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David I Beaver
Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
dib@utexas.edu
Expertise: Political language, Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Language and law, Meaning, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language and society, Philosophy of language. political language. propaganda.
Mary Beltran
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0021, +1 608 320 9041
Expertise: U.S. Latina/o media studies; U.S. television and film history; mixed race and media culture; feminist media studies.
Douglas G Biow
Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
biow@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7267
Expertise: cultural, literary, art, medical, diplomatic, and intellectual history of Renaissance Italy; masculinities; the history of individualism
Carl S Blyth
Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian, College of Liberal Arts
cblyth@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2312, +1 512 471 5531
Expertise: Applied linguistics (instructional technology, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar); French sociolinguistics (style, stance and interaction); Discourse studies (narrative analysis, cultural scripts, indexicality)
Courtney T Byrd
Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
courtney.byrd@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9426
Expertise: Communication disorder; causes and therapies of childhood stuttering; adulthood stuttering; linguistic processing; motor planning; fluency disorders; voice disorders; speech disfluencies; speech-language contributions to childhood stuttering; innovative treatment; bilingualism and multiculturalism in speech-language pathology; accessible clinical training tools
Julia Campbell
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
julia.campbell@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Central auditory and visual processing in children and adults. Cortical plasticity, or the ability of the brain to adapt to incoming information.
Debra Cantu
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
debra.cantu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6137
Expertise: Leadership Development
*Develops PK-12 school leaders. Designs and coordinates learning objectives, knowledge development, and effective practices for graduate students to apply theory into practice in their internship based on the following learning outcomes:
*Develop Capacity for Teaching and Learning Excellence
*Advocate for and Ensuring Equitable Support Systems for All
*Build Executive Leaders to Promote Ethical Policies and Practices
*Partner Authentically and Equitably with Families and Communities
Curriculum and School Improvement
*Leads and develops curriculum content, scope and sequence, standards alignment and performance assessments for higher education and school district curriculum.
*Diagnose problems and challenges using school data, research and planning, implementation and progress monitoring and reflection.
Improvement Science
*Identify the Problem
*Analyze the Problem and Diagnose Its Causes
*Develop a Theory of Action
*Design the Strategy
*Plan for Implementation
*Implement the Strategy
*Assess Progress
*Adapt and Modify for Continuous Improvement
Certification
*Leads policies, practices and designs systems required by Texas Education Agency for admissions, clinical experiences and certification for the program and department.
School District Partnerships
*Building a Partnership
*Co-designing curriculum
*Collaboration and Planning
*Implementation and Progress Monitoring
Executive Coaching
*Design
*Implementation
*Strategic Planning
*Progress Monitoring
Cindy I Carlson
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
ccarlson@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4155
Expertise: Active in current healthcare reform endeavors, studies integrated behavioral health, attachment theory, and consultation theories and processes such as home-school partnership and family-centered treatment.
Stephanie W Cawthon
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
stephanie.cawthon@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0378
Expertise: Investigates issues of access and equity for disabled people, with a special focus on systems change, research translation, and assessment.
Swarat Chaudhuri
Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
swarat@cs.utexas.edu
Expertise: artificial intelligence, AI, formal methods, safe autonomous systems, trustworthy machine learning, automated reasoning, programming languages, compilers, program synthesis
Tanya E Clement
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
tclement@utexas.edu
Expertise: Archives, Digital Humanities, American Literary Modernism, Textual Studies, Sound Studies, Scholarly Information Infrastructure, Humanities Data Curation, Anne Sexton, HiPSTAS (High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship)
North Cooc
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
ncooc@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7923
Expertise: Explores how family background, culture, and school contextual factors influence decisions and trajectories within special education.
Paul Edgar
Associate Director, Clements Center for National Security
paul.edgar@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Paul Edgar is the Interim Executive Director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas and studies the historical origins of diplomacy, war, and strategy in pre-classical antiquity.
Before entering academia, Paul served more than 22 years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army. He deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom I as the security advisor to Vice Admiral (Ret.) John Scott Redd in the Coalition Provisional Authority. Paul returned to Iraq during the 2006-2007 surge, and then deployed to Afghanistan in 2008-2009 for counterinsurgency and combat operations. Subsequently, he served as the executive assistant to the commander of the Kingdom of Jordans Special Operations Command; the battalion commander of 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry in The Old Guard; and as the political advisor for Israeli affairs to the United States Security Coordinator in Jerusalem.
https://www.clementscenter.org/person/paul-edgar-2/
Mattan Erez
Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
mattan.erez@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7846
Expertise: Computer architecture; High-performance computing; Programming languages and models
Marina Fontolan
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
marina.fontolan@utexas.edu
Expertise: Videogame localization, game studies, De- and postcolonial game studies, history of games and gaming, and science and technology studies
Maria E Franquiz
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
maria.franquiz@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Examines ethnographic language and literacy practices in K-12 classrooms, specifically focusing on how Latinx critical race theory explains the relationship between heritage language and culture and the evolving identities of future teachers.
Shernaz B Garcia
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Special Education, College of Education
shernaz.garcia@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Bilingual special education; multicultural issues in special education; education of students who are at educational risk; prereferral intervention
Thomas Jesús Garza
Associate Professor, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9126, +1 512 471 3607
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Russian language teaching methodology; Critical pedagogies in World Languages; Applied linguistics; Contemporary Russian culture; Russian popular culture; Contemporary Russian media; Masculinity Studies; Mexican/Latino masculinities; DEAIB
Andreas Gerstlauer
Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
gerstl@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8294, +1 949 413 3250
Expertise: Embedded system design; Electronic system-level (ESL) design automation, modeling, languages, methodologies and tools; Embedded hardware and software synthesis
Stephanie Grasso
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
smgrasso@utexas.edu
Expertise: Speech-language pathology, bilingualism and aphasia, neurologically-based communication disorders
Kenneth F Greene
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
kgreene@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7206
Expertise: Mexican and Latin American politics; political parties and elections in Mexico and the rest of Latin America; authoritarianism and democratization; research method; campaigns
Liberty Hamilton
Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
liberty.hamilton@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1929
Ian F Hancock
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
xulaj@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Romani (Gypsy) language (origins, history, civil rights movement); creolization of language; English (dialects, history, spread overseas), language and identity
Roderick Hart
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
rod.hart@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1956
Expertise: media and politics; civic participation; political campaigns; presidential rhetoric
Kelsey Hatton
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
kelsey.hatton@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2015
Maya Henry
Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
maya.henry@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: nature and treatment of aphasia
Lars Hinrichs
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
txe@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8755
John M Hoberman
Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hoberman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6368
Expertise: European cultural and intellectual history with special interests in Sportwissenschaft and the history of ideas about race; Scandinavian studies; Norwegian language instruction; history of Jewish racial folklore; Olympics; Sports doping; race relations
Alexander Huth
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
huth@cs.utexas.edu
Expertise: artificial intelligence; AI; decoding words from thoughts; machine learning; natural language processing; large language models; generative AI; understanding how the brain processes language and represents meaning
Syed A Hyder
Director, South Asia Institute, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
akbarhyder@utexas.edu
Expertise: Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asian and the Middle East
Noah Isenberg
Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
noah.isenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6680, +1 917 689 6453
Expertise: media studies; industry/history/criticism; identity and representation; classical Hollywood; independent cinema; Weimar cinema; Émigrés in Hollywood
John L Ivy
Professor Emeritus, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
johnivy@utexas.edu
Expertise: Exercise physiology; carbohydrate metabolism; ergogenic aids; exercise and diabetes; nutrition and exercise
Sharon Jarvis
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
sjarvis@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1961, +1 512 471 5251
Expertise: political persuasion, communication, research methods
Corinne Jones
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
corinne.jones@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: motor control and motor learning of swallowing behaviors; neuromodulatory approaches to dysphagia; pharyngeal high-resolution manometry; swallowing; swallowing disorders (dysphagia); swallowing evaluation and rehabilitation; Parkinsons disease; Multiple sclerosis
Manuel J Justiz
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
mjustiz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1695
Expertise: Bringing the experience of 28 years as dean of the College of Education, Justiz shares his expertise in topics of public policy, the politics of education, and providing equal access for minorities in education.
Ward W Keeler
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
ward.keeler@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8520
Expertise: Anthropology and expressive culture (performing arts and literature); hierarchy; gender; Buddhism; Indonesia and Burma, including the Rohingya crisis
Stuart Kelban
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
skelban@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6037
Expertise: screenwriting; television; film industry
Deborah C Kelt
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
dkelt@utexas.edu
Expertise: Brings her experience in literacy education to UT with a specialization in preparing secondary teachers to work in urban schools.
Sarfraz Khurshid
Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
khurshid@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8244
Expertise: Software testing; Specification languages; Code conformance; Model checking; Heuristics in program analysis; Data structure repair; Program repair
Su Yeong Kim
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
su.yeong.kim@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5524, +1 512 475 6014
Expertise: Development of children of immigrants in the United States, with a focus on children of Chinese and Mexican origin; parenting; parent-child relationships
Rajinder Koul
Department Chair, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
rajinder.koul@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Understanding the symbol, referent, and instructional variables that influence graphic symbol learning in people with severe communication impairments as a consequence of developmental or acquired disabilities.
Shanti Kumar
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
shanti.kumar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3498
Expertise: Global media; cultural studies
Matthew A Lease
Professor, School of Information
ml@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9350
Expertise: Lease is a professor in the School of Information. He researches artificial intelligence combined with human-computer interaction techniques in crowdsourcing and human computation, information retrieval, and natural language processing fields. He is also a faculty founder and leader of UT Austin's Good Systems, an eight-year, university-wide "moonshot" Grand Challenge to design responsible AI technologies. As part of Good Systems, Lease leads a six-year, seven-member faculty project that focuses on developing explainable AI techniques to combat disinformation. One of Lease's ongoing projects is content moderation, which involves using automated, human-in-the-loop, and human-safe practices to curb online disinformation, hate speech, and polarization.
Jihye Lee
Assistant Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
jihye.lee@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Computational inequality, AI, government, public benefits, advertising, financial constraints, digital inequality, media psychology
Rosemary Lester-Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
rosemary.lester-smith@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2690
Expertise: Diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders; vocal tremor; voice therapy, neurological voice disorders
Brian P Levack
Professor and John E. Green Regents Professorship in History; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
levack@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: The history of the law and the interaction between law and politics, witchcraft
Jessy Li
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
jessy@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, text analysis, language and society, linguistics, large language models, chatgpt
Min Liu
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
mliu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6248, +1 512 471 5942
Expertise: Areas of expertise include designing and developing immersive, media-rich environments for learners at all age levels and research the effects of them using mixed-methods; studying the effect of other emerging technologies on learning and motivation; focusing on problem-based learning, project-based learning, and game-based learning pedagogical approaches; learning analytics in serious games and other online environments, and understanding MOOCs as an emerging online learning tool.
Amy H Liu
Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
amy.liu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7249
Expertise: Ethnic politics, language policies, migration politics, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe
Josephine Lukito
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
jlukito@utexas.edu
Expertise: Intersection of computational sociolinguistics and global political communication; power and the role of systems in societies, especially political and economic systems; AI
Alison Maggart
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
alison.maggart@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: western art music of the United States, academic music, serialism/formalism, Cold War culture, New Age, sound and meditation
Vijay Mahajan
Professor, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
vijay.mahajan@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0840, +1 512 471 1128
Expertise: Product diffusion; marketing strategy; marketing research methodologies; business.
Beth Maloch
Senior Associate Dean, College of Education
bmaloch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3476
Expertise: Examines literacy teacher preparation, specifically the role of coaching and mentoring that occurs inside programs.
Matthew S McGlone
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
matthew_mcglone@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1920
Expertise: Cognition, persuasion and prejudice in interpersonal communication, stereotypes and stereotype threats, spatial performance, identity and sex differences. Social influence, persuasion and deception and the key role of language
Richard P Meier
Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
rmeier@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1701, +1 512 471 9031
Expertise: Child language development; sign languages; American Sign Language; acquisition of American Sign language by deaf children
Roselia Mendez Murillo
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
roselia.mendezmurillo@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: conducting qualitative work; particularly conducting interviews with Latina/o/x/e families; stress, resilience, thriving of Latinx families within the context of language brokering; undocumented status; living separated due to migration reasons
Risto P Miikkulainen
Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
risto@cs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7316, +1 512 471 9571
Expertise: artificial intelligence, neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision, evolutionary intelligence, neuroevolution, bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, cognitive science, computational neuroscience
Mohammad A Mohammad
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
mamohammad@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6650
Expertise: Linguistics and the Arabic language
Raymond J Mooney
Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
mooney@cs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7316, +1 512 471 9558
Expertise: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and computational biology, machine learning, natural language processing
Chandra L Muller
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
cmuller@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8377
Expertise: The effects of family, community, education policy and health behaviors on education and the transition to adulthood; STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) preparation and careers
Mark F O'Reilly
Department Chair, Department of Special Education, College of Education
markoreilly@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Assesses and supports individuals with intellectual disabilities and develops social skill/communication interventions for children with ASD.
Nik Palomares
Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
nik@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Mental health; how communication effects psychological wellbeing; cyberbullying; how people respond to fact-checking of information and misinformation online
Amy Pavel
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
apavel@cs.utexas.edu
Expertise: artificial intelligence, graphics and visualization, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, human-AI interaction, accessibility, video & augmented reality/virtual reality, machine learning
Jorge Perez Perez
Department Chair, Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
jorgep@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4549
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: 20th and 21st century Spanish cinema, novel, and popular culture; queer culture and theory; Latin American cinema; fashion; costume design; Pedro Almodovar; Penelope Cruz; celebrity culture; Chanel
Sarah R Powell
Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
srpowell@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6556
Expertise: Develops and tests interventions for students with mathematics difficulties, emphasizing word-problem solving, mathematics writing, data-based decision making, and the vocabulary within mathematics.
Dalpat S Rajpurohit
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
drajpurohit@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Hindi Language; Literary and Religious Cultures of Early Modern India; D?d? Panth and Poet-Saint Sundard?s (1596-1689); Modern Hindi Literature; Dalit autobiographies; devotional, monastic, and court cultures of early modern India
Pedro Reyes
Department Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
preyes@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8569
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: I study student success for children experiencing poverty. I analyze how school leadership and state policy facilitate student success across the education pipeline.
Heather R Rice
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
hrrice@utexas.edu
Elizabeth Richmond-Garza
Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
emrg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5708, +1 512 471 4991
Expertise: Modern European drama; Oscar Wilde; the Gothic, Orientalism; Decadence; detective fiction; aesthetic and literary theory; literature and the fine arts.
Haydee M Rodriguez
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
taina@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5750, +1 512 471 5942
Expertise: Prepares students to become educators in bilingual and ESL education and mentors novice bilingual educators.
Erin M Rodriguez
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education
erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0283
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Dr. Erin Rodríguez studies family, sociocultural, and contextual influences on childrens development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth.
Nancy L Roser
Professor Emeritus, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
nlroser@utexas.edu
Expertise: Use of children's literature in literacy programs, Classroom discourse; response to literature
Cinthia S Salinas
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.
Wayne Schiess
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
wschiess@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1333
Expertise: Legal writing; legal research; drafting; plain language
Mary Beth Schmitt Schmitt
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
Gautami H Shah
Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
gshah@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6033
Allison Skerrett
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.
Spencer Smith
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
Stacey K Sowards
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.
Jurgen Streeck
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
Elizabeth Swanson
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.
Jessica R Toste
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
jrtoste@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 6551
Expertise: Focuses on effective interventions for students with and at-risk for reading disabilities, with a focus on intensifying intervention through data-based instruction and attention to motivational processes
Angela Valenzuela
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
valenz@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6008
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Specializes in urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level.
Sharon Vaughn
Executive Director, Meadows and VGC, College of Education
srvaughn@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 423 8207
Expertise: Investigates effective interventions for a diverse group of students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners.
Jun Wang
Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Moody College of Communication
jun.wang@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: assistive speech technologies; neurogenic motor speech disorders; speech brain-computer interfaces
Melissa Wetzel
Department Chair, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
mmwetzel@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Literacy teacher preparation, coaching and mentoring, equity and justice in literacy instruction
Sarah J Whitehead
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
sarahjey@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Foreign Language Pedagogy, Curriculum Design, Concept-Based Language Instruction, Epistemology, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Ecology Theory, Critical Theory, Spanish Language
Anthony C Woodbury
Professor, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts
woodbury@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1701
Expertise: Chatino linguistics and language preservation, Documentation and preservation of endangered languages, Eskimo-Aleut languages and speech communities, Natural discourse and verbal art, Tone, prosody and intonation, Grammatical analysis and theory