Faculty
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Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Computer-Mediated Communication, Teaching Culture
Professor Abzug's scholarship explores the formation of social and moral consciousness in American culture. He has worked in three major fields: social reform and religious life in antebellum America, America and the Holocaust, and, most recently, the interpenetration of religion and psychology in modern American culture. His research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and numerous other foundations.[br /][br /]He is in the final stages of preparing a biography of the American psychologist, Rollo May. He is in the beginning stages of two projects. The first is a reassessment of the impact of Jewish émigrés of the 1930s and 1940s on American culture. The second is a photographic project on remaining signs of Texas Jewish life from the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
# Adams applies various geographical lenses to communication, addressing communication infrastructure, communication as a social process, and communication as an element of individual experience. His most recent works address foreign perceptions of the United States (by French and Canadians) and the ways the symbolic construction of ''America'' has shifted in foreign media as a result of terrorism, warfare, and growing unilateralism in American foreign policy. His work engages with the growing body of literature in critical geopolitics as well as with humanistic geography and social theory. He is currently working on a textbook called Geographies of Media and Communication under contract with Blackwell.
Ari Adut's book, On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art, will be published by Cambridge University Press in the summer of 2008. He is currently working on several projects with the following topics: 1. Violence during the French revolution, 2. Violence in civil wars, 3. Public sphere, 4. Commodification, 5. Political prediction markets. Adut's research has been published in American Journal of Sociology and Theory and Society, and it has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Advanced Design Studio; Frank Lloyd Wright; Organic Design workshop; Ornament: history and contemporary practice; Central European Architecture
Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Design, Construction and Theory
Professor Anderson worked as a journalist for several years before entering law school, where he was an editor of the Texas Law Review. A specialist in torts and mass communications law, he has a particular interest in the law of libel and privacy. He is a contributing editor of Texas Monthly magazine and a member of the editorial board of the Texas Observer. He has lectured at universities in Australia, England, Sweden, Italy, and The Netherlands.
German Idealism, European Novel since the 18th Century, European Romanticism, Intellectual and history (18th-20th century, Germany and Austria), literary and cultural theory, history of science and history of the philosophy of science (nineteenth and twentieth centuries), history of psychology, history and theory of the humanities, women's and gender studies, eighteenth- through twentieth century germanophone literatures, Austrian studies
Professor Baker has completed a book about British Romantic writers and the sea, Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture. This book, which will be published by The University of Virginia Press in 2009, argues that the Romantic idea of universal culture took shape within imaginative horizons fundamentally shaped by Britain's maritime-imperial aspirations. Dr. Baker is also writing a series of essays on ethical dispositions in the Romantic novel, tracking how stoicism and skepticism, among other attitudes, ceased to refer to specific philosophical schools and began to be seen as general psychological orientations.[br /][br /]On a more conceptual level, he is preoccupied by the artistic evocation of place, especially as it intersects with the shaping of collective and individual subjectivity; by ethical theory, especially in relation to politics and gender and sexuality; and by problems in the aesthetics and sociology of representation.
Civil-military relations, NATO, Ethnopolitics, Micro-states[br /][br /]Current book project Building Democratic Armies: Lessons from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas Objective: to explain the tasks and challenges of establishing democratic armed forces and civil-military relations in various political environments (post- war, post-colonial, post-praetorian, post-communist, post-reunification, and post- apartheid), illustrated with a comparative analysis of 22 cases (under contract with Princeton University Press).
Her research interests include eighteenth-century literature and culture, the British novel, book history, textual studies, Jane Austen, and early fiction by women.
Include Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Music, History of Critical Theory and Rhetoric, and The Enlightenment
Nineteenth-century German Studies; Popular Culture, Print Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature
History of Landscape Architecture; Renaissance Architectural and Landscape History; History of Landscape Architecture, Antiquity to the Present; Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, especially the City of Rome; Landscape Representation, Painting, and Cartography; Historiography and Methodologies
Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; Representations of World War II.
Daniel Birkholz is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He comes to UT from Pomona College (Claremont, CA), where in 2002 he received the Wig Distinguished Professorship Award, for excellence in teaching and research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1999; his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1991; and his B.A. from Carleton College (Northfield, MN) in 1990. His fellowships include exchanges at Cambridge University (Downing College, Spring 2002) and the Arni Magnusson Manuscript Institute in Reykjavik, Iceland (1994-1995), plus various grants for archival research (Beinecke Library, Newberry Library, British Library, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, etc).
Old English language and literature, History of the English language, Medieval manuscripts, Germanic philology
Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact and Variation (focus on Texas German), Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages and Dialects, Foreign Language Education, Phonology, Forensic Linguistics, Language Planning, Intercultural Communication, and History and Philosophy of Linguistics.
Her ongoing research concerns Lutheran culture in the early confessional period (1546-1618), particularly sermons, theological controversies, pastoral care, confessional identity development, and university culture.
Post 45 German and German-Jewish literature and culture, modern Dutch literature and culture, modern Jewish literature, history, and culture in Western Europe and U.S., Holocaust in literature, film, and history, ethnic minorities in Western Europe, theoretical perspectives on autobiography, cultural memory, trauma, race and gender.
Leigh B. Boske is Professor of Economics at the LBJ School. His teaching and research interests have focused on transportation policy, economics and finance. His published research has been on national and international transport policy issues, the role of transportation and logistics in international trade, and multimodal/intermodal transport planning.
20th century culture and literature (modernity, minority literature, drama); East and West German politics and culture; European modernisms, comparative literature, literary theory, urban writing and theory, theories of alterity, memory and identity
Drama; Renaissance literature; Film; Theory
: Her research interests focus on issues of gender, population change, development and the social implications of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Buckley is an endowed fellow at IC2, and a faculty affilicate of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Center for European Studies.
Environmental history; Human impact on the environment; Colonial Mexico; Mediterranean soil erosion; Climatic change in Egypt; Land cover change in 19th century Australia
History of the English Language, Rhythms and Rhetoric of English Poetry
Lorenzo Candelaria (Ph.D. Yale University) is a historian of Western European art music in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His research focuses on Catholic music in sixteenth-century Spain and its subsequent impact on devotional cultures in Latin America and the southwestern United States. Dr. Candelaria is an accomplished violinist, an active lecturer, and author. His recent books include American Music: A Panorama (with Daniel Kingman) and The Rosary Cantoral: Ritual and Social Design in a Chantbook from Early Renaissance Toledo. He is currently writing a book entitled Music in Mexican Catholicism.
Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.
Ben Carrington has written widely within cultural sociology, the sociology of popular culture and the sociology of race. His research interests include the application of post/colonial theory to the sociology of race, the politics of race and sport within the black diaspora, masculinity and national identity formation, and the nature of cultural resistance within the arena of popular culture. Ben Carrington is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, at Leeds Metropolitan University, England.
Professor Chapman's research uses game theoretic and statistical methods to study the interaction of domestic politics and international institutions, international conflict and diplomacy, and the political economy of intrastate violence. He teaches courses on U.S. policy toward international institutions, global governance, and international organizations. His work has either appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Conflict Resolution and International Studies Quarterly. He is currently working on a book manuscript, Winning Legitimacy: External Authorization as a Domestic Political Resource, that examines why states work through multilateral security institutions.
Her interests include gender and women's rights, political sociology, development, comparative historical methodology, and the Middle East and North Africa.
Professor Clarke received his Ph.D. from Yale University. In 1980 he began teaching at The University of Texas at Austin, where his teaching, research, and publications focus on ancient Roman art, art-historical methodology, and contemporary art.[br /][br /]Clarke has seven books, and 78 essays, articles, and reviews to his credit. His first book, Roman Black-and-White Figural Mosaics, appeared in 1979. In 1991 The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration appeared. Fruit of ten years' on-site research at Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Ostia Antica, the book analyzes the imagery of wall painting and mosaics in 17 houses to gain an understanding of the owners' tastes and beliefs. In 1998 Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 was published; it is a study of how erotic art can reveal ancient Roman attitudes toward love, gender, and race.
History of Architecture Survey; Architectural Theory; Architecture and Urban Design in Early Modern Europe; Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright; History of Building Technology; History of Architecture in Texas
1) political readings of mainstream economic theory and policy to understand both their ideological and strategic roles, 2) the critique and elaboration of Marxist theory as a theory of the class antagonisms of capitalism and 3) the study of social conflicts within contemporary capitalism which drive its development, precipitate its crises, and seek to move beyond its limits.
Current projects include works in early twentieth-century consumption, French imperialism and race relations, and the ''sexual revolution'' in post-war France.
Twentieth-century Czech prose, Czechoslovak underground culture, Czech and Russian literary relations
His current research and teaching interests include the history of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe, the history and politics of memory, and the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic representations.
Irish literature, politics, and culture; Modern poetry; Women's Studies; Drama and Film; Shakespeare; The relation between high and popular culture.
Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Medicine, Women in Antiquity
Andrew Dell'Antonio (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1991), Associate Professor and Head of the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Division, specializes in musical repertories of early modern Europe, with a focus on seventeenth-century Italy.
Spanish Language
Humanistic geography: Landscape history; conservation of plants and animals, especially endangered species
My research is concerned primarily with the cultural, social, and intellectual history of early America with a focus on gender and political culture. I am also interested in Atlantic history; the comparative study of women, gender and sexuality; the history of nationalisms; and the study of oral, print and visual media, and their reception.
Architectural mouldings at Poggio Colla From Hut to Palace: The Significance of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Architectural Traditions in Ancient Italy ''New Sweden'' -- immigrant life and acculturation in Texas
Combustion in environmental technologies, Low-emission burners,
Flamm has been a professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnol?gico A. de M?xico in Mexico City, the University of Massachusetts, and George Washington University. He has also been an adviser to the Director General of Income Policy in the Mexican Ministry of Finance and a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the National Academy of Sciences, the Latin American Economic System, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S Agency for International Development, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.
Current research projects include editions of humanist saints' lives; a study of a quattrocento hexameral commentary; a census of Bonino Mombrizio's c. 1477 ''Sanctuarium''[br /][br /]
Prof. Freeman specializes in the politics of immigration, comparative social policy, and politics in western democracies. His most recent writing has been directed at understanding the form of immigration politics in different countries and explaining the integration strategies employed by countries as they grapple with immigrant populations. He is currently working on the question of the linkage between immigration and the welfare state, especially the impact of ethnic and other forms of diversity on the solidaristic foundations of social policies.
British and American modernism, The novel, Drama especially Shakespeare
Roman Literature and Civilization; Classical Tradition in Popular Culture
Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Survey Archaeology, Pottery studies
A historian by training, his teaching and research interests focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security affairs, nuclear strategy and arms control, presidential policymaking, and the history of international monetary relations.
Prof. Gavrilis is currently working on a book manuscript that explains why aggressive attempts by states to control their borders often fail to provide security. His research includes the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Africa.
Her professional interests include marketing and international business strategy and internationalizing business education.
Economics, International Affairs, National Security, Trade
His research interests revolve around new media, the Internet in particular, and its influence in three distinct realms: 1) Internet and everyday life, 2) Internet and political/civic engagement and 3) Internet and its intersection with distinct circles of geo-identities in the European context.
Terri E. Givens is Vice Provost and Associate Professor in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her duties as Vice Provost include oversight of the University's International Office (Study Abroad, International Student and Scholar Services, English as a Second Language), and development of international initiatives; Undergraduate Curriculum; Faculty Council and Catalog Legislation; Academic Advising; and Undergraduate Awards.
Attribution theory, comparative advertising, retail image and patronage behavior, methodological scaling issues, and social marketing (health and ecological issues)
German film, Weimar culture, modernism and the avant-garde, the culture of the metropolis, fascist aesthetics, working-class culture, Marxist theory.
A classical philosophy scholar, he has a special interest in ancient medicine and philosophy of science. He is author of The Sceptics (1995) in the Routledge 'Arguments of the Philosophers' Series, and Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (Oxford, 1998). He has edited Method, Medicine, and Metaphysics (1988). His editions and translations, with philosophical commentary, include Galen's On the Therapeutic Method (Oxford, 1991), Galen on Antecedent Causes (Cambridge, 1998), Aristotle's de Caelo (Oxford, forthcoming in two volumes), and Simplicius' Commentary on de Caelo. (Volume I, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 1.1-4 (Duckworth/Cornell, 2002) has appeared; two more volumes are forthcoming.) He is the editor of Apeiron.
Her main areas of interest are early modern social and cultural history, legal history, and women's history.
Imperialism and Orientalism, Literature and Human Rights/Social Justice, 19th Century Novel, European Novel, Middle East Studies, African Studies, The ''Global South''
Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature, Comparative literature, literary theory, cultural theory.
Pidginization and Creolization of Language; Romani Language; Regional and Non-standard Varieties of English; African Linguistics.
English sentimentalism, History of charity and philanthropy, Samuel Johnson, 20th Century feminist theory
British Romanticism 1750-1850, Poetry and Poetics, Archives and Collecting, Modernism and Cultural Economics
Law, Literature, Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Feminism
Art History, 20th Century European and American Art
Geraldine Heng's research focuses on literary, cultural, and social encounters between worlds, and webs of exchange and negotiation between communities and cultures, particularly when transacted through issues of gender, race, sexuality, and religion.
Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, comparative Romance linguistics, translation studies, Catalan studies.
(1) Early modern German and European literary and cultural history from 1450 to 1750, history of science, early modern gender issues, poetics, rhetoric. (2) European Studies, small countries in Europe, Swiss literature and culture.
Her main areas of research are continental philosophy, aesthetics, and philosophy of music. ; She has written Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science (Oxford, 2000), What Nietzsche Really Said (with Robert Solomon, 2000), A Passion for Wisdom (Oxford, 1997), A Short History of Philosophy (with Robert Solomon, Oxford, 1996), The Music of Our Lives (1991), and Nietzsche's Zarathustra (1987), which Choice named an outstanding academic book of 1988-1989. She has edited or co-edited several others on such topics as German Idealism, aesthetics, ethics, erotic love, and non-Western philosophy. She has been a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University Philosophy Department and Canberra School of Music. She is an annual Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland.
Professor Higley's interests include general comparative politics, political sociology, and the comparative study of political elites. He has written extensively about elite theory and analysis. Having been chair of the Government Dept. between 2001- 2006, he is currently chair of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Political Elites. As director of the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, which Professor Higley founded in 1988, he also writes about domestic, security, foreign and trade policy issues in those countries and how they affect U.S. relations with them (e.g., Elites in Australia, 1979; The Challenge of NAFTA: North America, Australia, New Zealand, and the World Trade Regime, 1993; ''Australia: The Politics of Becoming a Republic,'' 2000; ''The U.S.-Australia Alliance: An American Political Perspective,'' 2006).
A European cultural and intellectual historian with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race. His books are Sport and Political Ideology (1984), The Olympic Crisis: Sport, Politics, and the Moral Order (1986), Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the Dehumanization of Sport (1992), and Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race (1997). He has published almost a hundred sports commentaries in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel.
Professor Hoelscher's research interests include: North American urbanism; social constructions of space and place, landscape and region; ethnicity and race; cultural memory; the geography of tourism; and the history of photography.
Romanesque and Gothic Art
Greek Drama, Greek and Latin Lyric, Gay Studies
Professor Kadens specializes in European legal history. Her current research focuses on William Blackstone and early modern commercial law. Kadens teaches contracts, sales, and legal history and serves as one of the judicial clerkship advisors. Prior to joining the UT faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Hispanic linguistics, phonetics, phonology
Second Sophistic, Ancient Homeric Criticism, Imperial Prose Narrative
Her research interests include Beethoven, Mahler, reception history and theory, 19th Century European history, German nationalism, Jewish studies, history of antisemitism, and biography. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th Century Music, and Beethoven Forum. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music, to which she contributed the Beethoven chapter, appeared in Fall 2001.
He specializes in philosophical logic and in the application of logic to long-standing philosophical problems, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind and intentionality, semantics, political philosophy and metaethics, and philosophy of religion. His book Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge, 1992) received the Aarlt Prize from the Council of Graduate Schools in 1994. His recent articles include 'Gauthier and the Rationality of Justice' (Philosophical Studies,1994), 'A New Solution to the Sorites Paradox' (Mind,1994), and 'A New Look at the Cosmological Argument' (American Philosophical Quarterly,1997). His latest book is Realism Regained: Applications of an Exact Theory of Causation,Teleology and the Mind (Oxford, 2000).
Anthropology of Europe (European Union, Europeanization, cultural politics, national identity); Anthropology of Landscapes and Heritage (landscape theory; culture, environment and identity); Political Ecology (politics of nature; climate change, catastrophes; environmental conflicts, national parks, nature/culture; wind energy); Cultural Studies and Anthropological Theory (ethnographic methods; discourse theory, multi-sited ethnography; narration, writing culture); Science and Technology Studies (actor-network-theory); Anthropology of Sport
International Affairs, National Security, Trade
Vietnam War, U.S. policy toward Third World nationalism during the 1960s, and nuclear history.
He is currently studying witchcraft prosecutions in early modern Scotland and demonic possession in Reformation Europe.
Congress, Globalization, National Security, Presidency (U.S.), U.S. Foreign Policy
Central European Architecture and Design; Modern Design, Architectural Theory; History of Architectural Education; History of Historic Preservation
Professor Luskin has taught at the University of Alabama, Indiana University, and Princeton University, as well as in the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan, the ECPR Summer School at the University of Essex, and the Summer School on Advanced Methods in the Social Sciences at the Universita della Svizzera Italiana; has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Chercheur Associe at the Centre d'Etude de la Vie Politique Francaise in Paris; and is currently Chercheur Associe at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, Research Advisor at the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Deliberative Opinion Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He has long been particularly interested in the effects of political information on the texture and outcomes of representative democracy. Among other projects, he is using Deliberative Polls in the U.S. and abroad to examine the empirical dimensions of deliberative democracy and is working on a study of political information in France. He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Texas Poll and of the Editorial Boards of Political Analysis and the American Political Science Review.
Victorian Novel; Women's Studies;Autobiography; Authors: William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Annie Besant, Elizabeth Robins, Virginia Woolf
A specialist in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of language, his books include Communication and Reference (1984), The Two Gods of Leviathan (Cambridge, 1992), A Hobbes Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995), and Thomas Hobbes (St. Martin's, 1997). His book, Hobbes: A Biography (Cambridge, 1999) won the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award for 2000. He has also translated Hobbes' Computatio sive logica: Part One of De Corpore (1981), is editor of the leading anthology on The Philosophy of Language (fourth edition, Oxford, 2001), and is co-editor with David Sosa of A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, forthcoming). He is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of The Journal of the History of Philosophy, and has twice held NEH Fellowships.
She works at the intersection of European intellectual history and the history of gender and sexuality. At present she is working on the history of ethics and sexuality between Nietzsche and Freud. She is also beginning a new project on secularism and Spinozism in modern Europe.
McCombs is internationally recognized for his research on the agenda-setting role of mass communication. Since the original Chapel Hill study with his colleague Donald Shaw coined the term ''agenda setting'' in 1968, more than 400 studies of agenda setting have been conducted worldwide. In the continuing evolution of political communication, British scholars Jay G. Blumler and Dennis Kavanagh have commented, ''Among the field's master paradigms, agenda setting may be most worth pursuing.''
Professor McDonald teaches courses on international relations theory, international political economy, and international security. His current research focuses on the economic causes of war and peace. His book, The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Washington Quarterly, and World Politics. Prior to arriving at UT, Professor McDonald was a postdoctoral fellow at the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Meikle's teaching interests include the history of design, architecture, and technology in the U.S.; the cultural history of the post-1945 era, especially the modern/postmodern shift; the Beat writers and their cultural influence; and American Studies theory and methods. His recent courses include ''Bibliography and Methods,'' ''The Literature of American Studies,'' ''Modernism in American Design and Architecture,'' ''Postmodern America,'' and ''The Beats and American Culture.''
Radical politics and culture in 20th. century, history of childhood and education, women's history, modernism/modernity, children's literature, the Cold War.
Comparative, intercultural media and genre studies, especially in Central European and German-American Contexts. Exile literature and exile film.
Professor Moore's research and teaching interests include transatlantic eighteenth- century and Romantic literatures, Anglo-American women's literature (specializing in 20th-century lesbian literature), feminist and queer theory and the history of sexuality.
New and Roman Comedy, Roman Historiography, Ancient Music, Classical Tradition
Professor Moser specializes in the study of electoral systems, political parties, and Russian politics. He has written numerous book chapters and articles on democratization, elections, and political parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Post- Soviet Affairs. His research has been funded by SSRC, IREX, and the Ford Foundation.
An internationally renowned specialist in the pre-Socratics and ancient Greek cosmology, he has published widely in classics, ancient philosophy, ancient science, and linguistics. He is author of The Route of Parmenides (Yale, 1970) and editor of an influential collection on The Pre-Socratics (Revised edition, Princeton, 1993). He founded, and for many years directed, the Joint Classics-Philosophy Program in Ancient Philosophy. He has held major academic fellowships-NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim-and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.. Recently Professor Mourelatos was elected to the Academy of Athens, the highest academic honor in Greece.
Luisa Nardini (Ph.D. in Musicology, Università degli Studi ''La Sapienza'', Rome, Italy; LMS-Postdoctoral License in Mediaeval Studies, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada) is a medievalist with special interests in the later development of chant repertories in Western Europe. Her works on Gregorian chant, tropes, tonaries, music and visual art, manuscript studies, and oral and written transmission of liturgical chant had been presented at scholarly forums in North America and Europe.
Professor Neuberger studies modern Russian culture in social and political context.
Professor Neuburger's focus is on modern eastern Europe with a specialization in southeastern Europe. Her research interests include urban culture, consumption, commodity exchange, gender and nationalism.
Phonetics and Phonology of Spanish, English and Catalan; Second Language
Aegean Studies, Writing Systems, War and Violence
Classical political philosophy; the eighteenth century theoretical foundations of modern and especially American constitutionalism and political culture; nineteenth and twentieth century German political philosophy; post-modern political theory; the moral-philosophic basis of international relations; the dialogue between political theology and political philosophy.
Ami Pedahzur is an associate professor at the Departments of Government and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. His main fields of interest are terrorism, counterterrorism and political extremism. Pedahzur serves as associate editor of the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
He has published on the theoretical aspects of Byzantine art, as well as on theological and hagiographical problems.
''Modern Penunsular Literature: 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries;Romanticism, Modernism, Ramón del Valle-Inclán
Czech and Russian literature, Lepidoptera, and Cabinets of Wonder
Prof. Piroska's research focuses on the changing role of the state in the economy in Central and Eastern Europe. Her dissertation investigated the changing role of the state as an owner, regulator and supervisor in the field of finance in Eastern European countries. Her latest research centers on the spread of regulatory agencies, the contested nature of European integration and comparative analysis of Eastern European states' debt management. She has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Copenhagen Budapest School, junior researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Government at UT Austin.
comparing value measurement and value creation models in Europe and the US
Slavic linguistics; formal and comparative grammar; Russian and Polish culture; history and structure of music
Business German, Anglo-American influence on German language and culture, German image of America (media), German politics, intercultural communication
Golden Age literature, comparative literature, drama.
His research focuses on a wide range of issues concerning media effects and press performance. Reese is co-author with Pamela Shoemaker of ''Mediating the Message: Theories of Influence on Mass Media Content,'' now in its second edition and named recently by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly as one of the ''significant journalism and communication books'' of the 21st century. His most recent work is an edited volume of research on how public issues are shaped through the media, ''Framing Public Life: Perspectives on the Media and How We Understand the Social World'' (Erlbaum, 2001).
Dr. Richmond-Garza lists among her academic interests the following: Nineteenth and twentieth century European drama, Renaissance drama, Oscar Wilde, the Gothic and Orientalism, decadence, aesthetic and literary theory, literature and the fine arts.
Roman Cultural History, Latin Prose, Linguistics
Professor Ritter specializes in studies of American politics, constitutional development, and gender politics from a historical and theoretical perspective. She is currently examining the impact of work-family issues on gender equity in the United States. Professor Ritter has been a Faculty Fellow at Princeton University, a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School, and has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She is the Director of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at UT.
20th Century Spanish Culture, Spanish Poetry,Trans-Atlantic Studies, Ethics, Gender and Queer Theory
Elizabeth Scala teaches Chaucer and his late medieval contemporaries in the context of psychoanalytic and textualist approaches to literature. She writes about Chaucer, the history of Chaucer studies. and the textual environments of medieval literature. Her forthcoming publications include a collection of essays, The Post-Historical Middle Ages, edited with Sylvia Federico (Palgrave, 2009), in which she has written ''The Gender of Historicism.'' ''The Texture of Emare'' is forthcoming in Philological Quarterly and a special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum in 2009 on ''academic injustice'' is being planned around her work on female medievalists Eleanor Prescott Hammond and Edith Rickert. She is one of the new editors of the journal Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Among Schiesari's latest accolades are the a Cine Golden Eagle Award (1994), Dean's Fellowship (1997), the Texas Council for Humanities Grant (1998), a Texas Film Production Grant (1998), and a nomination for the Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship (2000). Her insights as a filmmaker and her deep commitment to public service have inspired Schiesari to write, direct, produce, and D.P. a series of educational films. Two of her public services films, Jan Hughes and Molly Meets Marlene, recently won Chris awards from the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. Another public service film on bicycle safety won the Silver Apple National Educational Media Award.
rofessor Richard Shiff received his Ph.D. from Yale University and holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern art from the early nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on French painting and post-war American and European art. He has been particularly involved with theory and criticism.
Atlantic History; Medieval and Early Modern Worlds; Race, Ethnicity and Nation
Professor Smith, the Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, is a specialist in the art of Northern Europe from 1400 to 1700 with a focus on Germany and the Low Countries.
Cultural generativity, affect, ordinary life, public culture, political imaginaries, ethnographic writing, narrative, ethnopoetics, post-structuralism, U.S. popular culture, Appalachia, Las Vegas.[br /][br /]
He serves as co-editor of the Oxford New Narratives in American History and is currently writing a book on the atomic bombing of Nagasaki for that series.
His primary teaching, research and writing interests are in global media, international communication and cultural theory, information societies and the digital divide in the U. S. and other countries, and global television production and flow. His graduate teaching includes media theory, global media, comparative media systems, international telecommunications systems, Latin American media, and research methods.
Medieval Scandinavia, Postmodern Medievalism, Historical Linguistics
Cultural, historical, and feminist anthropology. Gender, ethnicity, and nationalism. Identity and difference. Politics of representation. Indigenous, children's, and cultural rights. Youth culture and youth organizations. History of anthropology. American Studies. Native American Studies. Museum Studies.
Renaissance Art
The Romancero, Medieval, and Golden Age literature
Greek and Roman art, architecture, archaeology, urbanism, social history, and material culture-- particularly as understood through the lens of social sciences such as anthropology and religious studies.
Modernism and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and Art, 1917-1937; Modern France, Architectural Theory; Twentieth-Century Architecture; Italian Architecture 1400-1600; Le Corbusier; Filippo Brunelleschi; French Gothic Architecture 1100-1300
Louis A. Waldman, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is a specialist in the painting and sculpture of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Tuscany. Areas of particular interest include: patronage in and around the Medici court; vernacular (or ''eccentric'') painting and sculpture in sixteenth-century Florence; and the theory and practice of disegno.
Professor Wagner's research interests include international conflict, international political economy, the relations between domestic and international politics, and formal theories of foreign policy and international politics. In his most recent research he has used the theory of games to investigate various problems in the theory of international politics, including international cooperation, the balance of power, deterrence, crisis bargaining, the causes of war, and the use of economic sanctions.
ami Culture and Civilization, 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.
Professor Weyland's research interests focus on democratization, market reform, social policy and policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America. He has drawn on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela. After receiving a Staatsexamen from Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz in 1984, a M.A. from UT in 1986, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991, he taught for ten years at Vanderbilt University. He has received research support from the SSRC and NEH and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, in 1999/2000 and at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, in 2004/05. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Associate Editor of the Latin American Research Review.
Frank Whigham's work focuses on early modern British literature and culture. He is one of the original group of California theorists who came to be known as the New Historicists, and his essays have appeared in many journals and collections, including PMLA, ELH, NLH, and Renaissance Drama. His work is known for combining anthropological and historical approaches to subjects as varied as Webster's Duchess of Malfi and the rhetoric of early modern English letters of recommendation. He has just completed a new scholarly edition of George Puttenham's The Art of English Poesy, co-edited with Wayne Rebhorn. He is also the founding supervisor of the Digital Archive Services database of images, which supports the teaching of British and American literature. In Austin he has worked actively to support secondary education, conducting seminars with local high-school teachers.
Aristotle's ethics, Plato, Stoicism, early Greek science, Doxography and ancient histories of philosophy
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, culture, and film; women writers and women's and gender studies; literary and cultural theory; Scandinavian film.
Well-known for his influential articles on Socrates and Plato, Professor Woodruff has also published critical editions of Plato's Hippias Major (1982), Ion(1983), and (with Alexander Nehamas) Symposium(1989) and Phaedrus (1995). He has also written on topics in aesthetics and ethics. His recent publications include Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue(Oxford University Press, 2001), Socrates on Reason and Religion (edited with Nicholas Smith, Oxford, 2000), Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists (Cambridge, 1995, with M. Gagarin), Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature (Hackett, 1993), and contributions to Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (Oxford, 1994), Essays on Aristotle's Poetics (Princeton, 1992), and The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (1999). He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and has twice directed NEH seminars on ancient philosophy.
The global sixteenth century; Shakespeare and Renaissance drama; early modern colonialisms; feminist theory and women's writing; early modern technology and culture; psychoanalytic approaches to literary studies.
Professor Woods studies how students were taught to write in medieval schools, and also the use of premodern classroom exercises in the modern classroom. She has just finished a book on the teachers' notes in margins of the manuscripts of a medieval rhetorical treatise, entitled Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Currently she is working on how female characters from classical texts were studied and used as the basis of composition exercises for boys during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.