Committees

Sumeet Shrivastava – Rector
Anne Altman – Vice Rector
Paul Misener – Secretary
Delbert Parks – Member-At-Large
Jon Peterson – Member-At-Large

George Schindler, Chair
Sean Spence, Vice Chair
Armand Alacbay
Jim Dyke
Paul Misener
Jim Moran
Jeff Rosen
Tim Gibson, Faculty Representative
Esther Park, Faculty Representative
Marion Underwood, Provost

Trevor Montano, Chair
Jim Moran, Vice Chair
Armand Alacbay
Tom Davis
Jon Peterson
George Schindler
Jennifer Taylor
Dominique Banville, Faculty Representative
Ali Weinstein, Faculty Representative
Marvin Lewis, Assistant Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics

Delbert Parks, Chair
Sean Spence, Vice Chair
Bruce Caswell
Shawn Purvis
George Schindler
Jennifer Taylor
Michael Wetklow, Faculty Liaison
Derek Butler, Interim Vice President and Chief Audit and Compliance Officer

Jennifer Taylor, Chair
Jim Dyke, Vice Chair
Anne Altman
Tom Davis
Delbert Parks
Jon Peterson
Shannon Davis, Faculty Representative
Niki Vlastara, Faculty Representative
Trishana Bowden, Vice President, University Advancement & Alumni Relations

(Parentheses note current year in two-year term)
Jon Peterson, Chair (2/2)
Bruce Caswell, Vice Chair (2/2)
Armand Alacbay (2/2)
Anne Altman (2/2)
Trevor Montano (2/2)
Shawn Purvis (1/2)
Jeff Rosen (2/2)
Sean Spence (1/2)
Maggie Daniels, Faculty Representative (2/2)
Robert Osgood, Faculty Representative (1/2)
Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Faculty Representative (2/2)
Maggie Daniels, Faculty Representative (1/2)
Dan Stephens, Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Julie Zobel, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Tom Davis, Chair
Shawn Purvis, Vice Chair
Anne Altman
Bruce Caswell
Paul Misener
Delbert Parks
Anna Pollack, Faculty Representative
Sarah Wittman, Faculty Representative
Anna Pollack, Faculty Representative
Andre Marshall, Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact

Athletics Liaisons – Trevor Montano & Jon Peterson
Faculty Senate Liaison – George Schindler
Law School Liaison – Paul Misener & Jeff Rosen
Legislative Liaisons – Jim Dyke & Jim Moran

At all Committees:
Sumeet Shrivastava, Rector
Gregory Washington, President
Griffin Crouch, Undergraduate Student Representative
Nilima Hakim Mow, Graduate Student Representative
Solon Simmons, Faculty Representative
Rachel Spence, Staff Liaison

Tim Gibson is an Associate Professor of Communication and Faculty Affiliate in the Cultural Studies PhD program at George Mason University.

Tim Gibson’s research interests include critical media studies, the political economy of communication, and urban studies. He has published articles at the intersection of media and urban studies in a variety of communication and cultural studies journals. He is also author of Securing the Spectacular City: The Politics of Revitalization and Homelessness in Downtown Seattle, a book which explores issues of gentrification and urban poverty in Seattle during the 1990s, and co-editor (with Mark Lowes) of Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context. He is an active member of Mason’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (GMU-AAUP) and currently serves as chapter Vice President. Together with other AAUP members, he has campaigned for donor transparency, faculty participation in the Presidential search, reduced workloads for term faculty, and for fair treatment of Mason’s contract workers. For the next two years, Tim will serve as the President of the Virginia Conference of the AAUP.

Dr. Esther Park is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the College of Public Health. She is an experienced Nursing Educator, dedicated Researcher, and Certified Medical Interpreter.

Dr. Park has served several universities located nation-widely and internationally. Throughout those extended varied experience, she learned value of diversity, well-trained by different roles (Chairs of committees, Preparation team member for CCNE accreditation, IRB reviewer, Faculty admission officer, undergraduate divisional director, and campus learning lab coordinator), and equips of deeper level of comprehension about different learners. To that extent, she had launched international nursing practicum programs several times to broaden students’ learning opportunity and sharpen students’ level of critical thinking. The international nursing practicums have launched in Tanzania, several states in the USA, and S. Korea since 2014.

Before she joined in higher education system, she had built her clinical expertise in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for four years and adult Intensive Care Unit/Cardiac Surgery Unit for 7 years. While she was working in the CSU, she became more passionate in caring of patients with cardiac problems and their family caregivers who were considered as underserved population. This motive enlightened her initial research concepts, informal family caregiver and Caregiving Burden, and bridged to elder abuse and mistreatment research.

Not only to those research concepts, Dr. Park also expertise in research topic of Elder Abuse, Threshold of Caregiving Burden leading to Elder Mistreatment, Innovative Teaching Strategies, Outcomes of International Nursing Practicums, and Nursing Undergraduate Clinical Practicums (trend toward simulation).

Dr. Banville is the Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs for the College of Education and Human Development, and a faculty member in the Health and Physical Education Licensure Program. She obtained her B.Sc. in physical education and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physical Activity Sciences from Université Laval, Québec, Canada. She started her career at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, then moved to the United States in 1999 to take a position at George Mason University. As Associate Dean, she plays a pivotal role in ensuring academic excellence, student success, and a positive, inclusive environment within the College. Dr. Banville’s responsibilities include supporting the development and revisions of academic programs, overseeing student support, and collaborating with counterparts to enhance recruitment and admissions.

Dr. Banville also serves as the Faculty Athletic Representative for George Mason University. In that role, she evaluates and ensures the academic integrity of the intercollegiate athletics program, facilitates institutional control of athletics, and works at enhancing the student-athlete experience. Throughout her time at Mason, she has held other critical leadership positions, such as Director of the School of Kinesiology, Faculty Senator, Academic Policy Committee chair, and Senate Executive Team member.

Her research interests focus on the curriculum and Instruction of physical education in schools and the preparation, induction, and professional development of physical education teachers. She has investigated the induction of teachers, training of cooperating teachers, and is currently looking at the curriculum offered in secondary schools. She is a member of many professional associations (AERA, AIESEP, VAHPERD) and a fellow of SHAPE America.

Dr. Ali A. Weinstein is a Professor of Global and Community Health (GCH) and a Senior Scholar in the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. She has extensive experience conducting human biobehavioral experiments in the laboratory and field, conducts survey research, as well as a small research portfolio of qualitative research. Her research interests focus on fatigue, depression, physical activity, exercise, stress reactivity, chronic illness, and knowledge translation.

 

Dr. Shannon Davis is Professor of Sociology. Dr. Davis received her BA in Sociology in 1997 with distinction as an Undergraduate Research Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2004 from North Carolina State University. She also spent two years as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Carolina Population Center before joining the faculty at GMU in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Her research has two foci. One vein of her work focuses on the creation of families and the negotiation of family life. Specifically, she is interested in how family members negotiate the intersection of paid and unpaid work in their daily lives, how gender inequality is reproduced in families, and on the construction and maintenance of beliefs about gender, or gender ideologies. She is also interested in how gender ideologies inform decisions about education, work, and relationships. Other recent research has examined the processes through which inequality is reproduced or undermined in higher education with an eye toward understanding the role that undergraduate research can play in changing the future of the professoriate.

Dr. Davis was the recipient of a 2012 OSCAR Mentor Award for her mentorship of undergraduate scholars, a 2013 Teaching Excellence Award, and a 2019 OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award for Sustaining Mentorship. In 2018, she received the Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She served as Chair of the George Mason University Faculty Senate 2019-2021 and as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at George Mason University – Korea (May 2021 – August 2025).

Mariniki Vlastara is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Marketing at George Mason University. She holds a PhD in Marketing from Royal Holloway University of London and MBA from University of Miami. Her research interests focus on consumer behavior, consumer ethics and sustainable development. Before entering academia, she held different executive positions in Marketing and Revenue Planning in the leisure industry. She subsequently served as a consultant in business development for start up ventures developing their marketing strategy and communications plans.

 

 

Dr. Maggie Daniels is a Professor of Tourism and Events Management in the School of Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Management at George Mason University. Maggie conducts applied research in the areas of regional economic development, tourism planning, sustainable tourism, transportation, park planning, visitor studies, event management, and wedding planning. Over the past twenty years, she has acted as the lead investigator of teams that have completed collaborative research studies in DC, Virginia, and Maryland. She received her BA from Miami University of Ohio, MA from the University of Georgia, and PhD from Clemson University.

Maggie has a combination of over 100 published papers, book chapters, professional presentations, and technical reports to her credit. A recipient of Mason’s Teaching Excellence Award, Maggie empowers her students to develop management skills specific to analytical planning, financial ecosystems, valuation, investment analysis, and capital allocation. Her financial advice and planning expertise have been featured in outlets such as ABC Nightline News, MSNBC News, NPR Marketplace, The Washington Post, United Press International, US News and World Report, and WalletHub.

Maggie has spearheaded research in the niche event area of wedding consulting and has an award-winning book entitled Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367227843> written with Carrie Wosicki and published by Routledge, with exclusive photography by award-winning photojournalist Rodney Bailey. Maggie is also the lead author on the STEM-based fiction book STRXIA: The Odds are against us <https://www.amazon.com/Strxia-Odds-Are-Against-Us/dp/1543950558>, written with aerospace engineer Matt Michel. STRXIA is designed to introduce elementary school children to the basic principles of physics in an entertaining way, with a focus on Newton’s three laws of motion.

Maggie has championed fundraising for Mason’s Student Food and Housing Insecurity Fund through the development and implementation of Mason Empty Bowls with co-chair Lauren Long, the Director of Student Involvement. This collaborative initiative involves units across campus, ceramic artists, and industry partners. Together with the community at large, we raise awareness and funds for all of the students in our community who face empty bowls each day.

Mr. Osgood retired from 26 years as an FBI agent specializing in Computer Forensics, Cyber-Crime, Enterprise Criminal Organizations, Espionage and Counter-Terrorism. In the course of his work, he has performed computer forensics research and development and created unique new software tools for computer forensic law enforcement. He has also been employed as Project Director for ManTech Intl. Corp. working in the computer forensic intrusion analysis division.

Mr. Osgood formed the first FBI computer forensics squad in 2000 and was part of the team that executed the first court authorized digital computer intercept. In addition, he is along with Prof. Jeremy Allnutt, the original designers of the CFRS Masters program at George Mason University.

Anna Pollack’s research focuses on the relationship between environmental chemical exposures and fertility, pregnancy, and gynecologic health. Critical to understanding these endpoints, she investigates biological mechanisms underlying these processes, such as biomarkers of oxidative stress, inflammation, and endocrine disruption. Dr. Pollack’s research is based in the theory of critical windows of exposure, which emphasizes that the timing of chemical exposures can result in permanent changes. Dr. Pollack’s research also addresses disparities in exposure, which stem from environmental and occupational sources. She seeks to apply methods to examine complex mixtures to better understand their impact on women’s reproductive health.

Prior to joining George Mason University in 2013, Dr. Pollack was trained in reproductive and environmental epidemiology, and epidemiologic methods. She received her PhD in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, MPH in environmental and occupational health from George Washington University, and BA in biology from Smith College. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Sarah Wittman, Assistant Professor of Management at George Mason University’s Costello College of Business, holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour (INSEAD), a Master’s degree in Comunicación Política y Corporativa (Universidad de Navarra-George Washington University), and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Simon Fraser University). Her research explores people’s transitions within, across, and beyond organizational boundaries; their organizational impacts; and the social, technological, and learning support systems that can help make these comings and goings more personally and organizationally successful. Her work has been published in the Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Annals. Her practitioner-oriented work has been featured in Business Insider, and business.com. She chairs the Steering Committee of the multidisciplinary Transitions Research Group. A Montana native with a Spanish Basque husband and three French-born sons, Wittman spends most of her free time in multicultural negotiations.

Mike Wetklow is a CPA with over 30 years of public service experience, including 17 years as a federal senior executive. His career has focused on financial management and auditing, with roles at the GAO, KPMG, and the Maryland Legislative Auditor’s Office. This experience provided a foundation for his later work in modernizing policies and building control environments.

At the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Mike led DHS in establishing internal controls for the newly formed agency following 9/11, helping to resolve material weaknesses and contribute to the department’s first clean audit opinion. He also worked on government-wide financial policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and helped establish the federal government’s first Enterprise Risk Management framework. Later, at the National Science Foundation (NSF), he was involved in fintech initiatives, including the use of robotic process automation and the exploration of blockchain technology. He also co-authored a governmentwide CFO Council strategy for workforce modernization. As Chief Risk Officer at the IRS, he oversaw the agency’s risk portfolio, supporting its AI initiatives and helping to ensure positive audit outcomes.

He is now dedicated to training the next generation of accounting professionals as a Faculty Instructor at George Mason University, a role that builds on his prior experience as an adjunct professor since 2023 and reflects his ongoing commitment to public service and education.