Graduate Program Directors and Coordinators

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Conflict Analysis and Resolution

PhD Program Director: Supriya Baily, sbaily1@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

College of Education and Human Development

Athletic Training

Masters Program Director: Amanda Caswell, aalleni@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Child, Family, & Community Engagement

Masters Program Director: Sam Steen, ssteen@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Counseling

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Education

PhD Program Director: Angela Miller, amille35@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Joan Stahle, jstahle@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Educational Psychology

Masters Program Director: Divya Varier, dvarier@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Kinesiology

Masters Program Director: Debra Stroiney, dstroine@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Learning Design & Technology

Masters Program Director: Douglas Wilson, dwilso31@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Psychology

Masters Program Director: Ellen Rowe, erowe@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

School Psychology

Masters Program Director: Nicole Beadles, nbeadles@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Monica Mak, mmak@gmu.edu

Sport & Recreation Studies

Masters Program Director: Chris (Beverly) Green, bgreen21@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

College of Engineering and Computing

AI: Artificial Intelligence

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Bioengineering

PhD Program Director: Parag Chitnis, pchitnis@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Shani Ross, sross20@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Biostatistics

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering

PhD Program Director: Laura Kosoglu, lkosoglu@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Laura Kosoglu, lkosoglu@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Computer Science

PhD Program Director: Hakan Aydin, aydin@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director:
MS Comp Science: TBD
MS Info Security: Xinyuan "Frank" Wang, xwangc@gmu.edu
MS Software Engineering: TBD

Cyber Security Engineering

Masters Program Director: Paulo Costa, pcosta@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Data Analytics Engineering

Masters Program Director: Hassanah Thomas, hthoma7@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Electrical and Computer Engineering

PhD Program Director: Brian Mark, bmark@gmu.edu
MS Computer Engineering, Kris Gaj, kgaj@gmu.edu
MS Digital Forensics, Bob Osgood, rosgood@gmu.edu
MS Digital Forensics: TBD
MS Electrical Engineering, Kris Gaj, kgaj@gmu.edu
MS Telecommunications, Bob Osgood, rosgood@gmu.edu

Information Technology

PhD Program Director: Jennifer Skorzawski-Ross, jskorzaw@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Information Systems

Information Systems (CS)

Information Systems (IST)

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Robotics

PhD Program Director: Missy Cummings, cummings@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Software Engineering

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Statistical Science

PhD Program Director: Isuru Dassanayake, idassana@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Lily Wang, lwang41@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Systems Engineering and Operations Research

PhD Program Director: Rochelle Jones, rjones42@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Anthropology

Masters Program Director: Rick Smith, rsmith86@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Farhana Islam, fislam2@gmu.edu

Applied Industrial & Organizational Psychology

Masters Program Director: Afra Ahmad, aahmad14@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Art History

Masters Program Director: Michele Greet, mgreet@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Lea Burgess, lburges5@gmu.edu

Communication

PhD Program Director: Christopher Clarke, cclark27@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Brittany Sanders, bsander7@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Anne Nicotera, anicoter@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Brittany Sanders, bsander7@gmu.edu

Criminology, Law, and Society

PhD Program Director: Devon Johnson, djohns22@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Brielle DeMatteo, bdematt2@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Devon Johnson, djohns22@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Brielle DeMatteo, bdematt2@gmu.edu

Criminal Justice

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Cultural Studies

PhD Program Director: Lisa Rabin, lrabin@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Sean Dixon, sdixon20@gmu.edu

Economics

PhD Program Director: Carlos Ramirez, cramire2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Valerie Sasser, vsasser@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Carlos Ramirez, cramire2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Valerie Sasser, vsasser@gmu.edu

Economics Online:

Masters Program Director: Christopher Coyne, ccoyne3@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Valerie Sasser, vsasser@gmu.edu

English

PhD Program Director: Gregg Wilhelm, gwilhelm@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Rafaella Silva, rsilva8@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Eric Anderson, eandersd@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Rafaella Silva, rsilva8@gmu.edu

Global Affairs

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Global Affairs & Middle East & Islamic Studies

Global Affairs & Middle East & Islamic Studies (GLOA)

Masters Program Director: Niklas Hultin, ihultin@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Virginia Holm, vholm@gmu.edu

Global Affairs & Middle East & Islamic Studies (MEIS)

Masters Program Director: Maria Dakake, mdakakem@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Virginia Holm, vholm@gmu.edu

Higher Education & Student Development

Masters Program Director: Chrystal George Mwangi, cgeorgem@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Katie Richards, kricha22@gmu.edu

History

PhD Program Director: Suzanne Smith, smisuze@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Lea Burgess, lburges5@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Stephen Robertson, srober30@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Lea Burgess, lburges5@gmu.edu

Interdisciplinary Studies

Masters Program Director: Shayna Maskell, smaskell@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Rachel Stevenson, rsteve@gmu.edu

Linguistics

PhD Program Director: Sylvia Woodrose Schwartz, sschrei2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Rafaella Silva, rsilva8@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Modern & Classical Languages

Masters Program Director: Ellen Serafini, eserafi2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Jen Barnard, jbarnard@gmu.edu

Psychology

PhD Program Director: Tyler Shaw, tshaw4@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Tanie Boeddeker, tboeddek@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Tyler Shaw, tshaw4@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Tanie Boeddeker, tboeddek@gmu.edu

Psychology (Online)

Masters Program Director: Afra Ahmad, aahmad14@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Chelsi Shalal, cshalal@gmu.edu

Sociology

PhD Program Director: Lester Kurtz, lkurtz@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Farhana Islam, fislam2@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Dae Young Kim, dkio@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Farhana Islam, fislam2@gmu.edu

Women & Gender Studies

Masters Program Director: Claudia Cabello Hutt, ccabello@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Writing Rhetoric

PhD Program Director: Heidi Lawrence, hlawren2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Rafaella Silva, rsilva8@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

College of Science

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

PhD Program Director: Dmitri Klimov, dklimov@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Diane St. Germain, dstgermain@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Biosciences

PhD Program Director: Alessandra Luchini, aluchini@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Diane St. Germain, dstgermain@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Chemistry and Biochemistry

PhD Program Director: Barney Bishop, bbishop1@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Climate Dynamics

PhD Program Director: Natalie Burls, nburls@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Barry Klinger, bklinger@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Computational Sciences & Informatics

PhD Program Director: Eduardo Lopez, elopez22@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Sam Stone, sstone4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Computational Social Science

PhD Program Director: Dale Rothman, drothma@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Sam Stone, sstone4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences

PhD Program Director: Ruixin Yang, ryang@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Elizabeth Noyes, enoyes@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Environmental Science and Public Policy

PhD Program Director: Amy Fowler, afowler6@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Melanie Janus, mjanus@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Geology and Earth Science

PhD Program Director: Geoffrey Gilleaudeau, ggilleau@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Mathematics

PhD Program Director: Evelyn Sander, esander@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Christine Amaya, camaya@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Neuroscience

PhD Program Director: Ted Dumas, tdumas@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Ginny Scott, gscott21@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Physics: Engineering Physics Concentration

PhD Program Director: Paul So, paso@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Brooke Vaughn, bvaughn4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Physics: Standard Concentration

PhD Program Director: Paul So, paso@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Brooke Vaughn, bvaughn4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

College of Public Health

Global Health

Masters Program Director: Sarah Liu, sliu16@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Ebony Miller, emille49@gmu.edu

Health & Medical Policy

Masters Program Director: Gilbert Gimm, ggimm@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Health Informatics

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: Janusz Wojtusiak

Health Services Research

PhD Program Director: Gilbert Gimm, ggimm@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Isaac Chomitz, ichomitz@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Health Systems Management

Masters Program Director: Brenda Sheingold, bsheingo@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Health Systems Management (Online):

Masters Program Director: Brenda Sheingold, bsheingo@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Maria Uriyo, muriyo@gmu.edu

Nursing

PhD Program Director: Kathi Huddleston, khuddles@gmu.edu

Nursing (MSN)

Masters Program Director: Shanti Chang, schang13@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Victoria Hough, vhough@gmu.edu

Nursing (DNP):

Masters Program Director: Natalie Brooks, nbrooks6@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Victoria Hough, vhough@gmu.edu

Nutrition

Masters Program Director: Lilian de Jonge, edejonge@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Allison McKay, amckay4@gmu.edu

Public Health

PhD Program Director: Jhumka Gupta, jgupta4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Sarah Liu, sliu16@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Ebony Miller, emille49@gmu.edu

Social Work

Masters Program Director: Evelyn Tomaszewski, etomasze@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Le Anne Wisnieski, lwisnies@gmu.edu

College of Visual and Performing Arts

Arts Education

Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Arts Management

Masters Program Director: Karalee Dawn MacKay, kdawn@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Music Education

PhD Program Director: Charles Ciorba, cciorba@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

School of Art

All Programs:

Director: Justin Sutters, jsutters@gmu.edu
Director: Don Starr, dstarr@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Robert Yi, ryi6@gmu.edu

School of Dance

All Programs:

Director: Karen Reedy, kreedy@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Kim Harris, kharrism@gmu.edu

School of Music

All Programs:

Director: Gregory Robinson, grobins8@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Lauren Rigby, lrigby@gmu.edu

School of Theater

All Programs:

Director: Djola Branner, dbranner@gmu.edu
Director: Mimsi Janis, mjanis@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Mary Burgess, mburges7@gmu.edu

Visual and Performing Arts

PhD Program Director: Lauren Wagner, lwagner4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Costello College of Business

Accounting

Masters Program Director: Bret Johnson, bjohns37@gmu.edu

Business

PhD Program Director: Heather Vough, hvough@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Saul Garcia, sgarci3@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: TBD
Coordinator: TBD

Business Administration (MBA)

Masters Program Director: Ioannis Bellos, ibellos@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Lauren Flynn, lflynn5@gmu.edu

Business Analytics

Masters Program Director: Mehmet Altug, maltug@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Finance

Masters Program Director: Tiago Requeijo, trequeij@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Management

Masters Program Director: Victoria Grady, vgrady3@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Vanessa Deshane, vdeshane@gmu.edu

Real Estate Development

Masters Program Director: David Tarter, ptarter@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Taxation

Masters Program Director: Bret Johnson, bjohns37@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Technology Management

Masters Program Director: Candace Deans, pdeans@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Schar School of Policy and Government

Biodefense

PhD Program Director: Gregory Koblentz, gkoblent@gmu.edu
Coordinator: John Washington, jwashi4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Gregory Koblentz, gkoblent@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Global Commerce & Policy

Masters Program Director: Kenneth Reinert, kreinert@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

International Security

Masters Program Director: Ellen Laipson, elaipson@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Organization Development & Knowledge Management

Masters Program Director: Tojo Thatchenkery, thatchen@gmu.edu
Coordinator: TBD

Political Science

PhD Program Director: Robert McGrath, rmcgrat2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: John Washington, jwashi4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Jeremy Mayer, jmayer4@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Silva Morris, specini@gmu.edu

Public Administration

Masters Program Director: Mirae Kim, mkim216@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Silva Morris, specini@gmu.edu

Public Policy

PhD Program Director: Robert McGrath, rmcgrat2@gmu.edu
Coordinator: John Washington, jwashi4@gmu.edu
Masters Program Director: Justin Gest, jgest@gmu.edu
Coordinator: Silva Morris, specini@gmu.edu