GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY - Key Persons

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• Member of the Research Committee
• Director of Mason 's Center for Humanities Research
• Faculty Representative
• Professor of History

Alison Landsberg is Professor of History and Cultural Studies and Director of Mason's Center for Humanities Research (CHR). She earned a BA in English from Williams College, and an MA and PhD in Literature and Film from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at George Mason in 2000, she was an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Landsberg is internationally known in the field of Memory Studies for her book Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (New York: Columbia UP, 2004) in which she argues that the birth of cinema in the early 20 th century, and with it the large scale circulation of images and narratives about the past, made it increasingly possible for people to take on memories of events they did not live through: prosthetic memories. The book theorizes this new form of memory and explores its potential to produce empathy and to become the grounds for progressive politics. She is also the author of Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge (Columbia UP, 2015), which explores how popular representations of the past, even as they engage their viewers affectively, might foster historical thinking, forcing a reconsideration of what constitutes history and of how history works in the contemporary mediated public sphere. She is currently working on a project entitled, "Post-Postracial America," which examines the way in which contemporary films, television shows, and museums are engaging in complex ways with America's violent racial "past" in order to make visible its presence in the present. Taken together, her body of research on museums, film, and television has focused on the modes of engagement they solicit from individuals and the possibilities therein for the production and acquisition of memory, historical knowledge, and political subjectivity in the public sphere. As inaugural director of Mason's Center for Humanities Research, Landsberg has worked to support and raise the visibility of humanities research at Mason, to foster intellectual life on campus, and to build bridges to the local community. Under her leadership, the center has provided semester-long, residential faculty and graduate fellowships, launched an annual conference, created interdisciplinary reading groups, hosted panel discussions and presentations of faculty and student research, and embarked on an ambitious public humanities project entitled, "Alienation and Belonging: The Shifting Cultural Landscapes of Northern Virginia," which was recently awarded funding by Virginia Humanities.

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• Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact

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• Chairman of the DEVELOPMENT Committee

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• Member of the Development Committee
• Faculty Representative
• Professor in the Department of Electrical

Bijan Jabbari is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University. He is also an affiliated faculty with Telecom Paris-Tech in France. Dr. Jabbari's areas of specialization and interests are in wireless communications and is recognized internationally for his contributions to the field of wireless networks through research, standardization, patents and publishing books, articles in refereed journals and conferences. His patents are being deployed in the LTE and 5G wireless. He continues funded research through grants from US Research agencies including NSF. He received PhD and MS degree from Stanford University, California, in Electrical Engineering. In addition, he obtained a MS degree in Management Science and Engineering also from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET Fellow and received the IEEE Millennium Medal. He is a recipient of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area Engineer of the Year Award and received the VSE Outstanding Faculty Research Award. Dr. Jabbari has helped industry and governments as an advisor and has been involved in different aspects of the Intellectual Property matters both development of patents as well as an expert witness assisting major law firms and their clients in patent infringement cases in wireless technology, communications services, Internet and software. He is a member of the Mason Faculty Senate. In addition, he is also a volunteer in civic and humanitarian activities as well as the community. He is one of the co-founders of the American Heart Association's annual charity event, which in the past 20 years has brought over $20 million for research to this association.

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• Chairman

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• Vice Chair

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• Associate Professor and Assistant Area Chair
• Faculty Representative

Cameron J. Harris, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Assistant Area Chair in the School of Business and Faculty Fellow in the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning at George Mason University. He has served on the Mason COACHE Leadership team and the Anti-Racism and Inclusive Teaching Consulting Committee. He was a member of the School of Business Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Taskforce and the Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. Cameron's professional involvement includes the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, where he has served as chair of the diversity committee and chair of the Stanley Award for Diversity and Inclusion Research in Educational Development. Cameron holds both a master's and doctorate in higher education administration and has taught and co-taught undergraduate and graduate courses related to diversity in leadership. His research focuses on the experiences of underrepresented doctoral students, faculty, and teaching and learning issues.

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• Faculty Representative
• Professor

Cesar J. Rebellon is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and a Faculty Equity Advisor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and focuses on the ways in which peer and family contexts, legal socialization, and legitimate authority affect involvement in crime and delinquency. He is particularly interested in the degree to which peers influence delinquency by serving as delinquent role models and by socially reinforcing delinquent behavior. He is currently working on a project using primary survey data from middle-school and high-school youth to examine whether youth who engage in risky behavior are more likely to receive romantic attention from their peers. His prior work appears in such journals as Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Law and Human Behavior. Before joining George Mason University, he was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at University of New Hampshire, where he served as Department Chair from 2017-2020.

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• Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration / RESEARCH

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• Chairman

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• Associate Professor

Dr. Edward B. Douthett, Jr. is an Associate Professor in the School of Management and is the Northern Chapter Virginia Society CPA Professor of Public Accounting. He currently teaches managerial and cost accounting in the Executive MBA and Undergraduate Accounting Programs. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University he worked as an Assistant Professor for Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Douthett also worked at Exxon Corporation in various staff and managerial positions, overseeing financial analysis and reporting for operating units in oil and gas production and chemical manufacturing. He is currently a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and consults to various firms on the subjects of cost analysis and operational control. Dr. Douthett's research interests focus on the economics of accounting in U.S. and international capital markets. He sits on editorial review boards for several academic journals and has written articles that have appeared in refereed journals such as: Contemporary Accounting Research, The International Journal of Accounting, Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Dr. Douthett earned a BS from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA and PhD from the University of Georgia. Edward serves as a faculty liaison to the Audit Committee.

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• Member of the Development Committee
• Faculty Representative

Dr. Susan H. Allen is the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and Director of the Center for Peacemaking Practice and also currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Programs at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. She earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, was Senior Program Associate for Conflict Resolution at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and taught at American University. She is a parent to a current Mason undergraduate student. She previously served on the Faculty Senate. Dr. Allen's conflict resolution research focuses on learning from conflict resolution practice, through evaluation, action research, reflective practice and engaged scholarship. She is a scholar-practitioner and author of the book Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach (Routledge, 2022), as well as numerous articles. She has co-edited multiple books and thematic journal issues, including on zones of peace and on practicing conflict resolution within the academy. She is an Associate Editor of the journal International Negotiation. Dr. Allen's work has been supported by generous philanthropic support, multiple grants, awards, and partnerships with leading conflict resolution practitioners, bringing over $4 million in funding to GMU. She was a co-founder of the Conveners' Community of Practice, the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the Alliance for Conflict Transformation. She held the Peace Scholar award from the US Institute for Peace for her dissertation research and a Fulbright Scholar award that supported the completion of her recent book. Dr. Allen is an expert on conflict resolution in the South Caucasus, and on track two and track one-and-a-half diplomacy.

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• Vice President and Chief Audit and Compliance Officer

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• President

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• Member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Rector

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• Member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Vice Chair of the DEVELOPMENT Committee
• Vice Rector

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• Chairman

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• Faculty Representative
• Finance and Land Use Committee

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• Provost and Executive Vice President

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• Faculty Representative

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• Member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Secretary of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Vice Chair

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• Associate Professor in Sid
• Faculty Representative
• Representative to the Finance

Mohan Venigalla is an associate professor in Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering of Volgenau School of Engineering. He specializes in transportation systems analysis and planning with research emphases on sustainable transportation and macroscopic traffic flow. His early career (for 12 years) was primarily in engineering consulting and research. He has been engaged in his present teaching and academic research career since 2000. Venigalla's expertise includes modeling of transportation systems encompassing travel behavior analysis, travel demand modeling, land use transportation, traffic simulation, network analysis, and intelligent transportation systems. His current and prior works covered a range of topics on transportation planning, air quality, transit-oriented developments, shared mobility, and urban freight planning. His skillset includes traditional quantitative and statistical methods, geographic information systems, data mining, and big data analytics. He has developed and applied numerous computer models for solving various transportation planning and traffic engineering problems. Venigalla's research funding since 2000 topped $2.8 million. His publications include more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, two book chapters, and 38 significant technical reports. He developed or taught 16 different courses and graduated seven Ph.D. students under his supervision. He administered the undergraduate civil engineering program at George Mason University and was primarily responsible for increasing the enrollments four-fold (from 73 to 295) in an 8-year period. Venigalla's research on air quality received national acclaim and was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences with the prestigious Pyke Johnson Award. He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has been recently appointed as a Faculty Fellow at the Office of the Secretary of Transportation in the US Department of Transportation. Mohan serves as a faculty representative to the Finance and Land Use Committee.

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• Chairman of the RESEARCH Committee
• Vice Chair

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• Undergraduate Student Representative

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• Member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Member - at - Large

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• Member of the Research Committee
• Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral
• Faculty Representative

Tara M. Chaplin is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at George Mason University. She received a Ph.D. in Clinical psychology in 2003 from Penn State University and completed post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003-2006. She was an Associate Research Scientist and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine from 2006-2013, before joining the Clinical Psychology Faculty at George Mason University in 2013. Dr. Chaplin's research interests are in the role of emotional arousal and emotion regulation and sex differences in the development of risk behaviors (such as substance use) and of psychological problems (such as depression, anxiety, and conduct problems) during adolescence. She is interested in the role of the family context and parenting in shaping adolescents' emotional development and their development of psychological symptoms. Her recent research has developed and tested family-focused interventions to improve parent-child relationships and prevent risk behaviors in adolescents, including her Parenting Mindfully (PM) intervention. Dr. Chaplin's research is interdisciplinary, merging methods and theories from Psychology, Neuroscience, Family Studies, and Social-Developmental Science to understand adolescent emotional development. Her work incorporates multiple bio-behavioral methods, including self-reports of emotional experience, observational measures, cardiovascular measures such as heart rate variability, neuroendocrine measures such as cortisol, and neuroscience/fMRI measures (including through the GMU MRI center). Dr. Chaplin's research has been continuously funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research since 2008. She has served as principle investigator (PI) on a NIH-funded K01 (Mentored Research Scientist) Award and four large (>$1 million) research awards from NIH (three R01 Awards, 1 R34 Award) to study sex differences in parenting, adolescent emotional arousal, and the development and prevention of substance use and other risk behaviors. Her work has contributed significantly to our understanding of the role of gender, emotion, and the family in the development of substance use. She has published over 55 peer reviewed papers. Her papers have appeared in Psychological Bulletin, Development and Psychopathology, Journal of Adolescent Health, and other journals. Dr. Chaplin has also served on several committees related to supporting research and promoting George Mason's research profile, including the Liason Committee on Medical Education, the Securing Research Health Information Workgroup, and as a core faculty member of the Center for Adaptive Systems of Brain-Body Interactions (CASBBI) and the Center for Evidence-Based Behavioral Health (CEBBH). She additionally contributes to national/international research communities by serving as a NIH Study Section standing member, where she reviews grants for NIH funding, and by serving for 8 years as co-Chair of the Society for Research on Child Development Emotions preconference. Dr. Chaplin has also been extensively involved in mentoring doctoral students and junior scientists in research and career development, including serving as Chair of the Psychology Department Mentoring Committee, as a mentor or consultant on five NIH-funded doctoral and post-doctoral training grants, and as the Director of the GMU doctoral program in Clinical Psychology.

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• Vice President, University Advancement & Alumni Relations / FINANCE and LAND USE

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• Graduate Student Representative

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• Member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Vice Chair of the RESEARCH Committee
• Member - at - Large