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Building 1, Main Quad, 2nd Floor
Stanford, CA 94305-2070
phone: (650) 736-9805
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| Name | Title | Responsibilities | |
Susan Stephens, Professor |
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Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies | Oversight and support of the graduate & undergraduate teaching programs; Individually Designed Major Program |
Lorraine Sterritt, PhD |
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Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies | Works with academic departments & programs, the offices of Development and Stewardship, the VPUE, and the VPGE; graduate aid policy; graduate policy; graduate degree progress; liaison to Humanities departments regarding graduate studies; directs the work of the GUS staff |
Joseph Brown, PhD |
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Assistant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs | Graduate Diversity Recruitment & Retention; liaison to Social Sciences departments regarding graduate studies; Summer Research Program |
Ayodele Thomas, PhD |
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Assistant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs | Graduate Diversity Recruitment & Retention; liaison to Natural Sciences departments regarding graduate studies; named and diversity fellowships; website |
John A. Lee, MBA, MA |
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Data and Finance Analyst | Grad Aid Procedure; Federal Work Study Program; systems; finance; surveys; data |
| Sheila Booth (650) 723-3067 dianne@stanford.edu |
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Student Services Specialist/Office Manager and Assistant to the Associate Dean | Manages GUS office; supports Associate Dean; supports Graduate Student Services Administrators; contact person for graduate student problems |
| Amber Banayat (650) 724-9852 abanayat@stanford.edu |
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Graduate and Undergraduate Studies Associate | Supports Senior Associate Dean; Curriculum Committee; supports Undergraduate Student Services Administrators |
Rylan Carpena |
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Administrative Associate | Supports Assistant Deans and Data and Finance Analyst; manages surveys; provides general office support |
Amber Banayat
Graduate and Undergraduate Studies Associate
As Graduate and Undergraduate Studies Associate, Amber provides administrative, analytical and general project support for the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. Amber holds a BA degree from the University of California, Davis.
Responsibilities:
- Supports the Senior Associate Dean
- Supports H&S Curriculum Committee
- Supports Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- Works with the Assistant Dean as a liaison to Undergraduate Student Services Administrators in Departments and Programs
- Provides data
Sheila Booth
Student Services Specialist /Office Manager and Assistant to the Associate Dean for Graduate & Undergraduate Studies
Sheila Booth has over ten years of project and administrative management at Stanford. Before coming to the Dean’s Office, she held a position as Manager/Financial and Administrative Associate at Stanford University Medical Media Information Technology Research Lab (SUMMIT), which she assisted in government grant proposal preparations. She also worked in the Department of Functional Restoration at Stanford, supporting the Director of Orthopedic Surgery, and at the Cooperative Studies Department at the VA Medical Center as a Research Assistant/Office Coordinator. Sheila’s academic field is Psychology.
Responsibilities:
- Provides administrative, budgetary, and programmatic support
- Supports the Associate Dean
- Manages office and projects
- Organizes series of dinners on undergraduate majors
- Works with the Associate Dean as a liason to Graduate Student Services Administrators in Departments and Programs
- Works with the Assistant Deans on graduate student retention
- Serves as a contact person for graduate student problems
Joseph Brown, PhD
Assistant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs
Joseph Brown received his BS degree in physics from Southwest Texas State University and a ScM degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University in 1990. After working for IBM as a marketing representative, he was admitted to the PhD program in psychology at Stanford University. His graduate work focused on the influence of stereotypes and prejudice on the intellectual identities and performance of minorities and women. After receiving his doctorate in 2000, he taught at the University of Washington. In January 2003 he returned to Stanford to work on graduate diversity. He is now Assistant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs. He also lectures in the department of Psychology.
Responsibilities:
- Liaison to Social Sciences departments regarding graduate studies
- Available to meet with graduate students to discuss any aspect of their graduate career
- Manages graduate diversity recruitment
- Manages the Graduate Research Opportunity (GRO) Program
- Liaison to Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (EDGE-SBE) program
- Liaison to Graduate Admissions
- Presents workshops on GRE, graduate school preparation
- Works with departments on graduate student recruitment, admissions, and retention
- Provides workshops for undergraduate Student Services Administrators in the Departments and Programs
- Manages Undergraduate Summer Research Program
- Assists undergraduates from other institutions interested in Stanford graduate programs
- Liaison to Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education (VPUE) for undergraduates interested in graduate school admissions
- Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy (C-USP)
- Committee for the Review of Undergraduate Majors (C-RUM)
- Serves on the Committee on Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid (C-UAFA)
- Coordinates faculty and student recruitment
- Advises Departments on advising in the major
- Collaborates with Social Sciences cluster Dean
- Manages Weiland Fellowships
Rylan Carpena
Administrative Associate, Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Rylan provides administrative, analytical, budgetary, and general project support for the Assistant Deans for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs and the Data and Finance Analyst. Rylan holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley in Linguistics. He is currently working on his MA in Computational Linguistics at San Jose State University.
Responsibilities:
- Provides administrative, analytical, budgetary and general project support for the Assistant Deans for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs and the Data and Finance Analyst
- Support for Grad Aid Policy and procedure
- Coordinates annual JE Wallace Sterling Award for Academic Achievement ceremony & luncheon
- Maintains GUS Website
- Provides general office and administrative support
John A. Lee, MBA, MA
Data and Finance Analyst
John A. Lee holds an MA in International Political Economy and Development with a concentration in International Economics from Fordham University, an MBA (with distinction) in International Business from Hawaii Pacific University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He worked for many years as an Associate Municipal Financial Analyst at the Office of the (New York) State Comptroller monitoring the annual $50 billion budget of New York City, primarily focusing on New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Medicaid issues. He also held positions as Director of Administration for the Center for American Education in Singapore, Program Advisor for the United States Education Information Center in Singapore, and as Research Analyst for regional brokerage houses in Jakarta. Before coming to the Dean's Office, he most recently held a position as a Property Specialist in the Property Management Office at Stanford. He has a diverse background of Indonesian and Japanese parents, and was raised in Tokyo and in Honolulu.
Responsibilities
- Grad Aid Procedure
- Manages Federal Work Study Program for graduate studies
- Liaison to Financial Aid and Student Financial Services
- Systems
- Finance
- Surveys
- Data
Susan Stephens, Professor, Department of Classics
Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Susan Stephens has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1978. She has held a number of administrative positions, including Chair of the Classics Department and Associate Dean for the Humanities in Humanities and Sciences (1991-93). She has a BA with honors in English from Stanford University, a Master's in Latin from Columbia University, and a PhD in Classics from Stanford, followed by a term as a research scholar at University College, London. She has written extensively on the transformation of Greek and Roman culture that takes place in Egypt under the Ptolemies, the construction of ethnic identity for Greeks and Egyptians under Roman rule, and the role that the idea of Classics and the ideas transmitted from the ancient Greek and Roman world play in the construction of modern national identities.
Responsibilities
- Oversight and support of the undergraduate and graduate teaching programs within the School
- Support for the Cognizant Deans on teaching needs and standards
- Liaison to Senate committees that oversee education
- Committee on Graduate Studies (C-GS)
- Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy (C-USP)
- Committee for the Review of Undergraduate Majors (C-RUM)
- Liaison to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) and VPUE's programs
- Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM)
- Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR)
- Stanford Introductory Seminars (SIS)
- Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
- Liaison to Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE)
- Responsibility for a number of Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs)
Lorraine Sterritt, PhD
Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Lecturer, Department of French and Italian
A native of Ireland, Lorraine Sterritt received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees, with First Class Honours, in French at The Queen's University of Belfast. She came to the United States in 1985. For six years she taught French and Latin and worked in administration at Chatham Hall in Virginia. She then obtained her PhD in French literature from Princeton University. After graduating from Princeton, she worked as an Assistant then Associate Dean and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in French literature at Harvard. She then worked as a Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. She came to Stanford in 2004.
She has published works on French Renaissance literature, and her particular research interest is French Renaissance imitations of Classical literature. She teaches Renaissance French Literature courses at Stanford.
Responsibilities:
- Grad Aid Policy
- Graduate Policy
- Works closely with Offices of Development and Stewardship
- Liaison to Humanities Departments regarding graduate studies
- Liaison to Registrar's Office
- Works with academic departments and programs on financing curricula and in support of their curricula and their services to students
- Provides workshops for graduate Student Services Administrators in the Departments and Programs
- Liaison to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) for financing of undergraduate education and delivery of programs
- Manages the office of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and supervises the work of the staff
- Guides the work of the Assistant Deans and the Data and Finance Analyst
- Serves on the Committee on Graduate Studies (C-GS)
Ayodele Thomas, PhD
Assistant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs
Ayodele Thomas received her Bachelor's of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996 and received her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2000 and 2005 respectively, focusing on polymorphic computer architectures. After completing her doctorate, she decided to work on diversifying the graduate school pipeline and retaining the diversity represented in the current student body as the Assistant Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Diversity Programs. She also teaches a seminar entitled “Graduate Environment of Support: HUMSCI 201” which assists graduate students adapting to the Stanford environment in terms of academic, psychosocial, financial, and career issues.
Responsibilities:
- Liaison to Natural Sciences departments regarding graduate studies
- Available to meet with graduate students to discuss any aspect of their graduate career
- Manages graduate diversity recruitment
- Implements workshops and programs to improve graduate student success
- Assists undergraduates from other institutions interested in Stanford graduate programs
- Teaches fall quarter Graduate Environment of Support Seminar (HUMSCI 201)
- Works with departments on graduate student recruitment, admissions, and retention
- Presents workshops on graduate school preparation, funding
- Manages department diversity funding initiatives
- Manages Graduate & Undergraduate Studies website
- Collaborates with Natural Sciences cluster Dean
- Serves on Provost Postdoc Committee
