Core Faculty
Robert H. Abzug
Professor, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies
zug@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7240 |
GAR 3.310
Education: Ph.D., History, 1977, University of California, Berkeley
Interests: American Cultural and Intellectual History, American Jewish History and Culture, History of the Holocaust & Jewish Studies, History of Psychology, History of American Religion, History of Photography, Antebellum America
B. Alex Beasley
Assistant Professor
beasley@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7792 |
BUR 402
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: U.S. cultural, social, and political history; history of capitalism; environmental studies; the U.S. and the world; gender and sexuality; geography and urban studies; public and digital humanities
Iván Chaar López
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Interests: Digital Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Science & Technology Studies; art & visual culture, borderlands, capital, history of technology (especially electronics and computing), imperial formations, Latina/o lifeworlds and knowledge production, media archaeology, racial formation.
Lina Chhun
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Interests: Transnational, feminist and queer methodologies; women of color feminisms; Southeast Asian American Studies; critical refugee studies; memory and historical violence; war, militarism, and empire
Cary Cordova
Associate Professor
cordova@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4582 |
BUR 418
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: American Studies, Latino Studies, Art History / Visual Culture, Urban Studies, and Ethnic Studies; the interconnectivity of art, politics, place, and public policy; Latina/o cultural production, including art, music, and the performing arts, and social movements
Janet M. Davis
University Distinguished Teaching Professor; Associate Director, Plan II Honors
janetmdavis@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1848 |
BUR 432
Education: Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Interests: U.S. cultural, social, and environmental history; popular culture; social thought; animal studies; women’s and gender history; U.S. social movements; modern South Asia
Lauren Gutterman
Assistant Professor
lgutterman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4349 |
BUR 422
Education: Ph.D, New York University
Interests: History of Women, Gender and Sexuality; LGBTQ Studies; Marriage and the Family; Popular Culture; Public History; Oral History; Digital Humanities
Steven D Hoelscher
Department Chair; Professor; Faculty Curator for Photography, Harry Ransom Center
hoelscher@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2567 |
BUR 416
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Photography; Race and Racism; Cultural and Historical Geography; Urban Studies; Cultural Memory
Randolph Lewis
Professor
randolph.lewis@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7783 |
BUR 410
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: surveillance and society, creative nonfiction, documentary expression, public scholarship, indigenous media, the intersection of art and politics broadly conceived, digital humanities, urban studies, film and video production
Stephen H. Marshall
Associate Professor
stephenmarshall@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4361 |
BUR 412, GWB 2.116c
Education: Ph.D., 2002, Government, Harvard University
Interests: Political Theory, American Social and Political Thought, African-American political thought
Jeffrey L Meikle
Stiles Professor in American Studies
meikle@mail.utexas.edu |
232-2166 |
BUR 424
Education: Ph.D., American Studies, 1977, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: History of design, technology, and architecture; postmodernity; alternative cultures.
Julia Mickenberg
Professor
mickenberg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2650 |
BUR 420
Education: Ph. D., University of Minnesota
Interests: History of the Left/radical cultures, women's history, history of childhood and children's literature, Russian studies, Americans abroad, utopia
Shirley E. Thompson
Associate Professor, Associate Chair of American Studies
s.thompson@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2097 |
BUR 426
Education: Ph.D., 2001, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Interests: African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory
Professors Emeriti
Mark C. Smith
Professor Emeritus
Education: Ph.D., American Studies, 1980, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: the history of social science, the cultural history of alcohol and drugs
Thomas F Staley
Professor Emeritus
tfs@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-9111
Education: Ph.D., 1962, University of Pittsburgh
William M Stott
Professor Emeritus, American Studies and English
wstott@mail.utexas.edu |
Skype "billstott"
Education: Ph.D., 1972, Yale University
Interests: documentary, journalism, autobiography
Lecturers
Marvin Bendele
Lecturer, Director of Foodways Texas
mcbendele@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3037 |
BUR 414
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Foodways, Mobility & Migration, Cultural Geography, Borderlands, Texas, Oral History, Hunting/Fishing
Andrea D Gustavson
Lecturer, Head of Instructional Services at Harry Ransom Center
agustavson@utexas.edu |
512-471-8899 |
HRC 3.337
Interests: Photography, War and Visual Culture, Twentieth Century American Literature, Affect Theory, Archival Education
Kerry Knerr
Faculty
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; Gender and Sexuality; Popular Culture; Public History and Digital Humanities; Public Life and the State; Transnational American Studies; Urban and Spatial Studies; Food Studies; Material Culture; American Empire; Biopolitics.
Affiliate Faculty
Ricardo Ainslie
M. K. Hage Centennial Professor in Education, Educational Psychology
rainslie@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0364
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Psychoanalysis and cultural experience of immigration, ethnic conflicts within communities, and the relationship between individual and collective identity
Anthony Alofsin
Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor in Architecture
alofsin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7803 |
WMB 4.102B, GOL 2.308
Phillip J Barrish
Tony Hilfer Professor of American and British Literature
pbarrish@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7840 |
PAR 130, PAR 108
Education: Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University
Interests: American Literature 1870-1930, medicine and literature, gender studies, "masculinity" as a cultural construction, whiteness studies, relationship between literature and liberalism
Daina Ramey Berry
Associate Professor, History
drb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3261 |
GAR 1.104
Education: Ph.D., 1998, United States History, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Gender and Slavery, African American and African Diaspora Studies, 19th Century US History
Daniel A Bonevac
Professor, Philosophy
bonevac@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4857 |
WAG 403
Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Interests: Philosophical logic, metaphysics, ethics, cognitive science, Non-Western philosophy, Christian philosophy
Jason Borge
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portugese
jason.borge@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4535 |
BEN 3.136
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Latin American film and media studies, intra-hemispheric cultural studies, early-to-mid 20th century cultural history, popular music and sound studies, new jazz studies
Henry W. Brands
Professor; Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History
hwbrands@austin.utexas.edu |
GAR 3.306
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of Texas at Austin
Brian A Bremen
Associate Professor, English
bremen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7842 |
Parlin 127
Education: Ph.D., 1989, Princeton University
Interests: American Literature, Modernism, the Digital Humanities, writers of the Harlem Renaissance, and Literary Theory.
Simone A. Browne, PhD
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies
sbrowne@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5975 |
GWB 3.138
Erika M. Bsumek
Associate Professor, History
embsumek@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3261 |
GAR 2.104C
Education: Ph.D., 2000, Rutgers University
Interests: Native American history, history of consumption and production of manufactured and handmade goods in the US, anthropology
Craig Campbell
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
craig.campbell@utexas.edu |
512-232-4342 |
SAC 4.122
Education: Ph.D., University of Alberta
Interests: ethnography, documentary images, Siberia, reindeer hunting and herding, travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization, location and place
Charlotte Canning
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama
charlottecanning@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5793 |
WIN 2.158
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Interests: US theatre history, Broadway, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, historiography, feminist theory, theatre and American society, historical entertainment industry
Evan B Carton
Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor in Rhetoric and Composition
e.carton@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8916 |
PAR 223
Education: Ph.D., 1979, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: 19th and 20th century American literature, literary and cultural theory and histiography, antebellum evangelism, secularism, radcial politics
Kate Catterall
Associate Professor, Art and Art History
katecat@utexas.edu |
512-471-0902 |
ART 1.214
Interests: ethical and environmental consequences of synthetics lifestyles, global production of consumer goods for the mass-market, design, digital design process
Karma R. Chávez
Associate Professor — Ph.D., Arizona State University
karma.chavez@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6888 |
GWB 2.102F
Education: Ph.D., Arizona State University
Interests: women of color feminisms, queer migration, social movements and coalition building
Tanya Clement
Associate Professor, English
tclement@utexas.edu |
512-232-2980 |
PAR 218
Education: MFA in Fiction, University of Virginia; PhD in English Literature, University of Maryland
Interests: digital humanities, humanities informatics, humanities data curation, information theory, mark-up theory, social text theory, theories of information visualization
Matt Cohen
Associate Professor, English
matt.cohen@utexas.edu |
512-471-8112 |
PAR 20, CAL 226
Education: Ph.D., 2002, College of William and Mary
Interests: American literature, digital archives, history of the book
James H. Cox
Fellow of C. B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States-Mexico Relations #3/Professor, English
jhcox@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7804
Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Interests: Native American literature and film; ethnic US literatures; literature of immigration; American literature since 1920
Mercedes Lynn De Uriarte
Associate Professor, Journalism
merlyn@utexas.edu |
512-471-1845 |
BMC 3.338
Education: Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale
Interests: US press crisis coverage of Latin American events, latinos in media and culture, coparative crisis coverage, Central America, Latin American journalism
Diana DiNitto
Cullen Trust Centennial Professor in Alcohol Studies and Education/Professor, Social Work
ddinitto@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-9227 |
SSW 3.130B
Education: Ph.D., Florida State University
Interests: Social welfare policy, chemical dependency, violence against women
Caroline Faria
Assistant Professor, Geography and the Environment
cvfaria@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 3.414
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington, WA
Interests: Feminist political and economic geographies; feminist methodologies; intersections of race and gender; gender and nationalism; Africa and the African diaspora (specifically Uganda and South Sudan); the beauty trade and beauty technologies
Richard R. Flores
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs/Professor, Anthropology
flores@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9209
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Critical theory, performance studies, semiotics, historical and cultural athrophology
William Forbath
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law/Professor, School of Law, History
wforbath@law.utexas.edu |
512-232-1326 |
JON 6.216
Interests: social and economic rights in the courts, social movements in Southern Hemisphere, identity politics in the Progressive Era
Kathryn Fuller
Professor, Department of Radio Television and Film
kathy.fullerseeley@austin.utexas.edu |
CMA 5.128
Education: Ph.D, Johns Hopkins
Interests: American cultural and media history, media historiography, comedy across media forms
Lyndon K. Gill
Fellow of Chair in African and African Diaspora Studies/Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies
lyndonkgill@utexas.edu |
BLS 3.132
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Queer asthetics in the Africa Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Carribean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity and community building
John Morán González
Director, Center for Mexican American Studies; Professor, Department of English
jmgonzal@utexas.edu |
512-471-8117 |
PAR 321
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Latino/a Literature; Chicano/a Literature; Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Narrative Theory; Postcolonial Studies
Samuel D Gosling
Distinguished Teaching Professor/Professor, Psychology
samg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1628 |
SEA 3.224
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Social media, personality in humans and other animals, impression formation, internet research methods
Laurie B. Green
Associate Professor, History
lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7245 |
GAR 2.116
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Politics of race and gender in 20th century US, social movements, cultural studies
Sabine Hake
Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture
hake@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6379 |
BUR 332
Education: Ph.D., University of Hannover, Germany
Interests: German film, Weimar culture, modernism and the avant-garde, the culture of the metropolis, facist aesthetics, working-class culture, Marxist theory
John Hartigan
Professor, Anthropology/Director, Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
johnhartigan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-9201 |
SAC 4.158
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: Anthropology of science, enthnography of race, bullfighting in Latin America
Linda Henderson
Distinguished Teaching Professor/David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History
dnehl@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2474 |
DFA 2.122
Education: Ph. D., Yale University
Rich Heyman
Lecturer, Geography and Environment
heyman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1585 |
CLA 3.404
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Interests: Cultural geography, urban geography, critical theory and Marxism, history of geography, pedagogy, public space
Heather Houser
Associate Professor of English (she/her)
houserh@utexas.edu |
512-471-8766 |
PAR 228
Education: Ph.D., 2010, Stanford University
Interests: 20th- and 21st-century fiction (US focus); environmental literature and humanities; science & technology studies; the medical humanities; affect studies; data in narrative and new media
Bruce J. Hunt
Associate Professor, History
bjhunt@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6109 |
GAR 2.106
Education: Ph.D., 1984, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: History of science and technology
Jacqueline Jones
Department Chair, History/Mastin Gentry White Professor in Southern History, Barbara White Stuart Centennial Professor in Texas History
jjones@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7235 |
GAR 1.106A
Education: Ph.D., 1976, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Martin W Kevorkian
Fellow of Iris Howard Regents Professorship in English Literature #2/Professor, English
mkevorkian@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8797 |
PAR 325
Education: Ph.D., 2000, University of California Los Angeles
Interests: American Renaissance, technology and race
Donna Kornhaber
Associate Professor, English
donna.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8392 |
CAL 207
Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University
Interests: Film Studies
Sarah Lopez
Assistant Professor, Architecture
sll@utexas.edu |
512-471-0147 |
SUT 2.118
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Minkah Makalani
Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies
makalani@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4745 |
BLS 3.114
Education: Ph.D., 2004, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: African diaspora, intellectual history, theory and social movements, race and racial formation
Gretchen Murphy
Fellow of Iris Howard Regents Professorship in English Literature/Professor, English
gretchen@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8532 |
CAL 311
Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of Washington
Interests: US literature and culture to 1914, nationalism and imperialism, sentimental domestic writing
Neil R Nehring
Associate Professor, English
neilnehring@sbcglobal.net |
512-471-8713 |
PAR 23
Education: Ph.D., 1985, University of Michigan
Interests: Popular music and youth subcultures, the avant-garde
Marina Peterson
Associate Professor — Ph.D., University of Chicago
marina.peterson@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0054 |
SAC 5.148
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Sound, cities, sensory ethnography, materialities, infrastructure; US (Los Angeles, Appalachian Ohio)
Ann M. Reynolds
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
reyna@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2608 |
DFA 2.512
Education: Ph. D., The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Journalism, Center for Mexican Amerian Studies
mrivas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0405 |
BMC 3.120
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rebecca Rossen
Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
r-rossen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7153 |
WIN 1.144
Education: Ph.D.(2006), Northwestern University
Interests: Modern and postmodern dance, staging of identity in physical performance, relationship between research and practice
Sharmila Rudrappa
Director, Center for Asian American Studies; Professor, Sociology
rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6310 |
BUR 574
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: Gender, globalization, assisted reproductive technologies, biomarkets
Thomas Schatz
Professor
tschatz@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5987
Interests: Film, television, Hollywood, American film history, Film analysis and criticism
Chad Seales
Associate Professor, Religous Studies
seales@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5929 |
BUR 516
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: Religion in North America, secular studies, southern studies, ritual studies, religion and popular culture, religion and capatilism, evangelicism, race and ethinicity
Suzanne Seriff
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology
sseriff@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0816 |
SAC 4.126
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Greater Mexican folklife, immigrant arts, public culture, US, Mexico
Harel Shapira
Assistant Professor, Sociology
hshapira@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8075 |
CLA 3.636
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Ethnography, politics, race, and social movements
Cherise Smith
Associate Professor, Art and Art History/African and African Diaspora Studies
cherise_smith@utexas.edu |
512-232-1822 |
BLS 2.202
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: American art after 1945, intersection of art with race and gender, African American art and visual culture, performance and conceptual art practices, politics of identity, photography
Stephen Sonnenberg
Professor, Medical Education and Population Health; Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture
ssonnenberg@utexas.edu |
512-232-4082 |
WMB 5.128
Education: M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Denise A. Spellberg
Professor, History
spellberg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7202 |
GAR 3.208
Education: Ph.D., 1989, Columbia University
Interests: Islam in American and European history, medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender
Paul Stekler
Professor
paul.stekler@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-6679
Interests: State and national campaign politics, elections, public broadcasting, documentary filmmaking
Kathleen C. Stewart
Professor, Anthropology
kstewart@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8521 |
CLA 4.408
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Affect, ethnographic engagement, women and gender studies, the senses, attachment
Pauline Strong
Director of Humanities Institute, Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8524 |
RLP 4.404, SAC 4.136
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology. Identity and difference. Politics of representation. Public culture. Youth organizations. Museum studies. US, Indigenous North America.
Sharon L. Strover
Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication, Radio Television Film
sstrover@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-6652 |
CMA 5.124
Education: Ph. D., Stanford University
Interests: Digital media programs in higher education, social media, rural broadband development, e-government, media policy
Circe Sturm
Professor, Department of Anthropology
circe@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1561 |
SAC 5.122
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: Race, sovereignty, and citizenship; comparative colonialisms; race and indigeneity; dominance, resistance, and subjectivity; Native North America, Central America, and Europe
Eric Tang, PhD
Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies
erictang@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.136
Interests: African diaspora, Asian American studies, race, urban social movements, racism and anti-racism, poetics of displacement, activisty research, urban unrest
Janice S. Todd
Co-Director H.J. Lutcher Stark Center/Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education
jan@starkcenter.org |
512-471-4890
Interests: History of physcial culture, sport and ethics, history of sport medicine, doping
Michael P Young, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology
myoung@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6331 |
BUR 462
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Assistant Professors
B. Alex Beasley
Assistant Professor
beasley@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7792 |
BUR 402
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: U.S. cultural, social, and political history; history of capitalism; environmental studies; the U.S. and the world; gender and sexuality; geography and urban studies; public and digital humanities
Iván Chaar López
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Interests: Digital Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Science & Technology Studies; art & visual culture, borderlands, capital, history of technology (especially electronics and computing), imperial formations, Latina/o lifeworlds and knowledge production, media archaeology, racial formation.
Lina Chhun
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Interests: Transnational, feminist and queer methodologies; women of color feminisms; Southeast Asian American Studies; critical refugee studies; memory and historical violence; war, militarism, and empire
