Staff

Dean is responsible for both Academic and Staff Personnel and Payroll. This includes:

• Academic Personnel: Faculty and lecturer recruitment, hiring, merits, and promotions
• Student Employment: Hiring TAs, GSRs, Tutors, and Readers
• Visiting Scholar and Visiting Graduate Student Researcher appointments
• Payroll
• Benefits

Ashna manages the Reading Room and helps to organize the Department’s academic conferences and events. This includes:

• Travel arrangements, reimbursements, and honoraria for outside speakers and event guests
• Purchasing for conferences and guest speaker events
• Requests for new books for the Reading Room
• Office supply orders

Doug provides academic and administrative advising for graduate and undergraduate students in the department. This includes:

• Graduate Affairs: Funding and fellowships, admissions, supervision of placement, and monitoring progress toward the degree
• Undergraduate Affairs: All undergraduate advising
• Courses and Scheduling: Academic year teaching schedule, course catalog changes
• Coordination of Teaching Assistant applications and offers

David is the department coordinator and supervises the front office and provides support in student affairs, events, finance, and development. This includes:

• Front Office: Textbook orders, keys, parking, instructional equipment, and supervision of Work-Study students
• Student Affairs: Grade changes, course substitutions, departmental honors, contract course enrollment, sending graduate placement letters
• Scheduling: Quarterly schedule, summer sessions schedule, room changes and reservations, variable topics courses
• Events: Fall Reception and Spring Commencement
• Finance: Graduate student non-travel and travel-related reimbursements; Faculty research-related purchases and reimbursements

Isamara is responsible for department operations and manages all administrative services in relation to staffing, teaching, programs, and acts as the fund manager. This includes:

• Management of departmental projects and initiatives
• Recruitment and supervision of staff personnel
• Departmental accounting, reporting, and financial recordkeeping
• Administration of faculty research funds, including research-related purchases and reimbursements
• Overseeing of department facilities and space planning, and Emergency and Building Coordinator

The Department Technology Analyst handles basic computer needs for faculty, staff, and graduate students within the department. This includes:

• Installation of site licensed software
• Microsoft Exchange E-mail accounts
• Printing help, basic desktop help, and hardware troubleshooting