Graduate School Leadership

Gerald (Jerry) Baldasty

Vice Provost and Dean

baldasty@u.washington.edu
G-1 Communications Building
Box 353770
Seattle, WA 98195-3770
206-543-7468; Fax: 206-685-3234

After serving as Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the University of Washington Graduate School since August 1, 2008, Gerald (Jerry) Baldasty, chair and professor of the UW Department of Communication, became Vice Provost and Dean of the University of Washington on March 2, 2009.

Baldasty joined the UW faculty in 1978 and has chaired the Department of Communication since 2002. His work has focused on media in the context of politics, business, gender and race/ethnicity. He received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000, has been director of the UW Teaching Academy since 2005, and is a member of the UW Teaching and Learning Consortium. Baldasty is a UW alumnus, having earned his BA and Ph.D., both in communication, on campus.

 

Rebecca Aanerud

Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Dean (Student Affairs)

raan@u.washington.edu
315 Loew Hall
Box 353770
Seattle, WA 98195-3770
206-543-5139

Rebecca "Becky" Aanerud serves as Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. She works primarily with graduate student grievances, professional development initiatives, policies, and other issues.

Aanerud was a Graduate School acting assistant dean from 2006-07 and associate director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) from 2002-06. A current faculty member in Women Studies, she has been recognized for excellence in teaching and depth of commitment to students. Most recently, she won the prestigious 2008 UW Distinguished Teaching Award—adding to other teaching awards and high acclaim she has received since joining the UW faculty. She is a UW alumna, having earned her BA, MA and PhD from the UW.

 

James Antony

Associate Vice Provost and Associate Dean (Academic Affairs)

antony@u.washington.edu
G-1 Communications Building
Box 353770
Seattle, WA 98195-3770
206-221-3448

Jim Antony received his baccalaureate degree in Psychology and his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has held prior leadership roles at the University of Washington, including Special Assistant to the Executive Vice Provost, Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Education, Director of the Early Identification Program for Graduate & Professional Education, and Director for two graduate degree programs: the Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership Program and the Graduate Program in Higher Education. In 2006, he was named a Fellow of the American Council on Education, during which he worked at Yale University on the development of a large-scale assessment of undergraduate learning outcomes.

His research focuses on leadership in higher education, with special attention to: creating a system of higher education that professionally develops and socializes students to be successful academically and professionally; and ensuring the conditions that promote college faculty satisfaction and career success. His teaching focuses on broader issues relevant to the training of forward-thinking leaders in higher education.

He currently serves as Associate Professor in the College of Education and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. He also serves on the editorial boards, or is a reviewer, for several scholarly journals including the Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Urban Review, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education Reader Series. He is the author or editor of five books on higher education, and has published nearly 40 articles, chapters, monographs and reports pertaining to higher education. He has been appointed to many national advisory boards and has also served as a research and evaluation consultant to numerous colleges and universities, national associations representing higher education, several government-supported grant projects, and several large-scale educational projects within the private sector.

 

Thomas Gething

Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs)
Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

gething@u.washington.edu
302 Loew Hall
Box 357275
206-543-4836 or 206-616-7116

Thomas Gething earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, where he studied in the Department of Linguistics. He has taught Southeast Asian languages at Michigan, the University of Hawaii, Ohio University, and the University of Washington. His research is focused on the Thai and Lao languages and he is currently working on Kham Muang, the dialect of the Lanna region of Thailand. Dr. Gething has received funding for the production of language textbooks and for student programs in advanced study of Thai in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Since he arrived at the University in 1995, Gething has held a number of positions, serving as director of the Southeast Asia Center and associate director of an Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative. He has also previously worked in Washington, D.C. at the National Foreign Language Center and has directed language institutes at Hawaii and the University of Oregon. Gething is a former Dean of Students and former Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of Hawaii. He is the founding director of the UW Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, a sustaining member of the National Postdoctoral Association.

 

Juan C. Guerra

Associate Vice Provost and Associate Dean (Student Affairs and Diversity)
Director of Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)

jguerra@u.washington.edu
http://www.grad.washington.edu/gomap/default.htm
G-1 Communications Building
Seattle, WA 98195-3770
206-543-9016

Dr. Guerra holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently a faculty member in the UW English Department, where he works closely with graduate students and teaches a course every year in the Language and Rhetoric Program. In addition to having served as the Director of both the EOP Writing Program and the Expository Writing Program in English, Guerra has written about the challenges that underrepresented students encounter when they write in academic and multicultural settings. His most recent work examines the impact of language, schooling, and ethnic identity on the opportunities available to members of communities with limited histories of participation in the legacies of education that many of us take for granted.

Before joining The Graduate School, Guerra served for three years as the Arts and Sciences Co-Director of Teachers for a New Era (TNE), a 5-million dollar Carnegie-funded initiative designed to improve teacher education at the UW. The initiative's main goal is to build a continuous system of support for teachers from the beginning of their undergraduate degree, through their master’s in teaching, and continuing through their fifth year of classroom teaching. In collaboration with colleagues in P-12 schools, in local community colleges, and in the Colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences, Guerra participated in a variety of TNE projects intended to prepare a more diverse group of teachers of the highest quality possible.