Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication
lbedore@mail.utexas.edu
(512) 232-5101

Expertise: Child language and phonological development; child language disorders, bilingualism, Spanish-speaking children.

Associate Dean/Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication
mark.bernstein@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1553

Expertise: Speech development among deaf people; use of simultaneous communication and lexical acquisition in children

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication
courtney.byrd@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9426

Expertise: Communication disorder; Causes and thrapies of Childhood stuttering; Adulthood stuttering; Lingustic processing; Motor planning; Fluency disorders; Voice disorders; Speech disfluencies

Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication
champlin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6345

Expertise: Hearing loss, auditory processing difficulty in children and adults

Professor and Director, Department of Communication Studies, College of Communication
cherwitz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1939

Expertise: Argumentation (in a variety of settings); rhetoric; creating academic/community partnerships; inter- and cross-disciplinary education; diversity in higher education; academic entrepreneurship; the role of public research universities in society; reforming undergraduate and graduate education; citizen scholars; and accountability in higher education.

Forensics, Speech Team Coach, Department of Communication Studies, College of Communication
mrcox@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1957

Expertise: Randy Cox is a Senior Lecturer in the Moody College of Communication and the Department of Communication Studies. He is the founding member of UT's competitive speech team and the administrative director of the Individual Events Program.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication
babs@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Speech acquisition among infants and children; speech delay in children; childhood apraxia of speech; vocal development among infants with cochlear implants.

Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, College of Liberal Arts
diehl@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4141

Expertise: Speech perception and production; phonetic theory; cognition, speech and hearing, language

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, College of Communication
josh_gunn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3933, +1 512 471 5251

Expertise: Celebrity, popular culture, popular music, popular fads and fashion, youth cultures, UFOs, alien abduction, exorcism, demonic possession, apocalypse, Halloween, folk religion, folklore, Satanism, occult and occultism, new age, cults, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Freud, Jung, Lacan, scatology, ghosts, haunting, the paranormal, pseudo-science, gothic music, gothic subculture, horror film, popular television, cultural studies, rhetorical studies.

Department Chair, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
rmeier@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1701, +1 512 471 9031

Expertise: Child language development; sign languages; American Sign Language; acquisition of American Sign language by deaf children

Department Chair, Department of Special Education, College of Education
markoreilly@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Assessment and support of individuals with intellectual disabilities who exhibit challenging behavior. Social skill/communication interventions for children with ASD. Assistive technology for persons with profound multiple disabilities. He is a doctoral level Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D) and Licensed Behavior Analyst (LBA).

Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Communication
lizp@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2690

Expertise: Dynamic language assessment applied to bilingual (Spanish/English) children.

Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
hwperry@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1852, +1 512 232 7228

Expertise: U.S. Supreme Court; constitutional interpretation; the intersection of law and politics; free speech; class actions; public law

Professor and Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Law
drabban@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1308

Expertise: Higher education law, academic freedom, free speech, labor law, legal history, constitutional law

Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, College of Communication
jd.rollins@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1918

Expertise: Dr. Rollins is a senior lecturer in the Moody College of Communication in the Department of Communication Studies. He teaches courses in the undergraduate level which focus on argumentation theory and practice and the way in which rhetorical movements affect social change. His current research projects include investigating the role of rhetoric in pedagogy as well as writing a textbook for high school debaters.

Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
msandbank@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Dr. Sandbank researches early language and social communication development in children with autism and developmental disabilities. Her methodological areas of expertise include event-related potentials, meta-analysis, and generalizability theory. She is the head of the <a href="https://sites.edb.utexas.edu/brainandlanguage" target="_blank">Brain and Language Lab</a> in the College of Education.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
jsherzer@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Linguistic anthropology, ethnography of speaking, archival and documentary linguistics; North and South America

Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Special Education, College of Education
katietackett@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6566

Associate Professor, Cockrell School of Engineering
webber@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6867

Expertise: Energy policy; Energy & Water; Alternative and renewable energy; Biofuels; Energy in Texas; Smart Grid; Power Sector

Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
woodbury@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1701

Expertise: Chatino linguistics and language preservation, Documentation and preservation of endangered languages, Eskimo-Aleut languages and speech communities, Natural discourse and verbal art, Tone, prosody and intonation, Grammatical analysis and theory