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, 2025

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

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

Timothy J. Jorgensen, Ph.D. (Vice Chair)
Department of Radiation Medicine
Senate Appointment

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

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

Howard Shelanski, J.D., Ph.D. (Chair)
Georgetown Law
Presidential Appointment

Abbe Smith, J.D.
Georgetown Law
Senate Appointment

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

TERMS ENDING JUNE 30, 2026

Ian L. Gale, Ph.D. (2nd Term)
Department of Economics
Senate Appointment

TERMS ENDING JUNE 30, 2027

Friederike Eigler, Ph.D.
Department of German
Presidential Appointment

John Griffin, J.D., Ph.D.
Department of Government
Presidential Appointment

Qiwei (Britt) He, Ph.D.
Data Science and Analytics, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Senate

Chandra M. Manning, Ph.D.
Department of History
Presidential Appointment

Alicia Plerhoples, J.D. (2nd Term)
Georgetown Law
Senate Appointment

Yvonne Tew, LLM, Ph.D.
Georgetown Law
Presidential Appointment

Rochelle E. Tractenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Presidential Appointment

Elizabeth Zsiga, Ph.D.
Department of Linguistics
Presidential Appointment