Faculty Committees

Appointed

Curriculum Committee

Ex officio: Rigoberto Guevara

  • Ikuho Amano, AMES, Committee Chair
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Liz Enkin, Spanish
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Erica Schauer, PoP, French
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Ana Tudela Martinez, GTA representative
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025

  • Jana Jensen, Lecturer, CEES
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Raenie Neilsen, Undergraduate
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025

Graduate Committee and Graduate Advisors

Ex officio: Rigoberto Guevara, Dept. Chair

  • Isabel Velazquez, Spanish
    Fall 2024-Spring 2027

  • Nora Peterson, Interim French
    Fall 2024

  • Patty Simpson, German
    Fall 2023-Spring 2026

  • Luis Othoniel Rosa, Spanish
    Fall 2023- Spring 2026

  • Aeden Helweg, GTA
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025

Language Program Coordinators

  • Introductory French
    Catherine Johnson

  • Introductory German
    Christiane (Jana) Jensen

  • Introductory Japanese Studies
    Ayaka Kondo

  • Introductory Spanish
    Kelly Kingsbury Brunetto

  • Intermediate Spanish
    Carol Subiabre

  • Introductory Arabic Studies
    Abla Hasan

  • Introductory Chinese Program
    Hunter Shen

  • Introductory Czech Studies
    Hana Waisserova

Coordinators for Study Abroad

  • Christiane Jensen, Berlin

  • Jordan Stump, Angers

Undergraduate Transfer Credit Evaluators 

For major programs.

  • Jordan Stump, French

  • Jeff Jarzomb, German

  • Kelly Kingsbury Brunetto, Spanish

Scholarship Committee (Ad Hoc)

  • Jordan Stump, French

  • TBD, German

  • TBD, Spanish

  • Hana Waisserova, Czech

  • Ikuho Amano, Japanese

  • Abla Hasan, Arabic

Elected Committees

Executive Committee

Ex officio: Rigoberto Guevara, Committee Chair | Ikuho Amano, Vice Chair | Isabel Velazquez, Graduate Chair

  • Abla Hasan, AMES
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Hana Waisserova, CEES
    Fall 2024-Spring 2026

  • Iker González-Allende, Spanish
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Jordan Stump, French
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

Salary Merit Advisory Committee

Ex officio: Rigoberto Guevara, Committee Chair

  • Ingrid Robyn, Tenure-line
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Luis Othoniel Rosa, Tenure-line
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Errapel Mejias-Vicandi, Tenure-line
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Erica Schauer, Professor of Practice
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Hana Waisserova, Professor of Practice
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

Section Heads

  • Abla Hasan, AMES
    Fall 2023-Spring 2025

  • Hana Waisserova, CEES
    Fall 2024-Spring 2026

  • Iker González-Allende, Spanish
    Fall 2021- Spring 2023

  • Jordan Stump, French
    Fall 2024-Spring 2026

Section GTA and Lecturer Representatives 

  • Kelly Kamrath, French GTA
    Fall 2023-Spring 2024

  • Catherine Johnson, French Lecturer
    Fall 2023-Spring 2024

  • Kelly Kamrath, CEES GTA
    Fall 2023-Spring 2024

  • Christiane Jensen, CEES Lecturer
    Fall 2023-Spring 2024

  • Hassan Saleh, AMES Lecturer
    Fall 2023-Spring 2024

  • Daniel Lino Plata, Spanish GTA
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025

  • Yoanna Greenwood, Spanish Lecturer
    Fall 2023-Spring 2024

Lecturer Representative to the Department

  • Carol Subiabre, Spanish
    Fall 2024- Spring 2025

Representatives (Senators) to Academic Senate

  • Erica Schauer

  • Rigoberto Guevara, Dept. Chair

Graduate Student Assembly

  • Sarah Banderas Martinez, President
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025

  • Franklin Baumgartner, Vice President
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025

  • Zachary Swain, Treasurer and Social Chair
    Fall 2024-Spring 2025