The UW Survey Center retains an excellent, highly trained project staff including project directors, programmers, field staff, and business staff, who ensure that every project moves smoothly from inception to completion.
Center Directors
Jennifer Dykema
Credentials: Ph.D.
Position title: Faculty Director, Associate Professor of Sociology
Email:
dykema
Phone: (608) 262-8385
John Stevenson
Position title: Associate Director
Email:
stevenso
Phone: (608) 262-9032
Project Directors
Nadia Assad
Credentials: M.S.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
nassad
Phone: (608) 890-2453
Bob Cradock
Credentials: M.S.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
rcradock
Phone: (608) 265-9885
Kenneth Croes
Credentials: Ph.D.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
kcroes
Phone: (608) 262-6928
Kerryann DiLoreto
Credentials: M.S.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
kdiloret
Phone: (608) 265-6598
Kelly Elver
Position title: Project Management Director
Email:
kelver
Phone: (608) 262-7360
Nathan Jones
Credentials: Ph.D.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
nrjones
Phone: (608) 890-4724
Chad Kniss
Credentials: M.S.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
ckniss
Phone: (608) 262-4157
Vicki Lein
Credentials: M.S.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
vlein
Phone: (608) 263-3427
Griselle Sánchez-Diettert
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
gsanchez
Phone: (608) 262-2164
Garrett Wartenweiler
Position title: Project Director
Email:
gwartenw
Phone: (608) 263-3139
Margarete Wichmann
Credentials: Ph.D.
Position title: Project Director
Email:
mwichmann
Phone: (608) 890-2452
Carol Wintheiser
Position title: Project Director
Email:
wintheiser
Phone: (608) 890-4388
Karen Zoladz
Credentials: M.S.
Position title: Senior Project Director
Email:
zoladz
Phone: (608) 265-9866
Programmers
Field Staff
Leo Schultz
Position title: Mail and Data Entry Supervisor
Email:
laschultz
Phone: (608) 890-4319
Business Staff
Carrie Barrett
Position title: Business Office Manager
Email:
cbarrett
Phone: (608) 262-8403
Affiliates
Nora Cate Schaeffer
Credentials: Ph.D.
Position title: Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology, Emerita
Email:
schaeffe
Shiftleading Staff
Shift Leaders at work
The University of Wisconsin Survey Center retains a highly trained and professional interviewing staff. Before hiring an interviewer the UWSC conducts a personal interview, thoroughly checks the candidate's references, performs a mock interview, and administers a typing competency test. Only those who perform well in all areas are considered for the interviewing position. Besides a multi-day training period immediately after hiring, all interviewers attend study-specific briefings before a new project begins to ensure the interviewer is well prepared to deal with issues and answer questions from respondents pertaining to the study when they call. Interviewers are also monitored monthly by a Shift Leader to ensure high quality data collection.
Shift Leaders are generally promoted from the current interviewing staff and represent the best skills in communication, supervision,interviewing, instructing, and motivating. Shift leaders are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Survey Center as well as maintaining a highly positive and professional work environment.
ELEVATE Study
Mary, Lori, April, and Yassmine are Interviewers for the ELEVATE Study
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) ILIAD project
John, Rita, and Vickie are Interviewers for the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) ILIAD project