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Ari Adut
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
ariadut@mail.la.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4284
Expertise: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Social Theory; Political Sociology; Media and the Public Sphere
Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Law; Sociology of Emotions; Western Europe; Middle East; Qualitative and Historical Methods; Sociology.
Kamran Ali
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
Paola Bonifazio
Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1561
Expertise: Italian Cinema; Italian Media History; documentary film history and theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; feminist theories; media convergence and transmedia storytelling; popular culture
Michael Butterworth
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
michael.butterworth@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1931
Expertise: sports and politics; sports culture; nationalism and militarism in sports; sports and public memory
Mounira M Charrad
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
Gina Chen
Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
gina.masullo@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6323
Expertise: Online incivility, online engagement, news trust, political polarization
Isabella Cunningham
Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
isabella.cunningham@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1101, +1 512 471 8126
Expertise: legal and ethical aspects of advertising; media effectiveness and messaging appeals; trademarks and intellectual property; deceptive advertising; brand placement and brand equity
Joe Cutbirth
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
jcutbirth@utexas.edu
Expertise: How public narratives develop ad their effects on civic participation and communication leadership; civic participation; behavioral ethics; journalism
Zachary S Elkins
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
zelkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7250
Expertise: national constitutions, democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity, with an emphasis on cases in Latin America
James Gabrillo
Assistant Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
james.gabrillo@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: pop music, digital technologies, film and television, multimedia, Philippines
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.
Roderick 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; presidential rhetoric
Elin Hartelius
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
j.hartelius@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: rhetorical theory and criticism; digital rhetoric and culture; rhetoric of expertise
James R Henson
Executive Director of Texas Politics Project, College of Liberal Arts
j.henson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0090
Expertise: Texas politics; presidential elections; Internet and politics; political campaigns; Texas Politics Project
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
Thomas Johnson
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
tom.johnson@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Media in elections; new media
Jihye Lee
Assistant Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
jihye.lee@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Computational inequality, AI, government, public benefits, advertising, financial constraints, digital inequality, media psychology
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; AI
Madhavi Mallapragada
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
madhavim@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9239
Expertise: Media; race and media; immigration; Asian Americans; digital culture; virtual identities; South Asian diaspora
Alberto A Martinez
Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
almartinez@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: History of science and math, Einstein, historical myths in science, notions of race, political news media.
Rachel Davis Mersey
Interim Executive Vice President & Provost
rdm@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: how and why individuals consume or avoid media experiences; craft media products that encourage pro-social behavior
Curran J Nault
Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
cnault@utexas.edu
Expertise: grassroots queer transmedia
Tolga Ozyurtcu
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
tolga@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6018
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Studies the historical, philosophical, sociocultural, and political dimensions of sport and physical culture.
Nik Palomares
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
Stephen D Reese
Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
steve.reese@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1845, +1 512 471 1966
Expertise: journalism; media; media framing; press performance; news; news media; press critique; media critique; blogs; terrorism; war; sports journalism; media framing of public issues; globalization of journalism
David Ryfe
Director, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
david.ryfe@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: history and sociology of news; American political communication; public deliberation
Cinthia S Salinas
Ruben E. Hinojosa Regents Professor in Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 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.
Suzanne Scott
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
suzanne.scott@utexas.edu
Expertise: fan culture (emphasis on fan/industry relations, gender and fan identities); digital and participatory cultures; transmedia storytelling and franchising; comic book culture; fan convention;
Nahid Siamdoust
Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
nahid.siamdoust@austin.utexas.edu
+1 917 680 9557
Janet Staiger
Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
jstaiger@utexas.edu
Expertise: Theoretician and historian of American film and television
Mark Strama
Director, Organized Research Unit, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, Moody College of Communication
strama@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Texas politics; Political campaigns; Political polarization; Voting technology and systems; Redistricting; ranked choice voting and alternative voting methodologies; Civic participation and civic engagement; Civics education
Pauline T Strong
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3555, +1 512 471 4206, +1 512 471 8524
Expertise: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology; Identity and difference; Politics of representation; Public culture; Youth organizations; Museum studies; Public humanities; Medical humanities; US, Indigenous North America.
Natalie J Stroud
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
tstroud@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1934
Expertise: Political behavior, partisan media use, political communication, public opinion, political research.
Jeremi Suri
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
suri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7242
Expertise: Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs. He is a professor in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He's published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Atlantic, Newsweek, Time, Wired, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other media. Professor Suri hosts a weekly podcast, "This is Democracy." Suri's main research interests are the formation and spread of nation-states, modern international relations, the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors.
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
Rachel S White
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
rachel.white@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Examines issue of power and voice in education policy making and implementation processes, with a focus on public school district superintendents and school boards.