2019 - 2020 FACULTY SENATE MEMBERS
*Please see Article III of the Constitution in the UAS Faculty Handbook for information concerning membership
President | |
 Associate Professor of Education Phone: (907) 796-6029, Fax: (907) 796-6550 Email: habatchelder@alaska.edu Alaska College of Education Hendrickson Annex, Rm. 106, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus http://www.uas.alaska.edu/education EducationM.A., Ph.D. - University of Central Florida B.A. - University of Florida | |
President Elect | |
 Professor of History Phone: 796-6329, Fax: 796-6406 Email: dhnoon@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Soboleff Bldg, 215, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationPh.D., University of Minnesota. Dr. Noon earned his degree in American Studies and teaches all periods of U.S. history. He is particularly interested in the period between the Civil War and World War I; the history of race and social science; and contemporary debates about empire in American history. BiographyDavid Noon has taught U.S. history on the UAS Juneau campus since Fall, 2002. His dissertation, “This is (Not) a Child: Race, Gender, and ‘Development’ in the Child Sciences, 1880-1910,” displays the full range of Dr. Noon's research interests in history, which include developmental psychology, criminology, medicine, and the social construction of race and gender. More recently, Dr. Noon has written about the use of World War analogies in contemporary political rhetoric, cold war historical memory in the fiction of Don DeLillo, and the work of neoconservatives and Christian prophecy writers in the war on terrorism. | |
Past President | |
 Associate Professor and Program Head of Construction Technology Phone: 796-6141 Email: regilcrist@alaska.edu Career Education: Construction Technical Education Center, TEC 223, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus https://www.uas.alaska.edu/career_ed/index.html BiographyMs. Gilcrist was born and raised in Sacramento, California where she received an Associates of Arts in drafting Technology. Robin moved to Hawaii in the early eighties and completed a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Hawaii before leaving for Alaska. Ms. Gilcrist has worked as a drafter and designer since 1980 in California, Hawaii and Alaska, working for large architectural firms as well as small construction businesses. Since moving to Juneau in the fall of 1993 she has been working full-time designing custom homes, remodels and additions. Ms. Gilcrist owns her own residential design business, Interline Design. She also is actively involved in creating affordable housing through volunteer work with Housing First and Habitat for Humanity. | |
Business/PADM Senator | |
 Associate Professor of Accounting Phone: 796-6101, Second Phone: 1-800-478-9069 Email: jhamil29@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Business & Public Administration Novatney Bldg, Rm 109, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationArizona State University, Bachelor of Science - Accounting University of Alaska Southeast, Master of Business Administration AffiliationsAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants Alaska Society of Certified Public Accountants Courses Taught
OtherAwards UAS Faculty Excellence in Teaching Harold T. Caven Professorship UAS Faculty Excellence in Service Licenses/Certifications Certified Public Accountant (Alaska) Chartered Global Management Accountant Work Experience Arthur Young, Phoenix, AZ, College Intern Deloitte & Touche, Seattle, WA, Staff - Audit & Tax Elgee, Rehfeld & Mertz, CPAs, Juneau, Staff - Audit & Tax Wolfe & Hamilton, CPAs, Juneau, Owner Juneau Youth Services, Juneau, Director of Finance Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Juneau, Controller Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Juneau, Chief Financial Officer | |
Career Education Senator | |
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Education Senator | |
 Assistant Professor of Special Education Phone: (907) 796-6140 Email: gpsampson@alaska.edu Alaska College of Education Hendrickson Annex, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus BiographyDr. Greg Sampson is a social and behavioral scientist, primarily working in the special education program at AKCOE. His areas of interest are in educational assessment and diagnostics, psychometric research, and learning interventions. Sampson has extensive experience as both an educational practitioner and a researcher. PhD: Oregon State University | |
Humanities Senator | |
 Professor of Philosophy Phone: 796-6362 Email: kjkrein@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Soboleff Bldg, 214, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus BiographyIn addition to working as academic director of Outdoor Studies, Kevin also teaches philosophy at UAS. Kevin's primary philosophical work is in the areas of philosophy of nature and the environment and philosophy of mind. His outdoor interests are centered around alpine skiing and ski mountaineering. Kevin brings over 10 years of experience of backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering in the Chugach, Alaska, and Coast ranges of Alaska. His accomplishments include a ski descent of Denali from summit to base camp. | |
Library Senator | |
 Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, Outreach Services Librarian Phone: 796-6285 Email: jdbrown@alaska.edu Egan Library Egan Library, Room 204, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationM.L.I.S., University of Hawaii (2001) A.L.B., Harvard University (1995) Biography.. OtherLibrarian Liaison to Education and Management. | |
Natural Sciences Senator | |
 Assistant Professor of Geology Phone: 796-6580, Fax: 796-6406 Email: sanagorski@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences Whitehead Bldg, Rm 227, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationPh.D. Geology, 2001, University of Montana, Missoula, MT M.S. Geology, 1997, University of Montana, Missoula, MT B.A. Geology and History, 1994, Amherst College, Amherst, MA ResearchEnvironmental geochemistry, including:
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Social Sciences Senator | |
 Associate Professor of Anthropology Phone: 796-6413, Fax: 796-6406 Email: dbmonteith@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences Soboleff Bldg, 221, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationPh.D., Michigan State University. Dr. Monteith specializes in ethnohistory, economic anthropology, cultural ecology pertaining to subsistence, Tlingit art and oral narratives, and archeology of Southeast Alaska; his geographical areas of interest include Alaska, the Russian Far East, and Siberia. BiographyDan grew up in Seattle, Washington and went to the University of Chicago for a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. He earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University. He also holds a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago. While in Chicago he worked at the Field Natural History Museum and Oriental Institute Museum. As a student his summers were spent working in the fishing industry in Bristol Bay. This experience led him to his current research, which is an anthropological study of the Bristol Bay fishery.Daniel has a wide range of practical experience. In 1992-93 he was employed by the Forest Service as an archeologist in the Ketchikan area of the Tongass National Forest. He then worked for the Tongass Tribe on a federal project; and during 1995-96 in the Economic Development Center at the UAS- Ketchikan Campus. In 1998 he became the Executive Director of Historic Ketchikan. Curriculum Vitae | |
Juneau Campus Senator | |
 Associate Professor of Public Administration Phone: 796-6418, Second Phone: 1-800-478-9069 Email: kjdilorenzo@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Business & Public Administration Novatney Bldg, Rm 133, Juneau Campus Juneau Campus EducationDoctor of Arts in Political Science–2007 BiographyKathy DiLorenzo grew up in the Western states of Nevada, California, Washington, and Idaho, and is particularly interested in western and rural issues. She is currently completing her Doctor of Arts in Political Science with an emphasis in Public Administration and Public Law from Idaho State University. She completed her Masters of Public Administration in 2004. While completing her education Kathy worked as the primary quantitative analyst for Partners for Prosperity, non-profit organization that acquired a substantial grant to study and eradicate poverty in the 16-county region of Southeastern Idaho. Her areas of research include the bureaucracy, constitutional and public law, poverty, minority and at-risk populations. | |
Ketchikan Campus Senator | |
 Professor of English Phone: 228-4547, Fax: 225-3624 Email: rslandis@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Humanities Paul Bldg, Room 507, Ketchikan Campus Ketchikan Campus EducationM. Litt., Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English; M.A., University of Georgia. Rod specializes in Victorian and American nineteenth-century literature. His research focuses on the way Gothic themes and figurations transform texts from the Victorian century. BiographyRod began teaching at UAS Ketchikan in 1992, became visiting faculty in 1995 and was hired as Asst. Professor of English in 1996. He was the sole English faculty at that time; today Rod heads a local Humanities department of three full-time and half a dozen adjunct faculty. In addition, Rod is senior faculty for the regional English department and is in his third year of serving as Director of Composition and Assessment for all of UAS. Rod teaches an upper-division literature course online every semester, and also teaches composition, humanities and theatre courses, both online and locally. | |
Sitka Campus Senator | |
 Assistant Professor of Biology Phone: 747-7752 Email: jmart118@alaska.edu Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences Sitka Campus EducationB.S., M.S. Portland State University | |