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Samer Ali
Samer Ali, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Arabic Studies
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-6467
E-mail: saali@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Arabic literature, art, culture, politics; Islamic religion, Quran, women and gender in Islam; Arabo-Islamic history and civilization.
Anthony Alofsin
Anthony Alofsin, Ph.D.
Roland G. Roessner Centennial Professor in Architecture
School of Architecture

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8156
E-mail: alofsin@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Modern architecture; history of architecture; history of art; Frank Lloyd Wright
Charles Anderson
Charles Anderson, B.A. in Dance, Cornell University; M.F.A. in Choreography, Temple University
Associate Professor of African American and African Diasporic Dance with a courtesy appointment in the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3467
E-mail: charles.o.anderson@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
African Diaspora and African American (Black) vernacular and concert dance history, Black dance aesthetics, Afrocentric dance pedagogy, choreography and dance composition, contemporary dance, Afrofuturism, critical race theory in dance
Victor Arnold
Victor Arnold, Ph.D.
Professor
McCombs School of Business

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3676
E-mail: victor.arnold@mccombs.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Management; nonprofit management; natural resources management
Suzanne Barber
Suzanne Barber, Ph.D.
AT&T Foundation Endowed Professor in Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6152
E-mail: barber@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Software engineering, design and architectures; Distributed artificial intelligence; Information assurance, trust and security; Multi-agent systems
Phillip Barrish
Phillip Barrish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (512) 471-7840
E-mail: pbarrish@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
American literature 1865-1914; American literary realism; masculinity in American literature; Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane
 
Adan Benavides, M.A.
Professional Librarian


CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-495-4588
E-mail: a.benavides@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Texas history prior to 1836; archival and manuscript collections on Mexico and the U.S. Southwest (especially Texas); colonial Mexican history
Halil Berberoglu
Halil Berberoglu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office:
E-mail: berberoglu@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Transport of light; Mass and thermal energy in chemically reacting and biological systems; Thermodynamics of energy conversion systems; Solar radiation transport and utilization; Algae for carbon dioxide sequestration and biofuel production; Bio-inspired solar cells; Novel hydrogen production and storage technologies; Artificial Photosynthesis
Lance Bertelsen
Lance Bertelsen, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8769
E-mail: lberte@uts.cc.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; representations of World War II in literature, film and journalism
Andr?e Bober
Andr?e Bober, M.A.
Landmarks Director
Landmarks
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512.495.4315
E-mail: abober@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
art museums, museum administration, arts administration, museum directorship, museum studies, contemporary art, public art, art in public spaces, collections, collections management, UT special collections
Randy Bomer
Randy Bomer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction - Language and Literacy Studies
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4861
E-mail: rbomer@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Writing; politics of literacy; sociocultural theory; curricula in reading and writing
Daniel Bonevac
Daniel Bonevac, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4333
E-mail: bonevac@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Philosophy; Logic; Moral Issues; Ethics; Philosophy in Popular Culture; Christian Philosophy.
Avron Boretz
Avron Boretz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-6053
E-mail: boretz@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Chinese and Taiwanese popular religion; anthropology of Chinese society; Taiwan studies; ritual production; gender and violence
Robert Boyer
Robert Boyer, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
College of Natural Sciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9745
E-mail: boyer@cs.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Automated reasoning; formal methods; artificial intelligence
Katharine  Brooks
Katharine Brooks, Ph.D.
Director of Career Services
Department of Career Services
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4464
E-mail: k.brooks@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Career coaching and counseling; job market trends; college student hiring; majors and careers or jobs; professional value of liberal arts degree; interview and job search strategies; job and career issues with Facebook, MySpace.
Erika Bsumek
Erika Bsumek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-7253
E-mail: ebsumek@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Native American History, Navajo arts and crafts, labeling of Indian made goods, History of the U.S. West and American Southwest; Modern Western urban/rural development including how large-scale engineering projects such dams, highways, and suburbs transformed the Western landscape/environment. She also specializes in the study of the consumption of Native American artifacts.
Jerome Bump
Jerome Bump, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8747
E-mail: bump@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Literature; nature writing; emotional literacy; family systems and literature; Victorian literature, especially the interaction with India; Gerard Manley Hopkins; computers and English studies, including social networking and multi-player online games
John Butler
John Butler, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Management
McCombs School of Business

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4788
E-mail: john.butler@mccombs.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Entrepreneurship, organizational behavior and design, venture start-up, immigrant and minority entrepreneurship
Charlotte Canning
Charlotte Canning, PhD
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office:
E-mail: charlottecanning@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
US theatre history, Broadway, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, historiography, feminist theatre, theatre and American society, historical entertainment industry.
Robert Causey
Robert Causey, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6755
E-mail: rlc@cs.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Applied logic; philosophical issues in artificial intelligence; scientific methodology
Michael Charlesworth
Michael Charlesworth, Ph.D.
Professor
Art and Art History
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (512) 232-2345
E-mail: mick@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
History of landscape gardens, Nineteenth Century European Art, History of Photography, Life and works of Derek Jarman
Davida Charney
Davida Charney, Ph.D.
Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Department of Rhetoric and Writing
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8746
E-mail: dcharney@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Scientific writing; scientific argument; writing processes in adults; reading processes in adults; argument theory; rhetoric; composition; technical writing; proposal writing; computer manuals; usability testing; document design; empirical research methods
Richard Cherwitz
Richard Cherwitz, Ph.D.
Professor
Communication Studies
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (512) 471-1939
E-mail: spaj737@uts.cc.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Argumentation (in a variety of settings); rhetoric; creating academic/community partnerships; inter- and cross-disciplinary education; diversity in higher education; academic entrepreneurship; the role of public research universities in society; reforming undergraduate and graduate education; citizen scholars; and accountability in higher education.
 
Charles Chiu, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Natural Sciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1707
E-mail: chiu@physics.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Particle theory; laser-plasma physics;physics education, environment & earth science
Angela Clark
Angela Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Nursing

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9078
E-mail: apclark@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
chronic heart failure, diabetes, healthy attitudes, cardiovascular health
John Clarke
John Clarke, Ph.D.
Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor
Art & Art History
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-2355
E-mail: j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture; classical archaeology; digital modeling; contemporary art and criticism; gender studies; art-historical methodology; cultural studies
 
Richard Cleary, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Page Southerland Page Fellow in Architecture
School of Architecture

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6165
E-mail: cleary@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Architectural history; architecture
Edward Coyle
Edward Coyle, Ph.D.
Professor
Kinesiology and Health Education
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8596
E-mail: coyle@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Exercise physiology; sports nutrition; metabolism; diet and supplements; bicycling; endurance performance; running
 
Donald Davis Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
School of Information

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3806
E-mail: dgdavis@gslis.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Texas American World Library History; History of Books Archives and Libraries; Collection Development in Libraries; Church History
Robert DeSimone
Robert DeSimone, D.M.A.
Professor of Music
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9408
E-mail: rdesimone@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Stage director, opera, musical theater; opera coach; conductor
James Denbow
James Denbow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8512
E-mail: jdenbow@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Archaeology; anthropology; African history; African cultures; African languages; Kalahari desert; Congo prehistory; southern African socieites; African Iron Age and Neolithic studies; Great Zimbabwe and its development
Henry Dietz
Henry Dietz, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Government
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7209
E-mail: h.dietz@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Latin American politics: urban poverty and politics, civil-military relations, parties and party systems, Peru
 
Robert Divine, Ph.D.
George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus in American History
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-258-6067
E-mail: rdivine@austin.rr.com

EXPERTISE
Twentieth century American foreign policy; history of the American presidency
William Doolittle
William Doolittle, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geography and The Environment
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office:
E-mail: dolitl@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Landscapes, histories and agricultural technologies in arid lands, particularly the American Southwest and Mexico; field techniques; ecologically sustainable and indigenously developed agricultural strategies.
Robin Doughty
Robin Doughty, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Geography and The Environment
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1591
E-mail: rdoughty@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Environmental history; Texas geography; wildlife history and conservation; bird protection
Robert Duke
Robert Duke, Ph.D.
Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor in Music and Human Leaning
Butler School of Music
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0972
E-mail: bobduke@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Human learning and behavior; procedural memory consolidation; skill learning
Veit  Erlmann
Veit Erlmann, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-2092
E-mail: erlmann@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Ethnomusicology; African culture
Roger Farrar
Roger Farrar, PhD
Professor
Kinesiology and Health Education
Office of the Vice President for Research

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8621
E-mail: rfarrar@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Skeletal muscular atrophy; muscle regeneration; exercise physiology; cardiac health and exercise; cardiovascular health and fitness in the elderly
 
Robert Fernea, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-47l-4206
E-mail: fernea@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Cultural anthropology; Middle East; Arab world; Iraq; Egypt; Egyptian Nubia; ethnographic film; cultural construction of masculinity
Richard Flores
Richard Flores, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9209
E-mail: flores@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Cultural theory; anthropology of performance; folklore and expressive culture; Mexican American history and culture; Mexican American studies; critical theory; public history of the Alamo; race and ethnicity; critical race theory; cultural citizenship; cultural studies
 
Roy Flukinger, M.A.
Senior Curator
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9124
E-mail: fluke@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Photography; history of photography; photography and the humanities; art & art history; photohistory; photography & fine arts; photojournalism; photographic preservation; visual communications; history of film & cinema; library science; management of visual archives
Neil Foley
Neil Foley, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of History and American Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-7252
E-mail: nfoley@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Latinos/Hispanics in the 20th-Century U.S.; History of Mexican Americans in the Southwest; History of Mexican Immigration; Comparative Race Relations in the 20th-Century U.S.; Mexican American and African American Civil Rights; Transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region; U.S.-Mexico Relations since Word War II; Race, Citizenship and National Identity in Mexico and the U.S.
Douglas Foley
Douglas Foley, PhD
Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-3929
E-mail: dfoley@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
American ethnic and race relations; educational policy for ethnic minorities; ethnographic research; critical theory
 
Glenn Frankel, B.A.
Director
School of Journalism
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1845
E-mail: glenn.frankel@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Journalism and media coverage of contemporary issues, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the apartheid era, British politics and culture.
 
Kate Frost, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4991
E-mail: katefrost@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Renaissance literature; foodwriting
Peter Frumkin
Peter Frumkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Affairs
LBJ School of Public Affairs

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7062
E-mail: frumkin@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Philanthropy, volunteering, public management, nonprofit management, service contracting, strategic giving
William Glade
William Glade, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512.471.3211
E-mail: glade@eco.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Economic development in Latin America; comparative economic systems;economics of the arts and cultural policy; international cultural relations
 
William Goetzmann, Ph.D.
Professor - Retired
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6171
E-mail: goetzmann@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
American intellectual history; American cultural and Western history; American West; Western and American art history; history of science and exploration; documentary film making; Texas art
David Gracy II
David Gracy II, Ph.D.
Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise
School of Information

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3892; (CCR) 512-471-8291
E-mail: gracy@gslis.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Archival administration, records management, preservation administration; issues relating to broad domain of documentary heritage of civilization; Texas history (various periods)
Don Graham
Don Graham , Ph.D.
Professor of English
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8387
E-mail: dgbb@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Texas literature; Texas film; Australian literature; Australian film; American literature; Southwestern American Literature and Film.
Laurie Green
Laurie Green, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-7245
E-mail: lbgreen@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Civil Rights Movement; Social Movements; Politics of race and gender; American South
Ian Hancock
Ian Hancock, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7684
E-mail: xulaj@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Romani (Gypsy) language (origins, history, civil rights movement); creolization of language; English (dialects, history, spread overseas)
 
Glynn Harmon, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Information

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3972
E-mail: gharmon@gslis.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Information science; cognition; biomedical informatics; information economics; information management; information networks; aviation history; flight dynamics
John Hartigan Jr.
John Hartigan Jr.
Professor
Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-9201
E-mail: hartigan@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Anthropology of science (comparative study of genomics research in the United States and Mexico); ethnography of race (theories, methods, and practice, with an attention to cultural articulations of whiteness); American culture (class and racial discourses, along with questions of cultural form in the U.S. public sphere).
Mark Hayward
Mark Hayward, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8382
E-mail: mhayward@prc.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Life course origins of health disparities, morbidity and mortality, biodemography; Aging; Life Expectancy; Health; Marriage; Divorce; Widowhood; Socioeconomic, Racial and Ethnic disparities in health
Linda  Henderson
Linda Henderson, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-2474
E-mail: dnehl@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
20th-century European and American art to 1950; the relation of art to science and technology (particularly in the first half of the 20th century); modernism in its cultural context, including science and occultism; Marcel Duchamp; the "fourth dimension" in 20th-century culture
John Hoberman
John Hoberman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Germanic Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-6368
E-mail: hoberman@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race; Scandanavian studies; Norwegian language instruction; history of Jewish racial folklore; Olympics; Sports doping
Carole Holahan
Carole Holahan, PhD
Professor
Kinesiology and Health Education
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-2428
E-mail: c.holahan@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Psychosocial adjustment to cardiovascular illness; relationship between depression and physical illness; social resources and coping with aging; promotion of self-care behavior in older adults; depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking
Jennifer Holme
Jennifer Holme, PhD
Assistant Professor
Educational Administration: Educational Policy and Planning
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-9398
E-mail: jholme@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Implementation of school accountability policies, including test-driven accountability measures (exit exams and NCLB) as well as market-driven accountability reforms (charter schools and school choice); the implementation of policies designed to foster greater equity and diversity in schools, particularly school desegregation policy
Paul Hudson
Paul Hudson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and The Environment
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1554
E-mail: pfhudson@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Geomorphology particularly rivers (Mississippi River); river channel changes and erosion; sediment transport; flooding; environmental change; Quaternary (Holocene); Gulf Coastal Plain
Aletha Huston
Aletha Huston, Ph.D.
Endowed Professor
Deparment of Human Ecology
College of Natural Sciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0753
E-mail: achuston@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Child Development; poverty and child policy; child care; television influences on children
 
Barbara Immroth, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Information

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3875
E-mail: immroth@gslis.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Children's literature; intellectual freedom; public library service for children; school libraries
Judith Jellison
Judith Jellison, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0743
E-mail: jjellison@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Elementary music education; music and children with disabilities; observation and evaluation in classroom/rehearsals; music in special education and therapy
Robert  Josephs
Robert Josephs, Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9788
E-mail: josephs@psy.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Hormones and behavior; testosterone and personality; social psychology of power; social endocrinology of dominance
 
Cory Juhl, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4944
E-mail: cjuhl@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Philosophy of science; philosophy of mind; logic, philosophy of religion, formal learning theory
Robert  Kane
Robert Kane, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6776
E-mail: rkane@uts.cc.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Free will and responsibility; ethics and contemporary moral issues; theory of values; philosophy of religion; politics and culture
Ward Keeler
Ward Keeler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 471-8520
E-mail: ward.keeler@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Anthropology and performing arts; Southeast Asia; Indonesia (Java Bali) Burma; Indonesian language and culture (Indonesian Javanese Balinese); gamelan
Gary Keith
Gary Keith, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Government
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7266
E-mail: gkeith@gov.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Public policy, Texas politics, Texas legislature, environmental policy, parties and elections
Richard Klingner
Richard Klingner, Ph.D.
L.P. Gilvin Centennial Professorship in Civil Engineering, Associate Chair for Architectural Engineering & Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-3597
E-mail: klingner@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Experimental and analytical investigation of the response of masonry and reinforced concrete masonry structures; Earthquake engineering; Anchorage to concrete
Lester Kurtz
Lester Kurtz, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-6316
E-mail: lkurtz@soc.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Sociology of religion and culture; peace and conflict studies; western and nonwestern social theory; sociology of South Asia; social movements
 
J. Richard Kyle, Ph.D.
The Third Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor
Department of Geological Sciences and Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4351
E-mail: rkyle@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Texas; geology; mineral resources
Douglas Laycock
Douglas Laycock, J.D.
Professor Emeritus
School of Law

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (734) 647-9713
E-mail: dlaycock@law.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Religious liberty; remedies; constitutional law; civil litigation
Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter, J.D.; Ph.D.
Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy
School of Law

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1319
E-mail: bleiter@law.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Jurisprudence and philosophy of law; Nietzsche; postmodernism; moral philosophy (esp. moral relativism); academic rankings; academic profession (esp. law and philosophy), Arts & Humanities.
Janice Leoshko
Janice Leoshko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7757
E-mail: jleoshko@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Asian art history; Asian culture; Indian and Tibetan religions, Arts & Humanities.
Naomi Lindstrom
Naomi Lindstrom, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512.471.4936
E-mail: lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, Translation, Sociology of the Arts, Latin American narrative; Jewish studies.
James Loehlin
James Loehlin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4993
E-mail: jnloehlin@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Shakespeare; Shakespearean production; Shakespeare on film; Drama; Theatre; Art & Humanities; Chekhov
 
Christopher Long , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4084
E-mail: chrlong@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Modern Architecture; history and theory of central European architecture; history of Central Europe; cultural history; Arts & Humanities
Amarante Lucero
Amarante Lucero, MFA
Professor
Theatre and Dance
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-5340
E-mail: alucero@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Automated Lighting, Digital Lighting, Lighting Design, Performing Arts of Costa Rica, New Technology for the Arts (in Lighting)
 
Randall Marrett, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-2113
E-mail: marrett@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Structural geology and tectonics; faulting and folding; fluid flow through fracture systems; applications of fractals; structure and tectonics of Mexico and Andes, environment & earth science.
Earle McBride
Earle McBride, Ph.D.
J. Nalle Gregory Chair Emeritus in Sedimentary Geology
Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1905
E-mail: efmcbride@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Hydrocarbon reservoir quality of sandstones; sandstone petrology; sandstone diagenesis; chert; concretions; provenance of sandstone
Richard Meier
Richard Meier, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Linguistics
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9031
E-mail: rmeier@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Child language development; sign languages; American Sign Language; acquisition of American Sign language by deaf children
Jeffrey Meikle
Jeffrey Meikle, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of American Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-2166
E-mail: meikle@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
20th century U.S. cultural history; history of design; history of technology; history of plastics; history of architecture; Arts & Humanities
Gibbs Milliken
Gibbs Milliken, M.F.A.
Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-2658
E-mail: milliken@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Studio art; painting; drawing; design; photography; research; ethnographic art of Amazon tribes; Venezuela; Shamanism; witchcraft; Pre-Columbian survival traits of Latin American Indians, Caribbean islands, Mexico, Central and South America. Rock and cave art in the Venezuelan Amazon Region; Director, The Organization for Tropical Research and Exploration. Biologist; tropical botany; ecology; field studies; photography for research publications; Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine editor, writer, photographer; outdoor products field testing, Arts & Humanities.
Steven Moore
Steven Moore, Ph.D.
Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor in Architecture
School of Architecture

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0184
E-mail: samoore@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Sustainable architecture; science and technology studies; politics of technology; philosophy of technology; history of technology
J Moore
J Moore, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
College of Natural Sciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9568
E-mail: moore@cs.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Verification of computer hardware and software; automatic theorem proving; artificial intelligence
Alexander Mourelatos
Alexander Mourelatos, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Classics
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6749
E-mail: apdm@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Science, Linguistic Theory, Modern Greek Studies
Susan Napier
Susan Napier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-6031
E-mail: snapier@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Japanese literature film and animation; gender issues; constructions of the body; fantasy and science fiction
Joan Neuberger
Joan Neuberger, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-7219
E-mail: neuberger@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Modern Russian culture in social and political context, with a focus on the politics of the arts; 19th century Europe; Gender; Film; Visual Culture
 
Marvin Olasky, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7908
E-mail: molasky@aol.com

EXPERTISE
Journalism politics and religion; conservative Christianity, poverty-fighting; journalism history; media ethics; presidential studies; magazine editing; social issues.
J. Patrick Olivelle
J. Patrick Olivelle, Ph.D.
Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities
Department of Asian Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5811
E-mail: jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
History of Sanskrit Literature; Law and Society in India; Methods in Study of Religion; Sanskrit Culture; History of Hindu Religious Traditions; Ancient to Medieval Indian cultural history.
James Pennebaker
James Pennebaker, Ph.D.
Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professorship in Liberal Arts
Department of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-2781
E-mail: pennebaker@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Writing and health; word choice; language and relationships; expressive writing and diaries; language and personality; disasters, trauma and communication; natural language and communication; social psychology; psychosomatic problems.
H.W. Perry Jr.
H.W. Perry Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Government
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7228
E-mail: hwperry@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
U.S. Supreme Court; constitutional interpretation; the intersection of law and politics
 
Bogdan Perzynski, MFA
Associate Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0903
E-mail: ifzecer@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Time-based art; integrated media; installation art; time-based installation art; painting; drawing; sculpture and sculptural installation; Arts & Humanities.
Augusto Podio
Augusto Podio, Ph.D.
Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3161
E-mail: augusto_podio@pe.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Oilfield production; artificial lift; drilling well control; offshore operations, engineering
William Powers
William Powers, J.D.
President, The University of Texas at Austin
School of Law

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1232
E-mail: president@po.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Products liability; torts; contracts; insurance; appellate litigation; legal philosophy
Loriene Roy
Loriene Roy, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Information

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3959
E-mail: loriene@gslis.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Library development in Native American communities; creation of virtual museums of Native American artifacts; literacy efforts in Native American communities; library collection development and evaluation; oral tradition; organizing gatherings of indigenous librarians worldwide
John Ruszkiewicz
John Ruszkiewicz, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Rhetoric and Writing
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8764
E-mail: ruszkiewicz@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Rhetoric; argumentation; grammar; writing; style; Shakespeare; automobile in American culture, Arts & Humanities.
Sahotra Sarkar
Sahotra Sarkar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5293
E-mail: sarkar@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Philosopy of science; history of science; mathematical genetics; conservation biology; environmental ethics; Arts & Humanities; communication.
Thomas Schatz
Thomas Schatz, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-5987
E-mail: tschatz@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Film and television history and criticism; media industry studies (history, economics, etc.); Hollywood studios and the ''studio system''; film genre
William Scheick
William Scheick, Ph.D.
J. R. Millikan Centennial Professor of English Literature
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8383
E-mail: scheick@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Colonial American literature and culture; Puritan American Literature; Turn-of-the-century English and American literature and culture; Arts & Humanities.
Wayne Schiess
Wayne Schiess, J.D.
Senior Lecturer
School of Law

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1333
E-mail: wschiess@law.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Legal writing; legal research; drafting; plain language
 
Kathy Schmidt, Ph.D.
Manager , Faculty Innovation Center
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1536
E-mail: k.schmidt@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Online instructional design; television production; multimedia development
Christine Schmidt
Christine Schmidt, Ph.D.
Professor
schmidt@che.utexas.edu
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1690
E-mail: schmidt@che.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Tissue Regeneration; Neural Engineering; Biomimetic Materials; Natural-based Materials; Conducting Polymers
Dina Sherzer
Dina Sherzer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of French and Italian
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5531
E-mail: dsherzer@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
20th century French literature and film postcolonialism; Samuel Beckett Marguerite Duras Claude Simon Maghrebi French writers and directors, New novel, New wave, Theater of the Absurd, Arts & Humanities; communication.
 
Joel Sherzer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-8516
E-mail: jsherzer@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Linguistic anthropology sociolinguistics; ethnography of speaking; speech, play, and verbal art; native american discourse, Arts & Humanities.
Richard  Shiff
Richard Shiff, Ph.D.
Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7547
E-mail: rshiff@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
History of art 19th and 20th centuries; art theory and criticism.
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7757
E-mail: chipps@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Art history; culture of Northern Europe 1350-1700, Arts & Humanities.
David Sokolow
David Sokolow, J.D., MBA
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
School of Law

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1379
E-mail: dsokolow@law.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Contract law, corporate law, entertainment law, art law
 
Robert Solomon, Ph.D.
Quincy Lee Centennial Professor in Business
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6771
E-mail: rsolomon@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Business ethics; human emotions; personal relationships; European philosophy; world philosophy; academic ethics; Arts & Humanities; communication.
Peter Stone
Peter Stone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Natural Sciences

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 471 9796, 512 471 9787
E-mail: pstone@cs.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, machine learning, multi-agent learning, robotics, e-commerce, trading agents, autonomic computing
Patricia Stout
Patricia Stout, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-9158
E-mail: pstout@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Advertising copy research and consumer behavior; emotional response to advertising; health communications and social marketing issues; business. Health communication, including HIV/AIDS, immunization, and obesity.
Brian Stross
Brian Stross, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0059
E-mail: bstross@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Language, culture and communication; Indians of Mexico and Guatemala; Maya iconography, epigraphy and hieroglyphic Writing; ethnobotany; food and culture, Indigenous Mesoamerica
Natalie (Talia) Stroud
Natalie (Talia) Stroud, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Communication Studies
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1934
E-mail: tstroud@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Political behavior, partisan media use, political communication, public opinion, political research.
Sharon Strover
Sharon Strover, Ph.D.
Professor
Radio-TV-Film
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6652
E-mail: sstrover@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
The Information Society; telecommunications policy, including telephone cable and satellite systems; international cultural policy with respect to film and television; and the digital divide.
Madeline Sutherland-Meier
Madeline Sutherland-Meier, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512.232.4513
E-mail: madelinesm@austin.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Spanish literature; Spanish culture; Spain''''''''s early women writers; oral literature, Arts & Humanities.
Byron Tapley
Byron Tapley, Ph.D.
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Cockrell School of Engineering

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5573
E-mail: tapley@csr.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Orbital Mechanics; Satellite Orbit Determination; Earth Satellite Applications
Sean Theriault
Sean Theriault, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Government
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-7279
E-mail: seant@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
American political institutions; Political party polarization; U.S. Congress; elections; voters.
Terry Todd
Terry Todd, Ph.D.
Lecturer
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4890
E-mail: terrytodd@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Drugs and sport; weightlifting; sport history; sport and media; bodybuilding; strength and conditioning for athletics; Arts & Humanities
Janice (Jan) Todd
Janice (Jan) Todd, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Education

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4890
E-mail: j.todd@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Women and Sport; weightlifting bodybuilding women and exercise history of physical culture; Arts & Humanities
Ron Tyler
Ron Tyler, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1525
E-mail: rtyler@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Texas; American West; Western American Art; American Art, Arts & Humanities.
John Weinstock
John Weinstock, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Germanic Studies
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-6369
E-mail: weinstock@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Richard Wagner''''s Ring of the Nibelung; Scandinavian culture and civilization; Sami culture and civilization; Old Icelandic language; Norwegian language and literature
Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher, M.M.

Butler School of Music
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0821
E-mail: dwelcher@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Music composition, Arts & Humanities.
Jay Westbrook
Jay Westbrook, J.D.
Professor
School of Law

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1303
E-mail: jwestbrook@law.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Bankruptcy; international business litigation and arbitration; commercial law especially Article 9; secured credit
Alexandra Wettlaufer
Alexandra Wettlaufer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of French and Italian
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7289
E-mail: akw@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Painting and literature in 19th-Century Europe; 19th-century French novel; French women writers of 19th-century; Bildungsroman in Europe; the history of art criticism; women''''''''s studies; female artists; Comparative Literature, Arts & Humanities.
 
Joel Wiggins, Ph.D.
Associate Director
IC2 Institute
McCombs School of Business

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-305-0000
E-mail: jwiggins@ati.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
High-tech; start-ups; economic development; incubator/incubation; technology commercialization; entrepreneurship
Darlene Wiley
Darlene Wiley, M.M.
Professor of Voice
Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
College of Fine Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0745
E-mail: dwiley@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Voice; German; vocal pedagogy, Arts & Humanities.
Samuel Wilson
Samuel Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4206
E-mail: s.wilson@anthro.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Anthropology of culture contact; prehistory and history of the Caribbean; complex societies; digital technology and its impact on human societies; Arts & Humanities
Mercedes de Uriarte
Mercedes de Uriarte, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Journalism
College of Communication

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-1979
E-mail: merlyn@mail.utexas.edu

EXPERTISE
Minorities and media; U.S. foreign coverage; U.S. crisis coverage of Latin America; newsroom diversity; history of U.S. press; feminism


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