Staff Directory

Mike Kerstiens

Michael Kerstiens (mjkersti@uchicago.edu)
Director of Financial Operations

Assigned Units:

  • Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPOST)
Cristina Grados

Cristina Grados (cgrados@uchicago.edu)
Business Manager Technical Lead

Assigned Units:

  • Alumni Affairs and Development
  • Computing Services
  • Dean of Students
  • Diversity
  • France Chicago Center
  • Human Resources
  • Institutional Review Board (IRB)
  • Dean’s Office

Vacant
Business Manager

Assigned Units:

  • Auxiliary Services
  • John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought
  • Chicago Center of Democracy
  • Leo Strauss Center
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Quantitative Research Methodology Social Behavioral Sciences (QRM)
  • Committee on Environment, Geography AND Urbanization
Keisha Yelton-Hunter

Keisha Yelton-Hunter(tdyelton@uchicago.edu)
Business Manager

Assigned Units:

  • Anthropology
  • Comparative Human Development (CHD)
  • History
  • Journal of Modern History
  • Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
  • Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
  • UChicago Science of Learning Center
  • Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
  • Summer Institute for Social Sciences Research Methods (SISRM)

Brooklyn Zarris (brooklyn@uchicago.edu)
Business Manager

Assigned Units:

  • MA Programs (CIR MAPSS MACSS)
  • Center for International Social Sciences Research (CISSR)
  • Center for Practical Wisdom
  • Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)
  • Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT)
  • Katz Center for Mexican Studies
  • Center for African and Afro-American Studies
  • Social Science Research Center (SSRC)
  • Sociology
Laura Chavez

Laura Chavez (chavezlc@uchicago.edu)
Post-Award Grant Specialist

Assigned Units:
Business Manager and Grant Specialist for:

  • Cathy Cohen Accounts

Grant Specialist for:

  • Psychology
  • Center For Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
  • Center for Practical Wisdom
  • Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
  • Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDRIGS)

Caleb Arnold (carnold@uchicago.edu)​
Post-Award Grant Specialist

Assigned Units:
Business Manager and Grant Specialist for:

  • Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD)
  • The Knowledge Lab

Grant Specialist for:

  • Anthropology
  • Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD)
  • Center for Spatial Data Science
  • Comparative Human Development
  • History
  • Sociology
  • Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDRIGS)
Holly Jaffey

Holly Jaffey (holly2@uchicago.edu)
Post-Award Grant Specialist

Assigned Units:
Business Manager and Grant Specialist for:

  • Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity (RDI)
  • RISC

Grant Specialist for:

  • Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants (DDRIG)
  • Political Science
  • Center for Democracy
  • Center for East Asian Studies
  • Center for Middle Eastern Studies
  • Center for East European & Russian/Eurasian Studies
  • Center for Latin American Studies
  • Committee for South Asian Studies
  • Committee on Education

 

Lisa Del Real

Lisa Del Real (lisadelreal@uchicago.edu)
Operations Assistant

  • Processes reimbursements, procurement, payments for services, and petty cash distributions
Katherine Hamaguchi

Katherine Hamaguchi (khamaguchi@uchicago.edu)

Operations Assistant

  • Assist Faculty with reimbursements via GEMS and audits financial documentation for GEMS processing.