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

Expertise: Bethany Albertson is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at UT Austin. She received her PhD in political science and a graduate certificate in social psychology from the University of Chicago. She is a political psychologist and her research interests include American public opinion, emotion, and experimental methods. She researches and writes on elections, democratic norms, and campaigns.

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
asdar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3550, +1 512 471 4206, +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

Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
m.baker@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Multinational corporate law; international trade law; legal aspects of terrorism; international law; business.

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.

Clinical Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
cbrownson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6990

Expertise: Research interests include mental health public policy, college student mental health and suicide prevention, collaborative care models of behavioral health in primary care, and the intersection of mental health and academic success.

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, environmental history, digital history, educational technology. Water politics in the West, the history of Glen Canyon Dam, and Climate change.

Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
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.

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: digital media; global media; entrepreneurship; social capital; social networks; China; US-China relation

Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Liberal Arts
crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8329

Expertise: Life Course & Human Development, Children & Youth, Education, Health, Family, Immigration, Adolescents.

Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
ian@ig.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0431, +1 512 471 6156

Expertise: Tectonics, geodynamics, geography of ancient times, plate reconstructions, structural geology

Director of Horticulture, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, School of Architecture
adelongamaya@wildflower.org
+1 512 232 0114

Expertise: Native plants; horticulture; garden design

Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
eddorn@utexas.edu

Expertise: International affairs; national security/ defense policy; human resources policy (especially military personnel); civil rights/ race relations; policy making (especially the executive branch); federal education policy; African politics, business

Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
toni@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0603, +1 512 471 8020

Expertise: Falbo uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address problems in education and health. She is an internationally recognized expert on only children, including their academic, social, emotional, and health outcomes. Falbo is also an expert on conducting cross-cultural research and research aimed at improving the education of ethnic minorities in the U.S.

Professor and Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair Emeritus in Mineral Resources, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
wfisher@jsg.utexas.edu

Expertise: Basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, petroleum geology, resource assessment, energy policy

Professor and Paul D.& Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professorship in Engineering & Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
wallace.fowler@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Spacecraft and Mission Design; Aircraft Design; Vehicle Modeling; Lunar and Planetary Exploration Systems; Multimedia Engineering Education

Professor and T.U. Taylor Professorship in Engineering; Joe J. King Chair of Engineering No. 2; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
dwf@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Polymer-concrete materials; Structural building systems in wood and reinforced concrete; Concrete aggregates

Department Chair, Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School
charles.fraser@austin.utexas.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
cfrick@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: film/media preservation; digital libraries; media history; moving image archiving; online streaming platforms

Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
galbraith@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1244

Expertise: Macroeconomic policy; monetary policy, economic development policies; comparative economic policy; economic inequality

Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9126, +1 512 471 3607
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Russian language teaching methodology; Critical pedagogies in World Languages; Applied linguistics; Contemporary Russian culture; Russian popular culture; Contemporary Russian media; Masculinity Studies; Mexican/Latino masculinities; DEAIB

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

Associate Professor, Department of Design
cgorman@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0901

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

Professor and Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
jirsa@utexas.edu

Expertise: Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures; Earthquake engineering; Repair and rehabilitation of structures

Director (0379), Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
jfjunkin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4093

Expertise: classical music, wind ensemble/band music, conducting, band programs

Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
mjustiz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1695

Expertise: Bringing the experience of 28 years as dean of the College of Education, Justiz shares his expertise in topics of public policy, the politics of education, and providing equal access for minorities in education.

Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
yeonsoo.kim@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: PR issues with actors athletes and influencers; strategic communication; corporate social responsibilty; reputation and crisis management

Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry
william.lawson@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Mental Health, Violence and Mental Illness, Racial and Ethnic Issues in Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Substance Abuse, Ethnic Disparities in Care, Access to Care, Ethnic Issues in Pharmacotherapy

F. J. Heyne Centennial Professor Emerita in Communication, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
weina@utexas.edu

Expertise: advertising, education; practice; communication process; how culture influences consumer response to communication; personal factors; message design; psychological response); communicating philanthropy and corporate social responsibility (CSR); overcoming skepticism

Senior Associate Dean and DIO of Graduate Medical Education, Department of Medical Education, Dell Medical School
jonathan.macclements@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5104

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

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

Dean Emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
smosher@jsg.utexas.edu

Expertise: Structural petrology, field-oriented structural geology, the evolution of complexly deformed terranes, strain analysis, deformation mechanisms, the interaction between chemical and physical processes during deformation

The Matthew P. Nemeroff Endowed Chair, Dell Medical School
cnemeroff@austin.utexas.edu

Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
shannonbow@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7213

Expertise: American Politics, American Presidency, Presidential Speechmaking, eugenics, disenfranchisement

Professor Emeritus, Department of Special Education, College of Education
r.parker@utexas.edu

Expertise: Rehabilitation counseling; adjustment to disabling conditions; vocational assessment; research design and data analysis

Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College, 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.

Department Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
preyes@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8569
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: I study student success for children experiencing poverty. I analyze how school leadership and state policy facilitate student success across the education pipeline.

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

Expertise: 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, 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.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
jstaiger@utexas.edu

Expertise: Theoretician and historian of American film and television

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3555, +1 512 471 4206, +1 512 471 8524

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.

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

Expertise: Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs. He is a professor 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.

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

Professor Emeritus, College of Pharmacy
talbert@uthscsa.edu

Expertise: Cardiovascular therapeutics, stroke prevention and treatment, clinical trial design and evaluation, lipid disorders

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

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.

Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences
uri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2271, +1 512 471 6190

Expertise: Education Policy; mathematics education; economics of education; educational equity; education program design and evaluation volunteerism

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

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

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
rachel.white@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Examines issue of power and voice in education policy making and implementation processes, with a focus on public school district superintendents and school boards.

Professor and Rashid Engineering Regents Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
willson@che.utexas.edu

Expertise: Polymers, materials, and processes for microelectronics; Photoresists; Liquid crystals; Computer simulation; Mass transport studies; Kinetics; Graft polymerization; Biosensor arrays; Novel processes for producing nanometer scale structures

Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing
lyoder@mail.nur.utexas.edu

Expertise: Veteran-related issues, oncology, evidence-based practice, career development relationships, and health services systems