Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
brendon.bankey@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: The role of Clint Eastwood and his films in the Nixon administration's re-election efforts and the New Right conservative movement

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4991, +1 512 471 7840

Expertise: Health humanities; literature and medicine; American Literature, 1860-1930; literary realism

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

Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
cardenas@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6897

Expertise: Hydrology and Hydrogeology

Associate Professor of Practice, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
dching@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2093

Expertise: classical music, chamber music, string quartet, chamber music coaching, violin teacher, string pedagogy

Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2355

Expertise: Ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture; classical archaeology; digital modeling; contemporary art and criticism; gender studies; art-historical methodology; cultural studies

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

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

Expertise: Paul Edgar is the Interim Executive Director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas and 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. https://www.clementscenter.org/person/paul-edgar-2/

Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8738, +1 512 475 9520

Expertise: Stratigraphy, basin analysis, basin-scale fluid flow, pore pressures in seafloor sediments, submarine landslides, oil and gas migration, methane hydrates, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

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

Associate Professor of Practice, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
jgindele@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1526

Expertise: Classical music, Chamber music, String quartet, Media relations, PR, Record production

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
lalitha.gopalan@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4071

Expertise: Film theory; feminist film theory; contemporary world cinemas; Indian cinema; genre films; experimental film and video

Associate Dean for Professional Programs, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
noah.isenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6680, +1 917 689 6453

Expertise: media studies; industry/history/criticism; identity and representation; classical Hollywood; independent cinema; Weimar cinema; Émigrés in Hollywood

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 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

Associate Professor of Practice, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
jlargess@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9540

Expertise: string quartet, classical music, performance, chamber music, coaching, Ludwig van Beethoven

Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
matz@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 992 8086

Expertise: climate change, ecology, epigenetics, evolution

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
samantha.pinto@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3434
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Feminist, gender, and sexuality theory; African American and African diaspora literature, culture, and theory; postcolonial literature; aesthetics; celebrity; black studies; and divorce.

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
register@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 567 3748

Expertise: Theory of electronic and optoelectronic devices, particularly at the nano-scale; Semi-classical and quantum mechanical device modeling; Alternative materials and geometries for CMOS (?non-classical? CMOS); Alternative state variables and switching methods (?beyond CMOS?)

Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies
matt.smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5327

Expertise: Lighting Design, Projection Design, 3D Projection Mapping, and Media Management

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

Expertise: Theoretician and historian of American film and television