Faculty and Staff List A to Z

  • Wesley Hunt

    Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Studies, CVPA

    Wesley Hunt (he/him) is an award-winning cinematographer in the D.C. Metro area with over ten years of experience as a freelancer. Though he makes a living shooting educational and corporate videos, his real passion is genre filmmaking.
  • Claire Huschle

    Adjunct Faculty, Arts Management, CVPA

    Claire Huschle is the founder and director of Scaffold, LLC, a project support firm for artists and arts organizations.
  • Kay Hwang

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Kay Hwang is a multidisciplinary artist who works and lives in Great Falls, VA with her family and a rescued dog, Mr.Kite. Past several year, she has been working mostly on Schematic Drawing series on sheets of Denril exploring the idea of building meditative visual unit through very much ordered & calculated profusion of geometric forms.
  • Federica Incerti

    Director of Technology & Security, Assistant Professor, CVPA

    Federica Incerti is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Technology for the Mason School of Art, the Director of Cybersecurity for the College of Visual & Performing Arts. She received her doctorate in Instructional Technology from Ohio University.
  • Lawrence Jackson

    Professor, School of Dance, CVPA

    An alumnus of The University of Southern Mississippi and Florida State University, Lawrence M. Jackson is an artist-scholar who has published in scholarly journals in the field of Black Dance.
  • Mimsi Janis

    Assistant Professor, School of Theater, CVPA

    Mimsi Janis is an actor and teaching artist in the DC area.
  • John Jansen

    Adjunct Faculty, MUSIC TECHNOLOGY, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    John C.L. Jansen is an active composer, multi-instrumentalist, luthier, author, recording engineer, and teacher of music technology and music theory, based in Takoma Park, Maryland.
  • Mark Jenkins

    Adjunct Applied Faculty, EUPHONIUM, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Dr. Mark Jenkins began his musical studies on the euphonium at the age of 11 in his home state of Nevada. During his early studies, he was awarded top honors at state, regional and international solo competitions, including the Nevada Governor’s Scholarship to attend the prestigious Interlochen Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and 1st prize at the 1996 Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Competition.
  • Christopher Jewell

    Adjunct Faculty, BASSOON, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Christopher Jewell is the Assistant Principal Bassoonist of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.  An active performer in the Washington, DC area, Mr. Jewell also regularly performs with the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Post Classical Ensemble, Wolf Trap Opera Company, and the Chesapeake Chamber Orchestra. 
  • Kristin Johnsen-Neshati

    Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and International Programs, CVPA
    Professor, School of Theater, CVPA

    Kristin Johnsen-Neshati is Associate Professor of Theater at George Mason University, where she has taught theater history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism since 1993.