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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