SBS Committees and Councils
Committees and councils within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) has a number of committees and councils committed to creating and supporting projects within the college.
College Personnel Committee
The SBS College Personnel Committee has many annual duties as well as some case-by-case responsibilities. Each year, the committee is tasked with reviewing: exceptional merit awards (September); faculty tenure (November); promotion cases (January); and mini tenure cases (March). A sub-committee of the Personnel Committee meets in April to handle Periodic Multi-Year Review cases. Additionally, the committee reviews tenure with hire cases based on the hire date throughout the year and it reviews distinguished professorship cases based on when the individual cases are received throughout the year. After the Personnel Committee review level, the cases are then reviewed separately by the Dean and the Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development.
Contacts:
- Betsy Krause, Anthropology
- Leda Cooks, Communication
- James Heintz, Economics
- Ethan Carr, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
- Andrew March, Political Science
- John Stranlund, Resource Economics
- Al Roberts, School of Public Policy
- Agustin Lao-Montes, Sociology
Department Personnel Committee Chairs
- Lynnette Sievert, Anthropology
- Anne Ciecko, Communication
- Donald Katzner, Economics
- Joshua Braun, Journalism
- Carolina Aragón, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
- Fred Schaffer, Political Science
- Christian Rojas, Resource Economics
- Katie McDermott, School of Public Policy
- Ruth Jennison, Social Thought and Political Economy
- Sancha Medwinter, Mark Pachucki, and Ofer Sharone, Sociology
Dean's Research Council
The Dean's Research Council reviews internal grant applications in SBS and applications for the ISSR Scholars program and makes recommendations to the Dean. The Council offers two categories of grants to support research each year. A strong preference is given to generating a new research project or a new direction within an existing project. Priority in most cases is given to those projects that are likely to lead to external foundation or government funding; however, SBS also supports high-quality, meritorious research for which opportunities for extramural funding are limited. All ranks of tenure track faculty and lecturers whose major responsibilities include research are eligible to apply to both categories.
- Jennifer Lundquist, Chair
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development
- Charli Carpenter, Political Science
- Ah Ram Lee, Journalism
- Viviana Wu, School of Public Policy
- Wayne Xu, Communication
- Kevin Young, Economics
Dean's Staff Advisory Council
The Dean's Staff Advisory Council meets monthly to discuss staff-related updates, share resources, and plan events.
- Saulo DePaula, Associate Dean of Administration – SBS Dean's Office
- Mary Ann Libardi, Director of Human Resources – SBS Dean's Office
- Charlotte Salmon, Academic Advisor – SBS Pathways Center
- Danielle Sedelow, Administrative and Operations Coordinator – Anthropology
- Mary Pion, Academic Advisor – Communication
- Sheila Gilroy, Director of Administration and Research – Economics
- Sophie Williamson, Department Administrator – Journalism
- Nicole Dunham, Director of Administration and Operations – PERI
- Terry Trudeau, Director of Administration and Finance – LARP
- Renée Simon, Director of Administration and Research – Political Science
- Amy Crysel, Director of Administration and Finance – Resource Economics
- Patrice Paré, Associate Director of Administration and Finance – School of Public Policy
- Donna Vanasse, Program Coordinator – STPEC
- Brandina Jersky, Director of Administration and Finance – Sociology