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Jason Abrevaya

Professor of Economics; Fred Hofheinz Regents Professor in Economics

abrevaya@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8527 |
BRB 3.130

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abigail Aiken

Assistant Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs

araa2@utexas.edu

Education: MD, MPH, PhD, Cambridge University, Harvard University, The University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Unintended pregnancy and its life impacts, Abortion access, Contraceptive desires and use; High-risk obstetrics

Kamran Asdar Ali

Associate Professor of Anthropology

asdar@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7531, 512-471-3550 |
SAC 4.102

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Edward Anderson

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences

edward.anderson@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-5808 |
SEA 2.426

Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia

Jacqueline L. Angel

Professor, LBJ School

jangel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-2956 |
SHR 3.239

Education: Ph.D., Rutgers University

Ronald J. Angel

Professor of Sociology

rangel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6315 |
CLA 3.530

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

Javier Auyero

Professor of Sociology; Joe R. & Teresa Long Endowed Professor #3

auyero@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8073 |
CLA 3.624

Education: Ph.D., The New School for Social Research

Aprile D Benner

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences

abenner@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-1964, 512-471-8353 |
SEA 2.442; CLA 2.406D

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

Interests: child and adolescent development; marginalization and discrimination; schools; stratification systems

S. Natasha Beretvas

Professor of Educational Psychology; Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, College of Education

tberetvas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0724 |
SZB 538E

Education: PhD, University of Washington

Sandra E. Black

Professor of Economics, Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs

sblack@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3294 |
BRB 2.102D; CLA 2.408F

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Deborah A. Bolnick

Associate Professor of Anthropology

deborah.bolnick@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7532 |
SAC 4.148

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

Interests: Anthropological genetics and genomics, ancient DNA, Native American population history, human population genetics, human biological variation, race, paleoepigenetics, ethical/legal/social implications of genetic research

Sarah Brayne

Assistant Professor of Sociology

sbrayne@utexas.edu |
512-475-8641 |
CLA 2.408J

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Marika Cabral

Assistant Professor of Economics

marika.cabral@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8522 |
BRB 2.152

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Rebecca M. Callahan

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction

callahan@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8347 |
SZB 436G; CLA 2.408H

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

Esther Calzada

Associate Professor 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

Shannon E. Cavanagh

Associate Professor of Sociology

scavanagh@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8319 |
CLA 2.708A

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

Wenhong Chen

Assistant Professor of Radio-Television-Film

wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4592 |
CMA 5.142

Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto

Interests: Social Networks; Social Capital; Digital Media; Media Entrepreneurship

Diane Coffey

Assistant Professor of Sociology

coffey@utexas.edu |
512-232-6915 |
CLA 2.620D

Education: PhD, Princeton University

Kelley A. Crews

Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor, Geography & the Environment

kelley@utexas.edu |
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

Robert Crosnoe

Professor and Chair of Sociology; C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair #4

crosnoe@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-3255 (Chair's Office), 512-471-8329 (PRC) |
CLA 2.406F

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests: Human Development, Education, Family, Health, Immigration

Catherine Cubbin

Professor of Social Work, Associate Dean for Research

ccubbin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-0625 |
CLA 2.622G

Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Valerie Danesh, PhD, RN, CCRP

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing

vdanesh@nursing.utexas.edu |
512-232-4722 |
NUR 3.446

Education: Ph.D., University of Central Florida

Susan De Luca

Assistant Professor of Social Work

sdeluca@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Toni Falbo

Professor of Educational Psychology

toni@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8020 |
CLA 2.622F

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

Karen Fingerman

Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences

kfingerman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0618 |
SEA 2.326

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Kim Fromme

Professor of Clinical Psychology

fromme@psy.utexas.edu |
SEA 3.242

Education: Ph.D., University of Washington

Elizabeth Gershoff

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences; PRC Development Core Director and Postdoctoral Training Director

liz.gershoff@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0018 |
SEA 2.456; CLA 2.406E

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

Michael Geruso

Assistant Professor of Economics

mike.geruso@austin.utexas.edu |
BRB 2.118

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Jennifer Glass

Professor of Sociology; Barbara Pierce Bush Regents Professor in Liberal Arts

jennifer-glass@utexas.edu |
512-471-8355 |
CLA 2.702F

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

Interests: work and family issues, telecommuting and new labor practices, STEM labor force retention

Marci Gleason

Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences

mgleason@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-1617 |
SEA 2.458

Education: Ph.D., New York University

Andrea Gore

Professor and Vacek Chair of Pharmacology

andrea.gore@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-3669 |
BME 3.510B

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

Kathryn Paige Harden

Associate Professor of Psychology

harden@psy.utexas.edu |
512 471 1124 |
SEA 3.246

Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia

Mark D. Hayward

Professor of Sociology; Centennial Commission Professor in the Liberal Arts

mhayward@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8382 |
CLA 2.622E

Education: Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington

Interests: Life course origins of health disparities, morbidity and mortality, biodemography

Kristine Hopkins

Research Assistant Professor of Sociology

khopkins@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-8313 |
CLA 2.620D

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

Yasmiyn Irizarry

Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies

yirizarry@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington

Huriya Jabbar

Assistant Professor, Educational Policy and Planning, Department of Education Administration

jabbar@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8586 |
SZB 374

Education: Ph.D., Educational Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Deborah B. Jacobvitz

Professor; Chairperson, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences

debj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4276 |
SEA 2.414

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

Yuri Jang

Associate Professor of Social Work

yjang12@austin.utexas.edu |
SWB 3.130C

Education: Ph.D., University of South Florida

Junfeng Jiao

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture

jjiao@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Washington

Karen Johnson

Assistant Professor of Nursing

kjohnson@mail.nur.utexas.edu |
512 471-7971 |
NUR 4.143

Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Su Yeong Kim

Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences

sykim@prc.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-5524 |
SEA 2.322G

Education: Ph.D. Human Development and Family Sciences, University of California, Davis

Interests: Mexican American and Chinese American families and immigration, acculturation, language brokering, parenting, depressive symptoms, school achievement, measurement invariance

Gregory W. Knapp

Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment

gwk@utexas.edu |
512.232.1588 |
CLA 3.712

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

Interests: Long term geography of indigenous groups in the Andes.

David L. Leal

Professor of Government

dleal@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1343 |
BAT 3.140

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Interests: Latino Politics and Policy

Erin Lentz

Assistant Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs

erinclentz@utexas.edu |
512-232-8353 |
SRH 3.257

Education: PhD, Cornell University

Ken-Hou Lin

Assistant Professor of Sociology

lin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9412 |
CLA 2.702D

Education: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Interests: Inequality, Economy and Society, Finance, Organization, Race, and Methods.

Leigh Linden

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8904 |
BRB 2.156; CLA 2.702C

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Elma Lorenzo-Blanco

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

elma@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Brad Love

Associate Director, Center for Health Communication & Associate Professor, School of Advertising and Public Relations

lovebrad@utexas.edu |
512-471-3482 |
BMC 4.342

Education: Ph.D., Michigan State University

Dayanand Manoli

Assistant Professor of Economics

dsmanoli@austin.utexas.edu

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

Leticia Marteleto

Associate Professor of Sociology

marteleto@prc.utexas.edu |
512.471.8302 |
CLA 2.708D

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Julie Maslowsky

Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education

maslowsky@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7190 |
BEL 508

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

Eric McDaniel

Associate Professor of Government

emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7268

Education: Ph.D., 2004, Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chandra L. Muller

Professor of Sociology; Alma Cowden Madden Centenial Professor & Ashbell Smith Professor in Liberal Arts

cmuller@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8377, 512-232-6322 |
CLA 2.408G

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Richard Murphy

Assistant Professor of Economics

richard.murphy@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8525 |
BRB 2.142

Education: Ph.D., University College London

Marc A. Musick

Professor of Sociology; Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs, College of Liberal Arts

musick@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6326 |
BUR 548

Education: Ph.D., Duke University

Todd Olmstead

Associate Professor of Public Affairs, James and Claudia Richter Chair Fellow

tolmstead@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8456 |
SRH 3.237

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Cynthia Osborne

Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs

cosborne@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-9808 |
SRH 3.238

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Yolanda C. Padilla

Professor of Social Work

ypadilla@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-6266 |
SSW 3.130K

Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan

Deborah Parra-Medina

Director, Latino Research Initiative; Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies

parramedina@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-9315 |
GWB 2.320

Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University

Pamela Paxton

Professor of Sociology, Christine and Stanley E. Adams, Jr. Centennial Professor in the Liberal Arts and PRC Scientific & Technical Core Director

ppaxton@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-6323

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

Becky Pettit

Professor of Sociology

bpettit@utexas.edu |
512-471-9850 |
CLA 2.622H

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests: Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Labor Markets, Research Methods

Joseph E. Potter

Professor of Sociology

joe@prc.utexas.edu |
512.471.8341 |
CLA 2.620C

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Daniel A. Powers

Professor of Sociology

dpowers@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6335 |
CLA 2.622J

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

Interests: Health/Mortality Disparities

Tetyana Pudrovska

Assistant Professor of Sociology

tpudrovs@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 2.622D

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

Interests: Population Health Disparities, Gender and Health, Work and Health, Biopsychosocial Stress, Biodemography, Aging

James Pustejovsky

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology

pusto@austin.utexas.edu |
5124710683 |
SZB 538D

Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University

Interests: Statistics, meta-analysis, robust variance estimation, single-case research

Kelly Raley

Professor of Sociology; PRC Associate Director

kelly.raley@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-6333 |
CLA 2.702E

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

Mark Regnerus

Associate Professor of Sociology

regnerus@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-6307 |
CLA 3.524

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

Pedro Reyes

Ashbel Smith Professor in Educational Policy

preyes@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-8569 |
1912 Speedway, Suite 310M

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

Catherine Riegle-Crumb

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction

riegle@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8642 |
CLA 2.408E

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Néstor P. Rodríguez

Professor of Sociology

nrodriguez@austin.utexas.edu |
|
CLA 3.528

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

Interests: Climate change and migration, social transitions and conflict, coercive bureaucracies and ideology, historical sociology

Sharmila Rudrappa

Associate Professor of Sociology

rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6310 |
BUR 574

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Stephen Russell

Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Child Development, Human Development and Family Sciences

stephen.russell@utexas.edu |
512-471-0753 |
SEA 2.444; CLA 2.404

Education: Ph.D., Duke University

Delida Sanchez

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology

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

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University Teachers College

Lauren Schudde

Assistant Professor of Educational Administration

schudde@austin.utexas.edu

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

Harel Shapira

Assistant Professor of Sociology

hshapira@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-8075 |
CLA 3.636

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University

Dean Spears

Assistant Professor of Economics

dspears@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Chandler Stolp

Associate Professor and Associate Dean, LBJ School; Director, Brazil Center; Director Inter-American Policy Studies Program

stolp@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8951 |
SRH 3.310A

Education: Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University

Patricia A. Stout

Professor of Advertising and Public Affairs; John P. McGovern Regents Professor in Health and Medical Science Communication

pstout@mail.utexas.edu |
512-475-9158

Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marie-Anne Suizzo

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education

msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0379 |
SZB 506A

Education: Ph.D., Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University Graduate School of Education

Rebecca M. Torres

Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment

rebecca.torres@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 3.426

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

Robert Town

Professor of Economics

robert.town@austin.utexas.edu

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

Interests: Health Economics, Industrial Orgnaization, Applied Econometrics

John W. Traphagan

Professor of Religious Studies, Mitsubishi Fellow

512-232-0874 |
BUR 520

Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Stephen J. Trejo

Professor of Economics

trejo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-8512 |
BRB 2.132

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Elliot Tucker-Drob

Associate Professor of Psychology

tuckerdrob@utexas.edu |
512-232-4225 |
SEA 4.218

Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia

Interests: Behavioral Genetics; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Aging; Personality Development, Academic Achievement, Quantitative Methods

Debra J. Umberson

Director, PRC; Professor of Sociology; Christine and Stanley E. Adams, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Liberal Arts

umberson@prc.utexas.edu |
512-232-6330 |
CLA 2.708B

Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Interests: Social Ties & Population Health, Aging & the Life Course, Marriage & Family, Same-Sex Unions, Gender & Race, Blended Methods

Fatima Varner

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

fvarner@utexas.edu |
SEA 2.322D

Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University

Interests: Parenting, academic achievement, African American families

Paul von Hippel

Associate Professor, LBJ School

paulvonhippel@austin.utexas.edu |
SRH 3.384

Education: Ph.D., Ohio State University

Peter Ward

Professor and Associate Dean for Research, LBJ School; C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations

peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471-6302 |
CLA 3.730, SRH 3.228

Education: Ph.D., University of Liverpool

E. Mark Warr

Professor of Sociology

mwarr@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-6317 |
CLA 3.612

Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona

Interests: Crime, Delinquency, Deviance.

Alexander Weinreb

Associate Professor of Sociology

aweinreb@prc.utexas.edu |
512-471-0437 |
CLA 2.620E

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Interests: Social and political demography, data collection methods

Abigail Weitzman

Assistant Professor of Sociology

aweitzman@utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., New York University

Ahmed Whitt

Assistant Professor of Social Work

ahmedwhitt@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-1003 |
SWB 3.106C

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

Interests: Economic Empowerment

Elizabeth Widen

Assistant Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences effective 8/2018

elizabeth.widen@austin.utexas.edu

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

Interests: Nutritional Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health, Pregnancy, Obesity, Global Nutrition & Health

Hannah Williamson

Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

hwilliamson@utexas.edu

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

Interests: Couples, intimate relationships, marriage, nonmarital child-bearing, family formation, poverty

Robert H. Wilson

Mike Hogg Professor of Urban Policy, LBJ School; Director, Policy Research Institute

rwilson@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.8947 |
SRH 3.213

Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

David S Yeager

Associate Professor of Psychology

dyeager@utexas.edu |
512-471-1846 |
SEA 5.224

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests: Social-cognitive development, Motivation, Aggression, Adolescence, Research methodology, and Psychological interventions

Kenneth R. Young

Professor of Geography and the Environment

kryoung@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.8311 |
CLA 3.422

Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Faculty Research Affiliates

Kate Coleman-Minahan

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Colorado

kate.coleman-minahan@prc.utexas.edu |
CLA 2.620E

Education: PhD, University of Colorado Denver

Interests: Reproductive Health, Migration, Latino/a Families, Gender, Adolescents

Vinita Goyal

MD and PRC Research Affiliate

vinitagoyalmd@gmail.com

Deanna Hoelscher

John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living

deanna.m.hoelscher@uth.tmc.edu |
5123912510

Steve Kelder

Associate Regional Dean, UT School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus and Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences

steven.h.kelder@uth.tmc.edu |
512-391-2511

Education: Ph.D. and M.P.H., University of Minnesota

Marcelo J. P. Paixão

Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, Fellow of Lee and Joseph D. Jamail Chair in African American Studies

marcelopaixao@utexas.edu |
GWB 3142

Education: Ph.D., 2005, Sociology, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ)

Nalini Ranjit

Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences

nalini.ranjit@uth.tmc.edu |
512-391-2527 |
1616 Guadalupe Street, Suite 6.300

Education: Ph.D., Cornell University

Anna Wilkinson

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences

anna.v.wilkinson@uth.tmc.edu |
512-707-2011 |
1616 Guadalupe Street, Suite 6.300

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

Interests: Health disparities and immigrant health; tobacco prevention and cessation; promotion of physical activity and obesity prevention; bio-behavioral epidemiology.