Detailed Staff Functions
Julie Kniseley
Department Manager | jkniseley@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-6305 | RLP 3.724
- Overall office management
- Faculty recruiting, hiring, onboarding
- General faculty and staff HR
- Faculty meetings
- Faculty leaves
- Visiting scholars
- Liaison with International Office (faculty and visiting scholars)
- Budgeting (general office, teaching, grad program, events, etc.)
- Account management
- Non-tenure teaching budget and planning
- Administrative reporting
- Event planning
- Department communication
- Manage Health and Society major administration
Kevin Hsu
Senior Administrative Associate | kevin.hsu@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-6345 | RLP 3.306E
- Promotion and Tenure
- Mid-Probationary Reviews
- Comprehensive Periodic Reviews
- Teaching observations
- Faculty votes and elections
- Faculty award submissions
- Finance and accounting oversight, training and backup
- Office equipment, operation and organization
- Manage office student workers
- Manage Sociology and Health and Society websites
- Administrative applications access
Valerie Goldstein
Senior Administrative Associate | valerie.goldstein@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-6302 | RLP 3.306G
- Course scheduling
- Course instructor surveys
- Syllabi uploads
- Proximity (BACS) access
- Room reservations (backup)
Anne Bormann
Graduate Program Administrator | abormann@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-6304 | RLP 3.732
- Graduate program coordination (admissions, recruitment, orientation)
- Day-to-day graduate student management
- Student fellowships (planning and budgeting)
- Reporting requirements (e.g., 18 Characteristics)
- Comprehensive exams
Benny Romero
Administrative Associate | benjamin.romero@austin.utexas.edu | (512) 232-6347 | RLP 3.726
- Event planning (catering orders)
- Room reservations
- Graduate program assistance, including student appointments and fellowships (payment)
- Accounting (CBS liaison, procard, purchase orders/routine contracts, invoices/reimbursements, travel review, account queries, official occasions/entertainment)
- Office and kitchen supplies
- Listservs
- Social media
daniel dillon
Senior Academic Advisor | gulliver@austin.utexas.edu
- Undergraduate program advising and administration