Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Contact & Office Information
DEANS
Ginni Ishimatsu
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Phone: 303-871- 2152
Email: ginette.ishimatsu@du.edu
Portfolio
- Undergraduate Advising
- Degree requirements, career advising, quarterly advising periods
- Student conduct, student concerns, student complaints
- Undergraduate quarterly orientations, registration, Discoveries Week
- Undergraduate curriculum
- Undergraduate Bulletin
- Changes to major/minor requirements
- Common curriculum courses
- Undergraduate course proposals
- AHSS course schedules
- Foreign Language (FOLA) equivalency courses for students
- Graduate course proposals
- Liberal Arts Advantage
- Pioneer Awards (Divisional awards selection & distribution at ceremony)
- Technology fee distribution
- Adjunct hiring
Forms
- Course proposals (interterm, FSEM, ASEM)Course schedules
- Major/Minor change forms
- Academic exceptions petitions
- Incompletes (over 1 year)
- Undergraduate PinS applications
- Adjunct hiring requests
Eleanor McNees
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Faculty Development and Research
Phone: 303-871- 2057
Email: eleanor.mcnees@du.edu
More Information
Portfolio
- Assessment
- General process, common curriculum, programs and departments, graduate assessment
- Graduate curricular and research issues
- Faculty and graduate student queries related to research, personnel, curriculum
- New Faculty Mentor Program
- Asst. faculty, assoc. faculty, and graduate student research groups & workshops
- Graduate student professional development applications
- Graduate bulletin
- Internal & external grant review
- Grant submission
- External grant proposals before they go to OSRP
Forms
- Applications for Cornell School of Theory and Criticism
- NEH Summer stipend applications
- New graduate course proposals
- AHSS graduate innovation grant proposals
- External grant proposals
Rob Roberts
Interim Dean
Phone: 303-871-4449
Email: rroberts@du.edu
More Information
Portfolio
- Program review
- Dept. annual reports
- Staff professional development
- Faculty leaves
- Faculty personnel issues
- Tenure & promotion
- Faculty hiring
- Chairs & directors meetings
- Fundraising & donor relations
STAFF
Matilda Asuzu
Graphic Designer
Phone: 303-871-4562
Email: matilda.asuzu@du.edu
Portfolio
- AHSS visual identity
- Graphic design for print, video and web
Vanessa Baker
Finance and Operations Assistant
Phone: 303-871-3640
Email: vanessa.baker@du.edu
Portfolio
- Finance
- Journal entries
- Purchasing card packets from select depts.
- Direct Pays
- Reimbursements
- Purchase requisitions/purchase orders
- Payment of invoices
- Month-end departmental reports
- Departmental assistant support
- HR
- Payroll time entry
- Annual computer refresh
- Sturm Hall building liaison
- Maintenance requests for Sturm Hall common areas
- Sturm Hall storage area maintenance
Forms
- Direct Pays
- P-card packets from select depts.
- Travel advances forms
- P-card request forms
Jan Ballard
Marketing Coordinator
Phone: 303-871-4449
Email: janette.ballard@du.edu
Portfolio
- Dean's Office front desk reception
- AHSS weekly events e-mail announcement
- Conference room scheduling (SH 286)
- AHSS website maintenance
- AHSS web study hall coordinator
- Staff-related listserv management
- Editor, expressions newsletter
- AHSS general e-mail account (ahss@du.edu)
- E-calendar, WebCentral announcements
- Secondary contact for Sturm Hall maintenance requests
Nicholas Bowlby
Liberal Arts Advantage Coordinator
Phone: 303-871-4924
Email: Nicholas.bowlby@du.edu
Portfolio
- AHSS Staff Liaison to the AHSS Student Advisory Council (SAC)
- Coordinate elections process for SACAHSS student grants
- Humanities Institute Summer Travel grant
- Student Summer Internship grant
- Courses to Careers
Forms
- Student HI Travel Grant application
- Student Summer Internship grant application
Keely Gohl
Director of Budget and Planning
Phone: 303-871-2511
Email: keely.gohl@du.edu
Portfolio
- Finance
- Budgets (AHSS & Departments)
- Accounting transaction approval
- Salary & merit adjustments
- Divisional and University financial policy enforcement and creation
- Financial Aid budgeting
- HR
- Departmental position posting approval for hiring (faculty and staff)
Forms
- Gift In-Kind forms
- New fund or new org requests
- Financial Aid fund code requests
- Banner access request forms
Kristin Kemp
Director of Community Relations and Communication
Phone: 303-871-2466
Email: Kristin.kemp@du.edu
Portfolio
- DU & AHSS brand identity
- AHSS communications
- AHSS alumni outreach
- AHSS Advisory Board
- AHSS donor relations
- AHSS events
- Master Scholars
- Salon Series
- Faculty Lecture Series
- Distinguished Speaker Series
- Livingston Lecture
- AHSS Graduation Events
Therese Marrugo
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Phone: 303-871-4460
Email: therese.marrugo@du.edu
Portfolio
- Dean's schedule & calendaring
- Tenure & promotion
- Pre-tenure review
- Sabbaticals and AHSS mini-sabbaticals
- Faculty hiring
- Tenure-track
- Lecturer hiring (new lines)
- Lecturer renewals (continuing annually renewable)
- Post-doctoral, research professor series, clinical professor series
- Grant submissions for select grants
- AHSS committee elections for University and Divisional committees
- Chairs & directors meetings
- AHSS Elected Faculty Committee (EFC) stewardship
- Sturm Hall building swipe card access
- Faculty-related listserv maintenance
- AHSS website maintenance for faculty/staff pages
- AHSS phone directory for chairs & assistants
- Secondary contact for conference room scheduling (SH 286)
Forms
- Faculty hiring forms & hiring packets
- Tenure & Promotion materials
- Tenure-track, lecturers, post-docs, research prof, clinical research prof
- Pre-Tenure reviews
- Grant applications
- CAMF grant, Internationalization grant, PROF grants
- Rosenberry Fund and Humanities Institute Travel Grants
- Sabbaticals and AHSS Mini-Sabbaticals
- Applications and reports
Jeff Quinlisk
Assistant Professor
Phone: 303-871-4577
Email: Jeff.Quinlisk@du.edu
Portfolio
- Finance
- Budget questions
- Departmental assistant support
- Contract entry support
- HR
- PCR, LRF, BES, BECR paperwork submission
- Changes to employee status (faculty & staff)
- Timesheet approval
- HR Liaison for AHSS
- Payroll questions
- Salary & merit adjustments
- Departmental assistant report
- Departmental Assistant monthly training coordinator
Forms
- Adjunct hiring packets
- Hand-check requests
- Payroll redistribution forms
- Non-benefited hire (on-line form)
Kellyn Smith
Senior Director of Development, AHSS Phone: 303-871-4472Email: Kellyn.Smith@du.edu
Portfolio
- Major gift fundraising for AHSS programs
- Coordinates fundraising and donor stewardship visits with the Dean
- Provides donor and fundraising information to AHSS schools/departments
- Assists department chairs with strategies on fundraising priorities and donor cultivation
Callyn Weintraub
Alumni Engagement and Events Coordinator Phone: 303-871-4562
Email: callyn.weintraub@du.edu
Portfolio
- AHSS alumni and community events
- Support AHSS Alumni Advisory Board
- AHSS Alumni Student Mentorship Program
- AHSS social media manager
- E-calendar
- TV monitor Requests
- Forms
- E-calendar, social media, TV monitor Requests: AHSS event promotion request form
Isabel Werner
Director of Development, AHSS
Phone: 303-871-4472
Email: isabel.werner@du.edu
Portfolio
- Reports to the Senior Director of Development
- Major gift fundraising for AHSS programs
- Coordinates fundraising and donor stewardship visits with the Dean
- Provides donor and fundraising information to AHSS schools/departments
- Assists department chairs with strategies on fundraising priorities and donor cultivation