Hanweck is professor of finance and chair of the finance area in the School of Management at George Mason University. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Insurance and Research of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2000-07. He joined the faculty at George Mason in 1986, and teaches courses in corporate finance, applied global macroeconomics, financial institutions, and financial markets at the undergraduate and MBA levels.

At the FDIC he concentrated on the use of financial market information in bank risk management strategies, for use in establishing federal deposit insurance pricing, improvements in identification of banks in financial distress, and the subprime mortgage crisis implications for bank financial soundness. In this latter regard, scenario analyses have been developed relating macroeconomic and financial market factors to banking performance measures to better predict the effects of regional and macroeconomic cycles on banking company risk taking and vulnerability and mortgage portfolio stability. He has served as consultant to government agencies, banks and business and as an expert witness in litigation involving financial institutions and government agencies and is often cited in financial media articles.

Hanweck’s research interests include financial institutions and markets performance, public policy regarding these institutions and the structure of their markets, economic stabilization and monetary policy as they influence financial institutions and markets performance, and economies of scale and scope and mergers in the financial service industries.

Seligmann is the author of the forthcoming book “Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption across Race, Class, and Nation” (Stanford University Press July 2013). She has done first-hand research and extensive interviews on families who have adopted children from China and Russia, and who have adopted African American children transracially. She can discuss the changing faces of American families, which constitutes a particular kind of immigration. In addition, she can also discuss women and work, specifically the participation of women in the informal economy.

Seligmann has worked in the Andean region of Latin America for more than twenty years.  She specializes in agrarian issues, Quechua culture and the dynamics of the informal economy. 

She received her PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1987.  She was associate director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a faculty fellow in the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University before coming to George Mason. 

Seligmann is fluent in Spanish and Quechua. 

She has published political analyses in local and national newspapers and journals, including The Washington Post and the Latin American Studies Association Forum.