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Executive Staff

Jennifer S. Holmes
Dean
Lloyd V. Berkner Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Political Economy
jholmes@utdallas.edu
GR 3.104D
972-883-6852

Dohyeong Kim
Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education
Professor of Public Policy, GIS and Social Data Analytics and Research
dohyeong.kim@utdallas.edu
GR 3.104A
972-883-3512


James Harrington

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education
Associate Professor
james.harrington@utdallas.edu
GR 3.104 
972-883-3513

Administrative Staff

Betsy Albritton
Assistant to the Dean
betsy.albritton@utdallas.edu
GR 3.104C
972-883-6198

Nicole Smith
School Fiscal Officer
nicoles@utdallas.edu
GR 3.104B
972-883-4935

Jessica Guzman
Associate Financial Analyst jessica.guzman@utdallas.edu
GR 2.402
972-883-4939

Ismael Romero
Program Specialist – Initiative for Civic Leadership
ismael.romero@utdallas.edu
GR 2.812
972-883-4917

Lisa Morin
Admin Project Coordinator, ROTC
lisa.morin@utdallas.edu
GR 2.608
972-883-4937

Kimberly Pineda
Administrative Assistant II
Kimberly.Pineda@UTDallas.edu
GR 2.402

Raphael Gepulle
Administrative Clerk
Raphael.Gepulle@UTDallas.edu
GR 3.104

Marketing

Inna Hwang
Outreach & Digital Media Events Specialist inna.hwang@utdallas.edu
GR 3.104
972-883-5003

Development

Erin Dougherty
Senior Director of Development
erin.dougherty@utdallas.edu
SPN 2.120H
972-883-3938

Derrick Morgan
Director of Development
derrick.morgan@utdallas.edu
GR 3.108A
972-883-3937

Communications

Jessica Good
Communications Manager
jessica.good@utdallas.edu
972-883-4319

Career Center

Amy Kendall
Associate Director of Career Development and Marketing
amy.kendall@utdallas.edu
Career Center
972-883-2942

Program Heads

Daniel G. Arce
Program Head of Economics
Ashbel Smith Professor
ph.econ@utdallas.edu
GR 2.534
972-883-6857

Yongwan Chun
Program Head of Geospatial Information Sciences
Professor
ph.gis@utdallas.edu
GR 3.208
972-883-4719

Banks Miller
Program Head of Political Science, Public Policy and Political Economy
Professor of Political Science
ph.psci@utdallas.edu ; ph.pppe@utdallas.edu
GR 3.209
972-883-2930

Evgenia Gorina

Eugenia Gorina
Program Head of Public and Nonprofit Management
Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management
ph.pnm@utdallas.edu
GR 3.202 
972-883-3515

Sheryl Skaggs
Program Head of Sociology and Public Health
ph.soc@utdallas.edu
GR 2.234
972-883-2922

Tony Love
Program Head of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Associate Professor of Criminology
ph.crim@utdallas.edu
GR 2.600
972-883-6834

Associate Program Heads/Director of Graduate Studies

John Worrall
Criminology & Criminal Justice Director of Graduate Studies
dgs.crim@utdallas.edu
GR 2.126
972-883-4893

Jonas Hedlund
Economics Director of Graduate Studies
dgs.econ@utdallas.edu
GR 2.801
972-883-4525

Muhammad Rahman
GIS Director of Graduate Studies
dgs.gis@utdallas.edu
3.802B
972-883-4135

Jonathan Pinckney
Director of Graduate Studies of Political Science
dgs.psci@utdallas.edu
GR 3.218
972-883-6835

Thomas Gray
Associate Program Head and Director of Graduate Studies of Public Policy and Political Economy
dgs.pppe@utdallas.edu
GR 2.242
972-883-4948

Sean McCandless
Public and Nonprofit Management Director of Graduate Studies
dgs.pnm@utdallas.edu
GR 3.210
972-883-6840

Master’s Degree Advisors

Alejandra Gutiérrez
Graduate Advisor
Federal Advisory Certified from the Partnership for Public Service
Masters & Certificates Only
masters.epps@utdallas.edu
GR 2.402F
972-883-7527

Teodoro Benavides
Professor of Practice
Public & Nonprofit Management
MPA Director
Internship Coordinator
teodoro.benavides@utdallas.edu
GR 2.608
972-883-4745

Maryam Ahmadi
Director of the Master’s Program in Economics
Maryam.Ahmadi@utdallas.edu
GR 3.812
972-883-6866

Graduate Program Administrator

Judy Du
Senior Graduate Program Administrator of Economics, Geospatial Information Sciences
gpa.econ@utdallas.edu | gpa.gis@utdallas.edu
GR 2.402
972-883-4964

Patricia Pacheco
Graduate Program Administrator of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Public and Nonprofit Management
gpa.crim@utdallas.edugpa.pnm@utdallas.edu 
GR 2.402
972-883-3548

Karyn Shane
Graduate Program Administrator of Political Science and Public Policy and Political Economy
psci@utdallas.edu | pppe@utdallas.edu
GR 2.402
972-883-3524

Undergraduate Advisors


Sheila Rollerson

Director, Undergraduate Advising (A-D)
2024 Staff Award Recipient – Student Choice
srollers@utdallas.edu
GR 2.220C
972-883-4938

Malinda Hicks
Academic Advisor II (I – Q and X – Z) and Fast Track Program Coordinator
2023 Staff Award Recipient -Student Choice
Malinda.Hicks@UTDallas.edu
GR 2.220A
972-883-4243

Whitney Sharman 
Academic Advisor III (E – H and R – W)
whitney.sharman@utdallas.edu
GR 2.220B
972-883-4181

Academic Computing

Russell Hoffman
Manager of Academic Computing
hoffmanr@utdallas.edu
GR 3.306
972-883-6149
972-883-4945

General Contact Information

Mailing Address

800 W. Campbell Road, GR 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Phone: 972-883-2935

Our main office is in Cecil H. Green Hall (GR 3.104).

For media inquiries, contact: 

Jessica Good
Communications Manager
jessica.good@utdallas.edu
972-883-4319

Email

For admissions questions related to undergraduate programs: epps@utdallas.edu

For admissions questions related to graduate programs: masters.epps@utdallas.edu

For questions related to alumni relations and giving, contact: derrick.morgan@utdallas.edu

Academic Advising

Undergraduate Advising

Graduate Advising