Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Moody College of Communication
cassandre.alvarado@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3997

Expertise: Focuses research on student success and graduation initiatives, including innovative college readiness assignments, student success programs and understanding the completion agenda.

Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
rosental.alves@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6851

Expertise: journalist; foreign correspondent; international reporting; journalism in Latin America; online journalism

Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
jangel@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2956

Expertise: Hispanic health and demographics; aging policy; social policies; long-term care; ethnic studies

Assistant Professor of Population Health, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School
darlene.bhavnani@austin.utexas.edu

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Architecture
bieg@utexas.edu

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, 3D Printing, CNC Technology, Creative AI, Digital Design, Digital Fabrication, Generative Design, Theory, Visualization

Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7694

Expertise: Early Modern Atlantic History; History of Science and Colonialism; History of Knowledge; Colonial Spanish and British America.

Other University Affiliate, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
richard.chuchla@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9510
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Graduate studies were focused on igneous processes, magmatism and related formation of ore deposits. Professional career included exploration for base and precious metal ore deposits, coal assessment and development, and research, exploration and development in the upstream sector of the oil and gas business. Managerial positions led to development of skills in commercial analysis, strategic planning and valuation. Concurrently, led numerous teams negotiating new contracts which led to a strong grounding in analysis of fiscal regimes and petroleum contracts. Familiar with many of the world's basins and experienced in both conventional deepwater and unconventional resources. Remain very interested in the technology of extractive industries and related commercial and policy issues. As Director of the Energy and Earth Resources graduate program, my personal learning objective is to broaden and deepen my understanding of renewable resources. Have a personal passion regarding the workings of the creative process and how it is impeded. Wrote a widely read internal company newsletter called Creative Contemplations.

Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
h.dietz@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Latin American politics: urban poverty and politics, civil-military relations, parties and party systems, Peru

Clinical Professor, School of Law
adulitzky@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1256

Expertise: International human rights law, Latin America

Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
zelkins@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7250

Expertise: national constitutions, democracy, institutional reform, research methods, and national identity, with an emphasis on cases in Latin America

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

Expertise: U.S.-based Latina filmmakers; media production culture; Chicana/o film; representations of race and gender in media

Professor and Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair Emeritus in Mineral Resources, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
wfisher@jsg.utexas.edu

Expertise: Basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, petroleum geology, resource assessment, energy policy

Professor, Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, College of Liberal Arts
flores@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Cultural theory; folklore and expressive culture; Mexican American history and culture; public history of the Alamo; critical race theory; cultural citizenship; cultural studies; higher education leadership

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
dfridman@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Economic Sociology; Ethnography; Sociology of Finance; Neoliberalism; Consumption; Sociology of Money; Latin America

Clinical Professor, School of Law
dgilman@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7796

Expertise: Denise Gilman teaches and directs the Immigration Clinic after having joined the clinical faculty at the University of Texas Law School in the fall of 2007. Professor Gilman received her undergraduate degree with honors in political science from Northwestern University. She received her law degree from Columbia University School of Law where she served on the Law Review. Professor Gilman also has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Gilman clerked for Judge Thomas M. Reavley, at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is fluent in Spanish.

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

Expertise: Historical and contemporary issues related to media in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America

Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
gonzalezlima@utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8497, +1 512 937 8859
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Neuroscience, neuroanatomy, neurobiology, physiological psychology, psychobiology, learning and memory, brain energy modulation, and neural mechanisms of behavior, transcranial laser stimulation of human cognitive and emotional functions

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

Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
wendyhunter@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Comparative Politics; Social Policy; Latin America Affairs; Brazil; Military in Brazil; Military in the Southern Cone; Latin America politics; education reform

Professor Emeritus, Department of Management, Red McCombs School of Business
david.jemison@mccombs.utexas.edu

Expertise: Strategic management; managing multibusiness global firms; mergers and acquisitions; strategic alliances; strategy development; strategy implementation

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.

Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4936

Expertise: Gender and the Study of Latin American Literature, Latin American Jewish Studies, On-Line Scholarly Resources, and Sociology of the Arts, Comparative study of Jewish life in the Americas (Latin America, United States, Canada)

Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
rmadrid@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7246

Expertise: Latin American politics, democracy studies, comparative ethnic politics, and comparative social policy

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
mmen@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Social anthropology, ethnicity, gender, oral history/oral traditions, legal anthropology, immigration, Chicano studies: US/Mexican culture, Latin America, and Mexico-Neoliberalism

Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
robin.moore@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0373, +1 512 471 7764

Expertise: His principal research interests include Cuban music and music of the Hispanic Caribbean, musical nationalism, socialist art aesthetics, historical ethnomusicology, and music and race relations.

Professor of Instruction, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
olivieri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8015

Expertise: 18th-century music, performance practice, archival studies, history of pedagogy, music and powers in 18th-century Europe

Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
mnovando@austin.utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Scholarly work has concentrated on understanding the processes related to the supervision of instruction, as well as on instructional leadership.

Assistant Professor of Research, Environmental Science Institute, Jackson School of Geosciences
spierce@tacc.utexas.edu
+1 512 954 1810

Expertise: Integrated Water Resources Management; Decision Support Systems; Sustainability Science; Energy-Water; Groundwater Management; Participatory Modeling

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.

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

Expertise: Politics in Mexico; decentralization in Latin America; women and politics in Mexico and Latin America; gender and public policy; US policy development; theory of public policy.

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

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.

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

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

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 Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
rebecca.torres@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Rural and Community Development; International and Internal Migration; U.S. Latino Communities; Globalization and Agricultural Restructuring; Tourism in Developing Nations; Gender; Activist Scholarship and Community Engagement; Latin America

Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
urrieta@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4129
Spanish Speaker

Expertise: Follows trends around cultural and racial identities, agency, migration, and social movements in education.

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
fredv@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0060, +1 512 471 5946

Expertise: Archaeology, ceramic technology; Texas, Mesoamerica

Professor and C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in US-Mexico Relations, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: Latin American urbanization, contemporary Mexican politics, community development and housing policy in developing countries, planning in Mexico City, colonia-type housing in the United States, US-Mexico relations, Governance and politics and Latin America

Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
david.warner@utexas.edu

Expertise: Health policy; health finance; diabetes costs; border health; health insurance; mental health policy; Mexican health system; business, economics & labor.

Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
kweyland@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7253

Expertise: Democratization and authoritarian rule, social policy and policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America and Europe

Professor; Mike Hogg Professor in Urban Policy, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
rwilson@utexas.edu

Expertise: Urban and regional economic development; urban policy; technology policy; telecommunications policy; urban governance in developing countries; decentralized policymaking; the impact technological change on urban and regional economies

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