Faculty and Staff List A to Z

  • Jeremy Tuohy

    Academic Advisor, Computer Game Design, CVPA

    Jeremy Tuohy is the Academic Advisor and Undergraduate Coordinator for Computer Game Design. Read more...
  • Headshot of Prof. Thomas Tyra

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

    Prof. Thomas E. Tyra holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Technology and an Engineering emphasis with a minor in Audio Production from George Mason University. He also holds a Master of Arts in Audio Sciences with a concentration in Recording and Production from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University.
  • Maura Ugarte

    Assistant Professor of Directing and Editing, Film and Video Studies, CVPA
     

    Professor Maura Ugarte is a filmmaker and editor whose work has appeared at True/False Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival, and Palm Springs International Film Festival, among others.
  • James Van Meer

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    MFA, Art and Visual Technology, 2017 (alumnus)

    James X. Van Meer (Jim) is a native of the Washington, D.C. metro area and has been actively engaged in branding, marketing, and design for over 40 years.
  • Luis Vasquez La Roche

    Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Luis Vasquez La Roche is an artist and educator that resides between Trinidad and Tobago and Virginia. They hold an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their practice is interested in aspects of the transatlantic slave trade that repeat themselves in varying ways in the present.
  • Nana Vaughn holding viola next to a stream

    Adjunct Faculty, VIOLA, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA  

    Nana Gaskins Vaughn, Adjunct Applied Faculty in Viola at the Dewberry School of Music at George Mason University, is in high demand as a freelance musician and teacher in the Mid-Atlantic region.
  • Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Paloma Vianey Martinez Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico who currently lives and works in Washington D.C. Her work explores the vulnerabilities and violence of her community and narrates her experience crossing the U.S.-Mexico border daily, questioning the political corruptness of this division.
  • Lauren Wagner

    Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs, College of Visual and Performing Arts

    Lauren Wagner is the Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs for the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Lauren has been with George Mason University since 2010 and with our College since 2018. S
  • Will Waikart

    Adjunct Faculty and Music Coordinator, School of Dance, CVPA

    Will Waikart began accompanying dance classes at Mason in the mid-2000s while studying music across the hall at the School of Music, where he earned his BA.
  • Brandon Wallace

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Brandon Wallace’s artistic passion lies in telling stories through drawing and painting. Wallace holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration from The Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts in Illustration from Syracuse University.