LLILAS Faculty
Paola Canova
Assistant Professor, LLILAS and Department of Anthopology
pcanova@utexas.edu |
512.471.2762 |
SAC 5.144
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Gender and sexuality; indigeneity; ethics; political ecology
Lina Del Castillo
Faculty
delcastillo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7258 |
GAR 3.216
Education: Ph.D., University of Miami
Daniel Fridman
Assistant Professor, LLILAS and Department of Sociology
dfridman@utexas.edu |
512.232.4811 |
RLP 3.634
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Economy and culture; consumption; finances and popular culture; neoliberalism; globalization
Lorraine Leu
Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of Spanish & Portuguese
lorraine.leu@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8770 |
BEN 3.142; SRH 1.327
Education: Ph.D., King's College, University of London
Interests: Urban Brazil; racialized geographies; visual culture; cultural theory
Marcelo J. P. Paixão
Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
marcelopaixao@utexas.edu |
512.471.2733 |
GWB 3142
Education: Ph.D., 2005, Sociology, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ)
Interests: Race relations and inequalities in Brazil and Latin American; public policies issues and monitoring; models of socioeconomic development; labor market; statistics of race, ethnic, and gender inequality
Carlos E. Ramos Scharrón
Assistant Professor, LLILAS and Department of Geography & the Environment
cramos@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 3.426
Education: Ph.D., Colorado State University
Interests: Land use; soil erosion; water quality; ecosystems; coral reef systems
Sergio Romero
Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of Spanish & Portuguese
sergio.romero@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4525; 512.232.2420 |
BEN 4.104; SRH 1.323
Education: Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Language variation and change; language contact; new dialect formation; deixis, discourse and social hierarchies; linguistic anthropology, language and ritual, Mayan languages, Nahuatl.
Pilar Zazueta
Lecturer, LLILAS
pzazueta@utexas.edu |
512.232.2414 |
SRH 1.304.A
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Public policy; food consumption and nutrition; gender
Associates
Omoniyi Afolabi
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
afolabi@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4510 |
BEN 3.110
Education: Ph.D, Luso-Brazilian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Afro-Brazilian cultural studies; Lusophone African literature; comparative African diaspora studies
Ricardo Ainslie
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology; Director, LLILAS Benson Mexico Center
rainslie@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0364 |
SZB 262D; SRH 1.325
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Mexican drug war; social fabric; traumatized communities; immigration
C.J. Alvarez
Assistant Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
cjalvarez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.6768 |
GWB 1.102F
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: history of the U.S.-Mexico border; environmental history
Rosental Alves
Professor and Knight Chair in Journalism, School of Journalism
rosental.alves@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.6851 |
BMC 3.302
Interests: Foreign correspondence; online journalism; communication; freedom of the press
Ronald J. Angel
Professor, Department of Sociology
rangel@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.6315 |
CLA 3.530
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Interests: Medical sociology; social welfare; poverty and minorities; demography and epidemiology; research methods and statistics
Eugenio Arima
Associate Professor, Department of Geography & the Environment
arima@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0714 |
RLP 3.416
Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University
Interests: Human-environment interactions; land change science; GIS/science; applied quantitative methods
Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez
Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
jarroyo@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4536 |
BEN 3.120
Education: Ph.D., 1998, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures; race, gender, and sexuality in colonial and postcolonial societies
Jamie Austin
Senior Research Scientist , Institute for Geophysics
jamie@utig.ig.utexas.edu |
512.471.0450 |
ROC 3.254
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Evolution of marine and lacustrine environments
Javier Auyero
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Professor in Latin American Sociology, Department of Sociology
auyero@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.8073 |
CLA 3.624
Education: Ph.D., The New School for Social Research
Interests: Political ethnography; urban poverty and social inequality; collective action; social and cultural theory
Zoltan Barany
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor, Department of Government
barany@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7231 |
BAT 3.156
Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia
Timothy Beach
C. B. Smith, Sr., Centennial Chair, Department of Geography & the Environment
beacht@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2064 |
CLA 3.502
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Interests: Physical geography; soils; geomorphology; geoarchaeology; paleo-climate; paleo-ecology
Jason Borge
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
jason.borge@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4542 |
BEN 3.136
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Latin American film and media studies; inter-American cultural studies; popular music and sound studies, new jazz studies
Leigh Boske
Sharpe Centennial Fellowship Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
leigh.boske@mail.utexas.edu |
512.232.4005 |
SRH 3.342
Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Interests: National and international transport policy; international trade; economics; finance; multimodal/intermodal transport planning
Daniel M Brinks
Associate Professor, Department of Government
danbrinks@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7252 |
MEZ 3.104
Education: Ph.D., J.D., University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan
Interests: Human rights; law and politics; democracy and democratization; regimes and regime change; state building
Jonathan C. Brown
Professor, Department of History
j.brown@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7218 |
GAR 1.114
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Modern Latin America; Cold War; revolution; economic history; colonial Latin America
Nicole Burrowes
Assistant Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
nburrowes@utexas.edu |
GWB 3.200D
Interests: Caribbean and Latin American history; Black transnationalism; social movements; women of color organizing; film
Matthew Butler
Associate Professor, Department of History
mbutler@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7972 |
GAR 3.414
Education: Ph.D., University of Bristol
Interests: Post-revolutionary Mexico; local religion; Cristero Rebellion; church and state; Latin American Catholicism; agrarian history; Latin American bullfight
Esther Calzada
Associate Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
esther.calzada@austin.utexas.edu |
SSW 3.106E
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Interests: Parenting and early child development in Latino (Mexican and Mexican American, Dominican and Dominican American) populations; parenting interventions for diverse populations
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History, Department of History
canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7694 |
GAR 2.108
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Interests: Early modern Atlantic history; history of science and colonialism; history of knowledge
David Cannatella
Professor, Section of Integrative Biology; Associate Director, Texas Memorial Museum
catfish@mail.utexas.edu |
512.232.4862 |
PAT 121A
Interests: Neotropical frogs; relationship of bioinformatics and systematics
Luis Cárcamo-Huechante
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at UT; Advisory Council of the LGBQT Studies Program at UT
carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.146; CLA 2.106
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Sound studies, radio, and media ecologies; colonialism; decolonizing methodologies; Indigenous aesthetics and politics of languages and knowledge; native territories and diasporas; the Mapuche movement. Race, gender & sexuality. Neoliberalism, literature, and market culture. Human rights, social justice and the arts. Poetry, urban chronicle and fiction, with emphasis in the Andes and Southern Cone of Latin America
Cary Cordova
Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
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; Ethnic Studies; interconnectivity of art, politics, place, and public policy; Latina/o cultural production, including art, music, and the performing arts; social movements
R. Alan Covey
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
r.alan.covey@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2084 |
CLA 4.406
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Interests: Inca empire; early Colonial Peru; Andean prehistory; dynamics of ancient empires
Kelley A. Crews
Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor, Geography & the Environment
kelley@utexas.edu |
512.232.5909 |
CLA 3.424
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Interests: Muddy Boots Remote Sensing, Land Change Science, & Healthy Socio-ecological Systems in Developing States
J. Brent Crosson
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
brent.crosson@utexas.edu |
512.471.3967 |
BUR 514
Education: Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
Interests: Caribbean and Latin American Studies; African diasporas; South Asian diasporas; Atlantic modernities; anthropologies of religion, science, and secularism; anthropology of/and race; science and technology; energy; alternative justice systems; Obeah; colonial regulation of religion
Megan J. Crowhurst
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
mcrowhurst@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.9027 |
CLA 4.712
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Interests: Psycholinguistics (speech perception); linguistic rhythm
Ian Dalziel
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences; Research Professor, Institute for Geophysics
ian@ig.utexas.edu |
512.471.0431 |
IGS 102
Interests: Tectonics; Earth evolution and system processes; structure and evolution of the Antarctic continent
Susan Deans-Smith
Associate Professor, Department of History
sdsmith@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7205 |
GAR 3.302
Education: Ph.D., Cambridge University
Interests: History of Mexico; comparative colonialisms; Spanish empire; indigenous peoples
Donna DeCesare
Associate Professor, School of Journalism
donna.decesare@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1980 |
BMC 3.366
Education: M.Phil., Essex University
Interests: Latin American film and visual documentary; photography and human rights; visual media ethics; justice, violence, and trauma
Anthony Di Fiore
Professor, Department of Anthropology
anthony.difiore@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.2318 |
SAC 5.150
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: Ecology; primates; tropical forest
Gabriel Diaz Montemayor
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
diaz.montemayor@utexas.edu |
WMB 4.102C
Interests: Architecture of landscape
Henry Dietz
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government
h.dietz@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7209 |
BAT 3.124
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Urbanization; poverty; voting behavior; democratization
Jacob Dizard
Postdoctoral Fellow, LBJ School of Public Affairs
dizard@utexas.edu |
SRH 3.359
Education: BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MA, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Security and governance; human rights; violence in Latin America; civil-military relations; rule of law in Latin America
Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
ruvalcaba@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.130
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Interests: Queer studies; violence; border studies in literature, film, and the arts
William E. Doolittle
Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor in Geography, Department of Geography & the Environment
dolitl@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 3.704
Education: Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Ph.D. H.C. Stockholms Universitet
Interests: Landscapes; agricultural and water control technology; sustainability science; arid lands; American Southwest
Ariel Dulitzky
Clinical Professor, School of Law; Director, Human Rights Clinic; Co-Director, KBH Center for Latin American Law
adulitzky@law.utexas.edu |
512.232.1256 |
CCJ 1.324B
Interests: International human rights law; inter-American human rights systems; racial and ethnic discrimination; rule of law
David Eaton
Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor in Natural Resource Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs
eaton@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8972 |
SRH 3.344
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Rural water supply; international water resource conflicts; energy management; environmental problems of industries
Elsie Echeverri-Carroll
Sr. Research Scientist, IC² Institute
e.carroll@mail.utexas.edu |
512.475.7811 |
IC2 1.124
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Economics; trade; wage inequalities; economic integration; high-technology clusters; gender issues; women in business
Zachary Elkins
Associate Professor, Department of Government
zelkins@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7250 |
BAT 4.120
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Institutional reform; constitutional law; national identity; latin america
Nora C. England
Professor, Department of Linguistics
nengland@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.9014 |
CLA 4.732
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Interests: Linguistic description, grammar writing, language and identity, language politics, language ideologies, Mayan linguistics, American languages
Karen Engle
Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair, School of Law; Co-Director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice
kengle@law.utexas.edu |
512.232.7066 |
JON 6.240
Education: JD, Harvard University
Interests: Latin American studies; women's and gender studies; public international law; international human rights law; employment discrimination
Patience L. Epps
Professor, Department of Linguistics
pattieepps@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.9015 |
CLA 4.736
Education: Ph.D., Linguistic Anthropology, University of Virginia
Interests: Amazonia; indigenous languages; language documentation; historical linguistics; prehistory
Raissa Fabregas Robles Gil
Assistant Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
rfabregas@utexas.edu |
SRH 3.269
Interests: Economics (development and labor); evaluation methods; Africa and Latin America
William Fisher
Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources, Department of Geological Sciences
wfisher@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.5600 |
JGB 6.130
Education: Ph.D., University of Kansas
Interests: Petroleum exploration and assessment
George F. Flaherty
Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History
gflaherty@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.5531 |
DFA 2.524
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Interests: Post-1940 visual and spatial cultures in Mexico and its borderlands
Kenneth Flamm
Dean Rusk Chair in International Affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
kflamm@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.8952 |
SRH 3.362
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Science and technology policy; information technology economics; international trade and investment; defense industry and technology
Vivian Flanzer
Senior Lecturer & Portuguese Language Program Coordinator and Supervisor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
vflanzer@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4522 |
MEZ 4.138
Education: MA, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Teaching culture in the foreign language classroom; language teaching and technology; creation of pedagogical materials; foreign language education methodologies; secondary language acquisition
Joshua Frens-String
Assistant Professor, Department of History
jfstring@austin.utexas.edu |
GAR 0.136
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: Latin American revolutions; popular politics; labor history; urban history; food history; U.S.-Latin American relations
Adria Frizzi
Lecturer, Department of French & Italian
adriafrizzi@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.7289 |
HRH 3.112
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Brazilian and Spanish American modern & contemporary literature; translation studies; Latin American literature into film
Seth W. Garfield
Professor, Department of History
sgarfield@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7269 |
GAR 2.120
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Brazilian history; race and ethnicity in Latin America; indigenous policy; comparative frontiers
Virginia Garrard
Professor, Department of History and Department of Religious Studies
garrard@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7822 |
GAR 2.204
Education: Ph.D., Tulane University
Interests: Religious movements and ethnic identity in Central America
Lyndon K. Gill
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
lyndonkgill@utexas.edu |
BEL 214D
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: African and African American studies; anthropology; studies of women, gender, and sexuality
Denise Gilman
Clinical Professor, School of Law; Co-Director, Immigration Clinic
dgilman@law.utexas.edu |
512.232.7796 |
CCJ 1.310C
Education: J.D., Columbia University
Interests: Immigration and citizenship; international human rights law
Gloria González-López
Professor, Department of Sociology
gloria@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.6343 |
CLA 3.504
Education: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Interests: Sexuality, gender, and social inequality in Mexico
Edmund T. Gordon
Chair, Department of African & African Diaspora Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
etgordon@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1784 |
GRG 340
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Culture and power in the African Diaspora; gender studies; critical race theory; race education
Kenneth Greene
Associate Professor, Department of Government
kgreene@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7206 |
BAT 4.112
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Authoritarian regimes; democratization; political parties; elections; voting behavior
Julia E. Guernsey
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Art & Art History
juliaguernsey@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.5850 |
DFA 2.514
Interests: Mesoamerica; archaeology; Pre-Columbian; Maya; Olmec; sculpture
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Associate Professor of American Studies and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
ngh24@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.6313 |
BUR 422
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: U.S./Third World feminisms; critical race studies; Latinx studies; borderlands history
Lauren Gulbas
Assistant Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
laurengulbas@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4418 |
SWB 3.130M
Interests: Medical anthropology; culture and mental health; women and gender studies
Laura G. Gutiérrez
Associate Professor
lauragutierrez@utexas.edu |
512.471.3543 |
GWB 2.102
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Latin American and Latina/o performance and visual culture studies; gender and sexuality studies; feminist theories; questions of race, including blackness in Mexican popular culture
Patricia Hansen
J. Waddy Bullion Professor, School of Law
phansen@law.utexas.edu |
512.232.1321 |
JON 5.254
Education: J.D., Yale University
Interests: International trade law; NAFTA; business
John Hartigan
Professor, Department of Anthropology
johnhartigan@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.9201 |
SAC 4.158
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: Bullfighting; Corrida de toro; genomics; race; raza; casta; multispecies ethnography; botany
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
rorro@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.8796 |
PAR 324
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Interests: Life and literature of the southwest
Barbara Hoidn
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Architecture
512.232.9312
Interests: Urban design and public infrastructure in North and South America; materiality, construction methods, and social context
Kristine Hopkins
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
khopkins@prc.utexas.edu |
512.471.8313 |
CLA 2.620D
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Reproductive health issues in Texas, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Latin America
Brian Horton
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences; Research Professor, Institute for Geophysics
horton@jsg.utexas.edu |
512.471.1869 |
JGB 5.220AB
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Wendy Hunter
Professor, Department of Government
wendyhunter@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7247 |
BAT 3.138
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Social policy issues in Latin America; politics of education and health reform
Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
b.ibarra@utexas.edu |
WMB 4.102C
Interests: Geometric analysis of 16th-century ribbed vaults in Mexico
Mónica Jiménez
Assistant Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
majimenez@utexas.edu |
512.471.4126 |
GWB 3.110
Education: Ph.D., 2015, History; J.D., 2007, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Legal history of empire, law, and race; 20th century nationalist movements; racialization in the Caribben; human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean; colonialism and neocolonial practices
Orlando R. Kelm
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of Marketing Administration
orkelm@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4534 |
MEZ 4.146
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Teaching of foreign language for professional purposes; technology in foreign language education; Portuguese and Spanish phonetics; applied linguistics
Gregory W. Knapp
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
gwk@utexas.edu |
512.232.1588 |
RLP 3.712
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Interests: Adaptive dynamics, cultural landscapes, and archaeology of Andean agriculture; regional identities, ethnogeography, linguistic geography and ethnic territoriality; mapping; modernization as contextualized in historical cultural ecology and feminist political ecology; history of geographic thought; Latin America.
Dale A. Koike
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
d.koike@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4508 |
BEN 3.108
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Interests: Pragmatics; language acquisition; heritage language learning; language variation; Spanish and Portuguese sociolinguistics
J. Richard Kyle
The Third Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Bureau of Economic Geology
rkyle@jsg.utexas.edu |
512.471.4351 |
JGB 3.316D
Education: Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Interests: Geology of Earth resources; metals and industrial minerals exploration and evaluation; minerals resources, society, and the environment; natural building materials; geologic evolution of southern North America
Fernando Luiz Lara
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
fernandolara@utexas.edu |
512.471.0711 |
WMB 4.116B
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Latin American architecture; Latin American urbanism; favelas; sustainability
Edgardo M. Latrubesse
Professor - Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor
latrubesse@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.1592 |
CLA 3.418
Interests: Geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, river management, Quaternary of tropical, sub-tropical and temperate/semiarid environments including large aeolian systems and fluvio-aeolian interactions, geo-ecology, geomorphology and global changes, theoretical geomorphology, reorganization of large fluvial systems during the Neogene, interaction between biotic and abiotic components and human impacts on physical geomorphic processes, natural hazards.
Danny Law
Assistant Profesor, Department of Linguistics
dannylaw@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 4.432
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Historical linguistics; language contact; Mayan languages; writing systems
David L. Leal
Professor, Department of Government and Center for Mexican American Studies
dleal@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1343 |
BAT 3.140
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Latino politics and policy
Marisol LeBrón
Assistant Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
marisollebron@austin.utexas.edu |
GWB 2.328
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: Puerto Rican diaspora; Latinx populations in the US; race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; colonialism and empire; neoliberalism; spatial inequality; policing, incarceration, criminalization, and militarization; youth; popular culture
Leigh Linden
Fellow Murray S. Johnson Chair and Fellow of Leroy G. Denman, Jr. Regents Assistant Professorship, Department of Economics and Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.8556 |
BRB 2.156
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Education policy; children and poverty; development policy; economics
Naomi Lindstrom
Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture; Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Co-Director, Gale Collaborative on Jewish Life in the Americas
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.4936 |
BEN 4.144
Education: Ph. D., Arizona State University
Interests: Gender studies; Jewish studies; online scholarly resources; women's writing
Sarah Lopez
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
sll@utexas.edu |
512.471.7164 |
SUT 2.118
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Impact of remittances on the architecture and landscapes of Mexico
Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
Professor, Department of Geography & the Environment; Fellow of the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations #2; President, American Association of Geographers
slbeach@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.1583 |
CLA 3.702
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Interests: Geoarchaeology; hydrology and water quality; geomorphology; spatial statistics; gender, science, and human rights
Raul L. Madrid
Professor, Department of Government
rmadrid@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7246 |
BAT 3.112
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Latin American politics; comparative ethnic politics; comparative social policy; democratization
Minkah Makalani
Assistant Professor, Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
makalani@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.4745 |
BEL 242B
Education: Ph.D., 2004, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: African diaspora; intellectual history, theory, and social movements; race and racial formation
Randall Marrett
Elf Aquitaine Petroleum Faculty Fellow in Geological Sciences, Department of Geological Sciences
marrett@jsg.utexas.edu |
512.471.2113 |
JGB 4.126
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: Structural geology; tectonics; natural hazards
Leticia Marteleto
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
marteleto@prc.utexas.edu |
512.471.8302 |
CLA 2.708.
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Social demography
James D. Mauseth
Professor, School of Biological Sciences
jamesmauseth@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.3189 |
BIO 327
Interests: Evolution of morphogenic mechanisms and structure; cacti; parasitic plants
Kelly McDonough
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese / Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Faculty Affiliate
kelly.mcdonough@austin.utexas.edu |
BEN 3.142
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Interests: Critical Indigenous Studies; Latin American Literatures and Native Intellectual Histories, with emphasis on Mexico from Spanish colonialism to the present; Ethnohistory (Nahuatl Studies); Environmental Humanities; Digital Humanities
Daene McKinney
W.A. (Bill) Cunningham Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering
daene@aol.com |
512.471.5644 |
ECJ 8.60X
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Water resources management problems; aquifer and groundwater contamination
Olivia Mena
Lecturer, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
oliviamena@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.2465 |
GWB 2.334
Education: Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science
Interests: US-Mexico borderlands; sociology; race and ethnicity; postcolonial studies; border theory; border walls; neoliberalism; nationalsim; citizenship; sovereignty
Martha Menchaca
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Center for Women & Gender Studies, and Center for Mexican American Studies
mmen@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.7537 |
SAC 5.158
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Social anthropology; ethnicity; gender; oral history and oral traditions; legal anthropology; immigration
Sofian Merabet
Associate Professor of Anthropology
sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0057 |
SAC 5.156
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Arab Diaspora in South America; socio-cultural theory; urban studies; gender studies; queer theory; Muslim world, Europe, and South America
Juan Miro
Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Architecture
jmiro@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0182 |
GOL 4.116
Interests: Mexican architecture; Latin American architecture; Pre-Columbian architecture; Teotihuacan; urban design
Robin Moore
Professor, School of Music and Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
robin.moore@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0373 |
MBE 3.210
Education: Ph.D., 1995, Music, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Music; expressive culture; race; hybridity; diaspora
Adele Nelson
Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History
adele.nelson@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2362 |
DFA 2.524
Interests: Modern and contemporary art in Latin America; Brazilian art history
Jose L. Panero
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
panero@mail.utexas.edu |
512.232.1990 |
BIO 101
Education: Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Interests: Distribution, diversity, and evolution of flowering plants
Jose Ruben Parra-Cardona
Associate Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
rparra@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.9215 |
SSW 3.130F
Education: PhD, Couple and Family Therapy, Texas Tech University
Interests: Prevention; parenting; immigrant families; domestic violence
Francisco L. Pérez
Professor, Department of Geography & the Environment
makena@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.1582 |
CLA 3.708
Education: Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Mountain geology; geomorphology; vegetation ecology; soils
Miguel Pinedo
Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Health Education
mpinedo@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8184 |
BEL 504
Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Interests: Substance abuse; public health; migration
Gabriela Polit
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
gabriela@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4539 |
BEN 4.118
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Joseph E. Potter
Professor, Department of Sociology, C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations #4
joe@prc.utexas.edu |
512.471.8341 |
CLA 2.620C
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Reproductive health; population; development
Megan Raby
Assistant Professor, Department of History
meganraby@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7925 |
GAR 0.114
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: History of science; environmental history; US and Caribbean; 19th and 20th centuries
Charles E. Ramirez Berg
Joe M. Dealey, Sr. Professor in Media Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film
ramberg@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.9925 |
WWH 414
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Film history; Latino images in film; Mexican cinema; screenwriting
Erin M Rodríguez
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0283 |
SZB 254E
Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Interests: Pediatric chronic illness and health disparities; observational assessment of family communication; developmental processes in stress and coping; linguistic and cultural factors in mental health
Néstor P. Rodríguez
Professor, Department of Sociology
nrodriguez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.8072 |
CLA 3.528
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: International migration and deportation issues; race and ethnic relations; urban sociology
Victoria Rodríguez
Ashbel Smith Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School
victoria@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.8620 |
SRH 3.229
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Governance; democratization and political change in Latin America and Mexico; gender and politics in Latin America
Enrique R. Rodriguez-Alegría
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
chanfle@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0786 |
SAC 4.144
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Archaeology and ethnohistory of Mesoamerica; colonialism; religious conversion; the Spanish empire in Latin America
Sonia Roncador
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Faculty Chair, Brazil Center Faculty Committee
roncador@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4525 |
BEN 3.132
Education: Ph. D., New York University
Interests: Lusophone literatures and culture; gender and race; questions of servitude, domesticity, and women's education; Brazilian and transatlantic cultural studies
Astrid Runggaldier
Senior Lecturer, Department of Art & Art History
astrid@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1057 |
ART 1.412C
Education: Ph.D., Boston University
Interests: Architecture and landscape in Mesoamerica
César A. Salgado
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
cslgd@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4517 |
BEN 3.140
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Poetry in colonial and modern Latin America; comparative postcolonial studies and theory; modern literary and critical theory
Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance
roxanne@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7345 |
WIN B104H
Education: MFA, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Culturally responsive theater education; Latino/a theater for young audiences
Sandro Sessarego
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
sandrosessarego@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2283 |
BEN 3.138
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Interests: Contact linguistics; sociolinguistics; Afro-Hispanic languages of the Americas
Bjorn Sletto
Associate Professor, Department of Community and Regional Planning
bjorn@utexas.edu |
512.471.5153 |
SUT 3.124B
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: Latin American planning and development; participatory planning; environmental and social justice; social theory
Christen Smith
Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
christen.smith@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8770 |
SRH 1.327
Education: Ph.D., Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
Interests: Blackness; performance; racial formation; violence; Black women and transnational struggle; Black liberation and resistance in the Americas (particularly Brazil and the United States)
Miriam Solis Collins
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
solis@austin.utexas.edu |
SUT 2.120
Interests: Environmental justice; community and economic development; race and the built environment
Patricia A. Somers
Associate Professor, College of Education
pasomers@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.7551 |
SZB 374B
Interests: Access and persistence in Brazilian higher education; affirmative action and admissions in the U.S. and Brazil; college student persistence in the U.S.
Chandler Stolp
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
stolp@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8951 |
SRH 3.384F
Education: Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Interests: Social polIcy program evaluation statistics
Joseph Straubhaar
Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communication, Department of Radio-Television-Film
jdstraubhaar@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.5304 |
CMA 5.116
Education: Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Interests: Global media; Brazilian and Latin American television; Brazilian cultural industry and “soft power”; media and Latino migration; the digital divide in the U.S. and Latin America; global television production and flow
David Stuart
Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing, Department of Art and Art History and Department of Anthropology
davidstuart@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2363 |
ART 1.412
Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Interests: Mesoamerican archaeology and epigraphy
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
toribio@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.4936 |
BEN 3.150
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Linguistics, Cornell University
Interests: Bilingualism and language contact; morphology; syntax; sociolinguistics; Caribbean studies; U.S. Latino and border studies
Rebecca M. Torres
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
rebecca.torres@austin.utexas.edu |
RLP (formerly CLA) 3.426
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Davis
Interests: (Im)migration, Children/Youth Geographies, Gender, Feminist Geography, Activist/Engaged Scholarship, Mexico, Latin America
John Turci-Escobar
Assistant Professor, School of Music
turci-escobar@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4993 |
MRH 3.832
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Music of Astor Piazzolla; Argentine tango
Ann Twinam
Professor, Department of History
anntwinam@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.7213 |
GAR 2.114
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Colonial history; family history; women and gender; sexuality and illegitmacy in the 15th through 18th centuries
Luis Urrieta, Jr.
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; Faculty Chair, Mexican Center Faculty Committee
urrieta@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4129 |
SZB 528G
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: Latino studies; cultural and racial identities; agency as social and cultural practices; social movements and education
Carmen R. Valdez
Associate Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
crvaldez@utexas.edu |
512.495.5388 |
HDB 4.812
Education: PhD, Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Immigrant health; family psychology; Latinx psychology; mental health access and utilization
Fred Valdez, Jr.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
fredv@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0060 |
SAC 4.162
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: History of archaeological investigations in Central America; Mesoamerican prehistory
Angela Valenzuela
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
valenz@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.6008 |
SZB 528
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Latino education policy in Texas; race, ethnicity, and the schools; immigration, globalization, and education
Mariah D. Wade
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
m.wade@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4876 |
SAC 4.146
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Ethnohistory; archival research and methodologies; Native Americans in Texas, Mexico, and the greater southwest
Peter Ward
C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations, Department of Sociology, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and Department of Geography and the Environment
peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.6302 |
RLP 3.730, SRH 3.228
Education: Ph.D., University of Liverpool
Interests: Housing and governance in Mexico, Latin America, and Texas
David C. Warner
Wilbur J. Cohen Professor in Health and Social Policy, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
david.warner@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.6277 |
SRH 3.242
Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University
Interests: Economics; health policy; health finance
Amelia Weinreb
Lecturer, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
amy.weinreb@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.2204 |
CLA 4.412
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Cuba's middle class; Jewish Latin America
Abigail Weitzman
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
aweitzman@utexas.edu |
512-475-8526 |
RLP 2.708C
Education: Ph.D., New York University
Interests: Gender and family demography
Kurt Weyland
Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Government
kweyland@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7253 |
BAT 4.126
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Democratization; diffusion; social policy; populism; bounded rationality; market reform
Jennifer M. Wilks
Associate Professor, Department of English and African & African American Diaspora Studies
jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8702 |
PAR 329
Education: Ph.D., 2003, Cornell University
Interests: Comparative African American and Caribbean literature; contemporary African diasporic literature; Caribbean women's writing; apocalyptic narratives
Patricia Wilson
Professor, School of Architecture
patriciawilson@utexas.edu |
512.471.0130 |
SUT 3.122
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Civic engagement and dialogue; participatory planning; international development; community development; sustainable social development
Samuel M. Wilson
Professor, Department of Anthropology
s.wilson@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1176 |
CLA 4.404
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Archaeology; historical anthropology; prehistoric contact
Anthony C. Woodbury
Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Anthropology
woodbury@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1701 |
CLA 4.728
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Chatino linguisitcs and language preservation; documentation and preservation of endangered languages; grammatical analysis and theory
Kenneth R. Young
Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
kryoung@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.8311 |
CLA 3.422
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Interests: Biogeography; landscape ecology; climate change; sustainability; tropical environments
Emilio Zamora
Professor, Department of History
e.zamora@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.8706 |
GAR 2.104B
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: history of Mexicans in the U.S.; oral history and archival enterprise in Texas and northern Mexico
Affiliates
Richard Albert
Professor, School of Law
Interests: Constitutional amendment; constitutional design; constitutionalism; Canadian constitutional law; American constitutional law; Caribbean constitutional law
Paul Bonin Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance
pbonrod@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.5310 |
WIN 2.304
Interests: Cultural policies, practices, and histories that inform artist sustainability in the U.S.; queer performance; performance by people of color
Rebecca M. Callahan
Associate Professor, College of Education
callahan@prc.utexas.edu |
512.471.8347 |
SZB 440G
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: Immigrant youth in US schools
Yessenia Castro
Assistant Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
ycastro@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.0778 |
HLP 295D
Education: Ph.D., The Florida State University
Interests: Development and evaluation of interventions for smoking and alcohol use; effects of cultural factors, gender, and race/ethnicity on health behavior; Latino health; psychome
Isabella Cunningham
Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor in Communication and Department Chair, Department of Advertising and IC2 Institute
isabella.cunningham@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8126 |
BMC 4.338A
Interests: Legal and ethical aspects of advertising and promotional communications; effect of political advertising on youths and minorities
Michael Findley
Associate Professor, Department of Government
mikefindley@utexas.edu |
512.232.7208 |
BAT 3.108
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Lawrence Gilbert
Professor, School of Biological Sciences
lgilbert@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.4705 |
PAT 440
Interests: Behavior, ecology, and evolution of passionvine butterflies (Heliconius)
Kate Gillespie
Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Administration and Department of Middle Eastern Studies
kate.gillespie@mccombs.utexas.edu |
512.471.5438 |
CBA 7.258
Education: PhD, London Business School
Interests: International marketing; international business-government relations; business in developing countries
Diane B Ginsburg
Clinical Professor, College of Pharmacy
diane.ginsburg@austin.utexas.edu |
PHR 5.112N
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Pharmacy law; professional ethics
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: Latina/o literature and literary history; Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century American literature; narrative theory; postcolonial studies
Dean Hendrickson
Curator, Texas Memorial Museum and Texas Natural History Collections; Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences
deanhend@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.9774 |
PRC 176
Interests: Conservation, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of freshwater ecosystems
Mercedes Hernandez
Assistant Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
mercedeh@utexas.edu |
512.471.8189 |
SSW 3.106F
Interests: Mental health disparities; early intervention for first episode psychosis; development of culturally compentent evidence-based care; Latino mental health
Adam Holzman
Parker C. Fielder Regents Professor in Music, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
aholzman@mail.utexas.edu |
512.232.2077 |
MRH 5.268
Interests: Classical guitar performance
Gladys Krause
Research Associate, College of Education
gladyshrueda@gmail.com |
SZB 3.40
Interests: Mathematics methods for bilingual pre-service teachers; quantitative and qualitative research methods; Spanish speaking teachers in the US
Fernanda Leite
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
fernanda.leite@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.5957 |
ECJ 5.302
Interests: IT for project management' building information modeling; visualization; life-cycle information integration; collaboration and coordination technologies; and IT-supported construction safety management
Stephanie Leutert
Lecturer, LBJ School of Public Affairs
stephanie.leutert@utexas.edu |
512.471.3666
Interests: Mexico's migratory policy; Central American migration; U.S. migratory policy; Mexico's security policy; U.S.–Mexico migration & security cooperation
Kathleen S. Mackie
Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing Administration
kate.mackie@mccombs.utexas.edu |
512.288.3115 |
CBA 5.176M
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Marketing; market research; strategic and tactical planning; budget development
Sandy Magana
Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
smagana@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.9216 |
SSW 3.130H
Interests: Latino families of children with autism and other disabilities
Stephen Magee
James L. Bayless/Enstar Corp. Chair in Business Administration, Department of Finance and Department of Economics
stephen.magee@mccombs.utexas.edu |
512.471.5777 |
CBA 6.264
Interests: Economics of intellectual property and industrial organization; legal systems on national economies; bioeconomics; international finance and trade
Alberto A. Martínez
Professor, Department of History
almartinez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.9426 |
GAR 0.138
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, M.A. NYU
Interests: History of science; race; corruption
Yolanda C. Padilla
Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Child Welfare, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
ypadilla@utexas.edu |
512.471.6266 |
SSW 3.130K
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Health and inequalities; immigrants; Mexican/Latino social U.S.
Rajeev Patel
Research Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
rajpatel@utexas.edu |
SRH 3.225
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: Food systems; peasant movements
Eric R. Pianka
Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor, School of Biological Sciences
erp@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.7475 |
PAT 125
Education: D.Sc., University of Western Australia
Interests: Population and community ecology; evolutionary ecology; species diversity; historical accident and biogeography; macrodescriptors
Jorge Piñon
Director, Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program; Interim Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School of Geosciences
jrpinon@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4988 |
EPS 1.140
Interests: Energy policy
Francisco Polidoro
Associate Professor, Department of Management
francisco.polidoro@mccombs.utexas.edu |
512.471.9187 |
CBA 4.258
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Knowledge management; social networks; strategic alliances; strategic management; technology and innovation management
Molly Polk
Lecturer and Associate Director of Sustainability Studies, Department of Geography and the Environment
mollypolk@utexas.edu |
512.232.6892 |
RLP 3.430
Education: Ph.D. in Geography, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Land change science; tropical mountains of Latin America; climate change; landscape sustainability; social-ecological system theory; landscape ecology; physical geography
David Quinto-Pozos
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
davidqp@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.9030 |
RLP 4.714
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Signed language linguistics; Mexican Sign Language (LSM); interaction of language and gesture; developmental signed language disorders
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Associate Profesor, School of Journalism; Director, Voces Oral History Project
mrivas@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0405 |
BMC 3.120
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: U.S. Latinos; oral history projects
Mary Rose
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
mrose@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.6336 |
CLA 3.630
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Interests: Juries and jury decision-making in the U.S.; lay participation in legal decision making; justice perceptions; public opinion about the law
Michael J. Ryan
Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zoology, School of Biological Sciences
mryan@utexas.edu |
512.471.5078 |
PAT 107
Interests: Animal behavior; sexual selection and communication in frogs and fish
Delida Sanchez
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
delida.sanchez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0805 |
SZB 262H
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University Teachers College
Interests: Examination of racial/ethnic health disparities and mental and behavioral health outcomes with diverse Black and Latino populations;multicultural counseling; Latino psychology
Beryl B. Simpson
C. L. Lundell Chair of Systematic Botany, School of Biological Sciences; Director, Plant Resources Center
beryl@mail.utexas.edu |
512.471.7335 |
BIO 112
Education: Ph. D., Harvard University
Interests: Systematics; biogeography; evolution of select legumes and Asteraceae
David Sosa
Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities, Department of Philosophy
david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.5284 |
WAG 316CV
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Mind and language; ethics; metaphysics; epistemology; philosophy of language
Sam Vong
Assistant Professor, Department of History
svong@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.3261
Education: Ph.D., 2013, Yale University
Interests: Asians in the Americas; critical refugee studies; Southeast Asian refugees in South America; transnational social movements
Luis H. Zayas
Dean and Robert Lee Sutherland Chair in Mental Health and Social Policy, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
lzayas@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1937 |
SSW 2.202
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Family functioning; child-rearing; child and adolescent mental health in Latino families in the U.S. and Latin America
Emeritus Faculty
Hans W. Baade
Hugh Lamar Stone Chair Emeritus in Civil Law, School of Law
hbaade@law.utexas.edu |
512.232.1347 |
JON 5.262
Jacqueline Barnitz
Professor Emeritus, Department of Art & Art History
barnitz@mail.utexas.edu |
512.232.2319 |
DFA 2.118
Harley L Browning
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Harry Cleaver, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
hmcleave@austin.utexas.edu |
512.475.8535 |
BRB 3.162
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Mercedes Lynn De Uriarte
Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism
merlyn@utexas.edu |
512.471.1979 |
BMC 3.364
Education: Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale
Interests: U.S. press crisis coverage of Latin American events; latinos in media and culture; comparative crisis coverage; Central America; Latin American journalism
William Glade
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
gladew@att.net |
512.471.3211
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Lawrence Graham
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Interests: Public policy, development policy, and management in Latin America (Brazil and Mexico)
Frederick G Hensey
Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Interests: Language contact; code switching; translation; interpretation theory
Amarante Lucero
Professor Emeritus, Department of Theatre and Dance
alucero@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.5340 |
WIN 2.162
Interests: Automated lighting; cyberspace; using the digital world in design and production
Bryan R. Roberts
C.B.Smith Sr. Chair in US-Mexico Relations, Department of Sociology
brr@prc.utexas.edu |
512.232.6329 |
CLA 3.608
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Latin American urbanization and social policy in the late 20th-century
Henry A. Selby
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Education: Ph.D., Stanford
Interests: Social organization; economic anthropology; development studies
Joel F. Sherzer
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
jsherzer@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8516 |
EPS 1.206
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Linguistics
Nicolas Shumway
Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Education: Ph.D.-Spanish Language and Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Spanish-American literature; intellectual history
