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Programs

African and African Diaspora Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

American Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Anthropology

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Asian Studies

Master of Arts (in Asian Studies)
Master of Arts (in Asian Cultures and Languages)
Doctor of Philosophy (in Asian Cultures and Languages)

Classics

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Comparative Literature

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Economics

Master of Arts
Master of Science in Economics
Doctor of Philosophy

English

Master of Arts
Master of Fine Arts (in Creative Writing)
Doctor of Philosophy

French and Italian

Master of Arts (in French)
Master of Arts (in Italian Studies)
Doctor of Philosophy (in French)
Doctor of Philosophy (in Italian Studies)

Geography

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Germanic Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Government

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

History

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Human Dimensions of Organizations

Master of Arts

Humanities, Health, and Medicine

Master of Arts

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Latin American Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Linguistics

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Mexican American and Latina/​o Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Middle Eastern Studies

Master of Arts

Philosophy

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Psychology

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Religious Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Master of Arts

Sociology

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Women’s and Gender Studies

Master of Arts

Dual Degree Programs

The following dual degree programs are offered. More information is available from the graduate advisor in each program. 

Major(s)	Degree(s)
Business administration/Asian studies	Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts
Business administration/Latin american studies	Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts
Business administration/Middle eastern studies	Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts
Business administration/Russian, east european, and eurasian studies	Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts
Communication studies/Latin american studies	Master of Arts/Master of Arts
Community and regional planning/Geography	Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning/Master of Arts
Community and regional planning/Latin american studies	Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning/Master of Arts
Global policy studies/Asian studies	Master of Global Policy Studies/Master of Arts
Global policy studies/Latin american studies	Master of Global Policy Studies/Master of Arts
Global policy studies/Middle eastern studies	Master of Global Policy Studies/Master of Arts
Global policy studies/Russian, east european, and eurasian studies	Master of Global Policy Studies/Master of Arts
Information Studies/English	Master of Science in Information Studies/Master of Arts
Information studies/Latin american studies	Master of Science in Information Studies/Master of Arts
Information studies/Middle eastern studies	Master of Science in Information Studies/Master of Arts
Information studies/Women's and gender studies	Master of Information Studies/Master of Arts
Journalism and media/Latin american studies	Master of Arts/Master of Arts
Journalism and media/Middle eastern studies	Master of Arts/Master of Arts
Law/Latin american studies	Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Arts
Law/Middle eastern studies	Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Arts
Law/Russian, east european, and eurasian studies	Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Arts
Medicine/Humanities, health, and medicine	Doctor of Medicine/Master of Arts
National security/Asian studies	MNS/MA
National security/Middle Eastern studies	MNS/MA
National security/Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies	MNS/MA
Public affairs/Asian studies	Master of Public Affairs/Master of Arts
Public affairs/Latin american studies	Master of Public Affairs/Master of Arts
Public affairs/Middle eastern studies	Master of Public Affairs/Master of Arts
Public affairs/Russian, east european, and eurasian studies	Master of Public Affairs/Master of Arts
Public affairs/Women's and gender studies	Master of Public Affairs/Master of Arts
Radio-television-film/Latin american studies	Master of Arts/Master of Arts
Radio-television-film/Middle eastern studies	Master of Arts/Master of Arts
Social work/Latin american studies	Master of Science in Social Work/Master of Arts
Radio-television-film/Russian, east european, and eurasian studies	Master of Arts/Master of Arts

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African and African Diaspora Studies

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American Studies

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Anthropology

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Asian Studies

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Classics

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Comparative Literature

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Economics

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English

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French and Italian

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Geography

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Germanic Studies

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Government

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History

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Human Dimensions of Organizations

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Humanities, Health, and Medicine

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Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures

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Latin American Studies

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Linguistics

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Mexican American and Latina/​o Studies

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Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

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Philosophy

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Psychology

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Religious Studies

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Rhetoric and Writing Studies

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Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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Sociology

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Women’s and Gender Studies

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Graduate Studies Committees

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2026 semester.

African and African Diaspora Studies

Omoniyi Afolabi Bedour Alagraa Jossianna Arroyo Martinez Andrew Britt Anthony L Brown Keffrelyn D Brown Simone Arlene Browne Nathaniel Bryan Rikki Byrd Charles Daniel Carson Michael Ray Charles Danielle P Clealand Celina Aisha Davidson de Sa Amira Rose Davis Nessette Falu Ashley Farmer Kevin M Foster Lyndon K Gill

Edmund T Gordon Nneka R Ibekwe-Okafor Yasmiyn Irizarry Monica A Jimenez Stephen H Marshall Chelsi West Ohueri Marcelo Paixao Samantha Nicole Pinto Richard J Reddick Ashante M Reese Cherise Smith Eric Tang Lisa B Thompson Shirley E Thompson Pavithra Vasudevan Patrick F Walter Jennifer M Wilks Hershini Young

American Studies

Ricardo C Ainslie Frederick Luis Aldama Chad Alvarez Jossianna Arroyo Martinez Alex A Beasley Henry W Brands Simone Arlene Browne Craig A Campbell Ivan Y Chaar Lopez Karma Ruth Chavez Lina Chhun Cary Cordova Janet M Davis Caroline Faria Rachel Valentina Gonzalez-Martin Laura G Gutierrez Lauren Jae Gutterman

John Hartigan Steven D Hoelscher Alison Kafer Randolph R Lewis Stephen H Marshall Julia L Mickenberg Lisa L Moore Robin D Moore Caroline Sage Ponder Nic John Fajardo Ramos Mary Magdalen Rivas-Rodriguez Rebecca Rossen Cherise Smith Sharon L Strover Eric Tang Shirley E Thompson

Anthropology

Kamran Ali Craig A Campbell Paola Canova Ainash Childebayeva Iyaxel Ixkan Cojti Ren Jason Cons Ronald Covey Jonathan Crosson Celina Aisha Davidson de Sa Anthony F Di Fiore Patience L Epps Kevin M Foster Maria Franklin Thomas Garrison Lyndon K Gill Rachel Valentina Gonzalez-Martin Courtney Handman John Hartigan Heather Anne Hindman Mary E Ibarrola John W Kappelman Jr Elizabeth L Keating Ward W Keeler Edward C Kirk Charles Koenig Daniel A Law

Randolph R Lewis Rebecca J Lewis Mallory Emiko Matsumoto Martha Menchaca Sofian Merabet Chelsi West Ohueri Robert M Oppenheim Marina Louise Peterson Denne N Reed Ashante M Reese Enrique R Rodriguez Arlene Rosen Aaron G Sandel Liza J Shapiro Maria Sidorkina James Slotta Xisai Song Kathleen C Stewart Pauline T Strong David S Stuart Circe Sturm Amy Thompson Fred Valdez Jr Anthony K Webster Anthony C Woodbury

Asian Studies

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai Kamran Ali Joel P Brereton Kirsten Cather Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang Adam John Clulow Donald R Davis Jr David J Eaton Oliver Freiberger Lalitha Gopalan Kathleen M Higgins Heather Anne Hindman Brian Hurley Syed A Hyder Ward W Keeler

Shanti Kumar Huaiyin Li Tse-Min Lin Patricia Maclachlan Madhavi Mallapragada A Azfar Moin Youjeong Oh Robert M Oppenheim Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Mark Ravina Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Rupert Snell Luke Christopher Waring Sylvia Wu Li Yang

Classics

Deborah Beck Naomi Campa Pramit Chaudhuri Jennifer V Ebbeler Michael Gagarin Joann Gulizio Sean Gurd Robert J Hankinson Deirdre Klokow Ayelet Haimson Lushkov

Matteo Milesi Thomas G Palaima Paula J Perlman Catherine Elizabeth Pratt Adam Thomas Rabinowitz Andrew M Riggsby Rabun M Taylor Nebojsa Todorovic Denton Walthall Stephen A White

Comparative Literature

Omoniyi Afolabi Manasicha Akepiyapornchai Marina Alexandrova Kamran Ali Katherine M Arens Minou Arjomand Jossianna Arroyo Martinez Paola Bonifazio Jason R Borge Pascale R Bos Kirsten Cather Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba Emily L Drumsta Rebecca Ruth Falkoff Thomas Jesus Garza Jette Gindner John M Gonzalez Karen Grumberg Sean Gurd Geraldine Heng Neville Hoad Brian Hurley Syed A Hyder David D Kornhaber

Naomi E Lindstrom Keith A Livers Carol H MacKay Tracie M Matysik Sofian Merabet Julie A Minich A Azfar Moin Lisa L Moore Avigail Noy Jeannette Okur Jorge Perez Perez Gabriela Polit Cory A Reed Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Thorsten Ries Andrew M Riggsby Sonia Roncador Cesar A Salgado Julija Vida Sukys Thomas Levi Thompson Alexandra K Wettlaufer Lynn R Wilkinson Jennifer M Wilks Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski Helena Woodard

Economics

Jason Ira Abrevaya Daniel A Ackerberg Manuela Angelucci Xinyue Bei Peter S Bergman Venkataraman Bhaskar Saroj Bhattarai Sandra E Black Christoph Boehm Svetlana Boyarchenko Marika Cabral Scott Edward Carrell Jaedo Choi Eric Chyn Olivier Coibion Stephen Donald Jackson Dorsey Andres Pablo Drenik Stefano M Eusepi

Michael L Geruso Brendan Andrew Kline Leigh L Linden Eugenio Javier Miravete Richard Murphy Gerald S Oettinger Nitya Pandalai-nayar Oliver Pfaeuti David S Sibley Vasiliki Skreta Dean E Spears Maxwell B Stinchcombe Caroline Desiree Thomas Robert Town Stephen J Trejo Cody Tuttle Rafael Veiel Thomas E Wiseman Haiqing Xu

English

Mia Alafaireet Frederick Luis Aldama Minou Arjomand Samuel Baker Janine Barchas JK Barret Phillip J Barrish Chad J Bennett Daniel J Birkholz Mary E Blockley Casey A Boyle Katherine Steele Brokaw Douglas S Bruster Oscar H Casares Jennifer T Chang Tanya Elizabeth Clement James H Cox Jackie Cuevas Elizabeth Cullingford Ann Cvetkovich Diane Davis Rasha Diab Linda Ferreira-Buckley John M Gonzalez Scott Graham Geraldine Heng Angela Hill Lars Hinrichs Neville Hoad Vox Jo Hsu Coleman Hutchison Bret Anthony Johnston Alison Kafer Martin W Kevorkian

David D Kornhaber Donna Marie Kornhaber Peter N LaSalle Jeehyun Lim Mark G Longaker Edward Allen MacDuffie III Carol H MacKay Eric S Mallin Elizabeth McCracken Julie A Minich Lisa L Moore Gretchen Murphy Lisa Olstein Domino R Perez Samantha Nicole Pinto Megan Poole Aaron Thomas Pratt Roger William Reeves Jacqueline R Rhodes Elizabeth Richmond-Garza John P Rumrich Donnie Johnson Sackey Elizabeth D Scala Cathy Jean Schlund-Vials Ana Schwartz Alexander J Sherman Jessica R Sherrill Bassam F Sidiki Clay Spinuzzi Julija Vida Sukys Deborah Unferth Jennifer M Wilks Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski Helena Woodard

French and Italian

Miroslava Benes Douglas G Biow David P Birdsong Marc Bizer Carl S Blyth Paola Bonifazio Benjamin Claude Brower Barbara Ellen Bullock Daniela Bini Carter Mounira M Charrad John R Clarke Judith G Coffin Penelope J Davies Andrew F Dell'Antonio Emily L Drumsta Patience L Epps Rebecca Ruth Falkoff Zenzi Margareta Griffin Julie Hardwick Nick A Henry

David D Kornhaber Soraya Limare Alberto A Martinez Valerie McGuire Madeline McMahon Richard P Meier Sofian Merabet Charles Nagle Luisa Nardini Herve Picherit Marc Pierce Guy P Raffa Cinzia Russi Circe Sturm Rabun M Taylor Maurizio Viroli Alexandra K Wettlaufer Lynn R Wilkinson Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski

Geography

Paul C Adams Eugenio Yatsuda Arima Sheryl Luzzadder Beach Timothy Beach Brenda Boonabaana Mark Budolfson Kelley A Crews David J Eaton Caroline Faria Thomas Garrison Steven D Hoelscher Junfeng Jiao

Yuhao Kang Gregory W Knapp Gengchen Mai Laurel Mei-Singh Jennifer A Miller Caroline Sage Ponder Carlos E Ramos Bjorn Ingmunn Sletto Amy Thompson Rebecca M Torres Pavithra Vasudevan Kenneth R Young

Germanic Studies

Katherine M Arens Hans C Boas Pascale R Bos Kirkland Alexander Fulk Jette Gindner Nick A Henry

John M Hoberman Marc Pierce Thorsten Ries Jurgen K Streeck Jana Weiss Lynn R Wilkinson

Government

Bethany L Albertson Michael Edward Auslen Zoltan D Barany Tiffany D Barnes Daniel M Brinks Jason Brownlee J Budziszewski Terrence Leon Chapman Alison Craig Justin Dyer Zachary S Elkins Derek Epp Michael G Findley John Gerring Nate Gilmore Max Goplerud Kenneth F Greene Benjamin G Gregg Wendy A Hunter Nathan Michael Jensen Connor T Jerzak Stephen August Jessee Jesse Johnson Bryan Davidson Jones David L Leal

Tse-Min Lin Amy H Liu Patricia Maclachlan Raul L Madrid Eric Leon McDaniel Patrick J McDonald Robert G Moser Daniel Nielson Lorraine S Pangle Thomas L Pangle H W Perry Jr Tasha S Philpot Brian E Roberts Daron R Shaw Zeynep Somer-Topcu Bartholomew H Sparrow Devin A Stauffer Sean M Theriault Maurizio Viroli Hannah L Walker Rachel Wellhausen Kurt G Weyland Christopher Wlezien Michael Scott Wolford

History

Kamran S Aghaie Kamran Ali Chad Alvarez Alex A Beasley Douglas G Biow Carlos K Blanton Henry W Brands Benjamin Claude Brower Erika M Bsumek Matthew J Butler Jorge Canizares Adam John Clulow Judith G Coffin Jonathan Cortez Janet M Davis Susan Deans-Smith Lina Maria Del castillo Yoav Di-Capua Jennifer V Ebbeler Oloruntoyin O Falola Ashley Farmer William E Forbath Joshua Frens-String Seth W Garfield Virginia C Garrard Jennifer Graber Laurie B Green Sumit Guha Lauren Jae Gutterman Julie Hardwick Bruce J Hunt Kate A Imy Monica A Jimenez

Peniel E Joseph Neil D Kamil Manav Kapur Mikiya Koyagi Mark A Lawrence Talitha L LeFlouria Huaiyin Li Tatjana Lichtenstein Alberto A Martinez Monica Munoz Martinez Tracie M Matysik Madeline McMahon Steven Mintz A Azfar Moin Leonard Nathaniel Moore Santiago Munoz Arbelaez Joan H Neuberger Mary C Neuburger Martha G Newman Aaron O'Connell Robert A Olwell Abena Dove agyepoma Osseo-asare Megan Margaret Raby Carlos E Ramos Mark Ravina Justin Roberts Annette M Rodriguez Steven Seegel Cristina Soriano Denise A Spellberg Jeremi Suri Shirley E Thompson Charters S Wynn

Human Dimensions of Organizations

Casey A Boyle Zachary S Elkins Daniel G Fridman Cory F Juhl Marc A Musick Kim Pernell

Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Mary Rose Chad Eugene Seales Clay Spinuzzi Jeremi Suri

Humanities, Health, and Medicine

Mia Alafaireet Phillip J Barrish Allan H Cole Jr Dagoberto Cortez Erin Eileen Donovan Christy L Erving Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez Scott Graham Benjamin G Gregg

Alison Kafer Michael S Mackert Julie A Minich Chelsi West Ohueri Abena Dove agyepoma Osseo-asare Samantha Nicole Pinto Nic John Fajardo Ramos Bassam F Sidiki Pauline T Strong

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures

Jossianna Arroyo Martinez Carl S Blyth Jason R Borge Luis Ernesto Carcamo-Huechante Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba Wanda Roselee Hernandez Lorraine Leu Naomi E Lindstrom Kelly McDonough Melissa D Murphy Charles Nagle Jorge Perez Perez

Adela Pineda Gabriela Polit Cory A Reed Pablo E Requena Sergio Romero Sonia Roncador Cesar A Salgado Sandro Sessarego Patrick D Thane Almeida J Toribio Enzo E Vasquez Toral

Latin American Studies

Omoniyi Afolabi Ricardo C Ainslie Richard Albert Frederick Luis Aldama Chad Alvarez Rosental C Alves Jacqueline L Angel Eugenio Yatsuda Arima Jossianna Arroyo Martinez Javier Auyero Jacqueline Angelina Avila Zoltan D Barany Sheryl Luzzadder Beach Timothy Beach Charles E Berg Paul A Bonin Jason R Borge Daniel M Brinks Chelsea Burns Matthew J Butler Esther Calzada Jorge Canizares David Cannatella Paola Canova Luis Ernesto Carcamo-Huechante Yessenia Castro Ivan Y Chaar Lopez Karma Ruth Chavez C Ondine Chavoya Danielle P Clealand Iyaxel Ixkan Cojti Ren Ashley Coleman Taylor Miriam S Collins Jason Cons Cary Cordova Maria Eugenia Cotera Ronald Covey Kelley A Crews Jonathan Crosson Megan J Crowhurst Isabella C Cunningham Ian W Dalziel Celina Aisha Davidson de Sa Donna De Cesare Lina Maria Del castillo Anthony F Di Fiore Hector Dominguez-Ruvalcaba David J Eaton Zachary S Elkins Karen Engle Mirasol Enriquez Patience L Epps Raissa Fabregas robles gil Nessette Falu Michael G Findley George F Flaherty Joshua Frens-String Daniel G Fridman Sergio I Garcia Seth W Garfield Thomas Garrison Lawrence E Gilbert Lyndon K Gill Edgar Gomez-Cruz Celestine Gonzalez De Bustamante John M Gonzalez Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Kenneth F Greene Julia E Guernsey Lauren E Gulbas Laura G Gutierrez John Hartigan Brian K Horton Wendy A Hunter Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla Monica A Jimenez Timothy H Keitt J Richard Kyle Daniel A Law David L Leal Fernanda Leite Lorraine Leu Leigh L Linden Naomi E Lindstrom Raul L Madrid Sandy Magana Alberto A Martinez Monica Munoz Martinez Mallory Emiko Matsumoto Kelly McDonough Sofian Merabet Juan Miro Robin D Moore Santiago Munoz Arbelaez Adele E Nelson Daniel Nielson Yolanda C Padilla Marcelo Paixao Jose L Panero Adela Pineda Miguel Pinedo Gabriela Polit David G Quinto-Pozos Megan Margaret Raby Carlos E Ramos Ramon H Rivera-Servera Enrique R Rodriguez Nestor P Rodriguez Monica Romero Sergio Romero Sonia Roncador Mary Rose Cesar A Salgado Sandro Sessarego Bjorn Ingmunn Sletto Carolina Snaider Cristina Soriano David Sosa David S Stuart Januibe Tejera Susan Thomas Amy Thompson Rebecca M Torres Luis Urrieta Carmen R Valdez Fred Valdez Jr Angela Valenzuela Enzo E Vasquez Toral Hannah L Walker Abigail Weitzman Kurt G Weyland Jennifer M Wilks Anthony C Woodbury Emilio Zamora

Linguistics

Akshay Aitha John T Beavers Megan J Crowhurst Ashwini S Deo Patience L Epps Katrin E Erk Johan A Kamp Daniel A Law Jessy Li Fernando Llanos Lucas

Kyle Mahowald Richard P Meier Kanishka Misra Scott P Myers Karolin Obert Corrine Occhino David G Quinto-Pozos Rajka Smiljanic Stephen M Wechsler Anthony C Woodbury

Mexican American and Latina/​o Studies

Chad Alvarez Karma Ruth Chavez Danielle P Clealand Maria Eugenia Cotera Rachel Valentina Gonzalez-Martin Angie Gutierrez Laura G Gutierrez

Mike Hames-Garcia Wanda Roselee Hernandez Julie A Minich Angela Ximena Ocampo Nicole D Ramsey Nancy Rodriguez

Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Ahmad Agbaria Kamran S Aghaie Olla N Al-Shalchi Kamran Ali Samy Ayoub Hina Azam Oeyvind Bjoeru Benjamin Claude Brower Jason Brownlee Mounira M Charrad Jacob Daniels Heath Dewrell Rasha Diab Emily L Drumsta Paul Edgar Karen Grumberg John Huehnergard Syed A Hyder Jonathan Kaplan Tony Keddie

Mikiya Koyagi Mohammad A Mohammad A Azfar Moin Stephennie Mulder Avigail Noy Jeannette Okur Athanasio Papalexandrou Na'ama Pat-El Esther L Raizen Jonathan Wyn Schofer Sonia T Seeman Faegheh S Shirazi Nahid Siamdoust Denise A Spellberg Jeremi Suri Babak Tabarraee Thomas Levi Thompson Bruce Wells Sylvia Wu

Middle Eastern Studies

Ahmad Agbaria Kamran S Aghaie Olla N Al-Shalchi Kamran Ali Samy Ayoub Hina Azam Zoltan D Barany Benjamin Claude Brower Jason Brownlee Mounira M Charrad Dale J Correa Rasha Diab Emily L Drumsta David J Eaton Karen Grumberg Geraldine Heng Syed A Hyder Jonathan Kaplan

Mikiya Koyagi Mohammad A Mohammad A Azfar Moin Stephennie Mulder Avigail Noy Jeannette Okur Athanasio Papalexandrou Na'ama Pat-El Esther L Raizen Sonia T Seeman Nahid Siamdoust Denise A Spellberg Jeremi Suri Babak Tabarraee Thomas Levi Thompson Bruce Wells Sylvia Wu

Philosophy

David I Beaver John Thomas Steele Bengson Daniel A Bonevac Lawrence Ray Buchanan J Budziszewski Jonathan Dancy John Deigh Joshua Dever Sinan Dogramaci Julia L Driver Daniel Drucker Katherine Laura Dunlop Matthew L Evans Patricio A Fernandez Johan E Gustafsson Robert J Hankinson Kathleen M Higgins Jens Jaeger

Cory F Juhl Robert C Koons Robbie Kubala Harvey Lederman Jon E Litland Michelle Montague Ian N Proops Connie Rosati Richard M Sainsbury Sahotra Sarkar Karl Schafer Miriam Schoenfield Tara A Smith Roy Sorensen David Sosa Galen Strawson Michael Tye Stephen A White

Psychology

Jennifer S Beer Christopher G Beevers David M Buss Caryn L Carlson Frances Anne Champagne Jessica Alice Church-Lang Alexandra L Clark Lawrence K Cormack James Patrick Curley Kaya de Barbaro Yvon Delville Juan M Dominguez Michael P Domjan Audrey Duarte Joseph Edward Dunsmoor Jr Nicholas D Duran Catharine H Echols Andrew David Gaudet Bertram Gawronski David L Gilden Francisco Gonzalez-Lima Andrea C Gore Robbe Lieve Theofiel Goris Samuel D Gosling Zenzi Margareta Griffin Andreana P Haley Kathryn Paige Harden Mary Myleen Hayhoe Marlone Deshaun Henderson Charles J Holahan

Lori L Holt Theresa A Jones Robert A Josephs Hongjoo Joanne Lee Cristine H Legare Jarrod Alan Lewis-Peacock Gabriela Livas Arthur B Markman Cindy M Meston Marie Helene Monfils Elizabeth Munoz Linda Jeanne Noble Desmond Ong Caitlin A Orsini Franco Pestilli Alison R Preston Nicholas J Priebe Katherine Schaumberg David M Schnyer Eyal Seidemann Jasper A Smits William B Swann Jr Michael J Telch Katharine Allen Tillman Adela Timmons Elliot Max Tucker-Drob Xuexin Wei Jacqueline D Woolley David Scott Yeager Chen Yu

Religious Studies

Kamran Ali Hina Azam Khytie Brown Matthew J Butler Ashley Coleman Taylor Jonathan Crosson Donald R Davis Jr Oliver Freiberger Steven J Friesen Courtney Handman Syed A Hyder Jonathan Kaplan

Tony Keddie David L Leal Mallory Emiko Matsumoto Eric Leon McDaniel A Azfar Moin Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Jonathan Wyn Schofer Chad Eugene Seales Geoffrey Smith Denise A Spellberg David S Stuart Katherine Taronas

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Casey A Boyle Diane Davis Rasha Diab Linda Ferreira-Buckley Scott Graham Angela Hill

Vox Jo Hsu Mark G Longaker Megan Poole Jacqueline R Rhodes Donnie Johnson Sackey Clay Spinuzzi

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Katherine M Arens Kiril Avramov Craig A Campbell David J Eaton James K Galbraith Thomas Jesus Garza Alan J Kuperman Mark A Lawrence Tatjana Lichtenstein Amy H Liu Keith A Livers

Robert G Moser Mary C Neuburger Chelsi West Ohueri Lorinc Redei Jason Edward Roberts Steven Seegel Maria Sidorkina Jeremi Suri Delgerjargal Uvsh Rachel Wellhausen Charters S Wynn

Sociology

Ari Adut Jacqueline L Angel Javier Auyero Simone Arlene Browne Shannon Eileen Cavanagh Mounira M Charrad Jacob Earl Cheadle Diane L Coffey Jordan Andrew Conwell Dagoberto Cortez Robert Lyle Crosnoe Christy L Erving Toni L Falbo Daniel G Fridman Elizabeth Thompson Gershoff Matthew S Giani Jennifer Glass Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez Bridget Jeaneen Goosby Kathleen A Griesbach Chantal Annise Hailey Mark D Hayward Yasmiyn Irizarry William R Kelly Ken-Hou Lin

Chandra L Muller Dhiraj Murthy Marc A Musick Pamela Marie Paxton Kim Pernell Becky M Pettit Daniel A Powers Robert L Reece Mark Regnerus Catherine Riegle-Crumb Nestor P Rodriguez Mary Rose Stephen Thomas Russell Lauren Schudde Harel Shapira Michael Sierra-Arevalo Eric Tang Debra J Umberson Paul Von hippel Samuel C Watkins Abigail Weitzman Kari L White Christine L Williams Michael P Young

Women’s and Gender Studies

Kamran Ali Megan Alrutz Mary C Beltran Keffrelyn D Brown Simone Arlene Browne Rosemary Candelario Karma Ruth Chavez Lina Chhun Ashley Coleman Taylor Jackie Cuevas Ann Cvetkovich Amira Rose Davis Caroline Faria Lyndon K Gill Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

Laura G Gutierrez Lauren Jae Gutterman Mike Hames-Garcia Vox Jo Hsu Alison Kafer Julie A Minich Lisa L Moore Lina-Maria M Murillo Samantha Nicole Pinto Nicole D Ramsey Stacey K Sowards Lisa B Thompson Enzo E Vasquez Toral Pavithra Vasudevan Hershini Young

Facilities

African and African Diaspora Studies

Graduate students in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS) have access to four specialized units dedicated to Black Studies scholarship. All four units are housed within the Gordon-White Building (GWB), a newly renovated space dedicated to scholarship, community building, and art.

African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS), as an academic unit, promotes scholar-activism through the study of the intellectual, political, artistic, and social experiences of people of African descent throughout Africa and the African diaspora. The more than 30 full-time departmental faculty members and jointly-affiliated faculty members represent the interdisciplinary nature of Black Studies.

The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (WCAAAS) supports the research and programmatic initiatives of faculty affiliates and students, and collaborates with local organizations in the investigation and enhancement of Black peoples' lives. Through research, programming, and community engagement, the Center supports scholarship and creative work that fosters social justice for people of African descent. 

The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis (IUPRA) produces cutting-edge policy and legal research aimed at strengthening Black communities, promoting social justice, and combating anti-Black racism. The institute's staff, academic fellows, and graduate students generate publications, reports, briefs, grants, and contracts with the aim of shaping policy that will lead to societal and institutional change beneficial to the lives of African Americans and other people of color in the state of Texas. 

The Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS), formerly known as the Warfield Center Galleries, is the sole on-campus entity dedicated to showcasing narratives of the African and the African Diaspora. Comprised of two galleries—The Christian-Green Gallery and the Idea Lab—AGBS spaces serve as platforms for critical exchanges concerning the experiences, narratives, and histories of the Black Diaspora. AGBS is a living arts space that encourages, promotes, and sustains Black artistic expression.

Black Studies graduate students also have access to the University’s extensive and world-renowned research library system, including the Perry-Castañeda Library with over 2.5 million volumes, the Human Rights Documentation Initiative, the Benson Latin American Collection, and the Harry Ransom Center. Additionally, the Black Diaspora Archive (BDA), the only archive of its kind at a higher education institution in the U.S., collects documentary, audiovisual, digital, and artistic works related to the Black Diaspora. While the geographic collecting area for the Black Diaspora is global, this collection is focused on materials generated in and/or describing experiences from the Americas and the Caribbean. Through a partnership between Black Studies, The University of Texas Libraries, and the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), the archive continues to grow into a collection sought after by researchers and students throughout the world. Another collection, The Black Queer Studies Collection, features, promotes, and increases the discoverability of The University of Texas at Austin libraries’ unique holdings in the area of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies. This groundbreaking project in librarianship addresses standard obstacles posed by the Library of Congress Subject Headings and information retrieval systems used to locate materials by and about Black diasporic LGBTQ people. Students are also encouraged to utilize campus-wide arts facilities including the Fine Arts Library, the Texas Performing Arts Center, and the Blanton Museum of Art.

American Studies

The University offers several unique resources for research on America. The Harry Ransom Center includes celebrated rare book and manuscript collections in American and modern literature; the Gernsheim Collection, one of the world’s largest archives of photographs, negatives, and books related to the history of photography; the Performing Arts Collection, with material related to the theatre, movies, vaudeville, the circus, and the history of magic; and the New York Journal-American photographic archive. Recent major acquisitions include the papers of Norman Mailer, Woody Allen, David Foster Wallace, Woodward and Bernstein’s records of the Watergate investigation, and the Magnum Archive Collection. The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is one of the world’s great archives of materials about and from Latin America. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History contains the early archives of Texas, the largest collection now extant of historical manuscripts dealing with Texas, an extensive collection of rare and scarce books, pamphlets, and broadsides related to Texas and Southwestern history, as well as major national collections related to journalists, political figures, and activists from the 1960s and 1970s. The holdings of the Blanton Museum of Art include the Mari and James A. Michener Collection of American Painting and the C. R. Smith Collection of Art of the American West. Winedale, an outdoor museum of restored 19th-century Texas buildings, is a center for research in historic preservation and material culture.

The University Libraries provide some of the best research facilities in the United States. Convenient to the University are other research facilities, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, the Texas State Library and Archives, the United Daughters of the Confederacy Library, the Catholic Archives of Texas, the Archives of the Episcopal Church, and the Republic of Texas Museum.

Anthropology

Facilities available to graduate students in anthropology include the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Benson Latin American Collection, the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, and the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory. The J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the Department of Anthropology offer facilities for research in antiquities conservation; geophysical survey; physical anthropology; paleontology; archaeomagnetic research; and primate anatomy and behavior. The department also maintains research facilities in archaeology, social anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.

Asian Studies

Asian materials are distributed throughout the University of Texas Libraries, including the Perry-Castañeda Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Benson Latin American Collection, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, and the Harry Ransom Center. Asian maps are located primarily in the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection and the Geology Library.  

The Ransom Center houses one of the finest rare book and manuscript collections in North America.  Among its archives are items from the personal library of Sir William Jones, founder of the Asiatic Society; correspondence and manuscripts of novelist Paul Scott, Anita Desai, and Raja Rao; papers of Samuel Selvon and Nancy Wilson Ross; rare photographs attributed to Deen Dayal; and photo albums once owned by the Earl of Mayo. Sanskrit manuscripts from Dr. Patrick Olivelle were also added after he completed work on the Manavadharmasastra. Within the manuscript and book collections acquired from Great Britain are numerous titles on the British Empire. Among the materials in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum are oral histories and policy papers related to Kashmiri politics, the Food for Peace Program, international relations with the subcontinent, and an extensive collection on the Vietnam War. The Benson Latin American Collection contains over 4,000 volumes that cover immigration from Asia to the Caribbean and South America, and the associated cultural phenomena of the diasporic communities.

Classics

The Classics Library, located within the department in Waggener Hall and managed by its own staff, houses more than 30,000 volumes spanning all areas of classical studies. Supporting collections and staff members are located in the Perry-Castañeda Library, the Architecture and Planning Library, the Fine Arts Library, and other University Libraries units. Holdings of the Harry Ransom Center include a collection of Greek papyri from Egypt and numerous Renaissance editions of classical texts. The Battle Collection of Plaster Casts and a collection of ancient pottery are housed in the Blanton Museum of Art. Graduate students also have access to the Swenson Coin Collection; the Meritt and Reinmuth squeeze collections; a collection of drawings, photographs, and notes on ancient architecture by Lucy Shoe Meritt; and a substantial study collection of material objects from around the ancient Mediterranean, including Egypt and the Near East. Additional resources within the department include a comprehensive photographic archive of prehistoric Aegean and Cypriot inscriptions and related research materials maintained by the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory; visual media that include more than 15,000 digital images and more than 70,000 slides; and a full-time instructional technology and media staff.

The department sponsors archaeological fieldwork at Morgantina in Sicily (the Contrada Agnese Project) and at Histria in Romania (the Histra Multiscalar Archaeological Project), as well as ongoing work on the Aqua Traiana aqueduct near Rome and publication of excavations as Chersonesus in Crimea.

Comparative Literature

In addition to the University Libraries facilities, special collections in the Harry Ransom Center and the Benson Latin American Collection, for example, offer opportunities for research.

Economics

English

Facilities for graduate work include an excellent library system and a world-renowned research library, the Harry Ransom Center. The Ransom Center provides materials for critical, textual, and bibliographical studies, with its extensive holdings in earlier British literature (including the Pforzheimer Library), modern British and American literature, theatre arts, photography, and other significant subjects for literary and cultural research. The Benson Latin American Collection is one of many campus resources for advanced work in non-European literature and language. The Department of Rhetoric and Writing offers rich opportunities for teaching and study; and the Digital Writing and Research Laboratory enjoys a national reputation for investigating the intersections among technology, language, and literature.

French and Italian

The University offers excellent resources to serve the needs of graduate students in French and Italian. Among the outstanding collections are the Carlton Lake collection of manuscripts and rare editions of modern French writers from Baudelaire to Beckett, the papers of the Princess Bibesco, the Artinian collection of Guy de Maupassant material, and the Surrealist archive of reviews and original documents. The Italian collections (Ranuzzi, Aldine, Medici, Bodoni, Parsons, and Weinreb) in the Harry Ransom Center offer medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and incunabula, as well as thousands of manuscripts from modern and contemporary writers such as Luigi Pirandello, Paolo Volponi, and Carlo Levi. The Suida-Manning Collection, in the Blanton Museum of Art, is one of the finest collections of Renaissance and Baroque art in the United States and constitutes another world-class resource for graduate study.

Geography

The teaching and research facilities of the Department of Geography and the Environment are housed in Patton Hall, home to other liberal arts programs and departments. There are also research labs in the adjacent Student Activities Center. 

Digital Landscape Laboratory

The Digital Landscape Laboratory is a GIS and remote sensing facility designed to support research in the modeling and characterizing of Earth’s varied processes through geomorphology, biogeography, and landscape ecology. The laboratory includes a server, high-speed Ethernet connections, Windows-based workstations, scanners, and a large-format plotter.

Environmental Analysis Laboratories

The Soils and Geoarchaeology Laboratory, the Laboratory of Soils and Sediments, the Geosciences Laboratory, and the Environmental Hydrology and Water Quality Laboratory are equipped for field study and laboratory analysis of soils, sediments, pollen, water, fluvial and lake systems, and archaeological materials. Used as research facilities, these laboratories are integral to graduate study in geomorphology, paleoecology, hydrology, biogeography and cultural ecology, morphodynamics, and geoarchaeology. High technology equipment includes a laser granulometer, an X-ray fluorescence analyzer, magnetic susceptibility meters, 210Pb dating by alpha spectroscopy, an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), a digital echosound coupled to a DGPS system, a dual frequency Stratabox for geophysics surveys, microscopes, samplers, mechanical augers, a vibracorer, spectrophotometers, and other water quality multi-analyzers, among other equipment. Two small boats and two outboard engines are available for research in rivers, lakes, and dams. Additionally, there is a dedicated environmental geoscience classroom for hands-on laboratory learning.

Environmental Information Systems Laboratory

This laboratory provides comprehensive resources for learning and research in cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and spatial statistics. It contains 25 microcomputers connected by Ethernet to the campus network and the Internet. The laboratory is also equipped with scanners, digitizers, plotters, GPS receivers, a station for field mapping, and audiovisual equipment for hypermedia production. The computers run a variety of software for microcomputer mapping and GIS, remote sensing, computer-assisted drafting, and statistical analysis.

Geospatial Intelligent Sensing and Mapping Laboratory

The GISense Lab is equipped with advanced computing resources designed to manage large-scale geographic datasets and tackle complex geographic challenges. The laboratory boasts a suite of high-performance computing servers with GPUs for intensive geographic data processing and AI-driven geospatial research. These computing resources, along with GIS and cartography software, enable advanced spatial analyses and high-level cartographic production. The computational resources support machine learning and advanced geospatial computations, facilitating cutting-edge research across various fields, including urban planning, environmental science, public health, and social sciences and humanities.

Lidar and Landscapes of the Ancient Mediterranean and Americas (LLAMA) Lab

This laboratory provides high-powered workstations for processing large lidar datasets, especially for projects focused on the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica and the Mediterranean. Three of the lab's six workstations are equipped to handle deep learning and AI-related processing. Additional lab resources include a 36" plotter and scanner, a large format laminator to produce field maps, Spectra SP20 GPS receivers, and a Topcon total station. The lab also maintains a comprehensive library of archaeological reports from the Maya Lowlands and GIS and remote sensing reference texts. A number of specialized software packages like Golden Surfer and GeoCue LP360 are installed on some workstations in addition to university licensed and open source geospatial software.

Spatially Explicit Artificial Intelligence Lab (SEAI Lab)

SEAI Lab aims to develop spatially explicit AI models. The idea is redesigning and developing better AI and ML models for consuming spatial information in various geospatial tasks by incorporating spatial knowledge and spatial inductive bias such as spatial heterogeneity, spatial autocorrelation, map projection, and so on.

Spatial Justice Lab

The Spatial Justice Lab in the Department of Geography and the Environment brings together undergraduates, graduates, postdocs and faculty conducting research on the relationship between power and place. We engage critical geographic approaches including: feminist, post- and decolonial, intersectional, political economy and political ecology strands of theory to examine urgent issues of environmental and climate justice. Our members center qualitative, ethnographic methodologies but may also integrate critical cartography, remote sensing, and varied forms of land use science. We are a collaborative, co-managed peer mentoring space. Our members work towards independent undergraduate theses or capstone projects, MA and doctoral projects, book projects and article-based outputs. In concert, we center professional development for junior academics, mentoring around grant proposals, publishing, conference presentation, grad school and academic job market applications, and protecting sustainable work life balance for a fun and prosperous working life course.

University Libraries

The University Libraries are noted for their collections on Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and the American West.

Special research, training, and financial aid opportunities are available through area studies centers and research institutes in African and African American studies; Australian studies; East Asian studies; Latin American studies; Middle Eastern studies; Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies; and South Asian studies. Language training is available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Persian, Sanskrit, Serbian/Croatian, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, Yoruba, and all major European languages. Additional University research facilities used by graduate students in the Department of Geography and the Environment include the Bureau of Economic Geology, the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, the Center for Research in Water Resources, the Center for Transportation Research, the Marine Science Institute, the Center for Space Research, and the Population Research Center.

Germanic Studies

The Department of Germanic Studies is committed to scholarship and teaching at high professional standards, nationally and internationally, in order to support students' individual achievement and to foster their career development, both within and beyond the academy, Faculty research and teaching activities are interdisciplinary and transcultural, engaging cultural studies, linguistics, literature, digital humanities, and second language studies.  The graduate program offers coursework informed especially by twenty-first century research on emerging and traditional forms of textuality and media; contemporary problems of cultural identity, migration and exile, and cultural contact; and significant theoretical, practical, and digital approaches to the humanities. Primary sources and archives (digital, media, or textual) feature prominently in the program, approached through the lenses of contemporary theories, models, and tools for language, cultural and media studies. The Department's research profile stresses work with texts as part of media cultures, investigating cultural practices, and understanding language communities; it does so by building on and moving beyond traditional scholarly models to create contemporary contexts for research and teaching in the humanities, as well as for related careers in the public sphere.

The department encourages programs of study that combine German and other Germanic cultures, especially Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish; it welcomes work that makes substantial links between cultural sites in different periods and different regions, as well as between different scholarly disciplines and research paradigms. Course offerings of the resident faculty are supplemented by visiting scholars from Europe, including long-term German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) lecturers, and occasional writers or scholars in residence. While completing core requirements within the department, students are encouraged to pursue links to and coursework in other programs in the University. The campus' infrastructure for digital research and teaching is first-rate and rapidly evolving, aiming to create new communities and forums for scholarly research and teaching, as well. 

The University Libraries are state-of-the-art. They are among the 10 largest collections in the country and focus especially on digital collections. The Harry Ransom Center, the campus rare books library, has substantial holdings in German drama, manuscripts, and publishers' correspondence; and the Blanton Museum of Art has one of the largest collections of prints, drawings, and paintings in the country, including significant holdings in European graphic arts.

Government

With more than 60 full-time or jointly appointed members, the Department of Government is one of the largest political science faculties in the country. The department houses important research centers, including the Innovations for Peace and Development Lab, the Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab, the Public Policy Institute, and the Policy Agendas Project, and its faculty are affiliated with a variety of global research initiatives, like the Comparative Constitutions Project and the AidData Research Consortium. The department’s research resources include excellent computer facilities and an extensive collection of machine-readable social science data.

Students in the department also take advantage of many of the University’s research facilities and programs, including the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Centers for East Asian Studies; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Middle Eastern Studies. Many other units provide institutional support for political scientists, including the Brazil Center, the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, the Center for European Studies, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and the South Asia Institute.

The University has one of the largest academic libraries in the United States, with many collections of value for research in government and politics; these include the Benson Latin American Collection, the Grattan collection on Australia, the Woodrow Wilson collection, the Tobenkin collection on the Russian Revolution, the Jaffe collection on political radicalism, and a variety of special materials on southern and western Americana, Southwestern history and politics, India, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the British Commonwealth. The library system also includes the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the Harry Ransom Center, and the Tarlton Law Library. The campus is the site of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, an invaluable resource for the study of twentieth-century politics.

History

Graduate students in history have access to major collections of research materials in a number of fields. The Benson Latin American Collection of printed and manuscript materials is of international importance for research and study in the history of Latin America in general and Mexico in particular. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and its Oral History Project offer an unprecedented wealth of material for the study of United States history in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson years. In the Perry-Castañeda Library, the Harry Ransom Center, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History are major collections related to the history of science, twentieth-century writers, British and European history, and the history of Texas, the South, and the West, and documents of the United States and of the United Nations. The Natchez Trace Collection in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History provides an unparalleled resource for the study of the history of the lower Mississippi region in the nineteenth century. At the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest near the University campus are the national archives of the Episcopal Church, containing books and manuscripts from the colonial period onward.

Human Dimensions of Organizations

The human dimensions of organizations (HDO) program combines faculty and resources from the departments of anthropology, English, government, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, rhetoric and writing, sociology, marketing, and mathematics, as well as the School of Information. Facilities of these academic units, including laboratory, library, and other research facilities, are available for use. Students also have access to University-wide library and computer facilities; to the vast archival materials held at the Harry Ransom Center; and to personnel, facilities, and expertise at the IC² Institute. 

Additionally, classrooms, meeting spaces, and research facilities are accessible to students during the program's non-standard teaching times twice a month on Friday evenings and Saturdays. This schedule has been tailored to meet the needs of the program's graduate students, who are typically employed full time while in the program. 

As part of the distance-learning program, live videoconferencing facilities are also be available to students unable to commute to Austin, enabling distance learners to attend classes in real time. 

Humanities, Health, and Medicine

Facilities for graduate work include the University’s excellent library system, which is equipped with reference librarians who have subject expertise in all relevant fields, and the Harry Ransom Center, a world-renowned center for humanities research. The University of Texas Library System is among the nation's largest and best academic library system. In addition to the six-floor Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL), which is the system's flagship, other highlights include the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (which houses many of the University's archival collections and acquisitions), the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, and the Life Sciences Library, as well as five science and technology libraries, include that of Dell Medical School.

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures

The Perry-Castañeda Library contains extensive holdings related to the history, languages, and cultures of Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Students also have access to an array of electronic databases, journals, and books related to these areas through the University Libraries website. In addition, the Benson Latin American Collection is the world’s foremost university research collection for Latin American studies, with more than 800,000 volumes as well as extensive collections of manuscripts, maps, photographs, and broadsides.

The several language and computer laboratories furnish excellent opportunities for technical and professional preparation for teaching and research in Romance languages and linguistics. A large collection of tape recordings of dialect materials is also available.

Latin American Studies

The Benson Latin American Collection is the most complete library of its kind in the United States, containing more than 800,000 volumes of printed material in addition to manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and microfilms. Of special interest are the 20,000 reels of microfilm copies of archival material sourced in Mexico, Spain, England, and Washington DC. Other campus libraries, including the Perry-Castañeda Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Walter Geology Library, and the Architecture and Planning Library, contain additional Latin American material. Students also have access to a variety of electronic journals, books, and bibliographic tools through the University Libraries website.

About 65 faculty members regularly teach courses dealing with Latin America, and some 150 additional faculty members have Latin American interests in a wide variety of fields.

Linguistics

The University Libraries have extensive collections in linguistics and related fields, in major world and regional languages, and in minority and indigenous languages. The Benson Latin American Collection houses a major archive of materials on or in indigenous and colonial languages of Latin America. The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital archive of original sound recordings and related documentary resources on indigenous languages of Latin America that is curated on campus.

Members of the department maintain laboratories for research in experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology, descriptive and documentary linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, computational linguistics, syntax and semantics, and signed language linguistics. The facilities of Information Technology Services and Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services (LAITS) are among the most comprehensive at American universities.

The principal areas of study within the department (phonology and phonetics, syntax and semantics, descriptive and documentary linguistics, linguistics of signed languages, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics) maintain active student-faculty research groups that sponsor colloquia, conferences, and/or reading groups. The department also hosts a general linguistics colloquium with outside and on-campus speakers. Conferences include the biennial Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America and an annual student-run conference, the Texas Linguistics Society conference.

The Department of Linguistics has close links, including cross-listed faculty members and courses, to such adjacent departments as Anthropology; Computer Science; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Philosophy; Psychology; Slavic and Eurasian Studies; English; Germanic Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies; French and Italian; Spanish and Portuguese, as well as area studies centers such as the South Asia Institute and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

Mexican American and Latina/​o Studies

In the 1960s, Mexican American student activists at The University of Texas at Austin agitated for the creation of an academic program responsive to their lives, experiences, and ways of knowing. From their efforts, in 1970, UT Austin created the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), with Américo Paredes named as its first director. Over the past 50 years, UT Austin has become an important scholarly center for Mexican American, Chicano/a/x, and Latino/a/x Studies. What was once a small center borne of struggle is now the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), the Latino Research Institute (LRI), and the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (MALS).

In addition to the expertise of the faculty, graduate students have access to the extensive resources of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the Mexican American Library Program, and the Harry Ransom Center. The University’s Central Texas location also provides opportunities for field research within the growing Mexican American and Latina/o/x population across the Southwestern United States, and for research in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean as well.

Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

University library holdings on the Middle East form one of the leading collections in North America. These include over 200,000 items in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Tajiki, and Azerbaijani, among other relevant languages of the region. The collection includes a comprehensive set of Western-language reference works, general texts, monographs, and essential journals (print and electronic) that support teaching at all levels, alongside a large body of more specialized books, periodicals, manuscripts, archival documents, and electronic resources serving the needs of advanced researchers. Among the collection’s strengths are robust holdings of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arabic periodicals; works of Islamic law; Arabic, Persian, and Azeri literature; a unique set of microfilms of Arabic manuscripts of the Zaydis of Yemen; Middle East banking ephemera; Iranian cinema and film studies; a virtually complete set of Turkish and Azerbaijani periodicals that forms a unique national resource; and more than 2,000 volumes of census records on Middle Eastern countries. Among our unique Israeli resources are cinema periodicals in print, the literary journal Iton 77 and the fanzine Queer Eye digital collections, a collection of publications (in Arabic) by the Palestinian Forum of Israel Studies based in Ramallah, and a collection of publications by the Zochrot NGO, Tel Aviv. 

Electronic material supporting Middle Eastern studies is also extensive and includes electronic databases such as JSTOR and ATLA; the Perry-Castañeda digitized map collection; the Encyclopedia of Islam; Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur and Brockelmann in English; Foreign Office Files for the Middle East; the Kotobarabia Arabic e-book collections; The Encyclopaedia Judaica; Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World and the Judaic Classics Library. The department has also donated to the main library a collection of approximately four thousand English-language books and reference works, some 10,000 digitized slides, and hundreds of films and periodicals. The Harry Ransom Center holds writers’ personal papers, including those of T. E. Lawrence, Paul Bowles, Freya Stark, Richard Burton, and others with a special Middle Eastern connection. The Ransom Center has significant holdings relating to Judaica, including the Isaac Bashevis Singer Archive, the Leon Uris Archive, and a portion of the literary archive of Bernard Malamud. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History holds the Development Communication Archive, donated by the federal Agency for International Development, which consists of more than 350 linear feet of original records on issues ranging from agriculture and the environment to health and community development; about a quarter of the documents cover Middle Eastern projects. University faculty members and students also have access to vast centralized resources such as the Center for Research Libraries’ (CRL) collection in Chicago and the digital, full-text searchable CRL Alliance Global Press Archive with Eastview.

Middle Eastern Studies

University library holdings on the Middle East form one of the leading collections in North America. These include over 200,000 items in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Tajiki, and Azerbaijani, among other relevant languages of the region. The collection includes a comprehensive set of Western-language reference works, general texts, monographs, and essential journals (print and electronic) that support teaching at all levels, alongside a large body of more specialized books, periodicals, manuscripts, archival documents, and electronic resources serving the needs of advanced researchers. Among the collection’s strengths are robust holdings of late 19^th- and early 20^th-century Arabic periodicals; works of Islamic law; Arabic, Persian, and Azeri literature; a unique set of microfilms of Arabic manuscripts of the Zaydis of Yemen; Middle East banking ephemera; Iranian cinema and film studies; a virtually complete set of Turkish and Azerbaijani periodicals that forms a unique national resource; and more than 2,000 volumes of census records on Middle Eastern countries. Among our unique Israeli resources are cinema periodicals in print, the literary journal Iton 77 and the fanzine Queer Eye digital collections, a collection of publications (in Arabic) by the Palestinian Forum of Israel Studies based in Ramallah, and a collection of publications by the Zochrot NGO, Tel Aviv. 

Electronic material supporting Middle Eastern studies is also extensive and includes electronic databases such as JSTOR and ATLA; the Perry-Castañeda digitized map collection; the Encyclopedia of Islam; Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur and Brockelmann in English; Foreign Office Files for the Middle East; the Kotobarabia Arabic e-book collections; The Encyclopaedia Judaica; Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World and the Judaic Classics Library. The department has also donated to the main library a collection of approximately four thousand English-language books and reference works, some 10,000 digitized slides, and hundreds of films and periodicals. The Harry Ransom Center holds writers’ personal papers, including those of T. E. Lawrence, Paul Bowles, Freya Stark, Richard Burton, and others with a special Middle Eastern connection. The Ransom Center has significant holdings relating to Judaica, including the Isaac Bashevis Singer Archive, the Leon Uris Archive, and a portion of the literary archive of Bernard Malamud. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History holds the Development Communication Archive, donated by the federal Agency for International Development, which consists of more than 350 linear feet of original records on issues ranging from agriculture and the environment to health and community development; about a quarter of the documents cover Middle Eastern projects. University faculty members and students also have access to vast centralized resources such as the Center for Research Libraries’ (CRL) collection in Chicago and the digital, full-text searchable CRL Alliance Global Press Archive with Eastview.

Philosophy

Psychology

The Department of Psychology is located in the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Building. State-of-the-art computer networking is integrated into the building; there are computer facilities, computerized laboratories, and technological support for students and faculty members. Laboratory facilities include environmental control of sound, light, and temperature, with vibration-free areas for auditory and vision research. A number of specialized research centers are located in the building, including the Children’s Research Center, the Center for Perceptual Systems, the Institute for Mental Health Research, and the Clinical Training Clinic.

The Biomedical Imaging Center (BIC), located in the Norman Hackerman Building, and in the Health and Discovery Building at the Dell Medical School, is an interdisciplinary, multi-methods facility specializing in non-invasive neuroimaging. The core of the center are two Siemens 3T MRI scanners used by many researchers for studies of human perception, memory, decision-making, and behavior. Unique emphases at the BIC include a strong connection to supercomputing resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), real-time fMRI, high-resolution / 3D visual presentation, and support for developmental studies. The facility also contains a number of resources for imaging in model systems, as well as imaging-informed fabrication and machining.

Graduate students and faculty members in the Department of Psychology participate in research programs with graduate students and faculty members in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, also housed in the Seay Building, and in many other fields, including biological sciences, communication, computer science, educational psychology, kinesiology, linguistics, pharmacy, and sociology. The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research provide additional collaborative opportunities.

Religious Studies

Graduate students in religious studies have access to significant collections of research materials in a number of fields. The Perry-Castañeda Library houses nearly 200,000 volumes cataloged under categories pertaining to religious studies. The University Libraries also have extensive microfilm and microfiche holdings of document collections and provide access to important online collections of source materials. University Libraries’ substantial holdings in history, classics, sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Middle Eastern studies are invaluable to students studying religion. Special collections in the Harry Ransom Center, the Benson Latin American Collection, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History also offer opportunities for research.

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

The Department of Rhetoric and Writing [DRW] offers innovative curriculum, research, and pre-professional training that prepares students to engage scholarly conversations about rhetorical theory from historical and global perspectives and to conduct empirical research using qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The program offers practical training in rhetoric and writing pedagogy and opportunities to apply rhetorical principles to nonacademic problems. Our faculty have diverse specialties in rhetorical history; digital rhetorics; feminist rhetorics; cultural rhetorics; technical communication; rhetorical theory; writing theory and pedagogy; queer rhetorics; public rhetorics; and rhetorics of science and technology. Training in this program will include core disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives for a multi-dimensional understanding of rhetoric and how it can be ethically applied to academic, practical, and community problems.

The DRW houses the Digital Writing and Research Lab [DWRL] and the University Writing Center [UWC], both of which offer unique training and employment opportunities for graduate students. Positioned at the intersection of rhetoric, writing, and technology, the DWRL was established in the 1980s and remains dedicated to the practice, teaching, and theory of the emerging digital literacies that are a requisite part of any 21st century liberal arts education. The UWC, founded in 1993, offers a wealth of practical and pedagogical resources for graduate and undergraduate students, including in-person and online writing consultations. Additional facilities for graduate work include an excellent library system and the world-renowned Harry Ransom Center.

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The University Libraries contain about 80,000 volumes and excellent supporting material on Russia and Eastern Europe. The Harry Ransom Center holds important original documents, including the Alexander Kerensky papers and collections on Soviet history and literature. The Population Research Center houses extensive census data for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, dating back to the Russian census of 1897. The Audio Visual Library in the Fine Arts Library has several hundred films and video recordings from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Archive holds millions of pages of state documents, many of which relate to Cold War diplomacy, arms control, East-West trade, and major historical events like the 1968 Prague Spring.

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Resource Center houses about 500 books and journals on the region, as well as audio and video recordings. More than 60 faculty members regularly teach courses dealing with Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.

Sociology

The Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the top graduate programs in the country. Its 40 faculty members are involved in research and publication on a broad range of topics. Among the department’s specialties are gender; race/ethnicity; demography; family; health; poverty and inequality; political sociology/development and globalization; and work, occupations, and organizations. Graduate students receive instruction in the full range of sociological methodologies, including comparative/historical methods, ethnographic fieldwork, and quantitative data analysis. Professionalization courses include formal instruction on publishing, presenting papers at professional conferences, and teaching. The department has housed a number of prominent journals, including Gender & Society, The Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and the Latin American Research Review. Faculty members serve key roles in a number of national and international professional societies, including the American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America.

The Department of Sociology is located in Robert L. Patton Hall (RLP), which also houses the innovative Urban Ethnography Lab and the Population Research Center (PRC), one of the preeminent demographic research and training centers in the United States. Research grant and fellowship opportunities are available through the PRC. The research foci of the PRC include children, youth, and families; population health; religion and demographic processes; and Latin American and border demography. Both the Department of Sociology and the PRC have computer laboratories, data archives, and a weekly lecture series. There are also opportunities for students to receive travel and fellowship funds to support their work.

Faculty and students are also affiliated with the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, which provides graduate students with the opportunity to receive a certification in women’s studies. Many sociology students present their original research at the annual CWGS graduate student conference. Other centers on campus provide research and teaching opportunities for sociology graduate students, including the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies, the Center for Asian American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

Women’s and Gender Studies

The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, which administers the master’s degree program in women’s and gender studies, is a campus-wide interdisciplinary program with almost three hundred affiliated faculty members from almost all colleges and schools. WGSS hosts a major lecture series or scholarly conference each year and its annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Conference in which graduate and undergraduate students present their work.

The University offers several unique resources for interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research in women’s and gender studies. Students and faculty have the support and collaboration of a dedicated Women's and Gender Studies/LGTBQ Studies Librarian at the University Libraries. The Harry Ransom Center includes celebrated rare book and manuscript collections in American and modern literature, including letters by Radclyffe Hall and the papers of Una Troubridge; papers of twentieth-century authors including Anne Sexton and Julia Alvarez; papers, including diaries and recipes, reflecting women’s daily life; artwork, including Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), as well as the photographs of Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron; and more, as reflected on the HRC's Women’s Studies area guide. The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is one of the world’s great collections of materials in Latin American, Mexican American, and Latino studies. Archival collections at the Benson include the materials of queer Chicana feminist author Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Texan author of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza; letters of Nobel-prize winning Chilean author and diplomat Gabriela Mistral; materials of internationally-renowned Austin musician Tish Hinojosa; and the papers of the National Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History holds the largest collection of extant historical manuscripts dealing with Texas, including the Black Texas Women Archive of materials and oral histories gathered by Austin-based historian Ruthe Winegarten; the papers of Frances (Sissy) Tarlton Farenthold, Texas-based international advocate for human rights who visited Greenham Commons and was nominated to be the Democratic candidate for the US vice presidency; the Lesbian Issues Collection of journals (1975-1991) and two letters by Rita Mae Brown; and the papers of various Austin and Texas feminist and women’s organizations including the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Austin Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Various locations in the University Libraries house microfilm sets of archival collections of advocates and organizations, including those of feminist organizing in Brazil, diaries of regional groups of women in the nineteenth century, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The University Libraries developed the Black Queer Studies Collection, a virtual collection that makes visible the libraries' substantial holdings in black diasporic queer materials. The Women’s and Gender/LGBTQ Studies Librarian provides additional information about women’s studies holdings.

Convenient to the University are other research facilities, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, the Texas State Library and Archives, and the Austin History Center. The Austin History Center houses archives of local advocates and organizations, including the Texas Statewide Queer People of Color Organization, and has research guides for materials on women’s resources, African American sources, Asian American sources, Mexican American sources, and more.