Co-Director, Center for Energy & Environmental Systems Analysis, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
allen@che.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0049, +1 512 475 7842

Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry; Urban air quality and pollution prevention; Environmental and industrial reaction engineering

Professor Emeritus, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
malpert310@gmail.com

Expertise: Consumer behavior; marketing research; retailing; pricing; marketing communications; emotion in consumer behavior, business.

Research Professor, Center for Water and the Environment
michael.barrett@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0935

Expertise: Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff

Professor, Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
bhat@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4535

Expertise: Activity and travel behavior analysis; Travel demand modeling; Application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; Logistics and freight modeling; Transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; Urban form and spatial data modeling; Artificial Intelligence and Transportation Safety and Equity; Urban management; Pollution

Director, Semester in New York Program, Moody College of Communication
laura.brown@austin.utexas.edu

Expertise: DEI; difficult conversations; communication strategies

Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
embsumek@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3261, +1 512 475 7253

Expertise: Native American History; Navajo arts and crafts; labeling of Indian made goods; history of the U.S. West and American Southwest; Modern Western urban/rural development including how large-scale engineering projects such dams, highways, and suburbs transformed the Western landscape/environment; transportation; urban management, environmental history, digital history, educational technology. Water politics in the West, the history of Glen Canyon Dam, and Climate change.

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
juliana.felkner@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0868

Expertise: Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Structural Design, Climate Change, Climate Scenarios, Carbon Management, Life-cycle Assessment (LCA), Energy Modeling

Professor, Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0210

Expertise: Travel behavior; traffic safety; urban form and land development; transportation planning and policy-making.

Professor and Hayden Head Centennial Professorship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
s.landsberger@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 796 0287

Expertise: Radioactive and solid waste management; Low-level counting of natural radioactivity; Compton suppression gamma-ray spectrometry; Risk assessment in radioactivity handling

Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
fostrower@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5342

Expertise: Non-Profit Management and Governance Non-Profit Management, Philanthrophy

Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College, Undergraduate College
richard.reddick@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7551, +1 512 475 8587

Expertise: Examines the experiences of faculty of color at predominantly White institutions; mentoring relationships between faculty and Black students; and work-life balance in academia.

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.

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 children’s development and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding and reducing health disparities affecting low-SES Latinx youth.

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.

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

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 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

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

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

Research Associate, Energy Institute
dave.tuttle@utexas.edu
+1 512 796 9771

Expertise: Dr. Tuttle is a Research Fellow in the Energy Institute at University of Texas at Austin. His lifelong passion in the automotive space intersects with his decades of experience in information technology and interest in the diffusion of innovation in the research areas of Plug-In Vehicle adoption and integration with the grid, alternative fuel and advanced powertrain vehicles, the Smartgrid, and renewable energy systems. In the past, Dr. Tuttle advised the UT GM/DOE Challenge-X hybrid development team and was the team manager for the 2007 UT DARPA Urban Challenge Autonomous vehicle team. Today, he is one of the electric vehicle researchers in Austin’s Pecan Street Consortium/UT-Austin Plug-In Vehicle Smartgrid research project.

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