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

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs , Faculty Affairs
tberetvas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3007, +1 512 471 4363

Expertise: Interested in statistical models with a focus on deriving and evaluating multilevel model extensions and meta-analysis models for educational, behavioral, social and medical science data.

Associate Professor , Department of European and Eurasian Studies , College of Liberal Arts
pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: 20th-century comparative Western European and U.S. literature; cultural studies, gender and memory; Holocaust; modern Dutch and modern Jewish literature and culture; ethnic minorities in Europe; cultural memory, trauma, race and gender, gender issues.

Associate Professor , Department of African and African Diaspora Studies , College of Liberal Arts
sbrowne@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5975

Expertise: Sociology of Race; Surveillance Studies; Black Diaspora Studies; Cultural Studies; Canadian Studies; Gender and Feminist Studies; New Media Studies; Institutional Ethnography; Race relations, Gender issues

Associate Professor , Department of Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
charrad@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6300, +1 512 232 6311

Expertise: Political Sociology; State Formation; Social Movements; Gender and Women's Rights; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Middle East and North Africa; gender issues

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

Expertise: Comparative Race Studies; African American Studies; Gender Studies; Working-Class History; Migration; Urban History; Poverty and Public Health; Social Movements; Political and Cultural History; Race Relations, Gender Issues

Associate Professor , Department of Social and Cultural Analysis , College of Liberal Arts
paixao.marcelo@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Race relations and inequalities in Brazil and Latin American, public policies issues and monitoring, models of socioeconomic development, labor market, statistics of race, ethnic, gender inequality

Professor , Department of Communication Studies , Moody College of Communication
nik@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Mental health; how communication effects psychological wellbeing; cyberbullying; how people respond to fact-checking of information and misinformation online

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

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

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

Expertise: emotion and identity in communication effectiveness; health communication; emotional appeals; advertising and consumer wellbeing; advertising and gender

Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs , College of Fine Arts
lbthompson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4656

Expertise: African American Literature, Film, Cultural Studies, Black Feminist Theory, Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance

Professor , 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, history of physical culture

Associate Professor , Department of Educational Leadership and Policy , College of Education

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

Department Chair , Department of Educational Psychology , College of Education
t.whittaker@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2749

Expertise: My principal methodological research interest deals with the various facets of model specification, including, but not limited to, model comparison/selection and model modification methods. With the use of simulation techniques, I examine the performance of these different model specification approaches under manipulated conditions. With the use of real data sets, I also provide illustrations and demonstrations of alternative model parameterizations for pedagogical purposes. There are numerous models that may be employed to explain the relationships among variables. I am interested in employing models within the structural equation modeling (SEM), multilevel modeling (MLM), and item response theory (IRT) arenas. My other research interest deals with real-world data applications with these various modeling techniques. This is, in large part, due to requests from applied researchers to help with the methodological aspects of their study given my knowledge in quantitative methods. I enjoy these opportunities to collaborate with researchers in different disciplines because real-world data issues provide me with methodological research ideas as well as interesting examples to use in my courses when I am teaching.