Toni-Michelle C. Travis

Toni-Michelle Travis is the faculty representative to the Board of Visitors' Committee on Equity and Diversity.; She has been a member of the Public and International Affairs Department since 1984.

Currently she is a Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University. She has previously been a visiting professor of political science at Simmons College in Boston.

In the American Political Science Association she has served as a council member, secretary, president of the Women's Caucus, and co-chair of the Race Ethnicity and Politics section which she co-founded.

A political analyst on Virginia politics and national issues pertaining to race and gender policies, she has appeared on Washington area radio and television stations, as well as C-SPAN, Al-Jazeera, and BBC World News.

At Mason she has been a member of the Faculty Senate and served as director of the Urban Studies Program, African American Studies Program, and the Oxford University Honors Program. In addition, she produced and hosted Capitol Region Roundtable, a cable television show at George Mason University for four years. In 1998 she was named the Alumni Association's Faculty Member of the Year. In 2006 was named a Fenwick Fellow.

She received a B.A. from Bard College and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has published on urban politics, diversity issues, and Virginia politics.