UT College of Liberal Arts:

Department of Rhetoric and Writing

Mark Garrett Longaker

Faculty

Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

College of Natural Sciences

Alexis Vasseur

Professor, Department of Mathematics

vasseur@math.utexas.edu |
1 512 471 2363 |
RLM 11.172

Department of American Studies

Steven D Hoelscher

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts; Professor; Faculty Curator for Photography, Harry Ransom Center

hoelscher@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2567 |
BUR 430

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Anthropology

Craig Campbell

Associate Professor

craig.campbell@utexas.edu |
512-232-4342 |
SAC 4.122

Education: Ph.D., University of Alberta

John Hartigan

Faculty

johnhartigan@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Sofian Merabet

Associate Professor of Anthropology

sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0057 |
SAC 5.156

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests: Socio-Cultural Theory/Urban Studies/Gender Studies/Queer Theory/Muslim World, Europe, and South America

Circe Sturm

Professor

circe@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Mariah D. Wade

Associate Professor

m.wade@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4876 |
SAC 4.146

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Department of Art and Art History

Eddie Chambers

Professor

eddiechambers@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., History of Art, 1998, Goldsmiths College, University of London

John R. Clarke

Professor

j.clarke@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2355 |
DFA 2.114

Education: PhD, Yale

Penelope Davies

Professor

pdavies@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2362 |
ART 3.435

Education: PhD, Yale University

Ann Johns

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

acjohns@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-7757 |
DFA 2.124

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Nassos Papalexandrou

Associate Professor

papalex@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5021 |
ART 3.404

Richard Shiff

Professor

rshiff@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-7547 |
DFA 2.106

Education: Ph.D., Yale

Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Professor

chipps@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2609 |
DFA 2.120

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Louis Waldman

Associate Professor

waldman@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-2610 |
DFA 1.110

Department of Classics

Deborah Beck

Associate Professor

deborah.beck@austin.utexas.edu |
WAG 21

Education: PhD 1997, Harvard University

Pramit Chaudhuri

Associate Professor

pramit.chaudhuri@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Classics and Comparative Literature, Yale University

Lesley A Dean-Jones

Professor; Department Chair

ldjones@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-2352 |
WAG 123B

Education: Ph.D. 1987, Stanford

Interests: Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Medicine, Women in Antiquity

Jennifer V Ebbeler

Associate Professor

jebbeler@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7570 |
WAG 14CA

Education: PhD 2001, University of Pennsylvania

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Associate Professor

ayelet.haimsonlushkov@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-7296 |
WAG 205

Education: PhD 2009, Yale University

Thomas G Palaima

Professor: Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP)

tpalaima@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5742 or 512-471-8837 |
WAG 14AA WAG 123B

Education: Ph.D. 1980, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: Aegean scripts & prehistory, Greek language, war & violence studies, public intellectual writing, music as social criticism, Dylanology

Paula J Perlman

Professor

perlman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7402 |
WAG 119

Education: PhD 1984, The University of California, Berkeley

Adam T Rabinowitz

Associate Professor; Assistant Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology

arabinow@utexas.edu |
512-232-9319, 512-471-0197 |
WAG 17

Education: PhD 2004, University of Michigan

Interests: Greek colonization, cultural interaction, ancient food and drink, archaeology of daily life, digital approaches to archaeology

Andrew M Riggsby

Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics and Professor of Art History

ariggsby@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-7442 |
WAG 103

Education: Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Rabun M Taylor

Professor: Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor and Faculty Undergraduate Advisor

rmtaylor@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0677 |
WAG 14b

Education: PhD 1997, University of Minnesota

Stephen A White

Professor of Classics and Philosophy

sawhite@utexas.edu |
WAG 117

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and literature

Department of English

Minou Arjomand

Assistant Professor

arjomand@utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 2013, Columbia University

Samuel Baker

Associate Professor

sebaker@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8389 |
CAL 308

Education: Ph.D., 2001, University of Chicago

Janine Barchas

Professor

barchas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8379 |
CAL 203

Education: Ph.D., 1995, University of Chicago

J.K. Barret

Associate Professor of English

jkbarret@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 2008, Princeton University

Lance Bertelsen

Professor

lberte@utexas.edu |
512-471-8769 |
PAR 314

Education: Ph.D., 1979, University of Washington

Daniel Birkholz

Associate Professor

birkholz@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8807 |
PAR 225

Education: Ph.D., 1999, University of Minnesota

Mary E Blockley

Professor

blockley@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8362 |
PAR 320

Education: Ph.D., 1984, Yale University

Douglas S Bruster

Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of American and English Literature, Distinguished Teaching Professor

bruster@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3635 |
PAR 220

Education: Ph.D., 1990, Harvard University

Interests: Shakespeare; Drama; Renaissance literature; Film; Digital Literacies; Theory

Mia Carter

Associate Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor And Associate Dean, CoLA Student Division

miac@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8733 |
PAR 123

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Elizabeth Cullingford

Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English Literature, University Distinguished Teaching Professor

cullingford@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4991 |
PAR 108

Education: Ph.D., Oxford University

Alan W Friedman

Professor

friedman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8376 |
CAL 214

Education: Ph.D., 1966, University of Rochester

Patricia M. García

Senior Lecturer

pmgarcia@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Elizabeth A Hedrick

Associate Professor

eahedrick@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8705 |
PAR 226

Education: Ph.D., 1986, Columbia University

Geraldine Heng

Professor

heng@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7480 |
PAR 213

Education: Ph.D., Cornell University

Lars Hinrichs

Associate Professor

TxE@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 2006, English Linguistics, University of Freiburg

David Kornhaber

Associate Professor, Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature

david.kornhaber@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8712 |
CAL 209

Education: Ph.D., 2009, Columbia University

James N Loehlin

Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor; Distinguished Teaching Professor

jnloehlin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4993 |
CAL 205

Education: Ph.D., 1993, Stanford University

Allen MacDuffie

Associate Professor

allenmacduffie@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8767 |
PAR 229

Education: Ph.D., 2007, Harvard University

Carol H MacKay

Professor

mackay@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-8970 |
PAR 221

Education: Ph.D., 1979, University of California Los Angeles

Eric S Mallin

Professor

emall@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-1697 |
PAR 18

Education: Ph.D., 1986, Stanford University

Lisa L Moore

Archibald A. Hill Regents Professor in American and English Literature and Director of the LGBTQ Studies Program

llmoore@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1837 |
PAR 217

Education: Ph.D., 1991, Cornell University

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

UT Regents’ and Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of English, Director of the Program in Comparative Literature

emrg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-5708 |
PAR 119

Education: Ph.D., 1992, Columbia University

Interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European drama; Oscar Wilde; the Gothic and Orientalism; decadence; detective fiction; aesthetic and literary theory; literature and the fine arts.

John P Rumrich

Professor

rumrich@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8115 |
PAR 315

Education: Ph.D., 1981, University of Virginia

Elizabeth Scala

Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English, Graduate Advisor for Medieval Studies, Director of English Honors Program

scala@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8375 |
CAL316

Education: Ph.D., 1994, Harvard University

Hannah C. Wojciehowski

Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English

gemelli@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8768 |
PAR 230

Education: PhD, Yale University

Interests: the history of subjectivity; globalization and transculturation; sixteenth-century travel literature; cognitive criticism

Department of French and Italian

Daniela Bini

Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, Italian Studies; Graduate Advisor, Italian Studies

bini@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5995 |
HRH 2.122

Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests: XIX-XX centuries Italian Literature and Philosophy;Italian Opera; Italian Film and Soundtrack; Vitellonismo and Familismo in Italian Culture

Douglas G. Biow

Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Italian Studies; Director, Center for European Studies

biow@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7267 |
HRH 2.110B

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

David P. Birdsong

Professor, French Linguistics

birdsong@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7299 |
HRH 2.122

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures

Interests: second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, French linguistics

Marc Bizer

Professor, French Studies

mbizer@utexas.edu |
512-471-7780 |
HRH 3.112B

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Interests: Early Modern French identities: national, social, religious, authorial, gendered; tragedy and the tragic; history of emotions

Carl S. Blyth

Associate Professor, French Linguistics; Assistant Graduate Advisor, French Linguistics

cblyth@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-2312 |
MEZ 2.126

Education: Ph.D., French Linguistics, Cornell University

Paola Bonifazio

Chair; Associate Professor, Italian Studies

pbonifazio@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1561 |
HRH 3.110A

Education: PhD, New York University

Interests: Italian Cinema; Film Theory and History, including Documentary and Experimental; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies

Barbara Bullock

Professor, French Linguistics

bbullock@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9095 |
HRH 3.108B

Amanda Bush

Assistant Professor of Instruction

amanda.bush@utexas.edu

Education: PhD Italian Studies - The University of Texas at Austin, BA Italian Studies, English Literature - John Cabot University

Antonella Del Fattore-Olson

Professor of Instruction, Italian Studies; Director, Rome Study Program; Undergraduate Italian Faculty Advisor

adolson@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5531 |
HRH 2.106B

Education: Laurea (Master Degree in Comparative Literature), L'Università degli Studi La Sapienza. Rome, Italy

Nancy C. Guilloteau

Associate Professor of Instruction, French Language Program Director, French Studies

nguilloteau@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5511 |
HRH 2.106A

Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Patricia Kyle

Coordinator for Special Projects, Lecturer

patricia.kyle@austin.utexas.edu

Education: PHD French Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington

Hervé Picherit

Associate Professor, French Studies; Graduate Advisor, French Studies

picherit@utexas.edu |
512-471-6874 |
HRH 3.104B

Education: PhD, Stanford

Interests: 20th century French literature, French cinema, the novel, the avant-garde, philosophies of fiction

Guy P. Raffa

Professor of Italian Studies

guyr@utexas.edu |
512-232-5492 |
HRH 3.104A

Education: PhD, Indiana University

Interests: Dante Studies, Italian Literature and Culture, Public Scholarship, Digital Humanities

Cinzia Russi

Professor, French Linguistics, Italian Studies; Graduate Advisor, French Linguistics; Program Director, Portfolio Program in Romance Linguistics

russi@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7024 |
HRH 3.110B

Education: Ph.D., 2003, Linguistics, University of Washington

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer

Professor, Director of Plan II, French and Comparative Literature, French Studies

akw@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1442 |
HRH 3.104C

Education: PhD, Columbia University

Interests: 19th-century literature, visual arts, culture, and gender studies in France and Britain

Department of Geography and the Environment

Paul C. Adams

Professor

paul.adams@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1599 |
GRG 414

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: Scandinavia, France, Communication Geography, Place and Subjectivity, Place Images in the Media. Technology-Mediated Gathering, Topologies of Communication, Geopolitical Discourses, Formation of Subjectivity

Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach

Professor - Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor #1

slbeach@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 3.702

Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Minneapolis

Department of Germanic Studies

Katherine Arens

Professor

arens@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6363 |
BUR 320

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, Dual PhD, German Studies and Humanities Special Programs, 1981

Interests: European throught and literature, 1750 to present, cultural theory

Kirsten "Kit" Belgum

Associate Professor

belgum@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6375 |
BUR 324

Education: Ph.D., German, University of Wisconsin (Madison)

Interests: Nineteenth-Century German Studies, Popular Culture, Print Culture, Visual Culture, Nationalism, German Realism, Travel literature

Hans C. Boas

Department Chair, Professor; Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor; Director, Texas German Dialect Project

hcb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6358 |
BUR 328

Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests: Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact & Variation, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages, Phonology

Pascale Bos

Associate Professor

pascalebos@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6373 |
BUR 314

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

Interests: 20th-century Comparative Western European and US literature; cultural studies, gender and memory, autobiography, Holocaust (history/culture/literature), sexual violence in armed conflict

Kirkland A Fulk

Assistant Professor; Faculty Undergraduate Advisor

kafulk@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 364

Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Interests: Contemporary German literature and film; Critical Theory; Literature and Economics; Science Fiction; Pop Culture and Pop Music; Social Movements

Yitskhok (Itzik) N. Gottesman

Senior Lecturer

itzikgottesman@utexas.edu |
BUR 308

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Sabine Hake

Professor, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture

hake@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6379 |
BUR 332

Education: Ph.D., University of Hannover, Germany

Nick Henry

Assistant Professor

nhenry@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., German Applied Linguistics and Language Sciences, Penn State University

Peter Hess

Associate Professor

phess@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6352 |
BUR 356

Education: Ph.D., German Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

John Hoberman

Professor

hoberman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6368 |
BUR 322

Education: Ph.D. Scandinavian Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Smyth Johansson

Faculty

smyth.johansson@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 333

Education: MA, University of Texas at Austin

James C Kearney

Faculty

james.kearney@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 314

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas

Barbara Laubenthal

DAAD Adjunct Associate Professor

barbara.laubenthal@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 368

Education: PhD, University of Giessen, Germany

Interests: immigration in Germany and Europe; reparation politics; memory studies

Marc Pierce

Associate Professor

mpierc@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6360 |
BUR 358

Education: Ph.D, Germanic Linguistics, University of Michigan

Sandra B Straubhaar

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

sstraub@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6365 |
BUR 316

Education: Ph.D. in German Studies and Humanities, Stanford University

Jürgen Streeck

Professor

jstreeck@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin

Vincent Vanderheijden

Faculty

vdheijden@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 380

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Lynn R. Wilkinson

Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies

lrw@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6370 |
BUR 360

Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, culture, and film; women writers and women's and gender studies; literary and cultural theory; Scandinavian film.

Department of Government

Zoltan Barany

Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor

barany@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7231 |
BAT 3.156

Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia

Terrence Chapman

Associate Professor

t.chapman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7221 |
BAT 3.104

Education: Ph.D., Emory University

Interests: International organizations, international conflict, international law, international political economy, formal modeling

John Gerring

Professor, C. B. Smith, Sr., Nash Phillips, Clyde Copus Centennial Chair honoring Harry Huntt Ransom

jgerring@austin.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, UC Berkeley

Nathaniel Gilmore

Assistant Professor

nathaniel.gilmore@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto

Benjamin Gregg

Professor

bgregg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7274 |
MEZ 3.138

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, Freie Universität Berlin

Interests: Social and political theory, human rights, political bioethics

Amy Liu

Faculty

amy.liu@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Emory University

Robert Luskin

Professor

rcluskin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7230 |
BAT 3.148

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Patrick McDonald

Associate Professor

pjmcdonald@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1747 |
BAT 4.136

Education: Ph.D., Ohio State University

Robert Moser

Professor

rmoser@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7278 |
BAT 4.148

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Michael W Mosser

Associate Professor of Instruction

mosserm@austin.utexas.edu |
232.7280 |
Mezes 3.222

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Daniel Nielson

Professor

dan.nielson@utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of California – San Diego

Lorraine Pangle

Professor and Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson Center

lorrainepangle@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1447 |
MEZ 3.134

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Thomas Pangle

Professor, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies; Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas

tpangle@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1529 |
MEZ 3.154

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Classical political philosophy; the eighteenth century theoretical foundations of modern and especially American constitutionalism and political culture; nineteenth and twentieth century German political philosophy; post-modern political theory; the moral-philosophic basis of international relations; the dialogue between political theology and political philosophy.

Ami Pedahzur

Professor, Ralph W Yarborough Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts

pedahzur@austin.utexas.edu |
Mezes 3.140

Education: Ph.D., University of Haifa

Zeynep Somer-Topcu

Associate Professor - Department of Government

zsomer@utexas.edu |
512-232-7209 |
Batts 3.124

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Interests: European politics, political parties, voter behavior, elections, representation

Dana Stauffer

Associate Professor of Instruction

danastauffer@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto

Devin Stauffer

Professor and Associate Chair

dstauffer@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1462 |
MEZ 3.144

Education: Ph.D., Boston College

Maurizio Viroli

Professor

maurizio.viroli@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., European University Institute in Florence

Rachel Wellhausen

Associate Professor

rwellhausen@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kurt Weyland

Professor, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts

kweyland@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7253 |
BAT 4.126

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Christopher Wlezien

Hogg Professor of Government

Wlezien@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Iowa

Scott Wolford

Professor

swolford@austin.utexas.edu |
512-233-7210 |
BAT 4.152

Education: Ph.D., Emory University

Interests: International Conflict, International Institutions, Game Theory

Department of History

Benjamin Claude Brower

Associate Professor

benbrower@utexas.edu |
512-475-6813 |
GAR 0.116

Education: Ph.D., 2005, Cornell University

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra

Professor; Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History; Director, Institute for Historical Studies

canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7694 |
GAR 2.108

Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Judith G. Coffin

Professor

jcoffin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7235 |
GAR 2.122

Education: Ph.D., 1985, Yale University

David Crew

Professor; Distinguished Teaching Professor

dfcrew@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7232 |
GAR 2.126

Education: Ph.D., 1975, Cornell University

Yoav Di-Capua

Professor

ydi@austin.utexas.edu |
GAR 101

Education: Ph.D., 2004, Princeton University

Alison K. Frazier

Associate Professor

akfrazier@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6375 |
GAR 2,198

Education: Ph.D., 1997, Columbia University

Julie Hardwick

John E. Green Regents Professor of History, UT Distinguished Teaching Professor

jhardwick@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7221 |
GAR 3.112

Education: Ph.D., 1991, Johns Hopkins University

Bruce J. Hunt

Associate Professor

bjhunt@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6109 |
GAR 2.106

Education: Ph.D., 1984, Johns Hopkins University

Interests: History of science and technology

Neil D. Kamil

Associate Professor

kamil@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6110 |
GAR 2.146

Education: Ph.D., 1989, Johns Hopkins University

Philippa Levine

Professor; Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas; Director, Program in British Studies

philippa@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1236 |
HRC 3.202B

Education: DPhil, Oxford University

Tatjana Lichtenstein

Associate Professor

lichtens@austin.utexas.edu |
737-701-0600 |
GAR 2.138

Education: Ph.D. 2009, University of Toronto, Canada

Alberto A. Martínez

Professor

almartinez@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, M.A. NYU

Tracie M. Matysik

Brian D. Bolton Associate Professor of Secular Studies

matysik@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7251 |
GAR 3.402

Education: Ph.D., 2001, Cornell University

Madeline McMahon

Postdoctoral Fellow

m.mcmahon@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., History, Princeton University

Martha G. Newman

Professor

newman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8660 |
GAR 3.408

Education: Ph.D., 1988, Stanford University

Denise A. Spellberg

Professor

spellberg@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 1989, Columbia University

Jeremi Suri

Professor; Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs

suri@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7242 |
GAR 2.122

Education: Ph.D. in History, 2001, Yale University

Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Jeannette Okur

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Turkish Program Coordinator

jeannette.okur@austin.utexas.edu |
512 471 1280 |
CAL 509

Education: Ph.D., Ankara University, 2007

Interests: modern Turkish/Turkic literature, film and cultural studies, teaching culture and literature in the foreign language classroom, comparative literature, translation studies

Department of Philosophy

Matt Evans

Associate Professor

evansmatt@utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Kathleen M Higgins

Professor

kmhiggins@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5564 |
WAG 203

Education: PhD, Yale

Interests: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Philosophy of emotion, philosophy of art, music, non-Western philosophy, philosophy of religion

Robert C Koons

Professor

koons@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5530 |
WAG 405

Education: PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

Interests: Ancient and medieval philosophy, especially the Aristotelian tradition.

Ian N Proops

Professor

512-471-4857 |
WAG 209

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Richard M Sainsbury

Professor

marksainsbury@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5433 |
WAG 403A

Education: DPhil, Oxford

Sahotra Sarkar

Professor

sarkar@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, Chicago

Paul B Woodruff

Professor; Distinguished Teaching Professor

paul.woodruff@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7000 |
FAC 406

Education: PhD, Princeton

Interests: Ancient philosophy, early Greek philosophy, aesthetics, democracy, virtue ethics, Socrates, Plato

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Kiril Avramov

Assistant Professor

kiril.avramov@austin.utexas.edu |
SRH 3.349

Education: Ph.D., University of Sofia

Thomas Jesús Garza

University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor and Director, Texas Language Center

tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3607 |
BUR 458

Education: Ed.D., Harvard University, 1987

Interests: Russian language teaching methodology/ Applied linguistics/ Contemporary Russian culture/ The Chechen wars / Post-Soviet youth culture/ Russian popular culture/ Contemporary Russian media/ Performing masculinity in Contemporary Russia & Mexico

Christian Hilchey

Associate Professor of Instruction

hilchey@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Bella B. Jordan

Lecturer

belka@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., UT Austin

Bernadeta Kaminska

Assistant Professor of Instruction

BernadetaKaminska@austin.utexas.edu

Education: M.A., Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland)

Oksana Lutsyshyna

Lecturer

lutsyshyna@austin.utexas.edu |
BUR 478

Education: Ph.D., University of Georgia

Interests: Ukrainian and Polish modernisms; poetry; postcolonial theories/decolonization; feminist theories; cultural studies; film studies; language teaching methodology; experiential learning

Mary Neuburger

Professor; Director, Center for Russia, East European and Eurasian Studies; Chair, Slavic and Eurasian Studies; and Provost Teaching Fellow

burgerm@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4124 |
BUR 452

Education: Ph.D., 1997, University of Washington

Interests: Southeastern Europe, Bulgaria, food history, urban culture, consumption, gender, identity

Chelsi West Ohueri

Assistant Professor

chelsiwestohueri@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin

Steven Seegel

Professor

sseegel@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 2006, Brown University

Department of Sociology

Ari Adut

Associate Professor

ariadut@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-4284 |
BUR 468

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Mounira M. Charrad

Associate Professor

charrad@utexas.edu |
512-232-6311 |
CLA 3.526

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Gender & Women's Rights; Political Sociology; Social Theory; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Globalization; Middle East and North Africa.