineering	Michael Buschmann	mbuschma	3-3564
Director, Computer Forensics and Data Analytics	Bob Osgood	rosgood	3-5443
Chair, Computer Science	David Rosenblum	dsr	3-1530
Acting Director, Cyber Security Engineering	Duminda Wijeseker	dwijesek	3-5030
Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering	Monty Hayes	hayes	3-1569
Interim Chair, Information Sciences and Technology	Ozlem Uzuner	ouzuner	3-5996
Chair, Mechanical Engineering	Oscar Barton	obarton2	3-4160
Chair, Sid and Reva Dewberry Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering	Sam Salem	osalem	3-1687
Chair, Statistics	Jiayang Sun	jsun21	3-4732
Chair, Systems Engineering and Operations Research	John Shortle	jshortle	3-3571