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North Dakota State University
August 25, 2014
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Promotion and Tenure:
Associate Professor and Tenure:
Kelly Sassi
Verena Theile
Full Professor:
Betsy Birmingham
Amy Rupiper Taggart
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New Initiatives in the Department
NWP: Red River Valley Writing Project
Kelly Sassi, Director
http://rrvwp.blogspot.com/
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US
Gary Totten, Editor-in-Chief
Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Managing Editor
Sarah Beck, Copy Editor
Meghan Perry, Proofreader
http://melus.oxfordjournals.org/
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2013-14 Highlights:
Research/Scholarly/Creative Activities:
Peer Reviewed Publications (published or accepted):
36
National or International Invited Presentations:
7
Juried Presentations:
28
New Grants:
14 @ $144,997
Teaching:
Strong assessment practices, revealing good levels of student learning and
leading to discussion about needed curriculum revision.
Interdisciplinary and international teaching initiatives (Transatlantic and Pacific
Project, AHSS Learning Communities, Women & Gender Studies)
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2013-14 Highlights:
Service and Leadership:
Betsy Birmingham, Associate Dean
Amy Rupiper Taggart, Director of General Education
National and International boards and committees
Awards:
Amy Rupiper Taggart: AHSS Outstanding Research Award (Honorable Mention:
Andrew Mara, Bruce Maylath, Verena Theile)
Amy Rupiper Taggart: AHSS Outstanding Educator Award
Kelly Sassi: AHSS Outstanding Service Award (Honorable Mention: Emily Wicktor)
and Honorable Mention AHSS Teaching Award
Miriam Mara, Clifford Canku, Louise Hanson Dittmer: Tapestry of Diverse Talents
Linda Helstern, Adam Goldwyn, Verena Theile, Amy Rupiper Taggart: Green &
Golden Globe Diversity Award
Dale Sullivan: Department Vogel Teaching Award
MK Laughlin: NDSU Dissertation Fellowship
Massimo Verzella: AHSS Outstanding Graduate Research Award
Tatjana Schell and Gina Kruschek: Department Graduate Teaching Awards
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MK Laughlin and Matt Warner: Department Graduate Student Paper Awards
New Visiting Assistant Professors:
Kelly Cameron, Rhetoric/Composition & WPA
Daniel Hutchins, Early American Literature
New Lecturers:
Anastassiya Andrianova
Elizabeth Ecker
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New Adjunct Instructors:
Sarah Beck
Mitzi Brunsdale
Ryan Christiansen
Justin Giroux
Alyson Guthrie
K.C. Hanson
Gretchen Junglas
Cody Kaser
Jamee Larson
Scott Norenberg
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New Graduate Student Instructors:
Anthony Albright (PhD)
Phillip Bode (PhD)
Amber Fetch (PhD)
Erika Dyk (MA)
Nesreen El Doliefy (MA)
Heather Flute (MA)
Emilee Ruhland (MA)
Sarah Silvernail (MA)
Jesse Wagner (MA)
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Office Procedures:
http://www.ndsu.edu/english/office_procedures/
Part-time Admin. Assistant:
Megan Babel: [email protected]
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1. Encouragement
Encouragement helps us do our best work. Let’s
take time to recognize and express appreciation to
our colleagues for their good work.
2. Support
Let’s make an effort to be the type of colleague who
listens to and helps a peer when it would be easier
to focus on our own responsibilities and projects.
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3. Collaboration
As we collaborate on committees and in other
settings, let’s cultivate a sense of understanding and
goodwill, be willing to respectfully challenge one
another when necessary, and support the results of
our collective decision-making.
4. Rapport
Let’s find ways to build rapport with one another
based on our interests both inside and outside of
academe.
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5. Risk and Opportunity
Let’s be willing to venture outside our own projects
and areas of interest to explore common goals and
forge new connections with our department, college,
and university colleagues.
6. Guidance
Let’s be the kind of colleague who challenges others
to grow as professionals and who helps others find
the positive in situations when they have lost hope
or are filled with self-doubt. Let’s also be wise and
humble enough to reach out and ask others for help
when we need it.
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7. Live Your Definition
No matter our position within the department
structure, let’s consider our definition of a good
colleague and then strive for it.
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