Mid-Career Scholars
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IHI Mid-Career Scholars
The IHI Mid-Career Scholars Program is designed to support tenured faculty who are working towards promotion to full professor. This program aims to help participants enhance their research profiles through a variety of resources and opportunities. By participating in the IHI Mid-Career Scholars Program, faculty members can significantly advance their research careers and achieve their goal of becoming full professors.
AY 24-25 Senior Mentors
Dr. Mary Beltran
Mary Beltran, Professor of Radio-Television-Film | Moody College of Communication
Professor Beltran writes and teaches on U.S. Latina and Latinx representation and media making, diversity and inclusion in the U.S. television and film industries, and mixed-race representation and ethnic ambiguity in U.S. media culture. Dr. Beltrán was the founding director of the Moody College of Communication’s former Latino Media Arts & Studies program, from 2017-2020, and currently serves as the faculty advisor to the college’s Latino Media Arts & Studies undergraduate minor.
Latino TV: A History . NYU Press, 2022 (Book)
Website: https://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/mary-beltran
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Dr. Domino R. Perez
Domino R, Perez, Professor of English | College of Liberal Arts
Professor Perez is a Professor in the Department of English and the Center for Mexican American Studies, specializing in Young Adult Fiction, Mexican American and Latinx Literature, 20 and 21st Century American Literature, Film, Popular Culture, and Cultural Studies. She is the recipient of the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, a University of Texas system-wide honor in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter's Slow Approach. U of Texas Press, 2022. (Book)
Website: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/perezdr3
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Dr. Ramón Rivera-Servera
Ramón Rivera-Servera, Dean, Professor of Performance as Public Practice | College of Fine Arts
Professor Rivera-Servera is a scholar focused on the ways the arts contribute to social transformation. His research focuses on contemporary performance with special emphasis on the ways categories of race, gender and sexuality are negotiated in the process of (im)migration. e is associate editor of the Triangulations book series on LGBTQ drama, theatre, dance and performance studies at The University of Michigan Press.
Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021) with Kemi Adeyemi and Kareem Khubchandani
Website: https://finearts.utexas.edu/about/people/rivera-servera-ramon-h
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If you have questions, please reach out to Rachel V. González-Martin, Ph.D. at rvgonzal@austin.utexas.edu.
Associate Director for Intersectional Humanities - The Humanities Institute | The University of Texas at Austin
