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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

Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of History

delcastillo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7258 |
GAR 3.216

Education: Ph.D., University of Miami

Daniel Fridman

Associate 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, PhD

Associate Professor, LLILAS and Department of African and African Diaspora Studies

marcelopaixao@utexas.edu |
512.471.2733 |
GWB 3142

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

Associate 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

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

Daniel M Brinks

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

Chelsea Burns

Assistant Professor of Music Theory

cburns@austin.utexas.edu |
MRH 3.734

Interests: Brazil and Mexico; modernisms; concert music; exoticism; nationalism

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

BEN 3.146 (Spanish and Portuguese); SAC 4.132 (NAIS)

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

Iván Chaar López

Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies

ichaar@utexas.edu |
BUR 402

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

Interests: Digital Studies, Ethnic Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Science & Technology Studies; art and visual culture; borderlands, capital, history of technology (especially electronics and computing); imperial formations; Latina/o lifeworlds and knowledge production; media archaeology; racial formation

Danielle Clealand

Associate Professor, Department of Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies

danielle.clealand@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-2439 |
GWB 2.322

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

Interests: Black politics in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the United States, group consciousness, Afro-Latino politics and identity, black public opinion and racial inequality.

Ashley Coleman Taylor

Department of Religious Studies

ashleycolemantaylor@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Emory University

Interests: Black Feminism, Black Genders and Sexualities, Pragmatism, Queer of Color Critique, Africana Religions, Puerto Rican Studies, Atlanta Studies

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

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

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

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

Associate 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: PhD, 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

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

Thomas Garrison

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment

thomas.garrison@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Maya archaeology; Mesoamerican archaeology; GIS; remote sensing; lidar; landscape archaeology; warfare

Lyndon K. Gill

Associate 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, PhD

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

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, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies

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

Kristine Hopkins

Research Scientist

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

Associate 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 Linguistics

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

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

Danny Law

Associate 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; 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

Associate 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; Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor #1; Past 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, Mesoamerica.

Raul L. Madrid

Harold C. and Alice T. Nowlin Regents Professorship in Liberal Arts, 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

Associate 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 2.406C

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Interests: Social demography

Monica M. Martinez

Associate Professor, Department of History

monica.martinez1@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., 2012, American Studies, Yale University

Interests: US-Mexico border; Texas; border policing

Kelly McDonough

Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese / Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS)

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); Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society; 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

Associate 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

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

Erin M. Rodríguez, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology

erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0283 |
SZB 254E

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

Enrique R. Rodríguez-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

Delida Sanchez, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology

delida.sanchez@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.0805 |
SZB 262H

Interests: Examination of racial/ethnic health disparities and mental and behavioral health outcomes with diverse Black and Latino populations;multicultural counseling; Latino psychology

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, PhD

Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology

christen.smith@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8770 |
SRH 1.327

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, PhD

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., PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

urrieta@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.4129 |
SZB 528G

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

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

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

richard.albert@law.utexas.edu

Interests: Constitutional amendment; constitutional design; constitutionalism; Canadian constitutional law; American constitutional law; Caribbean constitutional law

Paul Bonin Rodriguez

Associate 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

Jason Cons

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

jasoncons@utexas.edu |
512.232.3832 |
WCP 5.138

Education: PhD, Cornell University

Interests: Environmental anthropology; borders, political ecology; climate change; political anthropology; rights and social justice

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, PhD

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

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

Education: M.A., Yale University

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, PhD

Clara Pope Willoughby Centennial Professor in Child Welfare, Steve Hicks School of Social Work

ypadilla@utexas.edu |
512.471.6266 |
SSW 3.130K

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

Chía Patiño

Associate Professor of Practice, Butler School of Music; Stage Director, Butler Opera Center

chia.patino@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.9408 |
MBE 3.112

Interests: Opera

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

Molly H. 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, PhD

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

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

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

Leigh Boske

Professor Emeritus, 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

Harley L Browning

Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology

harleybwaldib@yahoo.com

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