Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
msacks@oden.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7773

Expertise: Cardiovascular biomechanics; computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system; advanced constitutive models, biomechanical interactions of cell, tissue, and organ in native and engineered heart valves and myocardium.

Associate Dean for Student Success, Community Engagement, and Administration, College of Education
vsaenz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7519, +1 512 471 7551
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Leads the Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success Initiative focused on Latino males in education; seeks to advance research-informed policy solutions that enhance educational outcomes for students in secondary and post-secondary education.

Professor, School of Law
lsager@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1355

Expertise: Constitutional law, constitutional theory, religious liberties, legal process

Ruben E. Hinojosa Regents Professor in Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
cssalinas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3539

Expertise: Dr. Salinas is a member of the Social Studies Education program area and is an affiliate faculty member in the Bilingual/Bicultural and the Cultural Studies in Education program areas. Her focus in the social studies includes critical historical inquiry in elementary bilingual and secondary education late arrival immigrant ESL classroom settings, as well as broader understandings of citizenship. Her work also examines social studies teachers' enactment/countering of curriculum through narratives that include civic identities, agency, and membership of others.

Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
victor.sampson@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7504

Expertise: Studies the ways culturally and linguistically diverse groups of people use disciplinary the core ideas and practices of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to explain phenomena or to solve problems that are meaningful and consequential to them.

Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
jsamuel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9756

Expertise: Centers research on college student identity development, personal branding for student leaders, and work/life integration for student affairs administrators

Professor and William J. (Bill) Murray, Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
sanchez@che.utexas.edu

Expertise: Statistical thermodynamics of bulk and interfacial phenomena in polymers; Solubility of fluids in polymers; Computer simulations of polymer properties

Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
kjsanchez@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Theatre, Directing, Playwriting, Producer, Choreography, Documentary Theatre

Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
amy.sanders@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: social media; privacy; internet governance; AI

Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
mary.sanders@nursing.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9840

Associate Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
sanghavi@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9798

Expertise: Algorithms for wireless, sensor and peer-to-peer networks and the Internet; Machine learning and data mining; Social networks; Optimization;

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ssantoso@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3371

Expertise: Electromagnetic transient and electric power quality in power systems; Development of intelligent systems for enabling self-healing and self-restoring power systems; Wind power interconnection and integration

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
scala@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8375

Expertise: Chaucer; the history of Chaucer studies; the textual environments of medieval literature; Medieval Literature; Medieval Romance; Bibliography and Textual Studies; Literary Theory; Women, Gender, and Literature; Food Writing; Taylor Swift

Research Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
bridget.scanlon@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1534, +1 512 471 8241

Expertise: Evaluation of the impact of climate variability and land use change on groundwater recharge, application of numerical models for simulating variably saturated flow and transport, controls on nitrate contamination in aquifers

Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Technology and Director of the Office of Academic Technology
julie.schell@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1772

Expertise: Academic technology, technology-enhanced learning, learning technologies, online education, college teaching and learning, course evaluations, design thinking, design pedagogy, learning experience design, and developing expertise in generative AI tools in higher education.

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
nancy.schiesari@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6678

Expertise: production; narrative filmmaking; documentary filmmaking; cinematography; producing

Senior Lecturer, School of Law
wschiess@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1333

Expertise: Legal writing; legal research; drafting; plain language

Professor and Donald J. Douglass Centennial Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
pschmidt@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Industrial electrotechnology applications and economics; Industrial energy management and conservation; Project-based engineering instruction

Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
marybeth.schmitt@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Language and literacy outcomes for children with developmental language disorders, including the effects of behavior regulation, optimal treatment intensity and peers

Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
rschnyer@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM); use of acupuncture to treat depression.

Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
larry.schooler@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: conflict resolution; mediation; consensus building; civic/community/public engagement (involving the public in decisions that affect them) (sometimes also called deliberative democracy); digital engagement (using technology innovatively to involve the public in decision making); restorative justice; transitional justice; memory/memorials and historic preservation; accessibility; public policy and public administration; urban affairs/urban planning

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
schudde@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1623

Expertise: Studies how to ameliorate social inequities in the United States through higher education policy; focuses on college pathways at broad-access institutions, including community colleges.

Professor and Joe J. King Chair; FSX Professorship in Space Applications and Exploration, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
schutz@csr.utexas.edu
512-471-4267

Expertise: Spaceborne laser altimetry; especially GLAS on ICESat; Airborne laser altimetry; Space Geodesy; including Global Positioning System (GPS) and laser ranging; Spacecraft dynamics; including orbit and attitude determination; Satellite mission design; Applications of satellites to Earth system studies

Professor of Practice, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
john.schwartz@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Environmental journalism, science journalism, climate change

Professor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
james.scott@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5905

Expertise: statistical computation, Bayesian interference, machine learning, hierarchical models

Department Chair, Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
craig.scott@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Dr. Craig R. Scott is the incoming Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching are primarily focused on organizational communication, where he examines issues of anonymity and identity/identification in various organizational settings. His current interests center around “hidden organizations,” which are found when an organization and/or its members conceal key aspects of their identity from various audiences.

Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
suzanne.scott@utexas.edu

Expertise: fan culture (emphasis on fan/industry relations, gender and fan identities); digital and participatory cultures; transmedia storytelling and franchising; comic book culture; fan convention;

Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
asebro@utexas.edu

Expertise: media studies; identity & representation; industry/history/criticism

Associate Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
stseeman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2854

Expertise: world music; Romani ("Gypsy") communities; Southeastern Europe, Turkish, Former Ottoman culture and music; neighborhood/grassroots activism; culture of diasporic commmunities; migration

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
lsentis@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5987

Expertise: Human centered robotics; Mathematics of movement and manipulation; Building legged humanoid robots; Software architectures for sensing and acting; Biomechatronics

Professor and Bank of America Centennial Professorship in Petroleum Engineering, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
kamys@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0231, +1 512 471 3161

Expertise: Reservoir simulation development and application; Simulation of enhance oil recovery processes; Computational methods; Parallel computations; Applied mathematics; Naturally fractured reservoir modeling; Co-optimization of CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery; inverse modeling;

Professor, School of Law
elizabeth.sepper@law.utexas.edu

Expertise: Constitutional law, gender and the law, health law, religion and law

Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences
sessler@cm.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5009, +1 512 471 6674

Expertise: Organic chemistry; texaphyrins; expanded porphyrins; anion recognition; drug development; anti cancer agents; technical analyses of patents

Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
gshah@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6033

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
sanjay.shakkottai@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5376

Expertise: Scheduling and QoS in wireless networks; Ad-hoc and sensor networks; Congestion control in the Internet; Resource allocation for heterogeneous networks

Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
tshanahan@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7051

Expertise: climate variability, climate change, paleoclimatology, geochemistry, stable isotopes, organic geochemistry, sedimentology, environmental science If you are interested in learning more, please visit <a href="https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/paleoclimatology-environmental-geochemistry-lab/" target="_blank">research website.</a>

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
hshapira@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8075

Expertise: Right wing politics, gun owners, notion of self-defense, group identity

Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
msharma@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3161, +1 512 471 3257

Expertise: Formation damage; Petrophysics; Fluid flow in porous media; Hydraulic fracturing

Dave P. Carlton Centennial Professor Emeritus in Geology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
jmsharp@jsg.utexas.edu

Expertise: Hyrdogeology; flow in fractured rocks; thermohaline free convection; fracture skin effects; regional flow in carbonate rocks; hydrology of arid and semi-arid zones; subsidence and coastal land loss; effects of urbanization; alluvial aquifers; hydrogeology of sedimentary basins;hydrological processes in ore deposit formation; and hydrogeophysics.

Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
dshaw@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7275

Expertise: Daron Shaw is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics in the College of Liberal Arts. Shaw specializes in American government, campaigns and elections, political parties, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, and Applied Survey Research. He is the author of The Race to 270: The Electoral College and Campaign Strategies of 2000 and 2004, Unconventional Wisdom: Facts and Myths about American Voters, The Turnout Myth, The Appearance of Corruption and Battleground: Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era. In addition to his academic career, Shaw was a strategist in the 1992, 2000 and 2004 presidential election campaigns. He is currently co-director of the Fox News Poll, director of the Texas Lyceum Poll, and associate Principle Investigator for the 2024 American National Election Study. He is also a member of the decision team for Fox News, the advisory board for the MIT Election Data & Science Lab, and the advisory board for the Annette Strauss Institute. Formerly, he served as President George W. Bush’s representative on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and as one of the academic directors for President Barack Obama’s Commission for Election Administration.

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
andrew.shea@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5303

Expertise: director; screenwriter; producer; documentary filmmaker

Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
lishi@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3109

Expertise: Energy and environment; Thermal management; Electronics, photonics, and sensors; Biomedical technologies

Professor, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
rshiff@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7547, +1 512 471 7757

Expertise: History of art, 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary, art theory, criticism

Professor, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
deirdre.shoemaker@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Her research interests center on black holes and gravitational waves, understanding these and other aspects of strong gravity and how it reveals itself in the universe. To that end, Prof. Shoemaker works with gravitational wave detector teams to work toward understanding gravitational physics.

Deputy Director, Jackson School of Geosciences
mark.shuster@beg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1534, +1 512 471 7090

Expertise: Mark Shuster is responsible for managing energy-related research at the Bureau of Economic Geology.

Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
nahid.siamdoust@austin.utexas.edu
+1 917 680 9557

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
msa@utexas.edu

Expertise: Police; policing; gangs; gun violence; violence prevention

Professor, School of Law
csilver@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1337

Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
sirohi@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4186

Expertise: High Power Density Solid State Actuators; Multifunctional Structures; Multi-mission Capable Micro/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Rotorcraft Design

Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
askerrett@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4883

Expertise: Focuses on secondary English and literacy education in urban contexts, including among transnational youth.

Director of the Intelligence Studies Project, Intelligence Studies Project
sbslick@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0814

Expertise: Nuclear Proliferation, Contemporary Foreign Policy, International Security, International Relations, Terrorism, Urban and Regional Policy, Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control, Public Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy

Associate Professor of Art and Art History and of African and African Diaspora Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, College of Liberal Arts
cherise_smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1784

Expertise: African American Representation, Art and Visual Culture; the Identity Politics and Representation; The Intersection of Representation with Race and Gender; Performance and Conceptual Art Practices; Photography; American Art After 1945

Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
yake@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: social cinema; independent cinema; storytelling; television writing and directing; directing actors

Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies
matt.smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5327

Expertise: Lighting Design, Projection Design, 3D Projection Mapping, and Media Management

Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
spencer.smith@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Speech perception in noise; neural processes from inner ear to cortex

Professor, College of Pharmacy
hugh.smyth@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3383

Expertise: Drug delivery systems; cystic fibrosis treatment

Research Associate Professor, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences
krista@ig.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0449

Expertise: Astrobiology, Cryosphere, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Planetary Science

Distinguished Senior Lecturer, School of Law
dsokolow@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1379

Expertise: Contract law, corporate law, entertainment law, art law

Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
zsomer@utexas.edu

Expertise: Comparative political parties, elections, representation, voter behavior, European politics

Professor of Instruction, School of Social Work
ssonnenberg@utexas.edu
+1 512 762 4783

Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
iliana.sosa@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Filmmaking; documentary filmmaking

Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
stacey.sowards@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: racial, gendered, language, and classed politics of marginalization; standing in various communities, states, and nations; Latina/o/x communities in the United States and South America.

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
sparv@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2383

Expertise: Focuses on the development of sport policies and the ways in which professional sport teams can be leveraged to generate economic, social, and tourism benefits for host communities.

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
carolspaulding@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1539

Expertise: Preschool children’s media use, survey design, formative research and program development for low-literacy populations

Professor, School of Architecture
lspeck@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 626 7656

Expertise: Architectural design; regionalist design; design of office buildings; airport design; convention center design

Professor and John J. McKetta Energy Professorship in Engineering, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
speitel@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7995

Expertise: Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals, including biodegradation and adsorption; Drinking water treatment; Computer models of treatment processes

Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
spellberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7202

Expertise: Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Finance, Red McCombs School of Business
lewis.spellman@mccombs.utexas.edu

Expertise: Banking, capital markets, the new economy

Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
spelman@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Urban policy and management; urban politics; criminal justice policy; prisons; municipal policing; community crime prevention

Professor, School of Law
david.spence@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1369

Expertise: David Spence is a professor in the Department of Business, Government and Society at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Spence's research and teaching focuses on business-government relations and the regulation of business, particularly energy and environmental regulation. Before coming to academia, he was a practicing attorney representing public utilities, energy companies and others in connection with a wide variety of environmental and energy regulatory matters.

Professor, School of Law
jspindler@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1096

Expertise: Securities regulation, corporate law, corporate finance, securities disclosure, corporate fraud, corporate governance, executive compensation, securitizations, and auction rate securities

Professor Emeritus, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
spirduso@utexas.edu

Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
echino@jsg.utexas.edu

Expertise: Invertebrate paleontology; evolutionary biology; fossil and living echinoderms; echinoderm systematics; Paleozoic marine communities and ecosystems; paleoecology; crinoids; blastoids; rhombiferans; eocrinoids; parablastoids; blastozoans; edrioasteroids; edrioblastoids; starfish; stylophorans; ctenocystoids; helicoplacoids; Cambrian evolutionary fauna; Paleozoic evolutionary fauna; Ordovician radiation; Cambrian explosion; environment & earth science

David Allen Cockrell Chair in Engineering, Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #7, Joe C. Walter, Jr. Chair in Engineering, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
sv.sreeni@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6546

Expertise: Nano-resolution lithography; Flexure-based micro- and nano-precision machines; Precision optical systems; Real-time nano-resolution optical sensor architectures

Professor, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
raji.srinivasan@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5441

Expertise: New product development, marketing of high technology, marketing management and strategy, e-commerce marketing

Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
jcstach@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5477

Expertise: Biological membranes; Biophysics; Drug delivery.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
jstaiger@utexas.edu

Expertise: Theoretician and historian of American film and television

Clinical Professor, School of Law
esteglich@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1387

Expertise: immigration and citizenship law, immigrant's rights

Professor, School of Law
jsteiker@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1346

Expertise: Capital punishment; constitutional law; federal habeas corpus; criminal law

Department Chair, Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
gabriela.stein@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1883

Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
msteinhardt@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3535

Expertise: Focuses on how individuals successfully adapt to stress and build health resilience.

Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
keristephens@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0554

Expertise: disaster communication; flood awareness; emergency communication; infrastructure; humans and AI; using technology in the workplace

Associate Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
stolp@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Latin American public policy; economic integration; applied statistics

Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
pstone@cs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9796

Expertise: Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, machine learning, multi-agent learning, robotics, e-commerce, trading agents, autonomic computing

Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
audrey.stone@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6016, +1 512 471 8589

Expertise: Autonomic control of circulation during exercise in health and disease, specifically in type 1 and type 2 diabetes

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychiatry
steve.strakowski@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5047

Expertise: Mental Health, Psychiatry

Director, Organized Research Unit, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, Moody College of Communication
strama@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Texas politics; Political campaigns; Political polarization; Voting technology and systems; Redistricting; ranked choice voting and alternative voting methodologies; Civic participation and civic engagement; Civics education

Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
jdstraubhaar@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Global media; digital media; digital divide

Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
jstreeck@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1955

Expertise: Human interaction in everyday life; language and the body

Executive Director, School of Civic Leadership
ryan.streeter@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: governance, urban policy, campaign politics, economic development.

Dean Emeritus, Cockrell School of Engineering
bstreet@mail.utexas.edu

Expertise: Engineering education; Engineering workforce issues; Microelectronics; Semiconductor materials and devices; Epitaxy

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3555, +1 512 471 4206, +1 512 471 8524

Expertise: Cultural, historical, feminist anthropology; Identity and difference; Politics of representation; Public culture; Youth organizations; Museum studies; Public humanities; Medical humanities; US, Indigenous North America.

Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
tstroud@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1934

Expertise: Political behavior, partisan media use, political communication, public opinion, political research.

Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
sstroud@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5251, +1 512 471 6561

Expertise: Comparative rhetoric, narrative theory, communication ethics and philosophy. Communication and culture, rhetoric and philosophy; rhetorical experience and political activity.

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
sharon.strover@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6652

Expertise: The Information Society; telecommunications policy, including telephone cable and satellite systems; international cultural policy with respect to film and television; and the digital divide.

Professor, School of Nursing
astuifbergen@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4764, +1 512 471 4100

Expertise: Health promotion, chronic illness, disability, multiple sclerosis; rehabilitation, post-polio syndrome, fibromyalgia

Professor, School of Law
msturley@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1350

Expertise: Admiralty and maritime law, particularly the commercial aspects of maritime law (such as the international carriage of goods by sea); Supreme Court practice; commercial law, payment systems

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
circe@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1561

Expertise: Race, sovereignty, and citizenship; comparative colonialisms; race and indigeneity; dominance, resistance, and subjectivity; Native North America, Central America, and Europe

Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
laura.suggs@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1671

Expertise: Cardiovascular tissue engineering; Adult progenitor cells and vasculogenesis; Biologically active materials

Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
msuizzo@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0379, +1 512 471 4155

Expertise: Studies how cultural beliefs and values shape parent-child relationships, parental socialization, and children's and adolescents' development and learning.

Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
suri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7242

Expertise: Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs. He is a professor in the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He's published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Atlantic, Newsweek, Time, Wired, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other media. Professor Suri hosts a weekly podcast, "This is Democracy." Suri's main research interests are the formation and spread of nation-states, modern international relations, the relationship between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors.

Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
swann@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3859

Expertise: The self, relationships and group processes, self and identity, extreme re-group behavior, interpersonal relationships and person perception, Identity negotiation theory, identity fusion theory

Research Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
easwanson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2320

Expertise: All of my work focuses on developing and testing for efficacy literacy practices for struggling readers. This includes: * infusing literacy practices into elementary and middle school content area classes; * empowering parents to provide reading support to their own children; * providing intervention to struggling readers; * translating research to practice for teachers; * designing effective professional development; * translating research into usable products for parents.

Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
eswartzla@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5923

Expertise: VLSI (very large scale integration) circuit technology; Special purpose processors; Computer arithmetic and systolic array architecture

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
swear@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: urban studies, Austin, urban environment, sustainability, Environmental Sociology, Urban/Community Sociology, Globalization/Global Warming

Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
g.sylvie@utexas.edu

Expertise: Media management; Internet newspaper economics; motivation and satisfaction in the newsroom; change and newspapers; newspaper organizational cooperation; technology''s role in media management; black press economics; mass media and minorities; newspaper reporting and editing; communication; journalism