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Service Learning Faculty

The GW Office of Community Service would like to recognize faculty who are the leading lights of service learning at GW. Those faculty listed below represent a portion of those we work with at OCS on engaging students in the community and represent many departments, including Sociology, School of Management, University Writing, and more! We encourage students interested in service-learning to register for classes with these professors, and visit the Office of Community Service to find out about more service oriented professors and courses.

Pamela Davidson: Dept. of Sociology, and School of Public Policy and Public Administration, Assistant Professor.

Peter Konwerski: Dept. of Sociology Part Time Professor, Executive Director of Activities, Events, and Operations, The George Washington University Student Activities Center and Cloyd Heck Marvin University Center; Adjunct Instructor of Human Services

Dolores Perillan: Dept. of Romance Languages, Adjunct Professor of Spanish

Phyllis Ryder: Assistant Professor of Writing, University Writing Program

Mary Anne Saunders:
Dept. of Sociology Professor of Human Services.

Stuart Umpleby:  Dept. of Management, Professor, Director of the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning in the School of Business at The George Washington University
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Pamela Davidson
Department of Sociology and School of Public Policy
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Email: Pdavidso@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-994-1129
Office: Phillips 409
Classes taught: Population and Environment, SOC 169: Urban Sociology, PPOL 202: Applied Statistical Methodology, SOC 231: Data Analysis

Peter Konwerski
Department of Sociology
Adjunct Instructor of Human Services
Email: Peterk@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-994-6563
Office: Rice Hall 403, 2121 I St NW
Courses taught: HMSR 177: Human Services and Community; Empowerment for Social Change, HMSR 195: Seminar in Human Services: Current Issues, HMSR 801: Deans Seminar: Spirituality and Service, HMSR 801: Deans Seminar: Pop Culture and Community, EDUC 220: Current Issues in Student Affairs: Enrollment Management in Post Secondary Institutions
Winner of OCS Administrator of the Year Award, 2007

Dolores Perillan
Adjunct Instructor in Spanish
Email: Perillan@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-994-6956
Office: Phillips Hall 513C
Courses taught:(Spring 2008) SPAN 003.12, SPAN 004.10, SPAN 004.12
Dolores Perillán is Adjunct Instructor in Spanish. She studied at Cambridge University, Georgetown University, and Madrid University and has been at GW since 1998. As an educator, Professor Perillán is devoted “to allow our language (in Octavio Paz’s words) to speak through us.”
Winner of the OCS Faculty Member of the Year Award, 2007

Phyllis Ryder
Email: pryder@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-242-2667
Office: Academic Center 109, Mount Vernon Campus
Courses taught:(Fall 2008) UW 020 Section M5 and M6: Writing for Social Change: Writing with DC Community Organizations

"Just as a community organization is united around a particular social goal and a particular method of achieving it, so the academic community at a research university unites around its social goals and accepted methods. Using the analytical abilities we developed by studying community organizations, we’ll study academic discourse and learn how to write in a way that signals that you are part of this academic community."

Winner of the OCS Faculty Member of the Year Award, 2008
Awarded a “Certificate of Appreciation in January, 2008 by the District of Columbia "in recognition of [her] outstanding contributions rendered to the Dinner Program for Homeless Women"

Mary Anne Saunders
Department of Sociology
Associate Professor of Human Services and Sociology
Email: map@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-994-6798
Office: Rome Hall 457
Courses taught: Human Development, Aging, HMSR 176W: Program Planning and Development

Stuart Umpleby
Department of Management
Professor of Management
Email: umpleby@gwu.edu
Phone: 202-994-1642
Office: 2033 K Street NW, Suite 230
Website: www.gwu.edu/~umpleby
Courses taught: MGT 201, MGT 216: Cross-Cultural Management, MGT 290: Organizational Management and Leadership, MBAD 205