Graduate School Leadership

Rebecca Aanerud

Associate Dean

Rebecca (Becky) Aanerud came to the Graduate School after serving as the associate director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education, a research center dedicated to graduate education and career paths of Ph.D. students. She then served as acting assistant dean from 2006 to 2007. As part of the leadership team, she oversees student affairs for the Graduate School. She works closely with programs and departments to assist on mentorship issues, and has developed a comprehensive professional development series that focus on key components of graduate education: recruitment, retention, completion and transition.

A current faculty member in Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, she teaches both large lecture introductory classes and graduate seminars. She has been recognized for excellence in teaching and depth of commitment to students. In 2008 she won the prestigious UW Distinguished Teaching Award — adding to other teaching awards and high acclaim she has received since joining the UW faculty.

Aanerud’s publications represent both humanities and social science research approaches and includes works on racism and whiteness, as well as studies on Ph.D. education and career path trajectories. Her most recent research interest focuses on the role of wisdom in feminist philosophy and higher education.

An accomplished French horn player, Aanerud began her undergraduate career at a conservatory “back East,” but completed all her degrees at the UW with her Ph.D. in English.

305 Loew Hall | Box 352191 | Seattle, WA 98195-2191
206.543.3519
raan@uw.edu

Gino Aisenberg

Leadership Professor

Dr. Gino Aisenberg is the Graduate School's inaugural Leadership Professor. The Graduate School Leadership Professorship is a year-long assignment through which a UW faculty member joins the Graduate School staff, providing support and advice about our diversity mission. He will assist with the Graduate School's outreach efforts in support of diversity and help design and develop additional diversity-related initiatives.

Dr. Aisenberg, an associate professor at the School of Social Work, is a bilingual/bicultural Latino mental health researcher. His interests focus on three interrelated areas: 1) traumatic exposure of children and families to community violence, including effects at the individual, family and neighborhood levels, 2) depression care for adults, and 3) evidence-based practice.

Born and raised in South-Central Los Angeles, Dr. Aisenberg has extensive clinical experience as a practitioner in the areas of child abuse and community violence experienced by African-American and Latino children and families. Also, he possesses a wealth of experience addressing grief and loss and has specialized training in cognitive behavioral therapy for low-income individuals suffering depression. Dr. Aisenberg has worked in schools, hospitals and community-based organizations.

Dr. Aisenberg was the principal investigator of a NIMH study to pilot test a socioculturally adapted manualized telephone based CBT depression intervention among rural Latinos in partnership with the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. Most recently, he was the principal investigator of the NIMH-funded pilot study, Idaho Partnership for Hispanic Mental Health, which examined the mental health concerns, needs, and barriers of Hispanic residents and local providers.

Since coming to the UW in 2002, Dr. Aisenberg's teaching, research and scholarship have been deeply informed by culture and context. They emanate from a staunch commitment to marginalized and diverse populations—to promote inclusion of their voices and to address disparities in the access and utilization of behavioral health services. Dr. Aisenberg remains steadfastly engaged in important partnerships with community-based agencies serving marginalized and rural communities.

In 2009, Dr. Aisenberg received the UW Distinguished Teaching Award for his excellence in teaching, as well as his exemplary commitment to mentoring students, particularly ethnic minority students. In 2006, he received the UW Office of Minority Affairs Diversity Award for Community Building.

G1 Communications Building | Box 353770 | Seattle, WA 98195-2191
206.683.9016
ginoa@uw.edu

James Antony

Associate Vice Provost and Associate Dean (on sabbatical 2012-13)

Jim Antony received his bachelor’s 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.

Antony currently serves as professor in the College of Education and adjunct 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.

305 Loew Hall | Box 352191 | Seattle, WA 98195-2191

Kelly Edwards

Associate Dean (acting, 2012-13)

An associate professor in the School of Medicine's Department of Bioethics and Humanities, Dr. Edwards also is a core faculty member for the UW Institute for Public Health Genetics. She received both her Master of Arts degree in Medical Ethics and her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the UW.

Dr. Edwards' work incorporates communication and public engagement as an ethical obligation for clinicians and researchers. She is the director of the Ethics and Outreach Core for the UW Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health, which is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She also is a co-director of the Regulatory Support and Bioethics Core for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), a partnership of the UW, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children's and other regional institutions and community and tribal groups. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the ITHS assists researchers with translating their scientific discoveries into practice.

In addition, Dr. Edwards is a lead investigator with UW Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, funded by the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute. Since 2004, she has been the faculty advisor for the Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy, groups of graduate and professional students and postdoctoral fellows at the UW and University of Colorado that promote dialogue on issues concerning science and society.

To further engage people in conversations about ethical dimensions of science and medicine, Dr. Edwards has facilitated Community Conversations and the Public Health Café, a series of events hosted in Seattle by the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research. Nationally, Dr. Edwards contributes to issues of ethical research practices with the Genetic Alliance, a health advocacy organization; Sage Bionetworks, a local non-profit; and the Institute of Medicine.

Her courses include "Inquiry-Based Science Communication," "Applied Research Ethics," "Community-Based Participatory Research: A Model for Genetics Research with Native American Communities?" and "Public Commentary on Ethical Issues in Public Health Genetics." She is associate editor of BMC Medical Research Methodology and a reviewer for several journals.

Dr. Edwards serves on the School of Medicine's Continuous Professional Improvement Committee and is a former member of Medicine's Standing Committee on Issues of Women Faculty, the Student Progress Committee and the Committee on Research and Graduate Education. She is a current member of the UW Graduate School Committee on Interdisciplinary Education.

305 Loew Hall | Box 352191 | Seattle, WA 98195-2191
206.616.7116
edwards@uw.edu