Jen oversees the scheduling and curriculum plans for both the Department of History and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.  In the History Department, she handles the details of all scheduling and curriculum matters for the department. As the department's scheduling contact, she works with faculty on preparing the annual course teaching schedule, and then creates and monitors the schedule throughout the academic year. She also serves as a point of contact for History lecturers. As the department liaison with ASC Curriculum, she prepares and monitors all Curriculum submissions, including new course requests, General Education (GE) submissions, Distance Learning approvals, and new/revised programs.  She also handles room reservations, orders desk copies, and can assist with questions around teaching logistics. Her favorite part of the job is helping faculty navigate the curricular approval process, because she likes being able to transform a difficult task into something more manageable and rewarding. 

 

Jen first came to OSU to earn a PhD in the history of art, where she wrote a dissertation on public sculpture in late 19th-century Paris. Since then, she has taught art history, worked as a barista at a Fair Trade coffee shop, and managed a local feminist gift shop. She still likes to look at public art, but now just recreationally by going on walks with her big, beautiful dog Lulu.