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 , Department of Communication Studies , Moody College of Communication
diballard@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5251

Expertise: chronemics: the study of time as its bound to human communication; time; teams; work; time management; work-life balance; slow movement; speed, mindfulness; overload; availability; 24-7 culture; convenience; scheduling; punctuality; deadlines; children's advocacy centers; secondary/vicarious trauma; design

Professor , Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
banerjee@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6730, +1 512 924 4799

Expertise: Ultra-high vacuum and remote plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; Silicon-germanium-carbon heterostructure MOSFETs and nanostructures; Ultra-shallow junction technology; Semiconductor device modeling

Research Professor , Office of the Associate Dean for Research
elisa.borah@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Military social work, mental health, treatment for PTSD, behavioral health, evidence-based interventions.

Professor , Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences , Moody College of Communication
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

Associate Dean for Research , School of Social Work
esther.calzada@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Latino children, parenting, academic achievement, mental health, immigration, acculturation

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

Professor , Department of Communication Studies , Moody College of Communication
rdailey@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4867, +1 512 471 5251

Expertise: family communication; dating relationships

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

Expertise: How people reveal and conceal illness, such as cancer or HIV/AIDS, among friends and family, the ways people manage information about their illness, topic avoidance as a cancer coping mechanism, health communication and psychology. Interpersonal health communication; how people communicatively cope with illness, stress, and uncertainty

Research Associate Professor , School of Social Work
mfaulkner@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Child welfare, child and family policy, foster care, teen pregnancy prevention, Latino families

Assistant Professor of Practice , Department of Special Education , College of Education
tinafragale@utexas.edu

Expertise: Works with culturally diverse individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders to assess and treat challenging behavior.

Professor , School of Social Work
cfranklin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0533

Expertise: School mental health, Solution-focused Brief Therapy, dropout prevention, at-risk youth, research on how to design schools that promote achievement and a safe, respectful and violent free culture.

Professor Emeritus , Department of Sociology , College of Liberal Arts
jennifer-glass@utexas.edu

Expertise: Work and family issues, telecommuting and new labor practices, STEM labor force retention

Curator, Ichthyology , College of Natural Sciences
deanhend@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 656 9504

Expertise: Hendrickson focuses on the ecology and evolutionary history of fishes, primarily in the arid southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Director, South Asia Institute , 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

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 Economics , College of Liberal Arts
leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8556

Expertise: Economic development; poor countries; economics of education

Professor , Department of Spanish and Portuguese , College of Liberal Arts
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936

Expertise: Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, and Sociology of the Arts, Comparative study of Jewish life in the Americas (Latin America, United States, Canada)

Department Chair, Human Development and Family Sciences , College of Natural Sciences
gabriela.livas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1883

Professor , School of Social Work
smagana@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Developmental disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, health disparities, evidence-based interventions, culturally relevant interventions, Hispanic families

Assistant Professor , Department of Communication Studies , Moody College of Communication
roselia.mendezmurillo@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: conducting qualitative work; particularly conducting interviews with Latina/o/x/e families; stress, resilience, thriving of Latinx families within the context of language brokering; undocumented status; living separated due to migration reasons

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Department of Psychiatry
lmonnat@utexas.edu

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

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 Physics , College of Natural Sciences
raizen@physics.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0883, +1 512 471 4753

Expertise: Atomic physics; laser cooling of atoms; trapping atoms; methods for enriching stable isotopes; desalination of water; energy efficient lighting; molecular motion; materials science; quantum optics; laser optics.

Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
richard.reddick@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7551, +1 512 475 8587

Expertise: Examines the experiences of faculty of color at predominantly White institutions; mentoring relationships between faculty and Black students; and work-life balance in academia.

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

Expertise: Sexual behavior, religion, and family

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.

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 children’s development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth.

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

Assistant Professor of Practice , Department of Educational Leadership and Policy , College of Education
jsamuel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9756

Expertise: Centers research on college student identity development, personal branding for student leaders, and work/life integration for student affairs administrators

Associate Professor , Department of Educational Leadership and Policy , College of Education
schudde@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1623

Expertise: Studies how to ameliorate social inequities in the United States through higher education policy; focuses on college pathways at broad-access institutions, including community colleges.

David Allen Cockrell Chair in Engineering, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #7, Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering , Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering , Cockrell School of Engineering
sv.sreeni@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6546

Expertise: Nano-resolution lithography; Flexure-based micro- and nano-precision machines; Precision optical systems; Real-time nano-resolution optical sensor architectures

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, and social movements in education.

Interim Dean, Moody College of Communication , Moody College of Communication
vangelisti@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5251

Expertise: communication and emotion; family communication; communication in romantic relationships; secrecy; hurt feelings; social pain

Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
paulvonhippel@utexas.edu
+1 512 537 8112

Expertise: Demographic Analysis, Education Policy, Healthcare, Statistics

Associate Professor , Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
patwong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8962

Expertise: social policy, family and child welfare, children services, mental health, poverty issues, housing, community development

Associate Director , School of Social Work
nzuna@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 0758