Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

An asterisk denotes membership in the Graduate Studies Committee.

Ainslie, Ricardo*
Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
Area Interests: Psychological experience of immigration, ethnic conflicts within communities, and the relationship between individual and collective identity.

Alofsin, Anthony
Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor in Architecture Professor of Art and Art History
Professor
Department of Art and Art History
Area Interests: Advanced Design Studio; Frank Lloyd Wright; Organic Design workshop; Ornament: history and contemporary practice

Bonevac, Daniel
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Area Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, American Philosophy

Bsumek, Erika
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Native American History, Environmental History, History of the U.S. West

Burnham, Walter*
Professor Emeritus
Department of Government

Canning, Charlotte
Professor
Department of Theater and Dance
Area Interests: Performance and feminist history, historiography, and theory, twentieth century American theatre, dramatic literature and theory.

Catterall, Kate
Associate Professor
Design Division, College of Fine Arts
Area Interests: Product and Furniture Design (production and history), Design and Culture Studies, 20th Century Italian Design

Clarke, Sally
Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Capitalism and political economy, especially post-1865, Corporate power in the 20th century, Environment, especially 20th century, Consumption and consumer rights, Automobiles

Cox, James
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Area Interests: Twentieth and twenty-first century Native American literature, especially novels, The history of Native Americans in American literature and popular culture, Native American writers and Indigenous Mexico, Native American detective fiction

Davis, O.L.*
Professor
Department of Education
Area Interests: Curriculum theory, development, and history, Social studies education and teacher education.

Flores, Richard
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts
Professor
Deapartment of Anthropology
Area Interests: Expressive culture of Greater Mexico; cultural, social, and critical theory; history and memory.

Foley, Douglas*
Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Area Interests: American ethnic and race relations, Educational policy for ethnic minorities Ethnographic research, and critical theory.

Forbath, William*
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
Professor
School of Law
Area Interests: History of U.S. immigration law and policies and the role of law in the creation of the modern American state

Graham, Don*
Professor
Department of English
Area Interests: Southwestern American Literature; Australian Literature and Film; American Literature.

Green, Laurie
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Gender, Race, and National Identity in American Culture, U.S. Women's History, U.S. Civil Rights Studies

Hartigan, John
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area Interests: Whiteness, public health, science studies, race and class, urban dynamics.

Henderson, Linda*
Professor
Department of Art History
Area Interests: 20th Century European and American Art

Hunt, Bruce
Associate Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: History of science and technology, especially 19th century.

Hutchison, Coleman
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Area Interests: U.S. literature to 1900, The U.S. south (esp. the American Civil War), Popular and folk music

Kackman, Michael
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio-TV-Film
Area Interests: US television and radio history, television criticism, and Cold War cultural history.

Kearney, Mary
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio Television Film
Area Interests: Girl's Media Culture, Women's Media Culture, and Youth Cultures

Kevorkian, Martin
Associate Professor
Department of English
Area Interests: American Literature; Computers and English; Folklore, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies

Mckiernan Gonzalez, John
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Borderlands History, the Social and Cultural History of Medicine, and Latino Studies

Miller, Karl
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Popular Music, Mass Media, African-American History, History of the South

Murphy, Gretchen
Associate Professor
Department of English
Area Interests: 19th and early 20th Century US imperialism and foreign policy, Sentimental and Domestic literature, the Gilded Age, 19th Century women writers, the social construction of race and gender.

Nehring, Neil
Associate Professor
Department of EnglishCultur
Area Interests: Cultural Studies, Popular Music, the Avant Garde.

Paredez, Deborah
Assistant Professor
Department of Theater and Dance
Area Interests: Performance and Popular Culture, Gender, Race and Sexuality, and Latino/a Studies

Pells, Richard*
Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Global impact of American culture, and the ways that foreign cultures have affected the United States.

Rudrappa, Sharmila
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Area Interests: Immigration, race, and labor.

Schatz, Thomas*
Professor
Department of Radio, Television and Film
Area Interests: American film and television studies; media industry studies [also know as 'media institutions']; and cultural studies.

Spellberg, Denise*
Associate Professor
Department of History
Area Interests: Middle East history and religion; medieval Islamic history; women's studies

Staiger, Janet*
Professor
Department of Radio, Television and Film
Area Interests: American film and television studies; women's and gender studies, and cultural studies.

Staley, Thomas*
Director of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Professor

Stekler, Paul
George Christian Centennial Professor
Professor
Department of Radio Television and Film
Area Interests: Documentary Film Production, American Politics, Documentary Film History

Stewart, Kathleen
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area Interests: The ordinary, affect, worlding

Strong, Pauline*
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area Interests: Native American Studies, history of American anthropology, and history and culture of American youth organizations

Strover, Sharon*
Professor
Department of Radio, Television and Film
Area Interests: Technology and culture, the history of technology, and communications policy

Todd, Janice*
Associate Professor
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education
Area Interests: The History of Physical Culture and Exercise, History of Sports, Sport Ethic

Wolitz, Seth*
L.D., Marie and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies
Professor
Department of French and Italian
Area Interests: Yiddish modernism; Jewish-Slavic literary and folkloric relations; French; Spanish; Provençal; Portuguese; German; 19th-20th century Modernism; Belle Epoque

Young, Michael
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Area Interests: American social movements, Nineteenth-century evangelical Christianity, Social Theory

Zonn, Leo
Professor
Department of Geography
Area Interests: Cinema, Popular Culture, Place, Race/ethnicity