Service at the University of Texas at Austin

2004-2005

Member of the History Department’s faculty search committee for an open-rank early modern Iberian scholar.


2004

Panel Member
, “A New View: Hindsight is 20/20,” New Graduate Student Instructor Program Seminar, Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment, UT-Austin, August 20, 2004. To read about one of my suggestions for improving faculty-TA teaching teams, please view some of the "Promising Practices" at the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment at UT-Austin.

Member of an Ad Hoc History Department Committee to revise faculty-teaching assistant guidelines to standardized duties and responsibilities, as well as to improve faculty-teaching assistant course coordination. To read more about this initiative, you can download the following report ("Faculty TA Initiative Report") I prepared for Dr. Tommy Darwin, Director, Professional Development and Community Engagement, The Office of Graduate Studies.


Panel Member, New Teaching Assistant Seminar, Department of History, UT-Austin, August 24, 2004.


2003-2004

Graduate Student Assembly Representative to the UT-Austin Faculty Council’s Committee on Financial Aid to Students. In order to gather a better sense of the current state of financial need of graduate students at the university, and its competitiveness in recruiting and retaining graduate students, I conducted a survey of graduate student department representatives. To learn more about the survey and the results, please see the following documents.