Faculty and Staff List A to Z
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.
Executive Assistant to the Dean, CVPA
Alicia Kirksey is the Executive Assistant to the Dean in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University. She brings over 15 years of experience supporting executives, coordinating projects, and streamlining operations.
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.
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 where he directs the Jazz Workshop and teaches jazz history and improvisation. He previously taught at Northern Virginia Community College. He serves as saxophonist with the 257th Army Band of the D.C. National Guard, “the Band of the Nation’s Capital.”
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
Associate Director of Green Machine Ensembles, CVPA
Alumnus, Dewberry School of Music, '16 and Arts Management Program, '21Bobby 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.
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.
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.