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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
Karen L Fingerman
Professor
, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
, College of Natural Sciences
kfingerman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0618
Expertise: adolescene and young adulthood, adult development, aging, culture, interpersonal relationships, parenting and caregiving
Denise L Gilman
Clinical Professor
, School of Law
dgilman@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7796
Expertise: Denise Gilman teaches and directs the Immigration Clinic after having joined the clinical faculty at the University of Texas Law School in the fall of 2007. Professor Gilman received her undergraduate degree with honors in political science from Northwestern University. She received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law where she served on the Law Review. Professor Gilman also has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Gilman clerked for Judge Thomas M. Reavley, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is fluent in Spanish.
Angela K Littwin
Professor
, School of Law
alittwin@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5561
Expertise: Bankruptcy; consumer credit especially credit cards; secured credit
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, criminal justice, incarceration, families in poverty, mass incarceration, school to prison pipeline, demography
Elizabeth Swanson
Research Professor
, The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
, Department of Special Education
, College of Education
easwanson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2320
Expertise: All of my work focuses on developing and testing for efficacy literacy practices for struggling readers.
This includes:
* infusing literacy practices into elementary and middle school content area classes;
* empowering parents to provide reading support to their own children;
* providing intervention to struggling readers;
* translating research to practice for teachers;
* designing effective professional development;
* translating research into usable products for parents.
