Faculty B

  • The University Libraries is pleased to announce that we have a new Music and Media Librarian, Prof.Cindy Badilla-Meléndez. Prof.Badilla-Meléndez joined us from the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library at the University of Saint Thomas, where she has been working as the Head of Music and Media Collections.
  • Anna Balakerskaia

    Professor, PIANO and Chamber Music, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Dr. Anna Balakerskaia is a “consistently thrilling pianist” (Judy Gruber, Washington Post) whose expression “wells with a delightful freedom,” (Robert Dumm, Clavier) and whose sound “is warm and deep.”
  • Daniel T. Barney, PhD

    Interim Associate Director, School of Art and Associate Professor, Art Education and Program Director, MAT II, School of Art, CVPA

     

    The notion that art could be a practice of living inquiry led Dr. Barney to seek and obtain a PhD in Curriculum Studies with an emphasis on Art Education from the University of British Columbia, where he taught communications, classroom methods, principles of teaching, and supervised student teachers. Barney has won many regional and national awards for his teaching and scholarship over his career.
  • Brian Barr

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Brian Barr is an artist and independent curator from Detroit, MI, currently based in Richmond, VA. His work explores the space between function, meaning and aesthetics.
  • Rebecca Basch

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Bekí Basch is an interdisciplinary artist who creates objects and experiential installations in the context of field research and ruminations on psychospirituality. Using a vocabulary associated with simulated environments and curated experiences (museums, aquariums, ice rinks, dioramas, artifacts), she draws together personally resonant and ostensibly disparate elements to express a new narrative of interconnectivity and possibility.
  • General Manager, Hylton Center

    David Baylor is the General manager of the Hylton Performing Center, CVPA
  • Wade Beach

    Adjunct Faculty, JAZZ PIANO, JAZZ COMBOS, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Wade Beach is widely respected for his harmonic sophistication and superb technique, which knows no stylistic limitations. He holds a master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Maryland. 
  • Mary Bean

    Administrative Assistant, Computer Game Design, CVPA

    Bean, Mary is the Academic Program and Office Manager, Computer Game Design, CVPA
  • Front of House Coordinator

    Erin Beckman is the Front of House Associate at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, on Mason's Science and Technology campus in Manassas.
  • Monica Bellais

    Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Studies, CVPA

    Monica Lee Bellais' professional memberships include the Writers Guild of America, East, the Producers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Documentary Programming Peer Group, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and The National Press Club, in Washington, D.C.