The University of Texas at Austin   School of Law

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Partners for change at the intersection of academics and advocacy.


Current Faculty Affiliates



Omoniyi Afolabi, Spanish & Portuguese

Kamran Ali, Anthropology

Katherine Arens, Germanic Studies

Arturo Arias, Spanish & Portuguese

Javier Auyero, Sociology

Cecilia Balli, Anthropology

Bill Beardall, Law

Antonio Benjamin, Law

Catherine Boone, Government

Oren Bracha, Law

Daniel M. Brinks, Government

James Brow, Anthropology

Virginia Garrard Burnett, History

Noël Busch-Armendariz, Social Work

Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante, Spanish & Portuguese

Evan Carton, English

Mounira M. Charrad, Sociology

Ruramisai Charumbira, History

Michael J. Churgin, Law

Judith Coffin, History

Ann Cvetkovich, English

Donna DeCesare, Journalism

Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte, Journalism

Henry Dietz, Government

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Spanish & Portuguese

Ariel Dulitzky, Law

David V. Edwards, Government

Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Sociology

Tarek El-Ariss, Middle Eastern Studies

Zachary Elkins, Government

Karen Engle, Law

Rhonda Evans Case, Government

Joseph Fishkin, Law

Matthew Flynn, Public Affairs, Sociology

William Forbath, Law, History

Glenn Frankel, Journalism

Cary Franklin, Law

Gary P. Freeman, Government

James Galbraith, Public Affairs

Julius Getman, Law

Ahmed Ghappour, Law

Kaushik Ghosh, Anthropology

Denise Gilman, Law

Andrea Giunta, Art & Art History

Gloria González-López, Sociology

Edmund T. Gordon, Anthropology

Laurie B. Green, History

Benjamin Gregg, Government

Frank Guridy, History

Charles R. Hale, Latin American Studies, Anthropology

Patricia Hansen, Law

Barbara Harlow, English

Eden Harrington, Law

Fred Heath, UT Libraries

Susan S. Heinzelman, English, Center for Women's & Gender Studies

Clement Henry, Government

Richard Heyman, Geography

Heather Hindman, Asian Studies

Barbara Hines, Law

Neville Hoad, English

Kristen Hogan, Center for Women's and Gender Studies

Juliet Hooker, Government

Gary Jacobsohn, Government

Robert Jensen, Journalism

Derek Jinks, Law

Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, African and African American Studies

Christian Kelleher, Benson Latin American Collection

Robert King, Linguistics

Alan Kuperman, Public Affairs

Jennifer Laurin, Law

Mark Lawrence, History

Jeffrey Leon, Philosophy

Lorraine Leu, Spanish & Portuguese

Sanford Levinson, Law

Ray Marshall, Public Affairs

Tracie M. Matysik, History

John McKiernan-Gonzalez, History

Robin Moore, Ethnomusicology

Ranjana Natarajan, Law

Paula Newberg, Government

Forrest A. Novy, Social Work

Naomi Paik, American Studies

Kathleen Panoff, Texas Performing Arts

Gabriela Polit, Spanish & Portuguese

Jonathan Pratter, Tarlton Law Library

John T. Ratliff, Law

Joe Randel, Texas Performing Arts

Judith Rhedin, Texas Performing Arts

Gretchen Ritter, Government

Bryan R. Roberts, Sociology

Sharmila Rudrappa, Sociology

Christine E. Schmidt, Engineering

Megan Seaholm, History

Snehal Shingavi, English

Stephen Slawek, Ethnomusicology

Christen Smith, Anthropology

Stephen Sonnenberg, Architecture

Shannon Speed, Anthropology

Denise A. Spellberg, History

Jordan Steiker, Law

Gerald Torres, Law

Rebecca M. Torres, Geography & the Environment

Pauline Turner Strong, Humanities Institute, Anthropology

Joao H. Vargas, Anthropology

David Warner, Public Affairs

Jay Westbrook, Law

Lyn Wiltshire, Theatre & Dance

Zipporah Wiseman, Law



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