Faculty and Staff List A to Z

  • Mallory Kimmel

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Mallory Kimmel is a Washington-D.C.-based artist, who makes conceptual furniture to address exclusionary design practices. She focuses on disrupting loopholes used to deny human rights.
  • Edward Knoeckel

    Adjunct Faculty, MUSIC IN FILM, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Edward Knoeckel is a composer, pianist, music educator and conductor. As an educator, he has developed curriculum for community summer arts programs, public education, as well as having held university and college faculty positions in music theory, American music history, music for dance, music for motion pictures, as well as performance practice.
  • John Kocur

    Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies, SAXOPHONE, Jazz Workshop, Jazz Studies, Jazz History, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Saxophonist, composer, and educator John Kocur is Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at George Mason University. He previously taught at Northern Virginia Community College where he directed the NOVA Nighthawks Jazz Ensemble. He serves as a saxophonist with the 257th Army Band of the D.C. National Guard, “the Band of the Nation’s Capital.”
  • Amanda Kraus

    Term Associate Professor of Sound and Editing, Film and Video Studies, CVPA
     

    Amanda has been teaching college-level courses for 13 years in video editing, sound recording and mixing and post-production. 
  • Jeremy Kunkel
  • Bobby Lacy II

    Associate Director of Green Machine Ensembles, CVPA
    Alumnus, Dewberry School of Music, '16 and Arts Management Program, '21

    Bobby Lacy II is a singer, songwriter, producer, professor, musician, director and award winning spoken word artist. Born in Waco, TX but made a name for himself in the DMV area as an audio visual specialist working closely with the Mayor's office in Washington DC right out of high school.
  • William Lake

    Director of CONCERT BANDS, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Dr. William L. Lake, Jr. is the Director of Concert Bands at the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music at George Mason University.
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    Director of MUSIC THEORY, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Megan L. Lavengood, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Director of Music Theory at George Mason University. Her research primarily deals with popular music, video game music, timbre, synthesizers, and recording techniques.
  • Britney Ordonez Lavine

    Photo Lab Manager, Photography, School of Art, CVPA

    Britney Ordonez Lavine is the new Photo Lab Manager at the School of Art Photography department at George Mason University College of Visual and Performing Arts.
  • Forrest Lawson

    Printmaking and Letterpress Studio Manager, School of Art, CVPA

    Forrest Lawson draws on the history of blood, as is tied to Queer identity, from the AIDs crisis through present-day uses of socio-political tools that continue to relegate Queerness.