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Sociology and Affiliated Centers Staff Support
Main Office
Tina Drenovas
Administrative Assistant
Office: 238C Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.247.6366
Fax: 614.292.6687
E-Mail: drenovas.3@osu.edu
Supervisor: Marty Moffa
- Assist fiscal officer with processing, tracking, and recording purchasing and financial transactions
- Create requisitions, payment requests, and 100W's
- Process reimbursements for purchases
- Maintain Procurement Card and purchase records
- Payroll timekeeping approver for Staff, Faculty and Student Employees
- Maintain quarterly office hours, directories and databases for department
- Manage copy requests: including copying exams
- Manage copy code system, and faculty bulletin board
- Coordinate office moves and furniture needs, deliveries etc.
- Manage mail; incoming and outgoing, packages, and maintain department mailroom
- Manage incoming and outgoing faxes
- Manage log of disability exams
- Reserve conference rooms electronically
- Disseminate information to faculty, staff and students
- Provide clerical support
- Call in service requests for building problems
- Perform related and/or additional job duties as required
Michelle Blackwell
Administrative Assistant
Office: 238B Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.292.1422
E-Mail: blackwell.6@osu.edu
Supervisor: Marty Moffa
- Process travel requests & travel reimbursements
- Order text books
- Process requisitions & payment requests
- Timekeeper for Staff, Faculty and Student Employees
- Order Office Keys & Reports Lock Problems
- Order and maintain Office Supplies & Troubleshooter for Office Equipment
- Telephone Orders & Service Requests/Computer Wiring & Changes
- Department Contact for Federal Work Study Program Office
- Maintain Work-Study Employment Records
- Coordinator of quarterly Student Evaluations
- Print and Copy selected Class Exams
- Department Contact for Building Security Access
- Procure Special Parking Passes & Permits
As Back-Up to Co-Worker
- Greet Visitors
- Check-Out Master Key
- Reserve Conference Rooms
- Report Building & Office Problems
- Procurement Card Purchases
Marty Moffa
Human Rescources and Fiscal Officer
Office: 238D Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.292.8432
E-Mail: moffa.1@osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Zhenchao Qian
- Processes appointments and approves payroll for faculty, lecturers, staff and graduate associates
- Processes research appointments and release time for faculty
- Maintains vacation and sick leave records for faculty and staff
- Processes fee authorizations for graduate students
- Supervises two full-time staff
- Assists Chair with budgets
- Manages department budgets, SBS and other research grants/awards
- Processes purchase orders for equipment, furniture, etc.
- Processes requests for reimbursement, honoraria, etc.
- Payroll questions
- Direct deposit
Adm. Asst. to Department Chair
Office: 238 Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.292.1214
E-Mail: wilson.630@osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Zhenchao Qian
- Administrative assistant to the department Chair
- Maintains class scheduling and classrooms
- Staff support for faculty recruitment and guest speaker visits
- Coordinates faculty promotion & tenure/4th year review cases and annual contribution reports
- Revises departmental calendar of events
Graduate Program
Graduate Program Coordinator
Office: 238E Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.688.8691
E-Mail: hopkins.27@osu.edu
Supervisors: Professors Claudia Buchmann & Edward Crenshaw
- Assists with graduate student recruitment
- Coordinates open house for prospective graduate students
- Coordinates individual visits for prospective graduate students
- Coordinates orientation for incoming graduate students
- Prepares and distributes appointment forms to current graduate students
- Assists graduate students with class registration and assigns office space
- Prepares course check lists for students when applying for MA graduation and when applying to take candidacy exam
- Administers candidacy exams for current graduate students
- Liaison between department and Graduate School
- Maintains academic and appointment records of current graduate students
- Updates graduate student handbook annually
Undergraduate Student Services
Shannon Phlegar
Academic Advisor & Internship Coordinator
Office: 144 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.1175
E-Mail: phlegar.3@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Zhenchao Qian
- Coordinating Academic Advisor
- Student Athlete Advisor
- General Academic Advising
- Sociology Career Counselor and Internship Coordinator
- Instructs Sociology 489: Internship Program
- Grades & Syllabi Coordinator
- Coordinates USS operations
Lindsey Chamberlain
Academic Advisor and Transfer Credit Coordinator
Office: 142 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.1175
E-Mail: chamberlain.55@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Zhenchao Qian
- Sociology Career Counselor and Facilitates Undergraduate Research
- General Academic Advising
- Student Athlete Advisor
- Transfer Credit Coordinator
- Advises students on graduate school preparation
Sociology Research Lab
Director - Sociology Research Lab (SRL)
(Senior Systems Manager)
Office: 160D Townshend
Phone: 614.292.7380
E-Mail: crawford.6@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Zhenchao Qian
- Acting director/coordinator of department's computing and technology initiatives
- Computing/network services and infrastructure management
- Computing support for faculty, graduate students, and staff
Instructional Lab Manager (SIL)
(Systems Manager)
Office: 160C Townshend
Phone: 614.292.3870
E-Mail: moffitt.10@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisor: John Crawford
- Manages Sociology Research Lab and 24/7 graduate lab.
- Manages the Sociology Instructional Lab (SIL) and Homework/Special Projects Lab.
- Departmental computing services and network services administration.
- Computing support for faculty, graduate students, and staff.
- Desktop and laptop hardware and software configuration and support.
- Database design for administration and research.
- Supervises undergraduate computing support.
- Departmernt web site and web application support.
- Software license administration.
- Off-campus equipment coordinator.
Sociology Student Computing Staff
"SRL Labsters"
SRL: 160 Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.292.1294
E-Mail: srl@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisors: Colin Odden and Matthew Moffitt
- Students working in the Sociology Research Lab, Homework Lab, and Instructional Lab
- Supporting computing issues for the department under guidance from SRL staff
Criminal Justice Research Center
Professor Ruth D. Peterson
Director
Office: 231 Journalism
Phone: 614.292.7468
E-Mail: cjrc@osu.edu
Debbie Flower-Smith
Administrative Assistant
Office: 231 Journalism
Phone: 614.292.7468
E-Mail: flower-smith.1@osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Ruth Peterson
Susan Pennington
Human Resources and Fiscal Officer
Office: 251 Journalism
Phone: 614.292.2858
E-Mail: pennington.41@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisor: Professor Randall Olsen
Initiative in Population Research
Dr. John Casterline
Director, Initiative in Population Research
Office: 50 Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.442.7348
E-Mail: casterline.10@sociology.osu.edu
Dr. Pamela Salsberry
Associate Director, Initiative in Population Research
Office: 50 Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.292.6484
E-Mail: salsberry.1@osu.edu
Susan Pennington
Administrative Assistant
Office: 50 Townshend Hall
Phone: 614.292.2858
E-Mail: pennington.41@sociology.osu.edu
Supervisor: John Casterline
- IPR Office Manager
- procurement, human resources, fiscal
