Faculty Responsibilities Committee

The Faculty Handbook identifies both faculty rights and faculty responsibilities. The present Code provides for a University-wide Faculty Responsibilities Committee to handle complaints that faculty members have failed to meet a responsibility stated in the Faculty Handbook. Read the full Faculty Responsibilities Code.

Committee Membership

TERMS ENDING JUNE 30, 2024

Anthony C. Arend, Ph.D. (2nd Term) Chair
Department of Government
Senate Appointment

Alicia Plerhoples, J.D.
Georgetown Law
Senate Appointment

Nancy Sherman, Ph.D. (2nd Term)
Department of Philosophy
Presidential Appointment

TERMS ENDING JUNE 30, 2025

Maria Laura Avantaggiati, M.D.
Department of Oncology
Presidential Appointment

Robert J. Bies, Ph.D. (2nd Term)
McDonough School of Business
Senate Appointment

Sheila R. Foster, J.D.
Georgetown Law
Presidential Appointment

Timothy J. Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Medicine
Senate Appointment

Joanna I. Lewis, Ph.D. (2nd Term)
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Senate Appointment

Michael D. Lumpkin, Ph.D. (2nd Term)
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Presidential Appointment

Irfan Nooruddin, Ph.D.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service 
Senate Appointment

Pietra Rivoli, Ph.D. (2nd Term) Vice Chair
McDonough School of Business
Presidential Appointment

Howard Shelanski, J.D., Ph.D.
Georgetown Law
Presidential Appointment

Abbe Smith, J.D.
Georgetown Law
Senate Appointment

Jeanine W. Turner, Ph.D.
Communication, Culture & Technology Program
Presidential Appointment

Hongkun Wang, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics
Senate Appointment

TERMS ENDING JUNE 30, 2026

Ian L. Gale, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
Senate Appointment

Donald Moynihan, Ph.D.
McCourt School of Public Policy
Presidential Appointment