American Studies
Janet M. Davis
Distinguished Teaching Professor; Associate Director, Plan II Honors
janetmdavis@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 1848 |
BUR 432
Education: Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
Interests: U.S. cultural, social, and environmental history; popular culture; social thought; animal studies; women’s and gender history; U.S. social movements; modern South Asia
Anthropology
Kamran Asdar Ali
Professor
asdar@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 7531 |
SAC 4.102
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Gender, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism; Urban Social Histories, Popular Culture, Historiography, Memory, Liberalism, Middle East; South Asia (Egypt, Pakistan).
Jason Cons
Associate Professor
jasoncons@utexas.edu |
(512) 232 3832 |
SAC 5.138
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Borders, security, climate change, agrarian change, development, political ecology, South Asia, Bangladesh
Ward Keeler
Professor
ward.keeler@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8520 |
SAC 4.128
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Interests: Southeast Asian Performing Arts, Classical Burmese Theater/Music
Architecture
Patricia Wilson
Professor
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
Art History
Michael Charlesworth
Professor
mick@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2345 |
DFA 2.126
Education: PhD, University of Kent, Canterbury, England
Interests: Nineteenth Century Europe, history of gardens, early Cartography, photography history, panoramic representation of landscapes
Janice Leoshko
Associate Professor
jleoshko@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 2581 |
DFA 2.110
Education: PhD, Ohio State University
Interests: Asian Art, Art History, Buddhist Art, Tibetan Art
Asian Studies
Mansi Bajaj
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Delhi
Interests: Hindi Language, Language Teaching, Curriculum Development, Using Assessment as a Learning Tool, Using Social Media and Bollywood in a Language Classroom, Sensitization of Society through Language Learning, Phonology, Stress Placement, Tones
Anandakrishnan Balakrishnan
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Interests: Tamil language and instruction
Donald R. Davis, Jr.
Professor; Chair, Asian Studies
drdj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 |
WCH 4.134
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Sanskrit; Dharmaśāstra; Law and Religion; Medieval India; Malayalam
Oliver Freiberger
Professor
of@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8239 |
WCH 4.104A
Education: PhD, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Interests: Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religion | religious boundary-making
Shahnaz Hassan
Associate Professor of Instruction
snzhasan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0304 |
HRH 3.102
Education: BA, University of the Punjab
Interests: Urdu Language & Literature, Classical & Modern Urdu Poetry & Prose, Film, Urdu & Hindi Media (Pakistani Urdu dramas, Bollywood), Language Teaching, Female Voices in Urdu Literature, Gender Studies.
Heather Hindman
Associate Professor
h.hindman@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 1667 |
WCH 5.103
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Critical development, entrepreneurialism, expatriate communities, social theory, global labor and gender
Syed Akbar Hyder
Associate Professor
akbarhyder@utexas.edu |
(512) 475 6031 |
WCH 4.134
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Interests: Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asia and the Middle East
Nabanjan Maitra
Assistant Professor of Instruction
nabanjan.maitra@austin.utexas.edu
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Interests: Sanskrit | religious identity-formation and Institutions | discourses of religious power | reinventions of traditions
Darsana Manayathu Sasi
Assistant Professor of Instruction
darsana@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-6043 |
WCH 5.126
Education: PhD, University of Kerala
Interests: Malayalam language and instruction; South Indian folklore and literature
Carla Petievich
Visiting Professor
petievichc@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 6035 |
WCH 4.122
Education: PhD, University of British Columbia
Interests: Urdu Literature, Indo-Muslim Cultural History, Pakistani Culture, Female Access to Education in Pakistan
Dalpat Rajpurohit
Assistant Professor
Education: PhD, Presidency University, Kolkata
Interests: Hindi; Literary and religious cultures of early modern India; Dādū Panth and Poet-Saint Sundardās (1596-1689); Modern Hindi Literature; Dalit autobiographies
Martha Selby
Professor
mas@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 6040 |
WCH 4.134
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Interests: Old Tamil, Prakrit and Sanskrit poetry and poetics; modern Tamil fiction; Sanskrit medical literature; gender and women's studies in South Asia
Gautami Shah
Associate Professor of Instruction
gshah@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-6033 |
WCH 4.104GA
Education: MS, Purdue University
Interests: Language pedagogy (Hindi); Contemporary South Asian literature with a focus on communal conflicts, gender issues, caste, religion and immigrant experiences; Curriculum development; Innovative use of technology in language teaching; Program development; Less commonly taught languages
Ahmed Shamim
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Education: Ph.D., City University of New York
Interests: Bangla Language and Literature, Endangered Language Documentation and Description, Phonology, Morphology, Grammar, and Language Policies and Ideologies
Business and Marketing
Kishore Gawande
Professor
kishore.gawande@mccombs.utexas.edu |
GSB
Interests: Econometrics, Economic Development, Economics, Global Sourcing, International Business, Public Policy
Vijay Mahajan
Professor
vijay.mahajan@mccombs.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 1128 |
CBA 7.202
Interests: Marketing strategy, Product diffusion, Research methodology
Deirdre B Mendez
Director, Center for Global Business
deirdre.mendez@mccombs.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8031 |
CBA 3.252
Education: PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
Rajagopal Raghunathan
Professor
raj.raghunathan@mccombs.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 2987 |
CBA 7.232
Education: PhD, New York University
Interests: Affect and Decision Making, Hedonic and Utilitarian Consumption
Raji Srinivasan
Professor; Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
raji.srinivasan@mccombs.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-5441 |
CBA 7.248
Education: PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Organizational innovation; marketing metrics; the sharing economy.
Communication Studies
Shiv Ganesh
Professor
Education: PhD, Communication, Purdue University
Interests: Communication and collective organizing in the context of globalization and digital technologies
Scott R Stroud
Associate Professor
sstroud@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 6561 |
CMA 7.138A
Education: PhD, Temple University
Interests: Communication and Culture, Communication Ethics, Philosophy and Rhetoric
Computer Science
Vijaya Ramachandran
Professor
vlr@cs.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8885 |
GDC 4.430
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Interests: theoretical computer science, algorithms for multicore computing
Economics
Leigh Linden
Associate Professor
leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 8556 |
BRB 2.156
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Economics of education, microeconomic foundations of poverty, gender and educational opportunity, political economy of India
Dean Spears
Assistant Professor
dspears@utexas.edu |
(512) 475 8543 |
3.134D
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Vijay Garg
Professor
garg@ece.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 9424 |
ACE 5.436
Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Interests: Decision, Information and communications engineering; architecture, computer systems and embedded systems; software engineering and systems
Sarfraz Khurshid
Professor
khurshid@ece.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8244 |
POB 5.120
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Software testing, specification languages, code conformance, model checking, application of heuristics in program analysis
Sriram Vishwanath
Professor
sriram@ece.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 1190 |
UTA 7.512
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Interests: Information theory, wireless communication, coding theory
English
Mia Carter
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Student Affairs
miac@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8733 |
PAR 123
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests: Ethnic and Third World Literature; Popular Culture; Modern British Literature; Women, Gender and Literature; post-colonial and ethnic studies, modernism, 19th and 20th Century British Literature, Imperial studies, film, women's studies.
Brian Doherty
Senior Lecturer
bfd@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8798 |
PAR 326
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Snehal Shingavi
Associate Professor
snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8114 |
PAR 26
Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley
Interests: Anglophone South Asian literature, 20th century literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” and/or postcolonialism, Classical Marxism, Ethnic and Third World Literature, Asian American Literature
Hannah C. Wojciehowski
Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English
gemelli@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8768 |
PAR 230
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: globalization and transculturation in pre-modernity; medieval and Renaissance travel literature; neurocriticism
Ethnomusicology
Sonia Seeman
Associate Professor
stseeman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-2854 |
MRH 3.602
Education: Ph.D., UCLA
Interests: The music of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and Southeastern Europe, specializing in Rom (“Gypsy”) communities; Project director for joint ensemble between UT Austin Butler School of Music and the National Academy of Performing Arts, Karachi, Pakistan
Stephen Slawek
Professor
slawek@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 0671 |
MBE 3.202
Education: PhD, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Interests: Musical traditions of South Asia, southeast Asian music, American popular music
Government
Jason Brownlee
Professor
brownlee@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7304 |
A1800
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Comparative politics, democracy, development, foreign intervention
Gary J. Jacobsohn
Professor; H. Malcolm Macdonald Chair in Constitutional and Comparative Law
gjacobsohn@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 1444 |
MEZ 3.110
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism, constitutional identity
History
Indrani Chatterjee
Professor
ichatterjee@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 7252 |
GAR 3.412
Education: PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Interests: Postcolonialism, Slavery and South Asian History, Gender and Modern India
Sumit Guha
Professor
sguha@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 474 7236 |
2.140 GAR
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Interests: demography and agriculture, environment and ethnicity, agrarian economies, caste, identity and power
Philippa Levine
Professor; Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas
philippa@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 1236 |
HRC 3.202B
Education: DPhil, Oxford University
Interests: Asian colonies of the British Empire
Cynthia Talbot
Professor
ctalbot@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 7229 |
GAR 3.406
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Social and cultural history of medieval and early modern India (ca. 1000-1750); historiography and historical memories, Hindu-Muslim relations
Human Ecology
Sara Stewart Stevens
Assistant Professor of Practice
Education: M.S. in Textiles and Apparel Technology, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Gender, consumer perception, consumer insights, community engagement, curriculum design, holistic sustainability, street style, fitness apparel, regenerative agriculture, fiber innovation
Journalism
Dhiraj Murthy
Professor
dhiraj.murthy@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1845 |
DMC 3.338
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Interests: Social media, digital research methods, race/ethnicity, qualitative/mixed methods, big data quantitative analysis, and virtual organizations
Law
Karen Engle
Professor; Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair
kengle@law.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 7066 |
JON 6.240
Education: JD, Harvard University
Interests: International human rights law, indigenous rights and development, international criminal law, and Latin American law
Linguistics
Middle Eastern Studies
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Faegheh Shirazi
Professor
fshirazi@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 9416 |
WMB 6.128
Education: PhD, Ohio State University
Interests: Textiles, dress, gender identity discourse, and material culture in the Middle East; the meanings of veiling; rituals and rites of passage as they relate to material culture
Philosophy
Daniel A Bonevac
Professor
bonevac@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 4333 |
WAG 403
Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Interests: Philosophy; Logic; Moral Issues; Ethics; Philosophy in Popular Culture; Christian Philosophy
Public Affairs
David Eaton
Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professorship in Natural Resource Policy Studies
eaton@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 8972 |
SRH 3.204
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Rural water supply, International water resource conflicts, energy management, sustainable development in international river basins, energy and water conservation programs, pollution prevention, water conservation in Texas
Erin Lentz
Associate Professor
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Food Security; Gender, Nutrition and Agriculture Linkages; US Food Aid and Food Assistance Policies
Rajeev Patel
Research Professor
rajpatel@utexas.edu |
SRH 3.225
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Interests: Food Systems, World Ecology, International Political Economy
Varun Rai
Professor; Associate Dean for Research
raivarun@gmail.com |
(512) 471 5057 |
SRH 3.256
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Interests: Technological change, innovation and diffusion; economics of climate change; energy and development
Jaganath Sankaran
Assistant Professor
jaganath@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8947 |
SRH 3.268
Education: PhD, Policy Studies, University of Maryland
Interests: Emerging Technologies and International Security, Asian National Security, Nuclear Warfare
Catherine Weaver
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Student Affairs
ceweaver@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 3443 |
SRH 3.344
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: International Development, Global Economic Governance, Evaluation Methods
Radio, Television & Film
Lalitha Gopalan
Associate Professor
lalitha.gopalan@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 9374 |
CMA 6.174
Education: PhD, University of Rochester
Interests: film theory, feminist film theory, contemporary world cinemas, indian cinema, genre films, experimental film and video
Shanti Kumar
Associate Professor
shantikumar@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 3498 |
CMA 6.128A
Education: PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington
Interests: Globalization and nationalism in Indian Television, global media cultures, South Asian media
Madhavi Mallapragada
Associate Professor
madhavim@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 9239 |
CMA 6.172
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: New media, Asian American studies, Internet cultures
Religious Studies
A. Azfar Moin
Associate Professor; Chair, Religious Studies
amoin@utexas.edu |
(512) 232 7224 |
BUR 518
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Interests: Sufism and Sainthood in Islam; Sacred Kingship; Early Modern Iran, Central Asia, and South Asia
Sociology
Diane Coffey
Assistant Professor
coffey@utexas.edu |
(512) 232 6915 |
CLA 2.620D
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Interests: Early life health, maternal health, India, sanitation, social inequality, survey methodology
Sharmila Rudrappa
Professor; Director, South Asia Insitute
rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232 6310
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Theatre and Dance
Laquetta Carpenter
Assistant Professor
quetta.carpenter@austin.utexas.edu |
Loren F. Winship Building, 1.132
Education: Master of Fine Arts, The Pennsylvania State University
Interests: Gender, physical theatre, movement-based narrative, mythology; mentor for univeristy partnership between UT Austin and the National Academy of Performing Arts, Karachi, Pakistan
Women's and Gender Studies
Pavithra Vasudevan
Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and African & African Diaspora Studies
pavithra@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0762 |
GWB 3.200F
Education: Ph.D., 2018, Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Interests: Critical Performance Ethnography; Racial Capitalism; Collective Knowledge Production and Struggle
Retired Faculty
Joel Brereton
Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies
jpb@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 6024 |
WCH 4.114
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: History of South Asian Religions, the Rigveda, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Languages and Literatures of Classical India
James Brow
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Education: PhD, University of Washington
Interests: Political economy, social theory, colonialism and nationalism; South Asia. Anthropology of development and underdevelopment; Sri Lanka; South Asian anthropology; economic development in village communities
Harry Cleaver, Jr.
Associate Professor Emeritus, Economics
hmcleave@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475 8535 |
BRB 3.162
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Donald G. Davis, Jr.
Professor Emeritus, Library and Information Science
Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana
Mohammad Ghanoonparvar
Professor Emeritus, Middle Eastern Studies
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Robert W. Jensen
Professor Emeritus, Journalism
rjensen@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471 1990 |
BMC 3.304
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Interests: News media and democracy; feminism and sexual exploitation industries; ecological sustainability
Wm. Roger Louis
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, History; Mildred Caldwell and Baine Perkins Kerr Centennial Chair in English History and Culture; Jo Anne Christian Centennial Professorship in British Studies
wmrogerlouis@utexas.edu |
(512) 471 9274 |
HRC 3.202
Education: DPhil and DLitt, Oxford University
Interests: History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, the Middle East, India, End of Empires
Daene McKinney
Professor Emeritus, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
daene@aol.com |
(512) 471 5644 |
PRC 119
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Sustainable management of water resources; the integration of engineering, economic, environmental and political considerations in transboundary basins
Stephen Phillips
Professor Emeritus, Philosophy
stephen_phillips@utexas.edu |
(512) 471 5080 |
WAG 301
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Interests: Sanskrit, classical Indian thought and philosophy
Jishnu Shankar
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
jshankar@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-1219 |
WCH 5.105
Education: PhD, Syracuse University
Interests: Aghor tradition of ascetics in India, Comparative study of Saint traditions
Rupert Snell
Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies
Education: PhD, University of London
Interests: Poetics and aesthetics in pre-modern Hindi; poetry in Braj Bhasha and Awadhi dialects; autobiographical writing in Hindi; literary translation in practice
