Director of Research for the Texas Politics Project , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 471 0371, joshmblank@austin.utexas.edu

Joshua Blank is the director of research for the Texas Politics Project in the College of Liberal Arts. He has conducted public opinion polling of Texans for over a decade. He has extensive experience polling Texas voters about their attitudes towards abortion, gun control/gun violence, voting/elections, and many other areas of public interest. Blank regularly writes, presents, and gives interviews about contemporary Texas politics, including elections, public opinion, and governance. 

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , Department of History , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 471 3261, hwbrands@austin.utexas.edu

H.W. Brands is the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History for the College of Language Arts. He writes on American history and politics and has published thirty books, including two Pulitzer Prize finalists, the Traitor to his Class and The First American. Brands is a regular guest on national radio and television programs and is frequently interviewed by the American and foreign press. He's published dozens of articles in  publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among others. His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 471 8946, busbyj@utexas.edu

Joshua Busby is a professor of Public Affairs and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. He originally joined the LBJ School faculty in fall 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Busby is also a nonresident fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a senior research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security. His teaching areas include Environmental and Energy Policy and Policy Process and Institutions.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Dean, School of Civic Leadership , School of Civic Leadership
, justin.dyer@austin.utexas.edu

Justin Dyer is the executive director of the Civitas Institute, a professor of Government, and the Jack G. Taylor Regents Professor in the College of Liberal Arts. He also is interim dean of the School of Civic Leadership. Dyer writes and teaches in the fields of American political thought, jurisprudence and constitutionalism, with an emphasis on the perennial philosophical tradition of natural law. He is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles, essays and book reviews. His most recent book, with Kody Cooper, is The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press. His previous books with Cambridge University Press include C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law (2016); Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (2013); and Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (2012). He also is co-editor of the two-volume constitutional law casebook American Constitutional Law (4th edition, West Academic), which has been adopted at leading universities across the country.

Assistant Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
, garcia.rios@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Sergio Garcia-Rios is assistant professor for the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He specializes in researching topics such as immigration, Latino political participation, and public opinion. He is currently serving as the director of polling and data at Univision News, where he has been conducting extensive polling to gauge the pulse of the Latino electorate. In 2022, he conducted the largest poll on Latino and Black voters in Texas, and in 2023, he conducted the largest conservative Latino poll. He plans to continue conducting polls in key states during the electoral cycle.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Executive Director of Texas Politics Project , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 471 0090, j.henson@austin.utexas.edu

James Henson is the founder and executive director of the Texas Politics Project and the director of the political internship program. The Texas Politics Project is a hub of research and public affairs work focused on providing non-partisan resources for understanding Texas government and politics. As part of that work, he co-founded the longest-running academic survey of public opinion in Texas with Daron Shaw in 2008. Results from more than a decade of statewide polling for that project are available to the public on the Texas Politics Project website. His writing about Texas politics has appeared in every major Texas media outlet and various publications, including The Washington Post, The Hill, Texas Monthly, The Texas Tribune, and others. He is the principal author of the Texas Politics textbook published by Soomo Learning and used in introductory Texas government courses across the state, which is now in its 11th edition.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , Department of Government , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 471 1343, dleal@austin.utexas.edu

David Leal is a professor for the Department of Government in the College of Liberal Arts. His primary academic interest is Latino politics, and his work explores the political and policy implications of demographic change in the United States.  He studies questions involving Latino voting patterns, Latino public opinion, the role of religion in politics, the politics of migration and the border, and the military and society.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , Department of Government , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 232 7275, dshaw@austin.utexas.edu

Daron Shaw is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics in the College of Liberal Arts. Shaw specializes in American government, campaigns and elections, political parties, public opinion and voting behavior, polls and applied survey research..He is the author of The Race to 270: The Electoral College and Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004, Unconventional Wisdom: Facts and Myths about American Voters, The Turnout Myth, The Appearance of Corruption and Battleground: Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era. In addition to his academic career, Shaw was a strategist in the 1992, 2000 and 2004 presidential election campaigns. He is currently co-director of the Fox News Poll, director of the Texas Lyceum Poll, and associate Principle Investigator for the 2024 American National Election Study. He is also a member of the decision team for Fox News, the advisory board for the MIT Election Data & Science Lab, and the advisory board for the Annette Strauss Institute. Formerly, he served as President George W. Bush’s representative on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and as one of the academic directors for President Barack Obama’s Commission for Election Administration.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Civitas: Executive Director of Research and Publications , School of Civic Leadership
, ryan.streeter@austin.utexas.edu

Ryan Streeter is executive director of research and publications for the Civitas Institute, a nonpartisan center that supports independent scholarship and analysis to advance the principles of a free society, including individual liberty, constitutionalism and private enterprise. As a scholar he analyses the relationship between politics and policy on national issues, how partisan politics affects the policy environment, and also how demographics and economics affect what parties include in their platforms. Streeter spent years with two nationally prominent organizations, the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute, and he served in numerous policy advisory roles in the White House and state government. Outside of government, he has served as a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute, and he previously worked as executive director of the Center for Politics and Governance at UT. The author of three books, Streeter is a frequent guest on television and radio including BBC News, CNBC, Fox News and MSNBC. He has also published articles in numerous outlets including in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, USA Today and National Review.

University Distinguished Teaching Professor , Department of Government , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 232 7279, seant@mail.utexas.edu

Sean Theriault is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor for the Department of Government in the College of Liberal Arts. He is currently researching the effect of interpersonal relationships within the U.S. Congress. He has published six books: Disruption: The Senate During the Trump Era, Congress: The First Branch, The Great Broadening, The Gingrich Senators, Party Polarization in Congress, and The Power of the People. He has published numerous journal articles on subjects including presidential rhetoric, congressional careers, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Pendleton Act of 1883. Theriault’s expertise includes political party polarization in the United States, the U.S. Congress, congressional elections, and the Politics of the Catholic Church. 

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management , Red McCombs School of Business
+1 512 471 6394, edward.anderson@mccombs.utexas.edu

Edward Anderson is a professor of supply chain and operations management for McCombs School of Business. Within the school’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, he has taught supply chain and operations management courses, project management, health care, and new venture design and implementation for the BBA, MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs. Anderson has also served as director of the McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center, a research center specializing in innovation in healthcare delivery. Anderson worked as a product design engineer in the automotive industry and currently holds six patents. Numerous national media outlets have featured Anderson for his expertise in supply chain innovation, disruption, outsourcing, and industrial policy. 

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Assistant Professor , Department of Accounting , Red McCombs School of Business
, andrew.belnap@mccombs.utexas.edu

Andrew Belnap is an assistant professor of Accounting in the McCombs School of Business. His research examines tax disclosure and tax enforcement issues, often in collaboration with key regulators, including the Internal Revenue Service and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. His studies have been published in top accounting journals including the Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Review of Accounting Studies.

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Clinical Associate Professor , Department of Finance , Red McCombs School of Business
, julia.coronado@austin.utexas.edu

Julia Coronado is a clinical associate professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business and associate director for the school's real estate center. The Texas Real Estate Center aims to facilitate cutting-edge research in finance, real estate, law, design, and planning, and to allow students to connect and learn from industry professionals. Before joining McCombs faculty, Coronado worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., contributing to the Federal Open Market Committee forecasts for eight years. Coronado is also president and co-founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC, which leverages the expertise of former Federal Reserve and Treasury senior officials who understand how economic and financial developments impact policy decisions. Coronado has researched and published several papers on pension finances and market valuations, social security, retirement saving adequacy and behavior, the frontier of private and public data collection, and monetary policy.

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Professor , Department of Finance , Red McCombs School of Business
+1 512 471 5853, eronn@mail.utexas.edu

Ehud Ronn is a professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business. He is an expert in the economics of energy, investments, interest rate instruments and energy derivatives. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Ronn served as Vice President, Trading Research Group at Merrill Lynch & Co. Dr. Ronn was the founding director of the UT Center for Energy Finance from 1997 to 2009. From Jan. 2010 to Feb. 2011, Prof. Ronn was Commodity Market Modeling practice area manager at Morgan Stanley & Co. Ronn's research interests are Energy Finance, Fixed Income Analysis, and Derivatives and Risk Management.

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Clinical Professor , School of Law
+1 512 232 1210, hway@law.utexas.edu

Heather K. Way directs the Community Development Clinic. Way has been a practitioner in the field of community development and affordable housing law since 1997. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, she was the founder and Director of Texas Community Building with Attorney Resources, which provides legal education and pro bono legal assistance to nonprofit organizations. Prior to founding Texas C-Bar, Way was a staff attorney at Legal Aid of Central Texas where, as a Skadden Fellow, she represented nonprofit community development corporations and low-income persons seeking to access affordable housing. Way frequently lectures on topics in the area of affordable housing and community development. She is actively involved in the development of public policies related to community development, including land banks, tax delinquent properties, housing preservation, and gentrification. 

The State Bar of Texas Young Lawyers Association presented Way in 2002 with its Outstanding Young Lawyer of Texas award. Way has also been recognized as the 2001 Outstanding Young Lawyer of Austin (by the Austin Young Lawyers Association) and one of the Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 by the Texas Lawyer. Most recently, she was recognized in 2006 as an outstanding "Houser" by the Texas Low Income Housing Information Services. 

Media Contact: Wendy Schneider, wschneider@law.utexas.edu,

Professor , Business, Government and Society
+1 512 232 6844, timothy.werner@mccombs.utexas.edu

Timothy Werner is a professor of business government and society in tthe McCombs School of Business. His areas of expertise are corporate social responsibility, governmental regulation, public policy

Assistant Dean , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 471 8324, +1 512 656 6592, srgreenberg@austin.utexas.edu

Sherri R. Greenberg is assistant dean for State and Local Government Engagement, a professor of Practice and a Fellow of Max Sherman Chair in State and Local Government in the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She is a primary researcher for and is Chairperson elect of Good Systems, The University of Texas Grand Challenge regarding ethical AI. Greenberg has served as a senior advisor to Austin Mayor Steve Adler. She was a Texas state representative from 1991 to 2001 and chaired the House Pensions and Investments Committee and the Select Committee on Teacher Health Insurance. She also served on the House Appropriations, Economic Development, Elections, and Science and Technology Committees. Her teaching and research interests include technology policy, state and local government, housing, homelessness, transportation, healthcare, public finance, campaigns, and elections. Recently, she has had funding from the National Science Foundation, the City of Austin, UT Good Systems, the IBM Center for the Business of Government, the Cisco Foundation, Microsoft, MITRE, and the State of Texas.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Professor , School of Information
+1 512 471 9350, ml@utexas.edu

Matthew Lease is a professor for the School of Information. He researches artificial intelligence combined with human-computer interaction techniques in crowdsourcing and human computation, information retrieval, and natural language processing fields. He is also a faculty founder and leader of UT Austin's Good Systems, an eight-year, university-wide "moonshot" Grand Challenge to design responsible AI technologies. As part of Good Systems, Lease leads a six-year, seven-member faculty project that focuses on developing explainable AI techniques to combat disinformation. One of Lease's ongoing projects is content moderation, which involves using automated, human-in-the-loop, and human-safe practices to curb online disinformation, hate speech, and polarization.

Media Contact: Keisha Brown, keisha.brown@ischool.utexas.edu, 512-471-2608

Professor , Department of Computer Science , College of Natural Sciences
+1 512 471 9796, pstone@cs.utexas.edu

Peter Stone is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and Director of Texas Robotics. He was a co-founder of Cogitai, Inc. and is now Executive Director of Sony AI America. His main research interest in AI is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. He considers adaptation, interaction, and embodiment to be essential capabilities of such agents. He focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. He researches topics that are inspired by challenging real-world problems. His AI applications have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, and human-interactive agents.

 

Media Contact: Christine Sinatra, christine.sinatra@austin.utexas.edu, 512-471-4641

Professor , School of Journalism and Media , Moody College of Communication
+1 512 471 4071, +1 512 471 6676, craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu

Craig Watkins is a professor of Journalism in the Moody College of Communication. His teaching and research interests focus on race, media, youth culture, and hip-hop studies. One dimension of his research, critical media studies, hones in on what he calls the "new urban market" and how it is reshaping American popular culture, media, and everyday life. A second dimension of his research examines youth media behavior and lifestyle trends as well as the underlying sociological currents that shape them. He is the author of Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement and of Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. In addition to his books Watkins is the author of several articles and book chapters examining the intersections between race, social change, and popular culture. Some of his future projects include a new book on the role of urban culture in America's entertainment economy and culture and research on young people and television.

Media Contact: Mary Huber, mary.huber@austin.utexas.edu, 409-790-6902

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 471 8946, busbyj@utexas.edu

Joshua Busby is a professor of Public Affairs and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. He originally joined the LBJ School faculty in fall 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Busby is also a nonresident fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a senior research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security. His teaching areas include Environmental and Energy Policy and Policy Process and Institutions.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Professor and Matthew Van Winkle Regents Professorship in Chemical Engineering , Department of Chemical Engineering , Cockrell School of Engineering
+1 512 471 5633, korgel@che.utexas.edu

Brian A. Korgel is director of UT Energy Institute and is the Rashid Engineering Regents Chair Professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. He also directs the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for a Solar Powered Future (SPF2050), the Nanotechnologies area of the UT Austin Portugal Program at UT, and serves as Associate Editor of the journal, Chemistry of Materials. He is a former Fulbright Fellow and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Alicante in Spain, the Université Josef Fourier in France and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. His areas of expertise include solar power, hydrogen energy development, hydrogen energy industry workforce development, energy nanostructure, nanotech material, electronics, and microelectronics. 

 

Media Contact: Nat Levy, nat.levy@utexas.edu, 512-471-2129

Professor , Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences , Jackson School of Geosciences
, dev.niyogi@jsg.utexas.edu

Dev Niyogi leads The University of Texas Extreme weather and Urban Sustainability "TExUS" Lab. Their research seeks to significantly contribute to our understanding of the Earth system, particularly the urban and agricultural landscapes, and the dynamic role of coupled land surface processes on regional hydroclimatic extremes. The Lab translates the scientific work undertaken into decision tools and portals with a particular focus on sustainable climate-ready/resilient coastal, cities, and agricultural systems.  His work has been highlighted in various media outlets including in the popular press such as Yahoo!, MSNBC, Wired, CNN, LiveScience, National Geographic, Tedx Talk, NASA press releases. At UT Austin, Niyogi is also part of the Theme Organizing Committee of the Planet Texas 2050

Media Contact: Anton Caputo, anton.caputo@jsg.utexas.edu, 512-232-9623

Research Scientist , Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
, joshdr@austin.utexas.edu

Joshua Rhodes is a research scientist in the Webber Group in the Cockrell School of Engineering.  His current work is in the area of smart grid and the bulk electricity system, including spatial system-level applications and impacts of energy efficiency, resource planning, distributed generation, and storage. He is also interested in policy and the impacts that good policy can have on the efficiency of the micro and macro economy. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes and is an AXIOS Expert Voice. 

Professor , Department of Finance , Red McCombs School of Business
+1 512 471 5853, eronn@mail.utexas.edu

Ehud Ronn is a professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business. He is an expert in the economics of energy, investments, interest rate instruments and energy derivatives. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Ronn served as Vice President, Trading Research Group at Merrill Lynch & Co. Dr. Ronn was the founding director of the UT Center for Energy Finance from 1997 to 2009. From Jan. 2010 to Feb. 2011, Prof. Ronn was Commodity Market Modeling practice area manager at Morgan Stanley & Co. Ronn's research interests are Energy Finance, Fixed Income Analysis, and Derivatives and Risk Management.

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Professor , School of Law
+1 512 232 1369, david.spence@mccombs.utexas.edu

David Spence is The Rex G. Baker Centennial Chair in Natural Resources Law and a professor of Business Government & Society at the McCombs School of Business. His research and teaching focuses on business-government relations and the regulation of business, particularly energy and environmental regulation. Before coming to academia, he was a practicing attorney representing public utilities, energy companies and others in connection with a wide variety of environmental and energy regulatory matters.

Media Contact: Wendy Schneider, wschneider@law.utexas.edu,

John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair, Professor , Mechanical Engineering , Cockrell School of Engineering
+1 512 475 6867, webber@mail.utexas.edu

Michael E. Webber is the John J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in the Department of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and the chief technology officer of Energy Impact Partners, a $3 billion cleantech venture fund. Webber’s expertise spans research and education at the convergence of engineering, policy, and commercialization on innovation, energy, and the environment. He focuses on energy policies, food, energy and water, alternative and renewable energy, energy in Texas, smart grid, and the power sector. His book Power Trip: The Story of Energy was published in 2019 with an award-winning 12-part companion series spread out over two seasons that aired on PBS, Amazon Prime, AppleTV, and in-flight entertainment on American Airlines. He was selected as a Fellow of ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and as a member of the 4th class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars, a leadership training program organized by Presidents George W. Bush and William J. Clinton. 

Media Contact: Nat Levy, nat.levy@utexas.edu, 512-471-2129

Professor , Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management , Red McCombs School of Business
+1 512 471 6394, edward.anderson@mccombs.utexas.edu

Edward Anderson is a professor of supply chain and operations management for McCombs School of Business. Within the school’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, he has taught supply chain and operations management courses, project management, health care, and new venture design and implementation for the BBA, MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs. Anderson has also served as director of the McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center, a research center specializing in innovation in healthcare delivery. Anderson worked as a product design engineer in the automotive industry and currently holds six patents. Numerous national media outlets have featured Anderson for his expertise in supply chain innovation, disruption, outsourcing, and industrial policy. 

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Associate Director , Clements Center for National Security
, paul.edgar@austin.utexas.edu

Paul Edgar is the interim executive director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security. He studies the historical origins of diplomacy, war, and strategy in pre-classical antiquity. Before entering academia, Paul served more than 22 years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. He deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom I as the security advisor to Vice Admiral (Ret.) John Scott Redd in the Coalition Provisional Authority. Paul returned to Iraq during the 2006-2007 surge, and then deployed to Afghanistan in 2008-2009 for counterinsurgency and combat operations. Subsequently, he served as the executive assistant to the commander of the Kingdom of Jordan’s Special Operations Command; the battalion commander of 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry in The Old Guard; and as the political advisor for Israeli affairs to the United States Security Coordinator in Jerusalem. 
 

Associate Professor , Department of History , College of Liberal Arts
, monica.martinez1@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Monica Muñoz Martinez an associate professor in the Department of History, in the College of Liberal Arts. She is an award-winning author, educator, and historian, specializing in the history of race, racial violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, public humanities, digital humanities, and restorative justice. She is the author of "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" and a founding member of the non-profit organization Refusing to Forget.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Director of the Intelligence Studies Project , Intelligence Studies Project
+1 512 471 0814, sbslick@austin.utexas.edu

Stephen Slick is a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a director for the Intelligence Studies Project.  Before moving to Austin, he served 28 years in CIA's clandestine service including five assignments abroad.  Between 2005 and 2009, he was a special assistant to the president and the Senior Director for Intelligence Programs and Reform on the staff of the National Security Council.  He received a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University, J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, and Master in Public Policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 475 7242, suri@austin.utexas.edu

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He's published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Atlantic, Newsweek, Time, Wired, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other media. Professor Suri hosts a weekly podcast, "This is Democracy." Suri's main research interests are the formation and spread of nation-states, modern international relations, the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 471 2956, jangel@austin.utexas.edu

Jacqueline L. Angel is professor of Public Affairs and Sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Population Research Center and Center on Aging and Population Sciences. She focuses on Hispanic health and demographics; aging policy; social policies; long-term care. She evaluates policies' impact on the health of vulnerable groups and how cultural heterogeneity affects health service programs. Angel's work includes a study of older Mexican Americans' health, assessing nativity and migration's impact on health outcomes and implications for long-term care policy. She also researches the role of civil society and non-governmental organizations in caring for low-income elderly in the US and Latin America.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Research Associate Professor , Office of the Associate Dean for Research
, elisa.borah@austin.utexas.edu

Elisa V. Borah is a research associate professor and director of the Institute for Military and Veteran Family Wellness at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. She researches and evaluates programming and support for military and veteran families, focusing on social support, self-care, and transition needs. She also studies veteran suicide prevention and chairs the annual Military Social Work conference at UT Austin.

Associate Director , School of Social Work
, ariel.britt@austin.utexas.edu

Ariel “Air” Britt is the associate director of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work.  Most of her career has been focused on developing substance use prevention, intervention, and recovery support services for youth and young adults. Air’s interests are public relations, community building, and service. In 2019, she created an award-winning podcast Beauty in the Grit. It shares true stories from her own journey in recovery and others that have inspired her along the way. In 2021, she served as a political appointee for the Biden-Harris Administration at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 

Media Contact: J.D. Moore, jordan.moore@austin.utexas.edu, 512-471-1458

Assistant Professor , School of Social Work
, kasey.claborn@austin.utexas.edu

Kasey Claborn is an assistant professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. Claborn is a licensed clinical psychologist, the Steve Hicks Fellow of Addiction and Recovery Services and Director of the Addictions Research Institute. Claborn’s research focuses on improving the addiction care system through community-based participatory research methods and system science. She has expertise in designing and building digital technologies to improve care coordination and community overdose prevention efforts. In 2021, Claborn received an international award from Google for her work in building innovative technologies for social impact. Claborn’s current work uses innovative methods to combine traditional and non-traditional overdose surveillance methods to inform data-driven community response.

Media Contact: J.D. Moore, jordan.moore@austin.utexas.edu, 512-471-1458

Assistant Professor , Department of Government , College of Liberal Arts
, michael.shepherd@austin.utexas.edu

Michael Shepherd is an assistant professor of Government in the College of Liberal Arts. His research interests are in American politics and public policy. Specifically, his work focuses on the politics of health and health policy as well as the experiences of marginalized social groups with the government. Additionally, Michael's research addresses questions of class and inequality, race and racism, and political communication in American politics. 

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Associate Professor , Department of Government , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 232 7276, balberts@austin.utexas.edu

Bethany Albertson is an associate professor in the Department of Government in the College of Liberal Arts. Her work explores political psychology and public opinion. She conducts research and writes on topics such as elections, democratic norms, and campaigns. Recently, her focus has been on the impact of anxiety on attitudes towards immigration.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Assistant Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
, garcia.rios@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Sergio Garcia-Rios is assistant professor for the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He specializes in researching topics such as immigration, Latino political participation, and public opinion. He is currently serving as the director of polling and data at Univision News, where he has been conducting extensive polling to gauge the pulse of the Latino electorate. In 2022, he conducted the largest poll on Latino and Black voters in Texas, and in 2023, he conducted the largest conservative Latino poll. He plans to continue conducting polls in key states during the electoral cycle.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Associate Professor , Department of History , College of Liberal Arts
, monica.martinez1@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Monica Muñoz Martinez an associate professor in the Department of History, in the College of Liberal Arts. She is an award-winning author, educator, and historian, specializing in the history of race, racial violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, public humanities, digital humanities, and restorative justice. She is the author of "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas" and a founding member of the non-profit organization Refusing to Forget.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , Department of Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 232 6300, nrodriguez@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Nestor Rodriguez is a professor of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts. He has conducted international research in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, and has traveled and lectured in China and Japan. His present research focuses on Guatemalan migration, U.S. deportations to Mexico and Central America, the unauthorized migration of unaccompanied minors, evolving relations between Latinos and African Americans/Asian Americans, and ethical and human rights issues of border enforcement.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Department Chair, Mexican American and Latino/a Studies , College of Liberal Arts
, karma.chavez@utexas.edu

Karma Chávez is the Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies in the College of Liberal Arts. Chávez's research interests include queer politics and LGBTQ social movements, LGBTQ immigration issues, and histories of HIV/AIDS. She is the host of UT's LGBTQ Studies podcast, Audio QT, and she is a former organizer of LGBT Books to Prisoners, a program in Madison, Wisconsin, that sends books and educational materials to incarcerated queer and trans people. 

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Assistant Professor , School of Social Work
, kasey.claborn@austin.utexas.edu

Kasey Claborn is an assistant professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. Claborn is a licensed clinical psychologist, the Steve Hicks Fellow of Addiction and Recovery Services and Director of the Addictions Research Institute. Claborn’s research focuses on improving the addiction care system through community-based participatory research methods and system science. She has expertise in designing and building digital technologies to improve care coordination and community overdose prevention efforts. In 2021, Claborn received an international award from Google for her work in building innovative technologies for social impact. Claborn’s current work uses innovative methods to combine traditional and non-traditional overdose surveillance methods to inform data-driven community response.

Media Contact: J.D. Moore, jordan.moore@austin.utexas.edu, 512-471-1458

Distinguished Senior Lecturer , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
+1 512 232 2562, +1 512 296 7212, michele.deitch@austin.utexas.edu

Michele Deitch holds a joint appointment as a distinguished senior lecturer at the LBJ School and the Law School, and she directs LBJ's Prison and Jail Innovation Lab (PJIL), a national policy resource center seeking to improve conditions of confinement and correctional oversight. She is an attorney with more than 35 years of experience working on criminal justice policy issues with state and local government officials, corrections leaders, justice system practitioners, and advocates. Most of Deitch's current research focuses on independent prison oversight, deaths in custody, and prison and jail management and conditions issues.

Media Contact: Tori Yu, victoriajyu@austin.utexas.edu, 512-232-4054

Professor , Department of Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 471 8377, cmuller@austin.utexas.edu

Chandra Muller is a professor for the Department of Sociology, in the College of Liberal Arts. Chandra Muller's current research is on how schools and education shape life course outcomes such as work and health.  In particular, she focuses on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) preparation and careers.  Of primary interest is the diversity in experiences and disparities according to gender, race and ethnicity, social class, as well as disability, immigration or language minority status. She co-authored  "Coming of Political Age: American Schools and the Civic Development of Immigrant Youth".

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Professor , School of Journalism and Media , Moody College of Communication
+1 512 471 4071, +1 512 471 6676, craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu

Craig Watkins is a professor of Journalism in the Moody College of Communication. His teaching and research interests focus on race, media, youth culture, and hip-hop studies. One dimension of his research, critical media studies, hones in on what he calls the "new urban market" and how it is reshaping American popular culture, media, and everyday life. A second dimension of his research examines youth media behavior and lifestyle trends as well as the underlying sociological currents that shape them. He is the author of Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement and of Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. In addition to his books Watkins is the author of several articles and book chapters examining the intersections between race, social change, and popular culture. Some of his future projects include a new book on the role of urban culture in America's entertainment economy and culture and research on young people and television.

Media Contact: Mary Huber, mary.huber@austin.utexas.edu, 409-790-6902

Professor , Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management , Red McCombs School of Business
+1 512 471 6394, edward.anderson@mccombs.utexas.edu

Edward Anderson is a professor of supply chain and operations management for McCombs School of Business. Within the school’s Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, he has taught supply chain and operations management courses, project management, health care, and new venture design and implementation for the BBA, MBA, Ph.D., and Executive Education programs. Anderson has also served as director of the McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center, a research center specializing in innovation in healthcare delivery. Anderson worked as a product design engineer in the automotive industry and currently holds six patents. Numerous national media outlets have featured Anderson for his expertise in supply chain innovation, disruption, outsourcing, and industrial policy. 

Media Contact: Judie Kinonen, judie.kinonen@mccombs.utexas.edu,

Director, Microelectronics Research Center , Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
+1 512 471 6730, +1 512 924 4799, banerjee@austin.utexas.edu

Sanjay Banerjee is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Microelectronics Research Center. His work is particularly relevant considering the CHIPS in America Act, which aims to boost domestic semiconductor production and research in the United States. His research in the areas of advanced MOSFETs and beyond-CMOS nanoelectronic transistors based on 2D materials can help in the development of more efficient and powerful microchips. His work is at the forefront of research and development in the semiconductor industry, crucial to maintaining America's technological leadership. 

Executive Director WiSTEM , Division of Campus and Community Engagement
, triciaberry@utexas.edu

Tricia Berry leads efforts to broaden participation in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) by creating an inspired community of confident STEM leaders as the executive director of Women in STEM (WiSTEM) at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a nationally recognized leader in Broadening Participation in STEM and STEM Education. With over 25 years of experience, her additional expertise includes STEM Workforce Development, Effective STEM Messaging and Engagement, Strategies to Engage Girls/Women in STEM, STEM Role Model Effective Strategies, Informal STEM Curriculum Development and Facilitation, Engaging Volunteers and Role Models, and Leadership and Career Development.

David Allen Cockrell Chair in Engineering, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #7, Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering , Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering , Cockrell School of Engineering
+1 512 471 6546, sv.sreeni@mail.utexas.edu

S.V. Sreenivasan is the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair #7 in Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering. S.V. Sreenivasan is a researcher and inventor in the field of nanotechnology, focusing on creating new nanofabrication techniques for application in electronics, displays, and the healthcare sector. He has published over 130 articles and holds more than 100 U.S. patents. Sreenivasan is the director of a interdiciplinary research center, the NASCENT Center funded by the National Science Foundation, which studies nanomanufacturing. Dr. Sreenivasan has received many awards for his work, including recognition from the World Economic Forum and the National Academy of Engineering. With research foci on advanced design and manufacturing, he can discuss the CHIPS for America Act, the importance to national security and economic stability of the U.S. maintaining leadership in the semiconductor industry, and workforce development to support the industry's future growth.
 

Media Contact: Nat Levy, nat.levy@utexas.edu, 512-471-2129

Associate Professor , Department of History , College of Liberal Arts
+1 512 736 1002, lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu

Laurie Green is an associate professor for the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts. Her central research areas include the politics of race and gender in the twentieth-century U.S., social movements, and cultural studies. She teaches modern U.S. history, concentrating on women and gender in twentieth-century America, the Civil Rights Movement, the South, African-American history and comparative race and ethnicity. She earned the 2008 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize for her book "Battling the 'Plantation Mentality': Race, Gender and Freedom in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era" (2007). The book was also a finalist for the 2008 OAH Liberty Legacy Award.

Media Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer, oppenheimer@utexas.edu, 512-475-9712

Principal Investigator , Texas Policy Evaluation Project
+1 512 232 1791, klwhite@prc.utexas.edu

Kari White is an associate professor in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and Department of Sociology. She is also the executive and scientific director of Resound Research for Reproductive Health, a multidisciplinary collaborative of social scientists and healthcare professionals. White has expertise in reproductive health policy and health service delivery, informed by her research that uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research projects aim to assess how policies related to abortion and contraception (including vasectomy) affect people’s reproductive healthcare outcomes and experiences seeking and obtaining care, with a geographic focus on Texas and surrounding states.