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Javier Auyero
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
auyero@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8073
Expertise: Urban Ethnography, Urban Poverty and Social Inequality, Collective Action, Latin American Studies, Social and Cultural Theory
Henry A Dietz
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
Elizabeth T Gershoff
Director, Population Research Center, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
liz.gershoff@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4800
Expertise: Child and youth development; adolescence; parenting; parental discipline; violence; early childhood education
Laurie B Green
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
lbgreen@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 736 1002
Expertise: Comparative Race Studies; African American Studies; Gender Studies; Working-Class History;
Migration; Urban History; Poverty and Public Health; Social Movements; Political and Cultural
History; Race Relations, Gender Issues
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
Leigh L Linden
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
leigh.linden@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8556
Expertise: Economic development; poor countries; economics of education
Becky M Pettit
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
bpettit@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9850
Expertise: Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Labor Markets, Research Methods, criminal justice, incarceration, families in poverty, mass incarceration, school to prison pipeline, demography
Heath J Prince
Research Scientist, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
heath.prince@raymarshallcenter.org
+1 512 471 2193
Expertise: workforce development, labor markets, measuring poverty in developing countries
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.
Rebecca M Torres
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
Anita Varma
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media, Moody College of Communication
anita.varma@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Role of solidarity in U.S. journalism
Paul Von hippel
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
paulvonhippel@utexas.edu
+1 512 537 8112
Expertise: Demographic Analysis, Education Policy, Healthcare, Statistics
Peter M Ward
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
Patrick P Wong
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
patwong@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8962
Expertise: social policy, family and child welfare, children services, mental health, poverty issues, housing, community development