Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
jadair@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Areas of expertise include early childhood education, racial justice and equity in early learning, educational anthropology, video-cued ethnography, immigration and education, impact of social injustices on childhoods, project-based learning led by community expertise and early childhood educational leadership and program transformation.

Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5116, +1 512 516 5028

Expertise: geography of media and communication; technological change; representations of places, landscapes and environments; critical geopolitics; Europe; North America; Technology

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.

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

Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
lucyatkinson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6665

Expertise: communication in the context of sustainability and the environment; focusing on the ways message components (like visual elements, argument frames, source factors) in environmental communication campaigns influence environmental attitudes; beliefs and behaviors; environmental communication; sustainability; advertising; immersive media (virtual reality and augmented reality); AI-generated messaging; communication and public opinion about Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0021, +1 608 320 9041

Expertise: U.S. Latina/o media studies; U.S. television and film history; mixed race and media culture; feminist media studies.

Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
ben.bentzin@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 750 9253

Expertise: Marketing of technology, product marketing, strategic pricing, social media, entrepreneurship

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)

Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
mary.bock@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0673

Expertise: photo and video journalism; citizen journalism and cop-watching; visual journalism and the criminal justice system, perp walks, mug shots; gender and social inequality in media

Department Chair, 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

Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
laurabright@utexas.edu
+1 512 699 8218

Expertise: social media effects, social media fatigue, big data, advertising personalization, digital wellness

Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, 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

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

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

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: digital media; global media; entrepreneurship; social capital; social networks; China; US-China relation

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

Expertise: Dr. Ciszek is a leader in strategic communication research and critical theories. Their research, teaching and service are closely tied to commitments of advocacy and mobilization in public relations and strategic communication. Before launching their academic career, Ciszek worked in advertising and public relations. Additionally, they have worked in strategic analytics, market research and contributed to community media. As someone with professional experience in strategic communication working with nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, Ciszek recognized the importance of work with demographic depth and epistemic plurality in the fields of public relations and advertising. Through their research and teaching, Ciszek is committed to making a space for voices and perspectives that have historically been written out of research and practice.

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

Senior Associate Dean for Research, 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, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
nataliebdevlin@utexas.edu

Expertise: crisis communication; digital media in sports; big data; digital advertising; data/privacy;

Associate Professor of Instruction, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
dobias@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1101

Expertise: social media; branding

Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
mdrum@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1101, +1 512 471 2367

Expertise: ethics; leadership; corporate social responsibility; communication for nonprofits

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

Expertise: collective organizing; globalization and digital technologies; transparency; environmental communication

Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9126, +1 512 471 3607
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Russian language teaching methodology; Critical pedagogies in World Languages; Applied linguistics; Contemporary Russian culture; Russian popular culture; Contemporary Russian media; Masculinity Studies; Mexican/Latino masculinities; DEAIB

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
celestegdb@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Historical and contemporary issues related to media in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America

Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
samg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1628

Expertise: Personality, Animal Behavior, Internet, Environmental Psychology, Ecological Psychology

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.

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

Associate Professor, School of Architecture
jjiao@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Smart communities and built environments; Transit and food access; Active travel; Shared mobility

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
tom.johnson@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Media in elections; new media

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; and popular music.

Assistant Professor of Practice, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
octavio.kanogalvan@austin.utexas.edu
+1 240 426 1762

Expertise: creative; art director; photography; 3D video production; web/mobile interactive media; motion graphics; 3D modeling and cinematography

Associate Professor of Practice, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
jlargess@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9540

Expertise: string quartet, classical music, performance, chamber music, coaching, Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
legare@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Cognitive development, cultural learning, cognitive evolution, cognitive science, social cognition, children’s learning, social learning, science education, biological education, evolution; ritual, religious cognition, science and religion

Professor of Practice, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
alewis615@utexas.edu
+1 512 656 0507

Expertise: Documentary filmmaking

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
jessy@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, text analysis, language and society, linguistics, large language models, chatgpt

Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
mliu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6248, +1 512 471 5942

Expertise: Areas of expertise include designing and developing immersive, media-rich environments for learners at all age levels and research the effects of them using mixed-methods; studying the effect of other emerging technologies on learning and motivation; focusing on problem-based learning, project-based learning, and game-based learning pedagogical approaches; learning analytics in serious games and other online environments, and understanding MOOCs as an emerging online learning tool.

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Education
alexandra.loukas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9388

Expertise: Focuses on adolescent and young adult problem behavior development, and tobacco use and cessation.

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

Expertise: persuasive capabilities of mass media; public health

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

Director of the Center for Health Communication, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
mackert@utexas.edu
+1 512 348 8490

Expertise: telemedicine; health communication; health literacy and online communities; health communication; communicating about complex health issues; audience targeting; tailoring messages; media campaigns; translating research into practice; social media; tobacco cessation; opioid overdose prevention; men's role in prenatal health

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

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
dhiraj.murthy@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Social media; digital research methods; race/ethnicity; qualitative/mixed methods; big data quantitative analysis; virtual organizations

Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
jeeyunoh@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8134

Expertise: User interaction with new media interface and AI (artificial intelligence) technology; the impact of interactive/smart/social media interfaces on health/environmental/advertising message processing and persuasion.

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, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
paula.poindexter@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 695 6879

Expertise: Newspaper and television journalism, including audience, coverage content, and leadership and management in the industry; the relationship African-Americans, women and youth have with the news; ethics in research methodologies in the media; media framing; polling, specifically the validity and interpretation of election polls; news coverage of presidential elections; women and young voters; millennials; social media

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

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

Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
regnerus@prc.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6307

Expertise: Sexual behavior, religion, and family

Professor of Practice, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
ebreilly@utexas.edu

Expertise: Audience motivation and emotion, immersive and interactive storytelling, Web3, blockchain, AI, emerging technologies, immersive and interactive storytelling, extended reality technologies (AI, IoT, AR, VR, MR, Virtual Worlds)

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.

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;

Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
nahid.siamdoust@austin.utexas.edu
+1 917 680 9557

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
yake@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: social cinema; independent cinema; storytelling; television writing and directing; directing actors

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
sparv@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2383

Expertise: Focuses on the development of sport policies and the ways in which professional sport teams can be leveraged to generate economic, social, and tourism benefits for host communities.

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.

Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
mallary.tenore@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1990

Expertise: journalism; writing; eating disorders; nonprofit management; memoir; narrative nonfiction

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
craig.watkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4071, +1 512 471 6676

Expertise: Race and pop culture; youth culture; digital media and social media; hip-hop culture and music; video games; the history of Black American cinema and the films of Spike Lee; digital media; young people and behaviors with social and online media.

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.

Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
burl@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0917

Expertise: Alcohol advertising; cigarette advertising; interactive communication social media; unstructured data analysis and media mix marketing models.