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Meet the Team

Laura Galloway
Associate Dean for the Sciences & Research
Emily Puckart
Senior Director of Research Administration & Development
Rana Ganguly
Director of Sponsored Research Development
Kinsey Barrett
Pre-Award Grants & Contracts Administrator

Pre-award departments: Biology, Environmental Sciences

Caitlin Charos, UVA Arts & Sciences Research
Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences

Caitlin Charos, MA, ABD, began her career in research development while pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Princeton University, where her research interests included postcolonial literatures, particularly literatures from southern Africa, gender & sexuality, race & ethnicity, global migration, and the novel. As a fellow in Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations, Caitlin helped connect faculty members to foundation funders with shared missions.

Gretchen Crawford
Pre-Award Research Administrator

Pre-Award Departments: Mathematics, Physics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Statistics

Trisha Dant, UVA Arts & Sciences Research
Sciences

Trisha Dant, PhD, will help grow the breadth and depth of research in the Science Departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. Trisha grew up along the east coast and received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biological Sciences with minors in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Pursuing her passion for science and research, Trisha received her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) where her dissertation research was on T cell pathogenesis in Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease.

Cecelia Cropley
Pre-Award Research Administrator

Pre-Award Departments: Chemistry

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Senior Grants & Contracts Administrator

Pre-award departments: Advance Studies in Culture Institute, African American and African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Astronomy, Classics, Democracy Initiative, Digital Editing Center, Drama, East Asian Language Literature and Cultures, East Asia Center, Economics, English, Equity Center, French Literature, German Language and Literature, Global Studies, History, Humanities and Global Culture Insitute, Jewish Studies, Madison Papers, Media Studies, Middle East and South Asia Language & Cultures, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish Ita

Joanna Plunkett
Post-Award Research Administrator

Post-award departments: Astronomy, Digital Editing Center, Economics, English, French, History, Philosophy, Politics, Papers of George Washington, all other A&S departments

Keith Simpson
Post-Award Research Administrator

Post-Award Departments: Environmental Sciences, Chemistry

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Post-Award Research Administrator

Post-award departments: Biology, East Asian Language Literature and Culture, Mathematics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Statistics

Karen Johnson
Grants and Contracts Administrator
Pre and post-award department: Psychology