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Ari Adut, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4384
E-mail:
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EXPERTISE
Impact of scandal on society and individuals, sociology of culture, public sphere, commodification, censorship
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Psychoanalysis; psychology of twinship; psychology and culture; critical incidents in communities psychopathology; attachment
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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
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EXPERTISE
Arabic literature, art, culture, politics; Islamic religion, Quran, women and gender in Islam; Arabo-Islamic history and civilization.
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Jafari Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0054
E-mail: jsallen@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Gender and sexuality in African diasporas; critical social theory; black feminisms; critical cultural studies; Cuba and the Caribbean; TBLGQ culture and political organizing
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Hal Alper, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4417
E-mail: halper@che.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Biofuels production using microbial and fungal sources; Mammalian cell culture engineering; Pathway engineering for the production of novel biofuels and biochemicals; Protein engineering and evolution strategies applied to cellular engineering; Value-added products and bioactive molecules in eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems; Novel molecular biology tools for gene expression and regulation
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Eighteenth-century literature and culture; the British novel; book history; textual studies; Jane Austen; early fiction by women.
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My research examines the processes by which young people understand their cultural selves and how this meaning making influences relationships, academic achievement, well-being and a sense of social responsibility. I have a strong belief that research should provide the theoretical framework and empirical evidence to guide practice and intervention. Using an action-research approach, I explore resiliency and cultural competence in the context of 1) the processes of racial socialization, 2) community vs. individual investment in the Black community, 3) risk and protective factors in coping with racism and 4) class and upward mobility.
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I study student engagement in complex scientific practices, such as argumentation. In addition, I focus on understanding how the existing classroom culture influences the students work with these new practices. Through this work, I design learning environments, work with teachers to enact the learning environments, and examine what happens when they do.
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Mark Bernstein, Ed.D.
Coordinator of the Deafness Studies/Deaf Education major
Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Communication
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (512) 471-1553
E-mail: bernstein@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Communication disorder; Deafness and deaf education; Speech developement in deaf people; Working with parents of hearing impaired children; Use of simultaneous communication; Lexical acquisition in children
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Eighteenth-century British literature and culture; representations of World War II in literature, film and journalism
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Douglas Biow, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of French & Italian
Department of French & Italian
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7267
E-mail: biow@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Italian language and literature; Renaissance culture and cleanliness; Dante
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Philosophy; Logic; Moral Issues; Ethics; Philosophy in Popular Culture; Christian Philosophy.
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Chinese and Taiwanese popular religion; anthropology of Chinese society; Taiwan studies; ritual production; gender and violence
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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.
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20th Century American poetry and fiction; Digital Humanities; Literary Theory;
Literature and Medicine; Narrative Medicine; Bibliotherapy; Modernism; 20th
Century Popular Culture; Indie Music; Standardized Testing (especially the
SATs); Essay evaluation; Holistic Scoring; Admissions Essays.
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R. Malcolm Brown, Jr., Ph.D.
Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair In Plant Cell Biology
Section of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
College of Natural Sciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3364
E-mail: rmbrown@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
algae: algal culture, cyanobacteria, role of algae as feedstock providers for biofuels, airborne algae, role of algae in cellulose biosynthesis; biofuels: role of cyanobacteria and algae in production of feedstocks and biofuels; cellulose: cellulose biosynthesis and structure; microscopy: high resolution transmission electron microscopy, atomic and molecular imaging of beam-sensitive materials
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popular culture and persuasion; social style, including steampunk; media criticism; apocalyptic rhetoric
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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
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Advertising, branding, qualitative research, consumer behavior, Internet marketing, ethnic studies, business, digital and alternative media.
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Race, culture and identity; music and popular culture; sport and the media; British politics
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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
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Historic preservation; cultural landscapes; architecture; historic resources and cultural diversity; Frank Lloyd Wright; historic sites and museums
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Political rhetoric and violence as political expression; popular culture studies; gender and women''''s studies; American social movements; labor movement; public life in the United States.
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Racial and ethnic identity development; factors that impact academic
achievement of African American students; academic self-concept;
academic motivation; multicultural psychology and issues of race, ethnicity and culture; Afrocentric/African-centered psychology; impact of religiosity and spirituality on various psychological outcomes; multicultural counseling
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Sports and impact on American culture, sports and media, the business of sports, collective bargaining, mega-stadiums and revenue enhancement
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Craig Cravens, Ph.D.
Fellow of Texas Chair in Czech Studies
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-9125
E-mail: svejk@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Czech language and culture, Jara Cimran studies
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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.
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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.
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American popular culture; the circus; American foreign relations; animals; American social movements; working class culture
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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
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Doug Dierking, Ph.D.
Assistant Department Chair
Department of Management
McCombs School of Business
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-9441
E-mail: Doug Dierking
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EXPERTISE
Human resource management, leadership, management science, organizational behavior, organizational change and redesign, organizational culture, workplace environment
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International affairs; national security/ defense policy; human resources policy (especially military personnel); civil rights/ race relations; policy making (especially the executive branch); federal education policy; African politics, business
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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.
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Mexico; Economics--Trade Latin America Economic Integration Wage Inequalities High-technology clusters; Gender Issues--Women in business
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American food cultures; foodways; Thanksgiving; Appalachian literature, Texas barbecue; food studies, feminist theories, ecological literature and culture, Appalachian Studies, Southern Studies, material culture studies, and the intersections of race, class, and gender in American literature and society
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Ethnomusicology; African culture
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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
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American ethnic and race relations; educational policy for ethnic minorities; ethnographic research; critical theory
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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.
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Journalism and media coverage of contemporary issues, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the apartheid era, British politics and culture.
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Clinical practice with children and families, effectiveness of solution-focused therapy with children in schools, school dropouts, adolescent pregnancy, children with family and behavior problems. Research on how to design schools that promote achievement and a safe, respectful and violent free culture.
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Maria Franquiz, PhD
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Instruction: Bilingual and Bicultural Education
College of Education
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-5670
E-mail: mfranquiz@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Bilingual education; biliteracy; ethnographic and sociolinguistic research; Latina/o children''s and adolescent literature; migrant education; Latina/o teacher identity
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EXPERTISE
Roman Literature and Civilization; Classical Tradition in Popular Culture;
Greco-Roman antiquity; classical heritage of America; post-tenure review legislation
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Thomas Garza, Ed.D.
Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3607
E-mail: tjgarza@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Russian language, the vampire in slavic cultures, Russian fairy tales, Russian youth culture, Post-Soviet youth culture, Chechyna and the Chechen wars, contemporary Russian culture, Gorbachev, Yeltsyn, Putin, Russian organized crime, Russian mafia.
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Girls and technology work and family; dual-earner families; women''s and girls'' development; gender issues in counseling and psychotherapy; psychology of gender
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Celebrity, popular culture, popular music, popular fads and fashion, youth cultures, UFOs, alien abduction, exorcism, demonic possession, apocalypse, Halloween, folk religion, folklore, Satanism, occult and occultism, new age, cults, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Freud, Jung, Lacan, scatology, ghosts, haunting, the paranormal, pseudo-science, gothic music, gothic subculture, horror film, popular television, cultural studies, rhetorical studies.
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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
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EXPERTISE
Romani (Gypsy) language (origins, history, civil rights movement); creolization of language; English (dialects, history, spread overseas)
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Race and culture in physical activity and sport; identity development patterns of African Americans
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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).
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Small group behavior; human error in aviation and medicine; aviation psychology; cross-cultural factors - national organizational professional in aviation and medicine
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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
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Free will and responsibility; ethics and contemporary moral issues; theory of values; philosophy of religion; politics and culture
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Gender and media culture (TV, film, music), girl media, girl culture, youth cultures and media education.
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Anthropology and performing arts; Southeast Asia; Indonesia (Java Bali) Burma; Indonesian language and culture (Indonesian Javanese Balinese); gamelan
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Sociology of religion and culture; peace and conflict studies; western and nonwestern social theory; sociology of South Asia; social movements
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Asian art history; Asian culture; Indian and Tibetan religions, Arts & Humanities.
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Polymer nanofoam and nanocomposites, biomedical micro devices; 3D cell culture and drug discovery; Nanoporous materials; Manufacturing processes for alternate transportation energy
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Cultural studies; Chicano literature; anthropology and literature; Mexicans in the United States; U.S.-Mexico cultural relations; critical theory; folklore and popular culture.
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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.
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Religion and culture; Jesus in popular culture; History of religion in America; Ben Hur.
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LGBT literature and culture, women writers, feminism, 18th-century British and
American literature, landscape and garden history, poetry.
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Japanese literature film and animation; gender issues; constructions of the body; fantasy and science fiction
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Modern Russian culture in social and political context, with a focus on the politics of the arts; 19th century Europe; Gender; Film; Visual Culture
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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
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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.
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Chican@ literature; American literature; popular culture; cultural studies; film
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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
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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.
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Cory Reed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-4512
E-mail: creed@mail.utexas.edu
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Literature (especially of Spain, Cervantes, Golden Age); study abroad; interdisciplinary programs; Spanish language and culture (Spain); Cultural links between Spain, Mexico, Morocco, and the Southwest; Interaction between Islam, Christianity, Judaism in middle ages and Early Modern period
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Stuart Reifel, Ed.D.
Professor
Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Administration
College of Education
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4089
E-mail: sr10@mail.utexas.edu
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Early childhood education; play; early development
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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.
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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
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Rhetoric; argumentation; grammar; writing; style; Shakespeare; automobile in American culture, Arts & Humanities.
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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
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Colonial American literature and culture; Puritan American Literature; Turn-of-the-century English and American literature and culture; Arts & Humanities.
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Public administration, organization theory, race relations, education policy, group dynamics, leadership, psychology of management
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Art history; culture of Northern Europe 1350-1700, Arts & Humanities.
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American cultural history of alcohol and drugs; History of addiction research; American cultural and intellectual history; American social thought and social sciences
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Urban policy and management; urban politics; criminal justice policy; prisons; municipal policing; community crime prevention
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Capital punishment; constitutional law; federal habeas corpus; criminal law
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Language, culture and communication; Indians of Mexico and Guatemala; Maya iconography, epigraphy and hieroglyphic Writing; ethnobotany; food and culture, Indigenous Mesoamerica
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Spanish literature; Spanish culture; Spain''''''''s early women writers; oral literature, Arts & Humanities.
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Media management; Internet newspaper economics; motivation and satisfaction in the newsroom; change and newspapers; newspaper organizational cooperation; technology''s role in media management; black press economics; mass media and minorities; newspaper reporting and editing; communication; journalism
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Writing; technology; literacy; teaching and learning; impact of technology on culture; information architecture; knowledge ecology; virtual environments; Web development; MOOs and MUDs; cognitive science; assessment
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Writing; technology; literacy; teaching and learning; impact of technology on culture; information architecture; knowledge ecology; virtual environments; Web development; MOOs and MUDs; cognitive science; assessment, the Online Learning Record
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African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory
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Women and Sport; weightlifting bodybuilding women and exercise history of physical culture; Arts & Humanities
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Drugs and sport; weightlifting; sport history; sport and media; bodybuilding; strength and conditioning for athletics; Arts & Humanities
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Agricultural and environmental law (Domestic and International); Indian law; civil rights; critical race theory;
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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
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Early American Political Culture; Early American history
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Methodologies and Educational Research; Citizenship and Social Studies Education; Migration; Cultural Pedagogies in Education
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Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology; ceramic analysis & material culture; complex societies; Indiana Jones
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Sociolinguistics; language and culture in the Arab world; language and education in the U.S.; literacy; African American language and culture; language and social change in North Africa; English-Only rules in the workplace
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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
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Richard Wagner''''s Ring of the Nibelung; Scandinavian culture and civilization; Sami culture and civilization; Old Icelandic language; Norwegian language and literature
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L. Michael White, Ph.D.
Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Classics and Christian Origins
Department of Classics
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1438
E-mail: lmwhite@mail.utexas.edu
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Early Christianity; Origins of the Bible; Jesus; the Gospels; New Testament; Graeco-Roman culture; Archeology.
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Gender discrimination in the workplace and military, issues related to "Don''''t Ask, Don''''t Tell", gender roles; sex discrimination; sexual harassment; "glass ceiling"; men in traditionally female occupations; income inequality; low wage workers (especially retail employees); consumer culture; toys.
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Anthropology of culture contact; prehistory and history of the Caribbean; complex societies; digital technology and its impact on human societies; Arts & Humanities
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Leo Zonn, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Geography and The Environment
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1586
E-mail: zonn@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Representation and Media, Especially Cinema, Geographies of Popular Culture
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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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Yoruba language, culture and history, Yoruba women, and Creole studies
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