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	Robert Abzug, Ph.D. Professor Department of American Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7240 E-mail: zug@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE History of religion in America; History of psychology in America; Reform and social movements; History of the Holocaust; Jewish studies
	Kamran Aghaie, Ph.D. Associate Professor Middle Eastern Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-6400 E-mail: kamranaghaie@austin.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Islamic studies; Shi''''ism; modern Iranian history and modern Middle Eastern history; world history; historiography; religious studies; nationalism; gender studies and economic history
	Kamran Ali, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Anthropology College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512 471 7531 E-mail: asdar@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Gender, health, development, labor history, political movements (including Islamic groups) and urban social history in the Middle East and South Asia
	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, 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, 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
	Jay Banner, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986 Director, Environmental Science Institute Geological Sciences Jackson School of Geosciences CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-5016 E-mail: banner@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Groundwater; water resources; earth system history; climate change; global warming; carbonate and groundwater geochemistry; environmental science; environmental education; caves; conservation; natural resources.
	Janine Barchas , Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of English College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 471-8379 E-mail: barchas@austin.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Eighteenth-century literature and culture; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.
	Eric Barron, Ph.D. Dean Jackson School of Geosciences CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-6048 E-mail: ebarron@jsg.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Climatology, climate change, global warming, numerical modeling, atmospheric science, and Earth history
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
	Deborah Bolnick, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Department of Anthropology College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-7532 E-mail: deborah.bolnick@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Molecular anthropology, ancient DNA studies, human biological variation, race, population genetics, Native American prehistory, anthropology of science, DNA ancestry testing
	Pascale Bos, Ph.D. Associate Professor Germanic Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-6373 E-mail: pascale.r.bos@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE 20th-century comparative Western European and U.S. literature; cultural studies, gender and memory; Holocaust; modern Dutch and modern Jewish literature and culture; ethnic minorities in Europe; cultural memory, trauma, race and gender.
	Oren Bracha, LLB, SJD Professor School of Law CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 232-9325 E-mail: obracha@law.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Intellectual property, cyberlaw, legal history and legal theory.
	Michael Brandl, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Business, Government and Society McCombs School of Business CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-3355 E-mail: michael.brandl@mccombs.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Global financial markets, private equity and commercial banking, economic growth, economic history, regional economy
	H.W. Brands, Ph.D. Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Government Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7238 E-mail: hwbrands@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE U.S. history; American presidents; Franklin Roosevelt; Andrew Jackson; Woodrow Wilson; Benjamin Franklin; the Cold War.
	Anthony Brown, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Curriculum and Instruction - Social Studies Education College of Education CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-3902 E-mail: anthony.brown25@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE
	Jonathan Brown, Ph.D. Professor of History Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7218 E-mail: jcbrown@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Latin American economic and labor history; the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions; Argentina; Fidel Castro
	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.
	Karl Butzer, D.Sc Professor Department of Geography and The Environment College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512.328.3255 E-mail: karl.butzer@austin.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Geoarchaeology and Environmental History; Indigenous maps, Architecture, and Enculturation in Colonial Mexico; Landscape, Society and Meaning; Research and Issues in Geography
Jorge Canizares-Esguerra Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7202 E-mail: canizares-esguerra@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.
	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.
	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
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
David Crew, Ph.D. Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7232 E-mail: dfcrew@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE The history of popular culture and consumerism in twentieth-century Germany and Europe; the history and politics of memory; the visual history of Germany in the twentieth century, with a specific focus upon photographic representations.
	Elizabeth Cullingford, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of the English Department Department of English College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-4991 E-mail: cullingford@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Irish literature, politics and culture; Modern poetry, Women''''s Studies; Drama and Film; Shakespeare; W.B. Yeats, representations of only children, and representations of clerical child abuse.
	Marjorie Curry Woods, Ph.D. Professor English College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-8380 E-mail: marjoriewoods@austin.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Medieval Latin literature and manuscripts; history of rhetoric; history of premodern pedagogy; use of historical exercises in the modern classroom
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
	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
Yoav Di-Capua, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7259 E-mail: ydi@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Modern Arab Intellectual History
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
	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 Dull, Ph.D Senior Research Fellow Environmental Science Institute Jackson School of Geosciences CONTACT INFORMATION Office: E-mail: robdull@austin.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Paleoecology; environmental impacts of land use change; climate change; deforestation; fire history; natural hazards; geoarchaeology; Central America; the Holocene Epoch; the Anthropocene Epoch; global warming
Carolyn Eastman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7263 E-mail: ceastman@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE The cultural, social, and intellectual history of early America with a focus on gender and political culture; 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.
	Sherry Field, PhD Associate Dean for Teacher Education, Student Affairs, and Administration Curriculum and Instruction Office of the Vice President for Research CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-1470 E-mail: sherry_field@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Curriculum history; oral history; social studies curriculum and teaching; children?s thinking and historical thinking; teachers as school leaders; teacher preparation
	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, 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.
	William Forbath, J.D., PhD Professor School of Law CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 232-1326 E-mail: wforbath@law.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Constitutional law and history.
	William Forbath, Ph.D. Professor History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512 232 1326 E-mail: wforbath@mail.law.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Constitutional history, legal history, social and economic rights in courts, social movements of Africa, Texas low-income housing
William Forbath, J.D., PhD Professor School of Law CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 232-1326 E-mail: wforbath@law.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Constitutional law and history.
Jennifer Fuller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Radio-TV-Film College of Communication CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-4571 E-mail: jfuller@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Television; docudramas, based-on-a-true-story television, historical films; reality TV; race and the media; race and national identity; whiteness; gender and TV; cable TV; the history of TV; and the TV industry.
Patricia Galloway, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Information CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-9220 E-mail: galloway@ischool.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Informational retrieval, archives, historical documentation
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, 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)
	Frank Guridy, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7267 E-mail: fguridy@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Cuba and African-Americans; African Diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean; U.S. presence in Latin America; Afro-Diasporic Encounters between Cubans and U.S. Americans of African descent in the twentieth century; racialization in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, hemispheric cultural history, transnational history
	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
	Mary Kay Hemenway, Ph.D. Research Associate and Senior Lecturer College of Natural Sciences CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-1309 E-mail: marykay@astro.as.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Astronomy; astronomy education; history of astronomy; science education
	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
	Michael Holleran, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Architecture CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 471-3792 E-mail: holleran@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Historic preservation, urban development, history of water, canals and ditches
John Huehnerguard, Ph.D. Professor Middle Eastern Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-7081 E-mail: huehnergard@austin.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Semitic languages and linguistics; historical linguistics; writing systems; ancient Near Eastern history
	Thomas Hunt, J.D. and Ph.D. Assistant Professor Kinesiology and Health Education College of Education CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-0994 E-mail: thomas_m_hunt@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Sport policy, law, and history; international relations; international politics and diplomacy; drugs and doping in sport; the Olympic Movement.
	Charles Jackson, Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1998 Research Scientist Institute for Geophysics Jackson School of Geosciences CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-0401 E-mail: charles@ig.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Climate change, global warming, abrupt climate change, climate models, climate predictions, uncertainties in climate models and predictions, climate history, bayesian stochastic inversion
	Calvin Johnson, J.D. Professor School of Law CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-1306 E-mail: chjohnson@law.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Federal tax law; constitutional law; accounting; business, economics & labor.
	John Kappelman, Ph.D. Professor Anthropology College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-0055 E-mail: jkappelman@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid evolution and hominid origins, paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging
	Nancy Kwallek, Ph.D. Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Chair for Interior Design School of Architecture CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 471-6249 E-mail: n.kwallek@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Interior design, human behavior and design, history and theory of design, interior environments
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
	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, 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.
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
	Al Martinich, Ph.D. Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-6770 E-mail: martinich@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE History of political philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, philosophy of language, medieval philosophy, Philosophy of language; history of political philosophy; philosophy of religion; seventeenth century England
John McKiernan-Gonzalez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-745-4245 E-mail: tulua@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE The intersection of public health, civil rights and transnational social movements; 19th and 20th popular mobilization and American public health policies at the Mexican border; race and cross-border labor politics; and Latino public history
	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
	Susan Mickey Profesor Department of Theatre and Dance College of Fine Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-5323 E-mail: msmickey@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Costume Design for Theatre, television and Film, Costume History, Professional Career Planning
	G. Howard Miller, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7212 E-mail: hmiller@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Religion and culture; Jesus in popular culture; History of religion in America; Ben Hur.
Karl Miller, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7257 E-mail: karlmiller@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE United States cultural and intellectual history, comparative race and ethnicity, African-American history, ethnomusicology, corporate and cultural globalization, folk culture, the history of anthropology and folkloric studies, tourism, recording technology, intellectual property, labor and business history.
Gail Minault , Ph.D. Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7214 E-mail: gminault@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE 19th and 20th century history of India, including religion and politics, intellectual and social history, and women''s movements.
	Lisa Moore, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of English College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-1837 E-mail: llmoore@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE LGBT literature and culture, women writers, feminism, 18th-century British and American literature, landscape and garden history, poetry.
Leonard Moore, Ph.D. Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7245 E-mail: leonardmoore@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Modern African American History; black urban history; intersection of race, sport, and hip-hop
	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
	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
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, 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.
	David Oshinsky, Ph.D. Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7230 E-mail: oshinsky@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history
Florence Oxley, M.S. Director of Plant Conservation Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-0160 E-mail: oxley@wildflower.org		EXPERTISE Plant conservation, native plant uses and history, ecology education
	Thomas Palaima, Ph.D. Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor Department of Classics College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512 471-5742 E-mail: tpalaima@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Higher education; University of Texas athletics; university affairs; War; Contemporary social values; Bob Dylan; Greek history; Linear B and ancient writing systems; History of writing and administration; Aegean scripts and prehistory
	Guy Raffa, Ph.D. Associate Professor of French & Italian Department of French and Italian College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-5531 E-mail: guyr@uts.cc.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Dante Studies, medieval Italian literature and culture, digital humanities, history and philosophy of science, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, 20th century Italian fiction; Medieval Italian literature.
Charles Ramirez Berg, Ph.D. University Distinguished Teaching Professor Radio-TV-Film College of Communication CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 471-9925 E-mail: ramberg@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Film history, Latino images in film, Mexican cinema, screenwriting, narration in film and world cinema, film criticism, stereotyping.
Penne Restad, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-5236 E-mail: restad@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE American social and cultural history, with particular interest in the history of American holidays, public ritual, consumer culture, and national identity; the formation of American cultural identities and behaviors; the intersection of gift and money economies in the late 19th century.
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Journalism College of Communication CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-0405 E-mail: mrivas@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Journalism; the intersection of oral history and journalism; Latinos and the news media, both as producers of news and as consumers; U.S. Latinos & Latinas of the World War II generation; diversity in the news media, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
	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.
	Elizabeth Scala, Ph.D Associate Professor of English Department of English College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-8375 E-mail: scala@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature; Medieval Literature; Medieval Romance; Bibliography and Textual Studies; Literary Theory; Women, Gender, and Literature;
	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
James Sidbury, Ph.D. Profesor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7225 E-mail: sidbury@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Social and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America; early African American history.
	Mark Smith Associate Professor American Studies and History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-7277 E-mail: mcsmith@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE American cultural history of alcohol and drugs; History of addiction research; American cultural and intellectual history; American social thought and social sciences
	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.
Denise Spellberg, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7202 E-mail: dams@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.
	Michael Stoff, Ph.D. Director, Plan II Honors Program Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-1442 E-mail: mbstoff@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE American history; the presidency, World War II; Normandy scholars; Honors programs, Plan II
	Edward Theriot, Ph.D. Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Molecular Evolution Section of Integrative Biology College of Natural Sciences CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-232-2379 E-mail: etheriot@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Algae; aquatic biology; paleontology; freshwater ecology; evolution; diatoms; Texas Natural Science Center
Shirley Thompson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of American Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: E-mail: s.thompson@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory
	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, 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
Alan Tully, Ph.D. Chair, History Department Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-3261 E-mail: tully@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Early American Political Culture; Early American history
	Juliet E. K. Walker, Ph.D. Professor of History Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-5581 E-mail: jekwalker@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE African American history; Antebellum Slavery; Black Business History and Political Economy; Black Intellectual history; African American Women''''''''s history; Oprah Winfrey.
	S. Craig Watkins, Ph.D. Associate Professor Radio-TV-Film College of Communication CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (512) 471-6676 E-mail: scwatkins@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Race and pop culture; Youth culture; digital media and social media; hip-hop culture and music; video games; the history of Black American Cinema and the films of Spike Lee
	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.
	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
	Charters Wynn, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7234 E-mail: wynn@mail.utexas.edu	EXPERTISE Soviet politcal and labor history; Josesph Stalin
Emilio Zamora, Ph.D. Professor Department of History College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-7246 E-mail: e.zamora@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE The history of Mexicans in the United States and their relationship with Mexico, as well as oral history, the history of the U.S. working class, Texas history, and the archival enterprise in Texas and northern Mexico.
	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
Fehintola , Ph.D. Assistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-471-7871 E-mail: mosadom@mail.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE Yoruba language, culture and history, Yoruba women, and Creole studies
Mohammad , Ph.D. Professor Middle Eastern Studies College of Liberal Arts CONTACT INFORMATION Office: 512-475-6605 E-mail: mghanoon@uts.cc.utexas.edu		EXPERTISE 20th century Persian literature; comparative literary history and criticism; methodology and practice of literary translation

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