College of Liberal Arts Experts

Robert H Abzug
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
zug@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: American Cultural and Intellectual History; American Jewish History and Culture; History of the Holocaust and Jewish Studies; History of Psychology; History of American Religion; History of Photography; Antebellum America; Psychology, Religion, Photography, American History

Paul C Adams
Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5116, +1 512 516 5028
Expertise: geography of media and communication; technological change; representations of places, landscapes and environments; critical geopolitics; Europe; North America; Technology

Ari Adut
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
ariadut@mail.la.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4284
Expertise: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Social Theory; Political Sociology; Media and the Public Sphere
Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Law; Sociology of Emotions; Western Europe; Middle East; Qualitative and Historical Methods; Sociology.

Kamran S Aghaie
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
kamranaghaie@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6400
Expertise: Islamic studies; Shi''''ism; modern Iranian history and modern Middle Eastern history; world history; historiography; religious studies; nationalism; gender studies and economic history

Ricardo C Ainslie
M. K. Hage Centennial Professor in Education, Counseling Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
rainslie@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0364, +1 512 471 4407
Expertise: Explores the intersection of psychology and culture through such topics as the psychological experience of immigration, ethnic conflicts and the impact of violence within communities, and the relationship between individual and collective identity. Is also interested in US-Mexico health, including addressing health disparities.
<em>Note: Dr. Ainslie will not be taking new students for the 2023 academic year.</em>
Mahmoud M Al-Batal
Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
ma426@aub.edu
Expertise: Arabic language and literature; Arabic linguistics; teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic teacher training; Lebanon

Bethany L Albertson
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
balberts@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7276
Expertise: Political Psychology, Public Opinion, Political Participation, Religion and Race in US Politics,
Experimental Methods

Kamran Ali
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
asdar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3550, +1 512 471 7531
Expertise: Gender; health; development; labor history; political movements (including Islamic groups); Political Economy; post-colonialism; urban social histories, popular culture; historiography; memory; liberalism; Middle East; South Asia

CJ Alvarez
Associate Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
cjalvarez@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S.-Mexico relations, and federal policing

Jacqueline L Angel
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
jangel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2956
Expertise: Hispanic health and demographics; aging policy; social policies with respect to diversity; long-term care; cultural diversity; ethnic studies

Javier Auyero
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
auyero@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8073
Expertise: Urban Ethnography, Urban Poverty and Social Inequality, Collective Action, Latin American Studies, Social and Cultural Theory

Janine Barchas
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
barchas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8379
Expertise: 18th-century literature and culture; digital humanities; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women; Shakespeare reception

Phillip J Barrish
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4991, +1 512 471 7840
Expertise: American Literature, 1860-1930; literary realism; medicine and literature; masculinity as a
cultural construction

Timothy Beach
Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
beacht@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Geoarchaeology, Soil Geomorphology, and Paleoenvironments of the Maya World and Mediterranean

Christopher G Beevers
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
beevers@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3706, +1 512 471 1157
Expertise: Cognitive etiology, maintenance, and treatment of unipolar depression, psychology, psychopathology, metal health

Lance Bertelsen
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
lberte@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8769
Expertise: Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; representations of World War II in literature, film and journalism

Chandra R Bhat
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
bhat@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4535
Expertise: Activity and travel behavior analysis; Travel demand modeling; Application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; Logistics and freight modeling; Transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; Urban form and spatial data modeling; Transportation; Urban management; Pollution

Rebecca Bigler
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
bigler@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Social cognition in children, gender role development, racial stereotyping, psychology, and gender issues.

Douglas G Biow
Director, Academic Center, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
biow@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7267
Expertise: cultural, literary, art, medical, diplomatic, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy; masculinities; the history of individualism

Marc Bizer
Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
mbizer@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7780
Expertise: Early Modern French identities: national, social, religious, authorial, gendered; gastronomy; tragedy and the tragic
Joshua M Blank
Director of Research for the Texas Politics Project, College of Liberal Arts
joshmblank@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0371
Expertise: Texas politics; campaigns and elections; public opinion; Texas public opinion

Carl S Blyth
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
cblyth@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2312, +1 512 471 5531
Expertise: Applied linguistics (instructional technology, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar); French sociolinguistics (style, stance and interaction); Discourse studies (narrative analysis, cultural scripts, indexicality)

Daniel A Bonevac
Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
bonevac@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4333, +1 512 471 4857
Expertise: Philosophy; Logic; Moral Issues; Ethics; Philosophy in Popular Culture; Christian Philosophy; Religion

Pascale R Bos
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6373
Expertise: 20th-century comparative Western European and U.S. literature; cultural studies, gender and memory; Holocaust; modern Dutch and modern Jewish literature and culture; ethnic minorities in Europe; cultural memory, trauma, race and gender, gender issues.

Robert S Boyer
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
robertstephenboyer@gmail.com
Expertise: Automated reasoning; formal methods; artificial intelligence, computers, technology

Henry W Brands
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
hwbrands@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3261
Expertise: U.S. history; American presidents; Franklin Roosevelt; Andrew Jackson; Woodrow Wilson; Benjamin Franklin; the Cold War.

Sarah Brayne
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
sbrayne@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8641
Expertise: surveillance practices and technologies; predictive analytics, criminal justice, data collection

Benjamin C Brower
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
benbrower@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6813
Expertise: colonial; Muslim pilgrimage; European imperialism; secularism and Islam; violence in history

Anthony L Brown
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
alb@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3902
Expertise: Focuses on historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.

Keffrelyn D Brown
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
keffrelyn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4257
Expertise: Creates scholarship based around teacher education, especially relating to race and culture.

Simone Browne
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
sbrowne@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5975
Expertise: Sociology of Race; Surveillance Studies; Black Diaspora Studies; Cultural Studies; Canadian Studies; Gender and Feminist Studies; New Media Studies; Institutional Ethnography; Race relations, Gender issues

Jason M Brownlee
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
brownlee@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Egypt; Iran; repression; democratization; American attempts at democracy promotion, Authoritarianism

Douglas S Bruster
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
bruster@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3635
Expertise: Shakespeare; drama; English Renaissance literature; film; theory

Erika M Bsumek
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
embsumek@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3261, +1 512 475 7253
Expertise: Native American History; Navajo arts and crafts; labeling of Indian made goods; history of the U.S. West and American Southwest; Modern Western urban/rural development including how large-scale engineering projects such dams, highways, and suburbs transformed the Western landscape/environment; transportation; urban management

Bruce Buchanan
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
bruceb@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Presidential politics; presidential character; the presidency and the public; American politics; public policy; political behavior

Walter L Buenger
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
w-buenger@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of Texas, History of the Southwest, History and memory, Texas, the south, U.S.-Mexico border

Jerome F Bump
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
bump@utexas.edu
Expertise: Gerard Manley Hopkins; Alice books; Victorian literature; literature of nature; animal humanities; digital humanities; computers and English studies, including social networking and multi-player online games; social media

Chelsea Burns
Assistant Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
cburns@austin.utexas.edu
+1 312 912 1003
Expertise: Latin American music, country music, bluegrass music, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas, Francisco Mignone

David M Buss
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
dbuss@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8489
Expertise: Mating strategies; human sexuality; homicide; stalking; conflict between the sexes; strategies for preventing sexual victimization; prestige, status, and social reputation; evolution of social emotions; psychology

Marika Cabral
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
marika.cabral@utexas.edu
Expertise: Economics; health-related economics; health insurance; insurance; taxation; privatization of health markets

Jorge Canizares
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7694
Expertise: Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.

Charlotte Canning
Special Consultant to the Vice President for Student Affairs on Faculty Relations, Vice President for Student Affairs
charlottecanning@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5793
Expertise: US theatre history, Broadway, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, historiography, feminist theatre, theatre and American society, historical entertainment industry.

Laquetta L Carpenter
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
quetta.carpenter@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Acting, stage acting, television acting, film acting, Shakespeare, directing, adaptation

Evan B Carton
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
e.carton@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: 19th and 20th century American literature; literary and cultural theory and historiography; antebellum evangelism, secularism, and radical politics, and their contemporary legacies; the theory and practice of the humanities

Kirsten Cather
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
kcather@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: modern Japanese literature and film; censorship, suicide, and death in modern Japan; adaptations; translation theory and practice

Alexandra K Catterall
Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts
katecat@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0902
Expertise: History and theory of design; furniture and product design

Robert L Causey
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
rlc@cs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Applied logic; philosophical issues in artificial intelligence; scientific methodology

Shannon E Cavanagh
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8319
Expertise: Family Demography, Life Course & Human Development, Gender, Interpersonal Relationships, Adolescents, Family relationships

Davida H Charney
Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, College of Liberal Arts
dcharney@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8746
Expertise: Scholarly writing; public policy discourse; scientific and technical writing; proposal writing; public opinion writing; cognitive skill learning; writing processes; reading processes; rhetorical theory; college writing; Jewish studies; Hebrew Bible

Mounira M Charrad
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
charrad@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6300, +1 512 232 6311
Expertise: Political Sociology; State Formation; Social Movements; Gender and Women's Rights; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Middle East and North Africa; gender issues

Jessica A Church-Lang
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
church@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7009
Expertise: Brain networks, development of task control, development of reading, developmental disorders, neuroimaging

Leslie B Cohen
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
cohen@psy.utexas.edu
Expertise: Perception, memory, and cognition of infants; Infant development; infant cognition; infant language, psychology

Olivier Coibion
Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
ocoibion@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: unemployment; U.S. unemployment; recession; employment; fiscal policy; economics; macroeconomics; inflation; economic growth; European economics

David F Crew
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
dfcrew@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7232
Expertise: The history of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe; the history and politics of memory; the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic representations.

Kelley A Crews
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
kelley@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5909, +1 512 415 3701
Expertise: Spatio-temporal Scaling of Landscape Change Dynamics and Dynamism, Resilience and Vulnerability of Socio-Ecological Systems in Developing States, and Ecologies of Global Health

Robert L Crosnoe
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts
crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8329
Expertise: Life Course & Human Development, Children & Youth, Education, Health, Family, Immigration, Adolescents.

Elizabeth Cullingford
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
cullingford@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4210, +1 512 471 4991
Expertise: Only children, Irish literature, politics, and culture; modern poetry; women's studies; drama and film; Shakespeare; the relation between high and popular culture
Janet M Davis
Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
janetmdavis@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1848, +1 512 471 7277
Expertise: American popular culture; the circus; American foreign relations; animals; American social movements; transnational American Studies; history

James R Denbow
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
jdenbow@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Archaeology; ethnoarchaeology; rock art; Later Stone Age and Iron Age studies in Southern and Central Africa; African history; African cultures; African languages; Kalahari desert; Congo prehistory; African Iron Age and Neolithic studies

Yoav Di-Capua
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
ydi@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7259
Expertise: Modern Arab Intellectual History

Randy L Diehl
Dean Emeritus, College of Liberal Arts
diehl@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Speech perception and production; phonetic theory; cognition, speech and hearing, language

Henry A Dietz
Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
h.dietz@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Latin American politics: urban poverty and politics, civil-military relations, parties and party systems, Peru

Andrew P Dillon
Professor, School of Information
adillon@ischool.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3821
Expertise: the psychology of internet use, world wide web, human performance with technology, digital design, education, digital libraries, human-computer interaction, usability, social informatics, applied cognition, digital documents, online learning, information architecture, individual differences, technology, digital libraries

Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
ruvalcaba@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Queer studies; violence; border studies in literature, film, and the arts

William Doolittle
Professor Emeritus (interim appointment), Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
dolitl@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: landscapes, agricultural and water control technology, sustainability science, arid lands, American Southwest,
and Mexico

Robin W Doughty
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
rdoughty@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Cultural Geography; Environmental Resource Management; Landscape Ecology and Biogeography

Christine L Duvauchelle
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy
duvauchelle@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1090, +1 512 471 2423
Expertise: Cocaine addiction, brain research, drug abuse

David J Eaton
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
eaton@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8959, +1 512 471 8972
Expertise: Eaton has written on rural water supply, international water resource conflicts, energy management, environmental problems of industries, management of emergency medical services, applications of mathematical programming to resource problems, insurance, and agriculture. His research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution. Eaton's current research concerns U.S.-Mexico environmental cooperation, new methods for evaluation of air pollution emissions, joint management by Palestinians and Israelis of shared groundwater, and water conservation in Texas; conservation, energy, pollution, water & wastewater

Zachary S Elkins
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
zelkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7250
Expertise: national constitutions, democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity, with an emphasis on cases in Latin America

Veit F Erlmann
Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
erlmann@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2092
Expertise: Ethnomusicology; African culture

Ashley Farmer
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
adf@austin.utexas.edu

Richard R Flores
Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
flores@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Cultural theory; folklore and expressive culture; Mexican American history and culture; public history of the Alamo; critical race theory; cultural citizenship; cultural studies; higher education leadership

Kevin M Foster
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
kmfoster@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4362
Expertise: African American student achievement; intersection of sports and academics; impact of race and gender on student academic outcomes; cultural theory in education; Improvement of academic outcomes for African American, Latina/o and other students; education; race relations

Alison K Frazier
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6375
Expertise: Humanist saints' lives; Quattrocento hexameral commentary; Bonino Mombrizio's c. 1477 "Sanctuarium"

Gary P Freeman
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
gfreeman@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Politics of immigration, comparative social policy, politics in western democracies

Daniel G Fridman
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
dfridman@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Economic Sociology; Ethnography; Sociology of Finance; Neoliberalism; Consumption; Sociology of Money; Latin America

Alan W Friedman
Visiting Researcher/Scholar, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
friedman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4991, +1 512 471 8376
Expertise: British and American modernism; the novel; drama, especially Shakespeare; international programs, faculty governance and academic freedom; literature

Karl Galinsky
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts
galinsky@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Cultural memory; Roman Literature and Civilization; Classical Tradition in Popular Culture;
Greco-Roman antiquity; classical heritage of America; post-tenure review legislation; literature

Thomas J Garza
Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9126, +1 512 471 3607
Expertise: Russian language teaching methodology; Applied linguistics; Contemporary Russian culture; The Chechen wars and the media; Post-Soviet youth culture; Language teaching pedagogy; Russian popular culture; Modern Russian language; Contemporary Russian media; Masculinity Studies; Mexican/Latino masculinity; Soviet/Russian masculinity

Michael L Geruso
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
mike.geruso@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8704
Expertise: Economics of Health and Healthcare, Development, Economic Demography, health insurance

Jennifer Glass
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
jennifer-glass@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8355
Expertise: Work and family issues, telecommuting and new labor practices, STEM labor force retention

John M Gonzalez
Acting Director, Plan II Honors Program, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
jmgonzal@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5351, +1 512 471 8117
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Latino/a literature; Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century American literature; narrative theory; postcolonial studies.

F Gonzalez-Lima
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
gonzalezlima@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8497, +1 512 937 8859
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Neuroscience, neuroanatomy, neurobiology, physiological psychology, psychobiology, learning and memory, brain energy modulation, and neural mechanisms of behavior, transcranial laser stimulation of human cognitive and emotional functions

Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
gloria@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6343
Expertise: Sociology of Gender and Sexuality; Migration Studies; Sexual Violence; Masculinities; Sociology of Family Life; Qualitative Methodologies; Gender issues, Family relationships

Andrea C Gore
Professor, College of Pharmacy
andrea.gore@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3669
Expertise: The brain and menopause, effects of environmental chemicals on reproductive neuroendocrine function.

Samuel D Gosling
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
samg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1628
Expertise: Personality, Animal Behavior, Internet, Environmental Psychology, Ecological Psychology

Itzik Gottesman
Academic Center Affiliate, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
itzikgottesman@utexas.edu
Expertise: Jewish folklore, Yiddish language and culture, folktale, folksong, East European Jewish folklife, Jewish American immigrant life

Philip B Gough
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
goughpb@gmail.com
Expertise: Psychology of reading; psycholinguistics; cognitive psychology

Jennifer Graber
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts
jgraber@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: American religions, religion in the American West, Native American religions, religion and violence; church history

Laurie B Green
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 736 1002
Expertise: Comparative Race Studies; African American Studies; Gender Studies; Working-Class History;
Migration; Urban History; Poverty and Public Health; Social Movements; Political and Cultural
History; Race Relations, Gender Issues

Kenneth F Greene
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
kgreene@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7206
Expertise: Mexican and Latin American politics; political parties and elections in Mexico and the rest of Latin America; authoritarianism and democratization; research method; campaigns

Benjamin G Gregg
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
bgregg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7274
Expertise: Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Political Theory, Social Theory, Bioethics, Genetic Manipulation of Humans

Karen Grumberg
Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
keren@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3594, +1 512 471 5134
Expertise: Contemporary Hebrew literature and comparative Jewish literatures (Hebrew, French, English)
Luis V Guevara
Senior Academic Program Coordinator, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
lvg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6769
Expertise: Mexican American Studies

Jo A Hackett
Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hackett15@icloud.com
Expertise: Old Testament, epigraphy, Phoenician language and religion; the period of Judges; women's lives in the ancient Near East; "fertility" religion; sacrifice, including child sacrifice; the study of myths and mythology; polemic against foreigners in the ancient Near East; and computer imaging of Ugaritic tablets; religion

Daniel S Hamermesh
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
hamermes@eco.utexas.edu
Expertise: Labor demand, time use, social insurance programs (particularly unemployment insurance) and unusual applications of labor economics (to suicide, sleep and beauty)Labor markets; unemployment; wages inequality; Social Security; demographic issues, business.

Ian F Hancock
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Romani (Gypsy) language (origins, history, civil rights movement); creolization of language; English (dialects, history, spread overseas), language and identity

Roderick P Hart
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
rod.hart@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1956
Expertise: Media and politics; civic participation; political campaigns; political rhetoric

John Hartigan
Director Academic Center, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
johnhartigan@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9201
Expertise: Urban cultures; Science, Technology, and Race; Social theory; Ethnography; Ethnicity in North America; Race Relations

Mark D Hayward
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
mhayward@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8382
Expertise: Population and Life Course and Aging, Morbidity and Mortality, and Biodemography, Social Epidemiology, Quantitative Methods and Dynamic Models, Life Table Techniques, Death and Dying

Marlone D Henderson
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
marlone.henderson@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6447
Expertise: social conflict, social judgements, prosocial behavior, social cognition, social harmony, cognition, abstract thinking, concrete thinking

Clement M Henry
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
chenry@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Political economy; comparative politics; Middle East and North Africa - esp. Algeria Egypt Morocco Tunisia; politics of international oil; Islamic financial systems; commercial banking systems in the MENA; business, economics & labor.

John C Higley
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
jhigley@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Political Elites

Megan L Hildebrandt
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
megan.hildebrandt@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: contemporary art, foundations art pedagogy, drawing, artist mothers, arts-in-healthcare, community-based art practices

John M Hoberman
Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hoberman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6368
Expertise: European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race; Scandinavian studies; Norwegian language instruction; history of Jewish racial folklore; Olympics; Sports doping; race relations

Steven D Hoelscher
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts
hoelscher@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2567, +1 512 471 7277
Expertise: Photography; Cultural and Historical Geography; Urban Studies; Memory; Ethnicity and Race; North American and European urbanism; social constructions of space and place, landscape and region; cultural memory; and the geography of tourism.

Heather Houser
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
houserh@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8766
Expertise: 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone fiction (US focus); environmental literature and criticism; science, technology, and culture; the medical humanities; affect studies; data in narrative and new media

Madeline Y Hsu
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
myhsu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9469, +1 512 475 7850
Expertise: Migration, Transnationalism and Diaspora, Chinese Overseas, and Ethnic Studies, Immigration Policy

John Huehnergard
Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
huehnergard@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Semitic languages and linguistics; historical linguistics; writing systems; ancient Near Eastern history

Wendy A Hunter
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
wendyhunter@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Comparative Politics; Social Policy; Latin America Affairs; Brazil; Military in Brazil; Military in the Southern Cone; Latin America politics; education reform

Coleman Hutchison
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
coleman.hutchison@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8372
Expertise: U.S. literature and culture to 1900; poetry; print culture; the U.S. south; the American Civil War

Syed A Hyder
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
akbarhyder@utexas.edu
Expertise: Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asian and the Middle East

Nathan M Jensen
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
natemjensen@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Relationship between multinational corporations and domestic governments; politics of natural resources; political economy of international institutions; diffusion of policy across borders; business corruption; civil war

Barbara L Jones
Associate Dean for Health Affairs, Dell Medical School
barbarajones@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9367
Expertise: Palliative care, pediatric oncology, cancer survivors, adolescent and young adult oncology, interprofessional education, medical social work, integrated behavioral health, medical ethics

Robert A Josephs
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
bob.josephs@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9788
Expertise: Clinical Neuroendocrinology
Cory F Juhl
Professor, College of Liberal Arts
juhl@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4944
Expertise: Philosophy of science; philosophy of mind; logic, philosophy of religion, formal learning theory

Lee Ann Kahlor
Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
kahlor@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 791 5726
Expertise: Public relations, health and environmental risk communication, science communication, and information seeking. Cultural and racial norms related to health behaviors, message processing

Robert H Kane
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
robertkane@utexas.edu
Expertise: Contemporary disputes about ethics and values, freedom and responsibility, in a pluralist world of conflicting beliefs and points of view and the implications of these disputes for social ethics, politics, law and religion

John W Kappelman
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
jkappelman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0055
Expertise: Evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid evolution and hominid origins, paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging

Ward W Keeler
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
ward.keeler@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8520
Expertise: Anthropology and expressive culture (performing arts and literature); hierarchy; gender; Buddhism; Indonesia and Burma, including the Rohingya crisis

William R Kelly
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4142
Expertise: Criminal Justice/Criminology/Ecology of Crime, Program and Policy Research and Evaluation, Research Methodology and Statistics

Gregory W Knapp
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
gwk@utexas.edu
Expertise: Adaptive dynamics, cultural landscapes, and archaeology of Andean agriculture; regional identities, ethnogeography, linguistic geography and ethnic territoriality; mapping; modernization as contextualized in historical cultural ecology and feminist political ecology; history of geographic thought; Latin America

Mark A Lawrence
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
malawrence@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9304
Expertise: U.S. Foreign Relations, the Vietnam War, International History, Decolonization

David L Leal
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
dleal@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1343
Expertise: Latino Politics and Policy

Cristine H Legare
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
legare@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 468 8238
Expertise: Cognitive development, cultural learning, cognitive evolution, cognitive science, social cognition, childrenÂ’s learning, social learning, science education, biological education, evolution; ritual, religious cognition, science and religion

Janice Leoshko
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
jleoshko@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2581
Expertise: Asian art history; Asian culture; Indian and Tibetan religions, Arts & Humanities.

Brian P Levack
Professor and John E. Green Regents Professorship in History; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
levack@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, witchcraft
Jose E Limon
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
jose.limon.5@nd.edu
Expertise: Latino Literature; Cultural Studies; 20th Century U.S. Southern Literature

Ken-Hou Lin
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
lin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9412
Expertise: Inequality, Economy and Society, Finance, Organization, Race, and Methods

Leigh L Linden
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8556
Expertise: Economic development; poor countries; economics of education

Naomi E Lindstrom
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936
Expertise: Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, and Sociology of the Arts, Comparative study of Jewish life in the Americas (Latin America, United States, Canada)

Amy H Liu
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
amy.liu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7249
Expertise: Ethnic politics, language policies, migration politics, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe

Beili Liu
Leslie Waggener Professor, College of Fine Arts
beili@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6071
Expertise: Visual art, contemporary art, installation art, sculpture, Arctic art research, art and climate change, art and science collaboration, environmental art, art activism, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, fiber art, performance art, public art, feminist art, craft, indigenous craft, contemporary Asian-American art, contemporary Chinese-American art, Asian diaspora

James N Loehlin
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
jnloehlin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4993
Expertise: Shakespeare in performance (stage and film); Renaissance drama; modern drama

Patricia Maclachlan
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
pmaclachlan@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1724
Expertise: Comparative Politics; Politics of Japan and East Asia

Raul L Madrid
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
rmadrid@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7246
Expertise: Latin American politics, democracy studies, comparative ethnic politics, and comparative social policy

Alberto A Martinez
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
almartinez@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of science and math, Einstein, historical myths in science, notions of race, political news media.

Monica M Martinez
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
monica.martinez1@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: racial violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, public humanities, digital humanities, and restorative justice

Aloysius P Martinich
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
martinich@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of political philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, philosophy of language, medieval philosophy, Philosophy of language; history of political philosophy; philosophy of religion; seventeenth century England

Eric L McDaniel
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7268
Expertise: Religion and politics; Black politics; organizational behavior

Dennis McFadden
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
mcfadden@utexas.edu
Expertise: sound localization, masking, pitch perception, the after effects of exposure to intense sound, auditory adaptation, and comodulation masking, physiological measures of the auditory system, otoacoustic emissions (OAEs)

Matthew S McGlone
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
matthew_mcglone@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1920
Expertise: Cognition, persuasion and prejudice in interpersonal communication, stereotypes and stereotype threats, spatial performance, identity and sex differences. Social influence, persuasion and deception and the key role of language

Richard P Meier
Department Chair, 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

Jeffrey L Meikle
Professor Emeritus, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
meikle@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: 20th century U.S. cultural history; history of design; history of technology; history of plastics

Martha Menchaca
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
mmen@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7537
Expertise: Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history/oral traditions, legal anthropology, immigration, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America, and Mexico-Neoliberalism

Julia L Mickenberg
Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2650, +1 512 471 7277
Expertise: General U.S. cultural history (1865-present); History of the Left/Radical Cultures (especially in the United States); Children's Literature; U.S. Women's History (esp. 1865-present); History of Childhood; Americans and the Soviet Union

Guy H Miller
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
hmiller@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Religion and culture; Jesus in popular culture; History of religion in America; Ben Hur.

Jennifer A Miller
Professor, College of Liberal Arts
jennifer.miller@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: GIScience, integration of GIS and Remote Sensing, environmental/ecological modeling, spatial analysis, biogeography, climate change, species movement and interaction

Gail Minault
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
gminault@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: 19th and 20th century history of India, including religion and politics, intellectual and social history, and women''s movements.

Julie A Minich
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
minichja@utexas.edu
Expertise: Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies; Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies; LGBT Studies; Feminist Studies; and Disability Studies

John Mirowsky
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
mirowsky@prc.utexas.edu
Expertise: Aging; health over the life course; creativity; employment; education and the transition to adulthood

Mohammad A Mohammad
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
mamohammad@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6650
Expertise: Linguistics and the Arabic language

Lisa L Moore
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
llmoore@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1837, +1 512 471 4991
Expertise: 18th century English and American literature; women's literature; LGBTQ literature; LGBTQ studies; poetry; feminist and queer theory; history of sexuality

Leonard N Moore
Executive Director, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
leonardmoore@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3212
Expertise: Modern African American History; black urban history; intersection of race, sport, and hip-hop

Robin D Moore
Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
robin.moore@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0373, +1 512 471 7764
Expertise: His principal research interests include music, nationalism and socialism, historical ethnomusicology,music and race relations,popular music and socialist art aesthetics.

Michael W Mosser
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
mosserm@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7280
Expertise: International relations; security studies; comparative foreign policy; Western Europe; European security; military art and science; military sociology

Alexander P Mourelatos
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
apdm@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Science, Linguistic Theory, Modern Greek Studies

Chandra L Muller
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
cmuller@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8377
Expertise: The effects of family, community, education policy and health behaviors on education and the transition to adulthood; STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) preparation and careers

Richard Murphy
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
richard.murphy@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8525
Expertise: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics

Joan H Neuberger
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
neuberger@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Modern Russian history, film & photography history, visual cultures, cultural politics

Aaron O'Connell
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
aaron.oconnell@austin.utexas.edu
+1 202 235 3820
Expertise: 20th century military history, cultural history, U.S. foreign affairs, and American politics, Afghanistan, South Sudan, civil-military relations, national security policy, military culture

Robert Olwell
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
rolwell@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7226
Expertise: Eighteenth-century British-Atlantic World; the early American South

David M Oshinsky
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
oshinsky@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history

Marcelo Paixao
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
marcelopaixao@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Race relations and inequalities in Brazil and Latin American; public policies issues and monitoring; models of socioeconomic development; labor market; statistics of race, ethnic, and gender inequality
Lorraine S Pangle
Professor, Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson Center, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
lpangle@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1447
Expertise: Ancient, early modern, and American political philosophy; ethics; the philosophy of education; problems of justice

Pamela M Paxton
Department Chair, Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
ppaxton@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6323
Expertise: Women in politics; pro-social behavior, politics, gender, and methodology.

Ami Pedahzur
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
pedahzur@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1452
Expertise: Terrorism, counterterrorism, political radicalism, special operations forces, Israeli politics

James W Pennebaker
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
pennebaker@utexas.edu
Expertise: Natural language and social behavior; group processes and educational outcomes; how individuals, groups, and cultures respond to traumatic events

Francisco L Perez
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
halemauu@gmail.com
Expertise: Mountain Geoecology, Geomorphology, Vegetation Ecology, Soils

Domino R Perez
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
drperez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7853, +1 512 471 4557
Expertise: Chican@ literature; American literature; popular culture; cultural studies; film

H W Perry Jr
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

Becky M Pettit
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
bpettit@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9850
Expertise: Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Labor Markets, Research Methods

Tasha S Philpot
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
tphilpot@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3681, +1 512 471 5121
Expertise: African-American Politics, Political Psychology, Public Opinion and Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Political Parties

Joseph E Potter
Other University Affiliate, Population Research Center, College of Liberal Arts
joe@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 689 7211
Expertise: Reproductive health, population and development, demographic estimation, Latin America and Texas. Evaluating impact of policies and funding for family planning in Texas.

Adam T Rabinowitz
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts
arabinow@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0197

Guy P Raffa
Professor Emeritus, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
guyr@utexas.edu
Expertise: Dante Studies, medieval Italian literature and culture, digital humanities, history and philosophy of science, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco

Kelly Raley
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
kelly.raley@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6333
Expertise: Demography, Family, Race and Ethnic Relations, Education, Work Occupations and Organizations, Gender

Carlos E Ramos
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
cramos@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2067
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Hydro-geomorphology; terrestrial sediment and carbon budgets; sediment routing; road erosion; infiltration and runoff routing modeling; land use and climate change effects on hydrologic/geomorphic processes and their consequences on water quality, sustainable development, stream habitat, and marine ecosystems; development of GIS-based sediment budget/hydrologic applications; mass wasting processes; spatial scale issues; natural hazards.

Wayne A Rebhorn
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
warebhorn@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: English and continental Renaissance literature; Renaissance rhetoric; Shakespeare; Machiavelli; Boccaccio

Richard J Reddick
Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College
richard.reddick@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7551, +1 512 475 8587
Expertise: Examines the experiences of faculty of color at predominantly White institutions; mentoring relationships between faculty and Black students; and work-life balance in academia.

Cory A Reed
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
creed@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936
Expertise: Cervantes, Spanish Drama, Early Modern Mediterranean World, Transatlantic Studies, Cognitive Studies, and Comparative Literature

Mark Regnerus
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
regnerus@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6307
Expertise: Sexual behavior, religion, and family

Penne L Restad
Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emerita, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
restad@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5236
Expertise: Late nineteenth and twentieth-century American cultural and social history, history of American holidays and family rituals, history of twentieth-century consumer culture, history and practice of pedagogy of American history, digital humanities relating to American history.

Brian E Roberts
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
roberts@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6582, +1 512 232 7243
Expertise: American Political Institutions, Interest Groups, and Positive Political Economy

Victoria E Rodriguez
Other University Affiliate, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
victoria@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8620
Expertise: Politics in Mexico; decentralization in Latin America; women and politics in Mexico and Latin America; gender and public policy; US policy development; theory of public policy.

Mary Rose
Director, HDO Undergraduate Program, College of Liberal Arts
mrose@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6336
Expertise: Juries and jury decision making, empirical analysis of the law, lay understanding of law and legal practices; justice perceptions; jury behavior; emotions and law, social psychology

Catherine E Ross
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
cross@prc.utexas.edu
Expertise: Aging; health disparities; sense of personal control; gender gap; depression.

Loriene Roy
Professor Emeritus, School of Information
loriene@ischool.utexas.edu
Expertise: Library development in Native American communities; creation of virtual museums of Native American artifacts; literacy efforts in Native American communities; library collection development and evaluation; oral tradition; organizing gatherings of indigenous librarians worldwide

Sharmila Rudrappa
Director of South Asia Institute, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6310
Expertise: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Labor, Immigration

John J Ruszkiewicz
Professor Emeritus, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, College of Liberal Arts
jr@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Rhetoric; argumentation; grammar; writing; style

Sahotra Sarkar
Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
sarkar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3800, +1 512 232 7122
Expertise: Philosopy of science; history of science; mathematical genetics; conservation biology; environmental ethics; Zika; conservation planning; vector-borne illnesses

Elizabeth Scala
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
scala@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8375
Expertise: Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature; Medieval Literature; Medieval Romance; Bibliography and Textual Studies; Literary Theory; Women, Gender, and Literature; Food Writing

William J Scheick
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
scheick@utexas.edu
Expertise: American literature and culture, especially colonial and nineteenth through early twentieth century; turn-of-the-century British; narrative and poetic morphology

Sonia T Seeman
Associate Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
stseeman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2854
Expertise: world music; Romani ("Gypsy") communities; Southeastern Europe, Turkish, Former Ottoman culture and music; inclusive pedagogy; neighborhood/grassroots activism; culture of diasporic commmunities; migration

Harel Shapira
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
hshapira@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8075
Expertise: Right wing politics, gun owners, notion of self-defense, group identity

Daron R Shaw
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
dshaw@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7275
Expertise: American politics; campaigns and elections; public opinion and voting behavior; polls and survey research.

Dina M Sherzer
Professor Emeritus, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
dsherzer@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: 20th century French literature and film postcolonialism; Samuel Beckett Marguerite Duras Claude Simon Maghrebi French writers and directors, New novel, New wave, Theater of the Absurd, Arts & Humanities; communication.

David S Sibley
Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
sibley@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8545
Expertise: Vertical restrictions, including bundling and tying; vertical and horizontal mergers; public utility pricing and regulatory policy; equilibrium constraints on tests of single firm conduct under Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
msa@utexas.edu
Expertise: Police; policing; gangs; gun violence; violence prevention

Mark C Smith
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
mcsmith@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: American cultural history of alcohol and drugs; History of addiction research; American cultural and intellectual history; American social thought and social sciences; history of social science

Cherise Smith
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and of African and African Diaspora Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
cherise_smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1784
Expertise: African American Representation, Art and Visual Culture; the Identity Politics and Representation; The Intersection of Representation with Race and Gender; Performance and Conceptual Art Practices; Photography; American Art After 1945

Christen A Smith
Director, CWGS, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
christen.smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6332
Expertise: race, police violence, black liberation movements

Zeynep Somer-Topcu
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
zsomer@utexas.edu
Expertise: Comparative political parties, elections, representation, voter behavior, European politics

Lawrence W Speck
Professor, School of Architecture
lspeck@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 626 7656
Expertise: Architectural design; regionalist design; design of office buildings; airport design; convention center design

Denise A Spellberg
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
spellberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7202
Expertise: Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.

Pauline T Strong
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8524, +1 512 471 9056
Expertise: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology; Identity and difference; Politics of representation; Public culture; Youth organizations; Museum studies; Public humanities; Medical humanities; US, Indigenous North America.

Circe Sturm
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
circe@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1561
Expertise: Race, sovereignty, and citizenship; comparative colonialisms; race and indigeneity; dominance, resistance, and subjectivity; Native North America, Central America, and Europe

Jeremi Suri
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
suri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7242
Expertise: International security, domestic politics, modern international relations, globalization and international affairs, the formation and spread of nation-states, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors

William B Swann
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
swann@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3859
Expertise: The self, relationships and group processes, self and identity, extreme re-group behavior, interpersonal relationships and person perception, Identity negotiation theory, identity fusion theory
Margaret L Syverson
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, College of Liberal Arts
pegsyverson@utexas.edu
Expertise: Writing; technology; literacy; teaching and learning; impact of technology on culture; information architecture; knowledge ecology; virtual environments; Web development; MOOs and MUDs; cognitive science; assessment

Eric Tang
Director, Center for Asian American Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
erictang@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Racism & Anti-racism; The Poetics of Displacement; Urban unrest; Activist research; gentrification

Michael J Telch
Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
telch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3393, +1 512 475 8488, +1 512 560 4100
Expertise: Agrophobia; Anxiety and phobic disorders; Behavioral medicine; Behavioral therapies; Cognitive processes of behavior change; Therapy outcome evaluation

Sean M Theriault
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
seant@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7279
Expertise: Congress, the presidency, political parties, elections, and party ploarization.

Shirley E Thompson
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
s.thompson@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory

Lisa B Thompson
Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
lbthompson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4656
Expertise: African American Literature, Film, Cultural Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance

Sheridan Titman
Director, Energy Management and Innovation Center, Red McCombs School of Business
titman@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2787
Expertise: Corporate finance, energy, finance, real estate and investments, business, economics & labor, environment & earth science

Janice (Jan) S Todd
Department Chair, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
j.todd@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0993, +1 512 471 0995
Expertise: Specializes in the history of strength and conditioning, doping, women and sport, and history of physical culture.

Rebecca M Torres
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
rebecca.torres@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Rural and Community Development; International and Internal Migration; U.S. Latino Communities; Globalization and Agricultural Restructuring; Tourism in Developing Nations; Gender; Activist Scholarship and Community Engagement; Latin America

Stephen J Trejo
Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
trejo@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8512
Expertise: labor economics; immigration; response to market and policy changes; institutional environment; hispanic workforce; overtime pay; labor unions; employment; immigrant labor; welfare

Alan Tully
Interim Department Chair, History, College of Liberal Arts
tully@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3261
Expertise: Early American Political Culture; Early American history

Debra J Umberson
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
umberson@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6330
Expertise: Population Health ( Structural Determinants of Mental and Physical Health; Stress and Social Support; Health Behavior; Health Disparities; Sexual Minority Health); Family and Gender (Gender and Relationships; Same-Sex Couples; Marital Status and Health; Relationship Quality and Health; Family Status and Health; Intergenerational Relationships; Family and Bereavement); Aging and the Life Course (Psychosocial Epidemiology across the Life Course; Aging and the Family; Death and Dying; Marriage and Intimate Partnerships).

Luis Urrieta
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
urrieta@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4129
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Follows trends around cultural and racial identities, agency, migration, and social movements in education.

Fred Valdez
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
fredv@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0060, +1 512 471 5946
Expertise: Archaeology, ceramic technology; Texas, Mesoamerica

Juliet E Walker
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
jekwalker@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: African American history; Black Business History and Political Economy; Black Intellectual history; African American Women's history; Oprah Winfrey.

Peter M Ward
Professor and C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Latin American urbanization, contemporary Mexican politics, community development and housing policy in developing countries, planning in Mexico City, colonia-type housing in the United States, US-Mexico relations, Governance and politics and Latin America

Eric M Warr
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
mwarr@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Criminology, peer influence and social reactions to crime, fear of crime in family households

Craig Watkins
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4071, +1 512 471 6676
Expertise: Race and pop culture; youth culture; digital media and social media; hip-hop culture and music; video games; the history of Black American cinema and the films of Spike Lee; digital media; young people and behaviors with social and online media.

John M Weinstock
Professor Emeritus, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
weinstock@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Sámi culture and civilization, history of skiing, promotion of Scandinavian Studies in the U.S., Norwegian Language and Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language and Literature, General and Historical Linguistics, Scandinavian Music

Rachel Wellhausen
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
rwellhausen@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7202
Expertise: International political economy, politics of multinational corporations, international investment and trade treaties, Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), sovereign debt, politics of science and technology, Native American economic development

Alexandra K Wettlaufer
Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
akw@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1442, +1 512 471 6461
Expertise: 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain

Kurt G Weyland
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
kweyland@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7253
Expertise: Democratization and authoritarian rule, social policy and policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America and Europe

Andrew B Whinston
Professor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
abw@uts.cc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7962, +1 512 471 8879
Expertise: Resource allocation issues; bundle markets in electronic commerce; digital economy; electronic commerce; electronic financial markets; network management, business.

Christine L Williams
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
cwilliams@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6321
Expertise: gender, sexuality, workplace inequality, qualitative research methods, theory

Samuel M Wilson
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
s.wilson@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Anthropology of culture contact; prehistory and history; indigenous people of the Caribbean; culture; complex societies; digital technology and its impact on human societies; Arts and Humanities

Robert H Wilson
Professor; Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
rwilson@utexas.edu
Expertise: Urban and regional economic development; urban policy; technology policy; telecommunications policy; urban governance in developing countries; decentralized policymaking; the impact technological change on urban and regional economies

Christopher Wlezien
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
wlezien@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7236
Expertise: Public opinion, public policy, political institutions, elections, research methods

Anthony C Woodbury
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

Marjorie C Woods
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Medieval literature; medieval and renaissance rhetoric and pedagogy; composition exercises in premodern classroom; modern use of premodern compostion exercises

Charters S Wynn
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
wynn@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7234
Expertise: Soviet politcal and labor history; Joseph Stalin

David S Yeager
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
dyeager@utexas.edu
Expertise: Social-cognitive development during adolescence; Motivation; Behavior change; Aggression and bullying; Research methodology and psychological measurement; Psychological interventions

Kenneth R Young
Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
kryoung@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8311, +1 512 471 5116
Expertise: Biogeography; Landscape Ecology; Climate Change; Sustainability; Tropical Environments; linking biogeography to environmental conservation at local to landscape to global scales, with emphasis in developing countries, tropical ecosystems, Latin America, biodiversity, climate change, and landscape change

Emilio Zamora
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
e.zamora@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8706
Expertise: The history of Mexicans in the United States and their relationship with Mexico, as well as oral history, the history of the U.S. working class, Texas history, and the archival enterprise in Texas and northern Mexico.