Ellis Godard

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Ellis Godard is a sociologist, statistician, and professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) who teaches courses primarily in statistics, research methods, the sociology of law, and criminology, as well as Internet Studies, sociology of work, and an introductory course. He is a founding member of the CSUN Center for Survey Research, and studies and writes on patterns of conflict management, utilizing theoretical work invented by Donald Black (particularly his approach of pure sociology). Godard's published works include "Reel Life: The Social Geometry of Reality Shows" in Survivor Lessons.

Godard also volunteers through the Mockingbird Foundation [1] to raise funds for music education, having been a founding board member and currently serving as Executive Director. He directed the production of Sharin' in the Groove and The Phish Companion, as executive editor and executive producer, respectively, and continues to sit on the Foundation's executive committee.[2]

These activities extend from earlier volunteer work, including being a founding webmaster of Phish.net and maintainer of the Phish.net FAQ file (since c.1992),[3]. He administered many early tape trees for Phish, the Dave Matthews Band, Lake Trout, and other jambands (before that word meant anything), including both of the first two DMB tape trees. He also organized Earth Day 1990 at the University of Virginia, including a free concert (10 bands for 10 hours for 10,000 people on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall) whose successor (Earth Day Festival 1991) was the Dave Matthews Band's first public performance. [4]