Leadership
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Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
Dr. Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Dean and Professor in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. For over 20 years, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera has been a scholar focused on the ways the arts contribute to social transformation—from the emergence of collective identities and politics facilitated by media and performance cultures to the activation of art-based methodologies to address moments of collective crisis. He has produced award-winning scholarship, developed curatorial and arts development practices and platforms and advanced a significant portfolio of externally funded practice-based projects focused on the ways the arts can help us become a more intentionally collaborative and ethical society. Rivera-Servera has been specifically focused on how the arts generated from queer Latinx, Caribbean, Mexican and Afrodiasporic contexts across North America advance critical knowledges that build and sustain community through creative practice.
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Richard Flores
Dr. Richard Flores is currently the Deputy to the President for Academic Priorities and Professor of Anthropology and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the C. B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in U. S.—Mexico Relations. He works in the areas of critical theory, performance studies, semiotics, and historical and cultural anthropology. A native of San Antonio, Texas, he received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. He is the author of Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity, and the Master Symbol (University of Texas Press, 2002), Los Pastores: History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherd’s Play of South Texas (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), editor of Adina De Zavala’s, History and Legends of the Alamo (Arte Público Press, 1996). In addition, he has published essays in American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Literary History, Radical History Review, and in the edited volume, Latino Cultural Citizenship, published by Beacon Press.
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Agnes Eva Savich
Agnes Savich is the Program Coordinator for the Mellon Fellowship for High Impact Scholars, the Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. She earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University. At UT Austin since 2013, she worked in the Office of Undergraduate Research and Liberal Arts Student Division before coming to LRI. She is a published poet, author of The Watcher: Poems (Cedar Leaf Press, 2010), and poetry community leader. She is also a classically trained musician playing oboe in the Perpetual Motion Quintet and Dell Medical Red River Ensemble Orchestra. She especially enjoys supporting and bringing together people for creative endeavors.
