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Mahmoud M Al-Batal
Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
ma426@aub.edu
Expertise: Arabic language and literature; Arabic linguistics; teaching Arabic as a foreign language; Arabic teacher training; Lebanon

Mark E Bernstein
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
mebernstein@utexas.edu
Expertise: Speech development among deaf people; use of simultaneous communication and lexical acquisition in children

Rebecca Bigler
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
bigler@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Social cognition in children, gender role development, racial stereotyping, psychology, and gender issues.

Douglas G Biow
Director, Academic Center, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
biow@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7267
Expertise: cultural, literary, art, medical, diplomatic, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy; masculinities; the history of individualism

Carl S Blyth
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
cblyth@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2312, +1 512 471 5531
Expertise: Applied linguistics (instructional technology, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar); French sociolinguistics (style, stance and interaction); Discourse studies (narrative analysis, cultural scripts, indexicality)

Courtney T Byrd
Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
courtney.byrd@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9426
Expertise: Communication disorder; causes and therapies of childhood stuttering; adulthood stuttering; linguistic processing; motor planning; fluency disorders; voice disorders; speech disfluencies; speech-language contributions to childhood stuttering; innovative treatment; bilingualism and multiculturalism in speech-language pathology; accessible clinical training tools

Julia Campbell
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
julia.campbell@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Central auditory and visual processing in children and adults. Cortical plasticity, or the ability of the brain to adapt to incoming information.

Debra Cantu
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
debra.cantu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6137
Expertise: Curriculum
Leads and develops curriculum content, scope and sequence, standards alignment and performance assessments for higher education and school district curriculum.
Certification
Leads policies, practices and designs systems required by Texas Education Agency for admissions, clinical experiences and certification for the program and department.
Leadership Development
Develops equity-centered PK-12 school leaders. Designs and coordinates learning objectives, knowledge development, and effective practices for graduate students to apply theory into practice in their internship based on the following learning outcomes:
*Develop Capacity for Teaching and Learning Excellence
*Advocate for and Ensuring Equitable Support Systems for All
*Foster School Culture that Values Inclusiveness, Diversity and Cultural Proficiency
*Build Executive Leaders to Promote Ethical Policies and Practices
*Partner Authentically and Equitably with Families and Communities

Cindy I Carlson
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
ccarlson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4155
Expertise: Active in current healthcare reform endeavors, studies integrated behavioral health, attachment theory, and consultation theories and processes such as home-school partnership and family-centered treatment.
<em>Cindy Carlson is not currently accepting new graduate students.</em>

Stephanie W Cawthon
Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Faculty Fellow, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
stephanie.cawthon@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0378
Expertise: Investigates issues of access and equity for disabled people, with a special focus on systems change, research translation, and assessment.
<em>Note: Dr. Cawthon is not accepting new students for the 2023-2024 academic year.</em>

Leslie B Cohen
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
cohen@psy.utexas.edu
Expertise: Perception, memory, and cognition of infants; Infant development; infant cognition; infant language, psychology

North Cooc
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
ncooc@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7923
Expertise: Explores how family background, culture, and school contextual factors influence decisions and trajectories within special education.

James R Denbow
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
jdenbow@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Archaeology; ethnoarchaeology; rock art; Later Stone Age and Iron Age studies in Southern and Central Africa; African history; African cultures; African languages; Kalahari desert; Congo prehistory; African Iron Age and Neolithic studies

Randy L Diehl
Dean Emeritus, College of Liberal Arts
diehl@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Speech perception and production; phonetic theory; cognition, speech and hearing, language

Mattan Erez
Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
mattan.erez@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7846
Expertise: Computer architecture; High-performance computing; Programming languages and models

Maria E Franquiz
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
maria.franquiz@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Examines ethnographic language and literacy practices in K-12 classrooms, specifically focusing on how Latinx critical race theory explains the relationship between heritage language and culture and the evolving identities of future teachers.
Shernaz B Garcia
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Special Education, College of Education
shernaz.garcia@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Bilingual special education; multicultural issues in special education; education of students who are at educational risk; prereferral intervention

Thomas J Garza
Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9126, +1 512 471 3607
Expertise: Russian language teaching methodology; Applied linguistics; Contemporary Russian culture; The Chechen wars and the media; Post-Soviet youth culture; Language teaching pedagogy; Russian popular culture; Modern Russian language; Contemporary Russian media; Masculinity Studies; Mexican/Latino masculinity; Soviet/Russian masculinity

Andreas Gerstlauer
Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
gerstl@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8294, +1 949 413 3250
Expertise: Embedded system design; Electronic system-level (ESL) design automation, modeling, languages, methodologies and tools; Embedded hardware and software synthesis

Zoi Gkalitsiou
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
zoigkal@utexas.edu
Expertise: communication disorders, fluency disorders, stuttering, bilingualism, eye-tracking, linguistic processing, executive functions

Itzik Gottesman
Academic Center Affiliate, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
itzikgottesman@utexas.edu
Expertise: Jewish folklore, Yiddish language and culture, folktale, folksong, East European Jewish folklife, Jewish American immigrant life

Kenneth F Greene
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
kgreene@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7206
Expertise: Mexican and Latin American politics; political parties and elections in Mexico and the rest of Latin America; authoritarianism and democratization; research method; campaigns

Jo A Hackett
Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hackett15@icloud.com
Expertise: Old Testament, epigraphy, Phoenician language and religion; the period of Judges; women's lives in the ancient Near East; "fertility" religion; sacrifice, including child sacrifice; the study of myths and mythology; polemic against foreigners in the ancient Near East; and computer imaging of Ugaritic tablets; religion

Ian F Hancock
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Romani (Gypsy) language (origins, history, civil rights movement); creolization of language; English (dialects, history, spread overseas), language and identity

Roderick P Hart
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
rod.hart@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1956
Expertise: Media and politics; civic participation; political campaigns; political rhetoric

John M Hoberman
Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hoberman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6368
Expertise: European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race; Scandinavian studies; Norwegian language instruction; history of Jewish racial folklore; Olympics; Sports doping; race relations

John Huehnergard
Professor Emeritus, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
huehnergard@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Semitic languages and linguistics; historical linguistics; writing systems; ancient Near Eastern history

Syed A Hyder
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
akbarhyder@utexas.edu
Expertise: Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asian and the Middle East

Noah Isenberg
Department Chair, Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
noah.isenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6680
Expertise: film historian; author

Corinne A Jones
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
corinne.jones@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: motor control and motor learning of swallowing behaviors; neuromodulatory approaches to dysphagia; pharyngeal high-resolution manometry; swallowing; swallowing disorders (dysphagia); swallowing evaluation and rehabilitation; Parkinsons disease; Multiple sclerosis

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.

Ward W Keeler
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

Deborah C Kelt
Assistant Professor of Practice-CURR, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
dkelt@utexas.edu
Expertise: Brings her experience in literacy education to UT with a specialization in preparing secondary teachers to work in urban schools.

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

Sarfraz Khurshid
Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
khurshid@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8244
Expertise: Software testing; Specification languages; Code conformance; Model checking; Heuristics in program analysis; Data structure repair; Program repair

Su Yeong Kim
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
su.yeong.kim@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5524, +1 512 475 6014
Expertise: Development of children of immigrants in the United States, with a focus on children of Chinese and Mexican origin; parenting; parent-child relationships

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

Rajinder Koul
Department Chair, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
rajinder.koul@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Understanding the symbol, referent, and instructional variables that influence graphic symbol learning in people with severe communication impairments as a consequence of developmental or acquired disabilities.

Brian P Levack
Professor and John E. Green Regents Professorship in History; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
levack@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, witchcraft

Min Liu
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
mliu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6248, +1 512 471 5942
Expertise: Examines inequities in digital spaces and focuses on creating technology-enhanced learning opportunities for socioeconomically disadvantaged middle school students and supporting in-service teachers to integrate technology in their classrooms.

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.

Vijay Mahajan
Professor, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
vijay.mahajan@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0840, +1 512 471 1128
Expertise: Product diffusion; marketing strategy; marketing research methodologies; business.

Beth Maloch
Senior Associate Dean, College of Education
bmaloch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3476
Expertise: Examines literacy teacher preparation, specifically the role of coaching and mentoring that occurs inside programs.

Aloysius P Martinich
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
martinich@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of political philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, philosophy of language, medieval philosophy, Philosophy of language; history of political philosophy; philosophy of religion; seventeenth century England

Madeline M Maxwell
Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
mmaxwell@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: interaction of language and culture

Matthew S McGlone
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
matthew_mcglone@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1920
Expertise: Cognition, persuasion and prejudice in interpersonal communication, stereotypes and stereotype threats, spatial performance, identity and sex differences. Social influence, persuasion and deception and the key role of language

Richard P Meier
Department Chair, 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

Gail Minault
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
gminault@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: 19th and 20th century history of India, including religion and politics, intellectual and social history, and women''s movements.

Mohammad A Mohammad
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
mamohammad@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6650
Expertise: Linguistics and the Arabic language

J S Moore
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
moore@cs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Verification of computer hardware and software; automatic theorem proving; artificial intelligence

Chandra L Muller
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
cmuller@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8377
Expertise: The effects of family, community, education policy and health behaviors on education and the transition to adulthood; STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) preparation and careers

Mark F O'Reilly
Department Chair, Department of Special Education, College of Education
markoreilly@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Assesses and supports individuals with intellectual disabilities and develops social skill/communication interventions for children with ASD.

James W Pennebaker
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
pennebaker@utexas.edu
Expertise: Natural language and social behavior; group processes and educational outcomes; how individuals, groups, and cultures respond to traumatic events

Sarah R Powell
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
srpowell@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6556
Expertise: Develops and tests interventions for students with mathematics difficulties, emphasizing word-problem solving, mathematics writing, data-based decision making, and the vocabulary within math.

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.

Haydee M Rodriguez
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
taina@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5750, +1 512 471 5942
Expertise: Prepares students to become educators in bilingual and ESL education and mentors novice bilingual educators.

Erin M Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0283
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Dr. Erin Rodríguez studies family, sociocultural, and contextual influences on childrens development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth.

Nancy L Roser
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
nlroser@utexas.edu
Expertise: Use of children's literature in literacy programs, Classroom discourse; response to literature

Cinthia S Salinas
Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusive Excellence, College of Education
cssalinas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3539
Expertise: Dr. Salinas is a member of the Social Studies Education program area and is an affiliate faculty member in the Bilingual/Bicultural and the Cultural Studies in Education program areas. Her focus in the social studies includes critical historical inquiry in elementary bilingual and secondary education late arrival immigrant ESL classroom settings, as well as broader understandings of citizenship. Her work also examines social studies teachers' enactment/countering of curriculum through narratives that include civic identities, agency, and membership of others.

William J Scheick
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
scheick@utexas.edu
Expertise: American literature and culture, especially colonial and nineteenth through early twentieth century; turn-of-the-century British; narrative and poetic morphology

Wayne Schiess
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
wschiess@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1333
Expertise: Legal writing; legal research; drafting; plain language

Allison Skerrett
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
askerrett@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4883
Expertise: Focuses on secondary English and literacy education in urban contexts, including among transnational youth.

Stacey K Sowards
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
stacey.sowards@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: racial, gendered, language, and classed politics of marginalization and standing in various communities, states, and nations; Latina/o/x communities in the United States and South America.

Elizabeth Swanson
Research Professor, 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.
Margaret L Syverson
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, College of Liberal Arts
pegsyverson@utexas.edu
Expertise: Writing; technology; literacy; teaching and learning; impact of technology on culture; information architecture; knowledge ecology; virtual environments; Web development; MOOs and MUDs; cognitive science; assessment

Jessica R Toste
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
jrtoste@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6551
Expertise: Focuses on effective interventions for students with and at-risk for reading disabilities, with a focus on intensifying intervention through data-based instruction and attention to motivational processes

Angela Valenzuela
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
valenz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6008
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Specializes in urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level.

Sharon Vaughn
Executive Director, Meadows and VGC, College of Education
srvaughn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2357
Expertise: Investigates effective interventions for a diverse group of students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners.

Jun Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
jun.wang@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: assistive speech technologies; neurogenic motor speech disorders; speech brain-computer interfaces

John M Weinstock
Professor Emeritus, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
weinstock@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Sámi culture and civilization, history of skiing, promotion of Scandinavian Studies in the U.S., Norwegian Language and Literature, Scandinavian Music, Scandinavian Linguistics, Old Norse Language and Literature, General and Historical Linguistics, Scandinavian Music

Melissa Wetzel
Department Chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
mmwetzel@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Literacy teacher preparation, coaching and mentoring, equity and justice in literacy instruction

Anthony C Woodbury
Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
woodbury@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1701
Expertise: Chatino linguistics and language preservation, Documentation and preservation of endangered languages, Eskimo-Aleut languages and speech communities, Natural discourse and verbal art, Tone, prosody and intonation, Grammatical analysis and theory

Amy Young
Chief Clinical Officer, Vice Dean of Professional Practice, Dell Medical School
amyyoung@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Women's Health