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D. Michelle Addington
Dean, School of Architecture
addington@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1922
Expertise: Sustainability; Smart Materials; Building Physics; Lighting; History of Building Technology; Leadership

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

John R Allison
Professor Emeritus, Department of Business, Government and Society, Red McCombs School of Business
john.allison@utexas.edu
Expertise: Patents and other areas of intellectual property such as trade secrets copyrights and trademarks; business.

Ronen Avraham
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
ravraham@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1357
Expertise: Torts, Tort Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Law, Law and Economics

Frank N Bash
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
fnbash@gmail.com
Expertise: Telescopes; star formation; spiral galaxies

J E Bickel
Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
ebickel@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8316
Expertise: Decision making under uncertainty; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy

Robert G Bone
Professor and G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law, School of Law
rbone@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1233
Expertise: Class action, federal civil procedure, complex litigation, and intellectual property, especially trademark and trade secret law.

Leigh B Boske
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
leigh.boske@utexas.edu
Expertise: Dr. Boske's teaching and research interests have focused on transportation policy, economics and finance. His published research has been on national and international transport policy issues, the role of transportation and logistics in international trade, and multimodal/intermodal transport planning.

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.

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

John C Butler
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Red McCombs School of Business
butlerjc@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6821
Expertise: Dr. Butler's research focuses on the Decision Sciences: decision analysis, operations, information systems, management science and statistics. He serves as Secretary/Treasurer of INFORMS Decision Analysis Society, an organization comprised of over 900 academics and practitioners in the field of decision analysis. For EMIC, Dr. Butler is focused on building energy-specific business curriculum. He teaches MBA-level energy finance classes and supervises student participation in practicums and case competitions.

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

Elizabeth J Catlos
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
ejcatlos@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4762
Expertise: Can also see https://www.catlos.work/
My primary research focus is <strong>geochemistry</strong>, and how the fundamentals of chemistry (mineral reactions, radiogenic and stable isotopes, major and trace elements) can be and are used to understand what the Earth was like in the past. In this, I have interests that span a broad range of range of plate boundary processes and laboratory approaches. Many ancient fault systems are clues to determine the evolution and migration of Earth's continents in the past, identify important economic resources that formed during specific times in Earth's history, and/or to assess geological hazards that result due to reactivation of older faults or mass movement of rocks. They are used to understand how plate tectonics operates today and how it operated in the past. I am interested in constraining the evolution of a number of fault systems and mountain ranges that formed during the closure of ancient ocean systems primarily across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
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<br>For example, a major portion of my <strong>Himalayan research </strong> agenda involves constraining past motion on the Main Central Thrust, a large-scale shear zone that worked to create the highest mountains on the planet. I currently use novel geochemical and geochronological approaches that take advantage of modern-day technology to understand how <strong> garnet-bearing rocks </strong> moved at a high-resolution scale within that structure. Garnets are chemical tape recorders, and their chemical elements can be used to ascertain the pressures and temperatures they experienced. They also enclose radioactive minerals, such as monazite, that can be dated to time their history. Data from numerous garnet-bearing rocks across the Main Central Thrust can be used to inform us regarding how and when the Himalayas uplifted in the past, and lend insight into the motion that affects it today. To this end, I collaborate and learn from other researchers, such as geophysicists and modelers.
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<br>I apply similar approaches to garnet-bearing rocks found in extensional systems in western <strong>Turkey</strong>. In this region, the plate boundary experienced a major switch in the geological past from compression to extension. Again, I apply new approaches in the thermodynamic modeling and geochronology to garnets in this locale to understand why and how this plate tectonic transition occurred.
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<br>In this portion of my research, I also include the study of <strong>granites</strong>, as these igneous bodies emplaced during the extensional phase. The timing of their formation is key pieces of information regarding how extension occurred in western Turkey, both in time and space. To this end, I pioneered new imaging approaches to their study, and collaborate with economic geologists in Turkey who are interested in how heat and fluid flow around these granite bodies are intricately involved in the formation of ore resources. Their research sparked my interest in granite petrology, and I also study this rock type in China and Slovakia. Some of these granites formed at ancient plate boundaries as continents collided, and their ages and chemistry constrain when and what types of geological processes operated during their formation.
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<br>The approaches I apply (geochemistry and geochronology) are of interest to a wide variety of researchers, so I collaborate and involve students in projects that include other geologists. An example of this is the dating of radioactive minerals from <strong>ancient meteorite impact craters and massive volcanic eruptions</strong>, events that are key for shaping how life evolved in Earth's history. These projects involve the use of modern and ever-evolving <strong>technological advances in geochemistry</strong>, such as the laser ablation of tiny zircon crystals, or the use of instruments that do not require minerals to be separated from rocks, such as secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS).
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<br>I am interested in <strong>accessory minerals</strong>, such as zircon and monazite, and what controls their appearance in metamorphic and igneous rocks. Monazite, in particular, has been a focus of my research and I have key expertise in its formation, composition, geochronology, and its use as a rare earth resource.
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<br>Although my research primarily involves compressional and extensional plate boundaries and igneous and metamorphic rocks, I recently delved into understanding sedimentary rocks from along the North Anatolian Fault, a major strike-slip system in north-central Turkey. In this research, we obtained oxygen isotopes across transects along calcite-filled fractures in limestones using SIMS. These calcite-filled fractures have the potential to record their source and provide key insight into the history of the limestones as well as their use for recording modern day fluid flow driven by seismic activity along the active fault system.
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<br>Fundamentally, my research is <strong>field-based</strong> and involves the mapping and collection of rocks and understanding their importance in addressing research questions regarding what the Earth was like in the past. The research is <strong>laboratory-based</strong>, and I take advantage of modern advances in technology applied to geosciences, including numerous facilities at UT Austin and elsewhere.

Richard J Chuchla
Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program Director, JSG Energy and Earth Resources
richard.chuchla@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9510
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Graduate studies were focused on igneous processes, magmatism and related formation of ore deposits. Professional career included exploration for base and precious metal ore deposits, coal assessment and development, and research, exploration and development in the upstream sector of the oil and gas business. Managerial positions led to development of skills in commercial analysis, strategic planning and valuation. Concurrently, led numerous teams negotiating new contracts which led to a strong grounding in analysis of fiscal regimes and petroleum contracts. Familiar with many of the world's basins and experienced in both conventional deepwater and unconventional resources.
Remain very interested in the technology of extractive industries and related commercial and policy issues. As Director of the Energy and Earth Resources graduate program, my personal learning objective is to broaden and deepen my understanding of renewable resources.
Have a personal passion regarding the workings of the creative process and how it is impeded. Wrote a widely read internal company newsletter called Creative Contemplations.

Hsiang Chyi
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
chyi@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0553
Expertise: new media; online newspaper markets; subscription models; multi-platform newspapers

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

Mechele Dickerson
Professor, School of Law
mdickerson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1311
Expertise: Consumer debt, U.S. housing crisis, income and wealth inequality, student loans, remedies

Edwin Dorn
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

Ian J Duncan
Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
ian.duncan@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5117
Expertise: Expertise in geomechanic and geochemistry applied to: risks associated with CO2 sequestration; hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production; environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing; and the water-energy nexus. Current research focuses on the scientific, environmental and public policy aspects of unconventional natural gas production, the water-energy nexus, and carbon capture and storage. He has a particular interest in risk analysis, decision making, and legal/regulatory issues related to fracing, CO2 sequestration, CO2-EOR, and energy production.

William L Fisher
Professor and Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair Emeritus in Mineral Resources, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
wfisher@jsg.utexas.edu
Expertise: Basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, petroleum geology, resource assessment, energy policy

Kenneth Flamm
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
kflamm@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Flamm, an expert on the economics of trade and investment in high technology industries, has published extensively on the economics of the semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries. He has worked closely with the semiconductor industry's SEMATECH research consortium in building economic models describing the impact of technological innovation on industrial competition in that industry.

Peter B Flemings
Professor, Department of Geological 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)

William E Forbath
Professor, School of Law
wforbath@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1326
Expertise: Constitutional law, legal history, social and economic rights in courts, social movements of Africa, Texas low-income housing

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

James K Galbraith
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

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

Michael H Granof
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business
michael.granof@mccombs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Governmental and nonprofit accounting and finance, financial accounting and reporting, auditing

Sherri R Greenberg
Assistant Dean, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
srgreenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8324, +1 512 656 6592
Expertise: A member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1991-2001, Greenberg?s areas of expertise include state and local government, public finance and budgeting, education, health care, transportation, and campaigns and elections in the state of Texas.

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.

Patricia I Hansen
Professor, School of Law
phansen@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1321
Expertise: International trade law; North American Free Trade Agreement; business

Robert E Hebner
Director, Center for Electromechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
r.hebner@cem.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1628
Expertise: Microgrid performance; electrical process in algal biofuels production; electrical insulation; Electricity generation and storage; space power; electric energy; standards; technology policy; university-industry-government collaboration in technology; technology and economic development; electric guns; hybrid electric vehicles; electric locomotives; flywheel batteries; electric generators and motors; high voltage; environment & earth science.

Peter H Hennings
Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
peter.hennings@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0156
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: My expertise is applied structural geology and geomechanics for which his interests are broad spanning structural systems analysis, subsurface interpretation, fault system characterization, fractured reservoir characterization, reservoir geomechanics, and subsurface fluid flow. Dr. Hennings is known as an integrator which is vital for the study of induced seismicity for which he is now known globally. I am currently not recruiting graduate students for my supervision.

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.

Jennifer J Holme
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
jholme@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Focuses on the politics and implementation of educational policy with an emphasis on school reform, equity and diversity in schools.

Susan D Hovorka
Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
susan.hovorka@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4863
Expertise: Geologic carbon sequestration in deep sedimentary environments as part of carbon capture and storage. PI of the Gulf Coast Caron Center (www.gulfcoastcarbon.org) focused on research relevant to commercial development of geologic sequestration in regions where it is both needed and possible. Monitoring field projects.
Petrography and sedimentology supporting hydrogeology in karst and contaminated systems.
K-12 and public outreach and education.

Henry T Hu
Professor, School of Law
hhu@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1373
Expertise: Law and economics of corporate and international finance; swaps; derivatives; securities; banking; corporate governance; hedge funds; mutual funds; new financial products and financial innovation; corporate hedging; investment and risk management; business, economics & labor

Huriya Jabbar
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
jabbar@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Examines the social and political dimensions of market-based reforms and privatization in education, including school choice and decision-making in K-12 and higher education contexts.

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

Calvin H Johnson
Professor, School of Law
cjohnson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1306
Expertise: Federal tax law; constitutional law; accounting; business, economics & labor.

Manuel J Justiz
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.

Deena Kemp
Assistant Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
dkemp@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: persuasion; emotion; behavioral economics in decision-making

Charles Kerans
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
ckerans@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3519, +1 512 471 4282
Expertise: Carbonate sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, reservoir characterization, basin analysis, seismic interpretation, seismic stratigraphy, paleokarst analysis, carbonate diagenesis

Carey W King
Research Scientist, Energy Institute
careyking@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5468
Expertise: Energy and renewable energy generation, usage, conservation, policy, and education; energy systems approaches; energy return on energy invested, net energy; carbon capture and sequestration; nexus of water and energy; renewable energy and electricity integration

Karrol A Kitt
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
kkitt@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Personal Finance (Insurance, cash management, spending plans, financial spreadsheets, credit, financial behavior); Family Resource Management (values, standards, & goals; mananging change; decision making; organization; work at home & at the workplace)

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

Kara Kockelman
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0210
Expertise: Travel behavior; traffic safety; urban form and land development; transportation planning and policy-making.

Prabhudev C Konana
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
prabhudev.konana@mccombs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Global sourcing, supply chain management, electronic commerce, virtual communities

Alan J Kuperman
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
akuperman@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8245
Expertise: Ethnic conflict, U.S. military intervention, nuclear proliferation, humanitarian intervention, America foreign policy

J. Richard Kyle
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
rkyle@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4351
Expertise: Ore deposits geology, mineral resources and society, geology and supply chains of critical materials, minerals exploration and evaluation, industrial mineral resources, origin of ore-forming fluids in sedimentary environments, fluid inclusions, stable isotopes, salt dome cap rock formation, surficial processes and earth resource formation, high resolution X-ray computed tomography applications to petrology, adaptive reuse of mining and processing sites.

Larry W Lake
Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
larry_lake@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3161, +1 512 471 8233
Expertise: Enhanced oil recovery; Reservoir engineering; Reservoir characterization; Geochemical modeling; Simulation

Stephen E Laubach
Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
steve.laubach@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1534, +1 512 471 6303
Expertise: Structural diagenesis, structural geology, fracture analysis, fluid inclusion and cathodoluminescence studies, rock mechanics, mechanical and fracture stratigraphy, hydrocarbon exploration and development in deep and/or structurally complex areas, tight gas sandstone, coalbed methane, shale gas; geothermal, geologic aspects of hydraulic fracturing, application of borehole-imaging geophysical logs to stress and fracture evaluation, structural evolution of North American Cordillera, fracture history of NW Scotland, regional fracture studies Argentina.

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, childrens learning, social learning, science education, biological education, evolution; ritual, religious cognition, science and religion

Benjamin D Leibowicz
Associate Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
bleibowicz@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9550
Expertise: Integrated assessment modeling; technological change; energy and climate policy analysis; energy system modeling; energy economics; innovation

Stephen T Limberg
Professor, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business
stephen.limberg@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5347, +1 512 471 7698
Expertise: U.S. federal income taxation of partnerships; U.S. federal income taxation of international transactions

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

Angela K Littwin
Professor, School of Law
alittwin@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5561
Expertise: Bankruptcy; consumer credit especially credit cards; secured credit

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

Josephine Lukito
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
jlukito@utexas.edu
Expertise: Intersection of computational sociolinguistics and global political communication; power and the role of systems in societies, especially political and economic systems.

Lance Manuel
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
lmanuel@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5691
Expertise: Random vibration; Structural dynamics; Structural reliability; Atmospheric inflow turbulence simulation for wind turbine loads analysis; Computational methods for windstorm field generation; Performance of deepwater offshore platforms; Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis

Robert G May
Professor Emeritus, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business
bob.may@mccombs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Management of higher education; financial accounting and reporting practice; business, economics & labor

Daene C McKinney
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
daene@aol.com
Expertise: Water resource systems analysis; Groundwater hydrology; Numerical modeling and economic analysis of groundwater systems; Multi-phase flow in porous media; Expert geographic information systems (GIS)

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

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

Sheila M Olmstead
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
sheila.olmstead@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2064
Expertise: Olmstead is an environmental economist whose current research projects examine the environmental externalities associated with shale gas development in the United States, regulatory avoidance under the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act, the influence of federal fire suppression policy on land development in the American West, and free-riding in dam placement and water withdrawals in transboundary river basins. She has worked extensively on the economics of water resource management, focusing on water demand estimation, water conservation policy, and access to drinking water services among low-income communities. Climate and energy policy are additional topics of her research, especially with regard to the application of market-based environmental policy instruments.
Todd A Olmstead
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
tolmstead@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8456
Expertise: Healthcare Policy, Healthcare, Health Economics, Health Services Research

Jeffrey G Paine
Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
jeff.paine@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1260, +1 512 471 1534
Expertise: Near-surface geophysics in hydrogeology and environmental and Quaternary geology; coastal geology; Quaternary geology and geomorphology; computer applications in the geological sciences

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

Gary A Pope
Professor, Cockrell School of Engineering
gpope@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3161, +1 512 471 3235
Expertise: Enhanced oil recovery; Reservoir engineering; Fluid flow in porous media; Numerical simulation; Phase behavior and fluid properties; Water soluble polymers; Surfactants; Surfactant enhanced aquifer remediation; Characterization of NAPLs in groundwater; Use of tracers for characterization of aquifers

Heath J Prince
Director (0379), Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
heath.prince@raymarshallcenter.org
+1 512 471 2193
Expertise: workforce development, labor markets, measuring poverty in developing countries
Varun Rai
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
rai@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4697, +1 512 471 5057
Expertise: Dr. Rai's principal research interests are in technological change, innovation and diffusion; economics of climate change/integrated assessment models; and energy and development. His research combines energy systems modeling with the political economy of energy markets to understand how changes in energy technologies, market conditions, policies and regulation, and environment could impact energy generation. The emphasis of his research is on interdisciplinary and integrative research in engineering and policy to ensure that the insights from his policy research are rooted in the underlying technical realties.

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

Pedro Reyes
Professor, 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.

Thomas G Schatz
Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
tschatz@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Film and television history and criticism; media industry studies (history, economics, etc.); Hollywood studios and the ''studio system''; film genre; Hollywood filmmaking; American cinema

Philip S Schmidt
Professor and Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
pschmidt@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Industrial electrotechnology applications and economics; Industrial energy management and conservation; Project-based engineering instruction

Adrien P Sebro
Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
asebro@utexas.edu
Expertise: critical media studies at the intersection of television, film, comedy, gender and African Diaspora

Mukul M Sharma
Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
msharma@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3161, +1 512 471 3257
Expertise: Formation damage; Petrophysics; Fluid flow in porous media; Hydraulic fracturing

John M Sharp
Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professor Emeritus in Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
jmsharp@jsg.utexas.edu
Expertise: Hyrdogeology; flow in fractured rocks; thermohaline free convection; fracture skin effects; regional flow in carbonate rocks; hydrology of arid and semi-arid zones; subsidence and coastal land loss; effects of urbanization; alluvial aquifers; hydrogeology of sedimentary basins;hydrological processes in ore deposit formation; and hydrogeophysics.
Mark Shuster
Deputy Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
mark.shuster@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1534, +1 512 471 7090
Expertise: Mark Shuster is responsible for managing energy-related research at the Bureau of Economic Geology.

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.

Beryl B Simpson
Professor Emeritus, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
beryl@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Systematics of angiosperms; plant-pollinator interactions; ethnobotany

David S Sokolow
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, School of Law
dsokolow@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1379
Expertise: Contract law, corporate law, entertainment law, art law

Emily Sparvero
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
sparv@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2383
Expertise: Focuses on the development of sport policies and the ways in which professional sport teams can be leveraged to generate economic, social, and tourism benefits for host communities.

James C Spindler
Professor, School of Law
jspindler@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1096
Expertise: Securities regulation, corporate law, corporate finance, securities disclosure, corporate fraud, corporate governance, executive compensation, securitizations, and auction rate securities

Chandler W Stolp
Associate Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
stolp@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Latin American public policy; economic integration; applied statistics

Ben Streetman
Dean Emeritus, Cockrell School of Engineering
bstreet@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Engineering education; Engineering workforce issues; Microelectronics; Semiconductor materials and devices; Epitaxy

Sharon L Strover
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
sharon.strover@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6652
Expertise: The Information Society; telecommunications policy, including telephone cable and satellite systems; international cultural policy with respect to film and television; and the digital divide.

Marie-Anne Suizzo
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0379, +1 512 471 4155
Expertise: Studies how cultural beliefs and values shape parent-child relationships, parental socialization, and children's and adolescents' development and learning.

George E Sylvie
Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
g.sylvie@utexas.edu
Expertise: Media management; Internet newspaper economics; motivation and satisfaction in the newsroom; change and newspapers; newspaper organizational cooperation; technology''s role in media management; black press economics; mass media and minorities; newspaper reporting and editing; communication; journalism

Peter Thomas
Professor, Department of Marine Science, College of Natural Sciences
peter.thomas@utexas.edu
+1 361 749 6711, +1 361 749 6768
Expertise: marine science; reproductive endocrinology; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; environmental toxicology; steroid hormone action; reproduction/population risks

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

Scott W Tinker
Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
scott.tinker@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0209, +1 512 471 1534
Expertise: Global energy supply and demand, Technology Administration, Multidisciplinary reservoir characterization, Carbonate sedimentology, Sequence stratigraphy, 3-D reservoir modeling, Resource assessment.

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

Philip U Treisman
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

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

David C Warner
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
david.warner@utexas.edu
Expertise: Health policy; health finance; diabetes costs; border health; health insurance; mental health policy; Mexican health system; business, economics & labor.

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

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.

Abraham L Wickelgren
Professor and Bernard J. Ward Professor in Law, School of Law
awickelgren@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1904
Expertise: Antitrust law, antitrust economics, contracts, and law and economics

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

Kenneth W Wisian
Program Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
kenneth.wisian@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2003
Expertise: Geothermal Geophysics, SETI, Exoplanets, Space Exploration, Disaster Response, Recovery & Resiliency, Military Technology Applications, International Affairs, Innovation, Curriculum Development