Professor , Department of Curriculum and Instruction , College of Education
alb@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3902

Expertise: Focuses on historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.

Professor , Department of Curriculum and Instruction , College of Education
keffrelyn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4257

Expertise: Expertise in the intersections between teaching, curriculum, and sociocultural knowledge and Black intellectual thought in education

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

Clinical Professor , Department of Educational Psychology , College of Education
cbrownson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6990

Expertise: Research interests include mental health public policy, the behavioral health workforce shortage, college student mental health and suicide prevention, the intersection of mental health and academic success, and collaborative care models of behavioral health in primary care.

Associate Professor , 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, Bobby Womack, Taylor Swift

Department Chair, Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8319

Expertise: Families, Family Demography, Life Course & Human Development, Gender, Interpersonal Relationships, Adolescents, Young Adulthood during economic/cultural change, Family relationships, Census, Race/Ethnicity and Family change

Associate Professor , College of Liberal Arts
danielle.clealand@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Afro-Latino politics and identity, Black politics in the Spanish speaking Caribbean and the United States, group consciousness, Black and Latino public opinion and racial inequality. Cuba. Puerto Rico.

Professor , School of Journalism and Media , Moody College of Communication
renita.coleman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1969

Expertise: visual communication; ethics; agenda setting; journalism and public relations; stereotyping in the media; media; photojournalism; photography

Associate Professor , Department of Special Education , College of Education
ncooc@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7923

Expertise: Explores how migration, race and language impact special education services in U.S. schools and international contexts.

Co-Director, Population Research Center , Department of Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8329

Expertise: Life Course & Human Development, Children & Youth, Education, Health, Family, Immigration, Adolescents.

Associate Professor , Department of Social and Cultural Analysis , College of Liberal Arts
kmfoster@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4362

Expertise: African American student achievement; intersection of sports and academics; impact of race and gender on student academic outcomes; cultural theory in education; Improvement of academic outcomes for African American, Latina/o and other students; education; race relations

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

Professor , Department of European and Eurasian 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

Professor Emerita , Department of Kinesiology and Health Education , College of Education
c.holahan@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Studies psychosocial factors in health behavior and health and well-being in adulthood and aging.

Professor , Department of Educational Leadership and Policy , College of Education
jholme@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Dr. Holme's work explores how structural and systemic factors—particularly housing policy, and teacher labor markets—shape educational opportunity.

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
peniel.joseph@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7241

Expertise: Africana studies, women's studies, ethnic studies, law, society, political science.

Professor of Instruction , Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations , Moody College of Communication
junker@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9466

Expertise: Public relations and strategic communications, Black Music and the media, race relations, popular music

Professor , Department of Government , College of Liberal Arts
emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7268

Expertise: Religion and politics; Black politics; religious nationalism, health behavior

Professor , School of Music , College of Fine Arts
robin.moore@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0373, +1 512 471 7764

Expertise: His principal research interests include Cuban music and music of the Hispanic Caribbean, musical nationalism, socialist art aesthetics, historical ethnomusicology, music and race relations

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 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

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

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.

Professor , Department of Kinesiology and Health Education , College of Education
msteinhardt@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3535

Expertise: Focuses on how individuals adapt to stress and strengthen their resilience.

Professor , Department of Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
umberson@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6330

Expertise: Population Health ( Structural Determinants of Mental and Physical Health; Stress and Social Support; Health Behavior; Health Disparities; Sexual Minority Health); Family and Gender (Gender and Relationships; Same-Sex Couples; Marital Status and Health; Relationship Quality and Health; Family Status and Health; Intergenerational Relationships; Family and Bereavement); Aging and the Life Course (Psychosocial Epidemiology across the Life Course; Aging and the Family; Death and Dying; Marriage and Intimate Partnerships).

Professor , Department of Curriculum and Instruction , College of Education
urrieta@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4129
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Follows trends around cultural and racial identities, agency, migration, social movements in education

Associate Professor , School of Architecture
jagw@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0169

Expertise: Housing affordability, Housing development, Land use regulation, Informal housing, Urban form