SERVICE
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY OF ST. AMBROSE
2018- present Member of the Institutional Review Board Committee
2017- present Member of the Center of Teaching Excellence Advisory Board Committee
2017- 2018 Service to NURS 399 National/International Study Abroad course
2017- present Mentor for new Faculty, St. Ambrose University
2017 Volunteered at the SAU Freshmen Summer Orientation
2017 New Student Planning software training at SAU
2017 Organized guest lecture: Ana Merino, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, St. Ambrose University.
2016- present SAU Spanish Tutor Training
2015-2016 Faculty member of the Staff Assembly Service Committee
2015- 2016 Faculty Advisor for SAU Undergraduate Scholars Conference
2015- 2016 Participation in the SAU “Adopt the Grounds” program designed to encourage service and community ownership of SAU campus through beautification.
2015- present Faculty member of the SAU Spanish Club Student Organization
2015 Organized guest lecture: Manuel Vilas, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, St. Ambrose University.
2015 Organized visit/film screening: Luis Argueta, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, St. Ambrose University.
2015 Creation of “Peer Teaching Observation Form”, SAU Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures.
2015 Creation of “Study Abroad in Spain” brochure, SAU Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures.
2014 Coordinator and one of the organizers of the Modern Languages Open House Event, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, St. Ambrose University.
2014 Hosted the cultural visit of 11 high school students from the Colegio Anahuac, Colima, Mexico.
2014 Participation in SAU Women and Gender Studies Open House event.
SERVICE TO UMSL:
2013 Participant in Jubilee Culture Lecture Series, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2013 Participant in Cognos Students Reports Training workshop organized by the Retention and Recruitment Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2012-2013 Retention and Recruitment Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2012 Coordinator and organizer of the Languages Major/Minor Open House Event, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2012 Coordinator and organizer of the Languages Major/Minor Open House Event, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2012 Coordinator and organizer of the Greek Professorship Holiday Open House, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2012 Coordinator of UMSL National Foreign Language Week, Modern Greek section: “A Taste of Greece”.
2012 Participant in various organised activities by the Greek Professorship Endowed Chair:
Catharine Pelican Annual Memorial Lecture in Greek Culture: Labrinoudakis (2012). “Rediscovering, Reconstructing, using the Past: Archeology of the Classical World,” UMSL, April 25, 2012.
Annual Sam Nakis Memorial Lecture in Greek Culture: T. Focas (2012). “Greeks, mathematics, and Neuroscience”, October 1, 2012.
International Conference “Greece and the Balkan Wars”, University of Missouri- St. Louis, October 27, 2012.
Betancour, P. (2011). Burial Cave at the village of St. Haralambos, UMSL, October 13, 2011.
2011- 2014 Member of the Spanish Section Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology and Languages, Spanish Section, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2011- 2012 Teacher’s Evaluations Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2011-2012 Creator of the Reading Comprehension section of the Spanish Assessment Test Preparation, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2011 Participant in various organized activities of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures:
Pedagogy Roundtable (September 16, 2011), RCLC Panel (November 11, 2011), Spanish Table (La mesa del Español).
2010- 2014 Participant in Poetry Noon Series sponsored by School of Professional and Continuing Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
2010- 2011 First Year Experience Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, Sociology & Languages, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2018 External reviewer of ACTFL Annual Convention Conference
2016- present Reader of Spanish Language and Culture for AP Program of College Board
2015- present Member of Special Interest Group (SIG) on Modern Greek established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
2015- present Member of Special Interest Group (SIG) on Spanish for Heritage Speakers by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
2011- 2014 External reviewer of HISPANIA Journal.
2005-2006 Editor and Manuscript Reviewer, Versión E/LE Journal, University of Valladolid, Spain.
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
2015- present Ladies Philoptochos Society Council Member of the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, East Moline, IL.
2016-2017 2017 Quad Cities Greek Cultural Festival, Moline, IL.
2016-2017 Corresponding Officer of the Assumption Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society, East Moline, IL.
2014- present Assumption Greek Orthodox Church Choir, East Moline, IL.