Argentina

Marina Alexandrova

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Marina Alexandrova's research interests include international modernism and avant-garde (1870s-1920s), Russian radical and revolutionary movements, spirituality in Imperial Russia, and, most recently, cultural and spiritual ties between Russia and the U.S.

Rosental Alves

Journalism and Media, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Rosental Alves' research focuses on international reporting (emphasizing the work of foreign correspondents), journalism in Latin America (especially the struggle for a free press in the hemisphere), and Internet journalism (the creation of a new genre of journalism for the digital medium).

Javier Auyero

Sociology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Javier Auyero's main areas of research, writing, and teaching are urban marginality, political ethnography, and collective violence with a particular focus on Argentina.

Doris Baker

Curriculum and Instruction, Special Education

Doris Baker's research interest is to develop and test interventions that improve the outcomes of English learners using evidence-based practices and technology. She is also interested in the development of formative assessments that can measure student academic growth, the examination of the effect of parental support on their children’s academic outcomes, and the enhancement of teacher pedagogical practices and content knowledge.

Jonathan Bard

Mechanical Engineering

Jonathan Bard is an expert on bilevel programming and postal operations. His research focuses on the development of efficient algorithms for problems related to airline operations, vehicle routing, and machine scheduling; the design and analysis of manufacturing systems; the use of decomposition techniques to solve large-scale hierarchical planning problems; and multi-criteria decision making applied to socio-economic systems.

Nathaniel Brickens

Music Performance, Music Education

Nathaniel Brickens is an internationally acclaimed trombone player and educator. He has traveled and performed both national and internationally as a free-lance trombonist, as conductor of the UT Trombone Choir, and as a music educator.

Daniel Brinks

Government, Law

Daniel Brinks' research is on the role of the law and courts in supporting democratic rights. Over the years, he has addressed the use of courts and law to enforce social and economic rights in the developing world, the development of the rule of law and new constitutional orders in Latin America, the judicial response to police violence in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, judicial independence, and the role of informal norms in the legal order.

Matthew Butler

History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Matthew Butler researches and writes about the history of modern Mexico, the history of Catholicism in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, the history of indigenous people, and Mexican agrarian history. More specifically, he is interested in the relationship between Catholicism, modernity, and forms of political liberty in Mexico. He is also developing a new project on the history of the Mexican bullfight.

Luis Caffarelli

Mathematics

Luis Caffarelli's work covers classical and modern analysis including analytic number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry, dynamical systems, functional analysis, harmonic analysis, mathematical physics, numerical analysis, partial differential equations, probability and stochastic processes, and it has substantial interaction and overlap with areas of applied mathematics, mathematical biology and scientific computing.

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante

Spanish & Portuguese

Luis Cárcamo-Huechante specializes in indigenous media and cultures in the Americas, with a focus on indigeneity, sound poetics and land politics; contemporary Mapuche culture and politics; and revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures; indigenous social movements; and environmental studies. He is also interested in the intersections between economics, literature, and cultural imagination in modern and contemporary Latin America.

Charles Carson

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Charles Carson is a musicologist whose interests are African-American/American expressive cultures, popular music, jazz, film music, and music and culture.

Julia Clarke

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Julia Clarke's research focuses on using phylogenetic methods and diverse data types to gain insight into the evolution of birds, avian flight and the co-option of the flight stroke for underwater diving. She is particularly interested in understanding shared patterns and potential causal factors in the evolution of living bird lineages.

Isabella Cunningham

Advertising & Public Relations, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Isabella Cunningham's research is in the area of legal and ethical aspects of advertising and promotional communications. In addition, she is particularly interested in the management of the communications effort, which includes media effectiveness and message appeals.

Ian Dalziel

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Ian Dalziel's research is focused on understanding global tectonic processes and to mapping out the geography of ancient times on a dynamic Earth. His 60 years of field experience have been devoted to work in the British Caledonides, the Canadian Shield, the Andes, and Antarctica.

Donna De Cesare

Journalism and Media, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Donna De Cesare is an author, documentary photographer and educator known for covering the spread of U.S. gangs in Central America.

Anthony Di Fiore

Anthropology

Anthony Di Fiore conducts long-term behavioral and ecological field research on several species in the primate community of Amazonian Ecuador. He investigates the ways in which ecological conditions (such as the abundance and distribution of food resources) and the strategies of conspecifics together shape primate behavior and social relationships and ultimately determine the various kinds of primate societies.

Andres Drenik

Economics

Andres Drenik's research interests include macroeconomics, international economics, and labor economics.

Ariel Dulitzky

Law, Human Rights and Justice, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies

Ariel Dulitzky is a leading expert in human rights, particularly in Latin America and the United Nations and regional (particularly the inter-American) human rights system and enforced disappearances. Dulitzky has published extensively on human rights, the inter-American human rights system, racial discrimination, indigenous rights, the rule of law in Latin America, enforced disappearances, and sports and human rights.

David Eaton

Public Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Geography and the Environment, Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, South Asia Institute, Jewish Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, IC2 Institute

David Eaton's research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution.

Nicolas Espinoza

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Nicolas Espinoza’s research interests include mechanics and physics of natural porous solids, methane recovery from microporous organic rocks, methane hydrate-bearing sediments, and geological carbon sequestration. His methodology combines laboratory techniques and advanced imaging tools to understand and model diverse geomaterials for petroleum engineering applications.

David Nicolas Espinoza

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

David Espinoza’s research interests include mechanics and physics of natural porous solids, methane recovery from microporous organic rocks, methane hydrate-bearing sediments, and geological carbon sequestration. His methodology combines laboratory techniques and advanced imaging tools to understand and model diverse geomaterials for petroleum engineering applications.

George Flaherty

Art and Art History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

George Flaherty’s research and teaching focuses primarily on modern and contemporary art, architecture, and film, focusing on Mexico, the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and their diasporas in the United States. He is also interested in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx studies, postcolonial and subaltern studies, and the urban humanities.

Joshua Frens-String

History

Joshua Frens-String is a historian of modern Latin America. His research interests include revolution in modern Latin America, popular politics, labor history, global agricultural history, food politics, and U.S.-Latin American relations.

Daniel Fridman

Sociology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Daniel Fridman is interested in the intersections of economy and culture, neoliberalism and financialization, economic policy in Latin America, consumer culture, gift-giving, the sociology of money, and the construction of economic subjects.

William Fuchs

Finance

William Fuchs' research focuses on situations with a poor contractual environment due to asymmetric information or lack of formal enforcement. He studies how repeated interactions or policies can be used to partially overcome the underlying frictions.

Irene Gamba

Mathematics, Oden Institute

Irene Gamba's research group focuses on modeling of non-linear, coupled systems arising in the physical and biological sciences, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Using classical and statistical analysis, the group addresses model formulation, interpretation, approximation, and assessment along with multiple dimensional spatial and temporal scales, direct and inverse problems, and accurate and efficient approximation algorithms.

Lawrence Gilbert

Integrative Biology

Lawrence Gilbert's research ranges from the analysis of coevolved traits of insects and plants to experimental population dynamics and developmental genetics of mimetic color patterns in Heliconius butterflies. Gilbert is also interested in applying findings of basic evolutionary ecology to conservation of diversity and better management to agroecosystems.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.

Kenneth Greene

Government, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Kenneth Greene's research focuses on authoritarian regimes and political competition in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico.

Dean Hendrickson

Integrative Biology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Dean Hendrickson's research focuses on the evolution, conservation and ecology of freshwater ecosystems, particularly those of North American deserts and generally with emphasis on fishes and Mexico.

Brian Horton

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Brian Horton's research focuses on sedimentary basin development and mountain building processes. He utilizes sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, structural geology, and geochemistry to understand modern and ancient sedimentation, river drainage patterns, sediment provenance, and orogenesis.

Alexander Huth

Computer Science, Neuroscience

Alexander Huth's research uses computational methods to model how the brain processes language and represents meaning. Huth is also interested in fMRI technology and data visualization.

Orlando Kelm

Spanish & Portuguese, Marketing, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Orlando Kelm is a linguistics professional whose interests center on the use of language and culture for professional purposes, such as Business Spanish & Portuguese. Kelm's research focuses on the creation of instructional materials, including the use of innovative technologies in foreign language instruction.

Richard Ketcham

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Richard Ketcham's research has two primary directions. One is concerns low-temperature thermochronology (fission-track, (U-Th)/He), from the theory underlying system kinetics to developing tools to derive geological thermal histories. The other is developing and applying 3D data processing methods for X-ray computed tomography across a wide range of fields, including petrology, planetary geology, paleontology, anthropology, and economic geology.

Naomi Lindstrom

Spanish & Portuguese, Jewish Studies, Comparative Literature, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Naomi Lindstrom carries out research in the intersection of Latin American studies, gender studies, and Jewish studies. She is the author of books and articles on 19th-, 20th-, and 21-century Latin American literature. Her work focuses on Latin American Jewish Studies, film, graphic narrative, and the comparative study of Jewish life in the Americas. She is also a literary translator and organizes a lecture series.

Matthew Malkowski

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Matthew Malkowski's research focuses on using sediment and the sedimentary record to study how mountain belts and ocean basins evolve in responses to external forces, such as climate, tectonics, sea level changes, and human impacts.

Sofian Merabet

Anthropology, French and Italian, Latin American Studies, European Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Sofian Merabet is a socio-cultural anthropologist with expertise in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world, including Muslim immigrant communities in Europe and the Arab Diaspora in South America. His interdisciplinary research analyzes the human geography of queer identity formations and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations.

Ulrich Mueller

Integrative Biology

Ulrich Mueller studies molecular ecology of organismal interactions. His research focuses currently on two projects: (a) population biology of fungus-growing ants, their cultivated fungi, and associated microbial mutualists; (b) microbiome breeding (artificial selection on microbiomes) to improve health of crop plants and bees.

Evdokia Nikolova

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Evdokia Nikolova is interested in risk analysis from an algorithmic perspective arising in stochastic optimization, networks, economics and complex systems.

Steven Pedigo

Public Affairs

Steven Pedigo is an expert in urban economic development, regional cooperation and placemaking. Pedigo has developed strategies for more than 50 cities and regions in the United States and other countries.

Nicholas Peppas

Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Modern Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pediatrics, Surgery, Medicine

Nikolaos Peppas' research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate next-generation systems and devices, including bio-microelectromechanical systems with enhanced applicability, reliability, functionality and longevity.

Gabriela Polit

Spanish & Portuguese, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Gabriela Polit's research interest is the exploration of fantasy in contemporary women's literary and film production. She analyzes how drive and grief operate in the creation of art.

Jonathan Pratter

Law

Jonathan Pratter teaches Advanced Legal Research and International & Foreign Law.

Jorge Prozzi

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Jorge Prozzi and his research team have ongoing experimental research on testing and behavior of road building materials, such as the design and rehabilitation of pavements, asphalt technology, accelerated pavement testing, and pavement management systems. His research involves mechanistic and empirical design and applications of probability and statistics to pavement engineering problems.

Pedro Reyes

Educational Leadership and Policy, Educational Psychology, Public Affairs

Pedro Reyes is passionate about teaching and research on student success. He is an expert on higher education organization, leadership, and management. His research is focused on the intersection of policy and leadership that facilitate student success, including culturally and linguistically diverse, and often marginalized students, such as urban students, language learners, migrant students, and border students, among others.

Josafath Reynoso Calvillo

Theatre and Dance

Josafath Reynoso is an award winning scenic designer. He has designed new productions for various theater companies nationally and internationally.

Juan Ruiz

Chemical Engineering

Juan Ruiz's research goal is to improve the design and operation of complex process systems by developing techniques that combine strong theoretical fundamentals with highly efficient computational methods.

Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

Theater and Dance

Roxanne Schroeder-Arce's research interests include culturally responsive theatre education and Latino/a theatre for youth.

David Sosa

Philosophy, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

David Sosa's research interests include epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Kyle Spikes

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kyle Spikes’ interests involve the integration of geologic information with quantitative tools for seismic reservoir characterization. This area of research includes both forward and inverse problems, which combine rock physics, stochastic geologic modeling, seismic inversion, and wave-propagation modeling.

Carlos Torres-Verdin

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Geological Sciences

Carlos Torres-Verdin’s research is focused to the petrophysical, geophysical, mechanical, and geological description and quantification of the near-borehole region from core samples, geophysical measurements, and in-situ permanent sensors.

John Turci-Escobar

Music Theory

John Turci-Escobar's primary areas of interest include the late Italian madrigal, the music of Astor Piazzolla, and Argentine tango. His interests extend to 19th-century chromaticism, classical form, and broader issues in music and meaning.

Kurt Weyland

Government

Kurt Weyland's research focuses on the democratization and waves of regime change in Latin America and Europe, along with market reform, social policy, policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America. Weyland draws on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela.

Robert O. Williams III

Pharmaceutics

Robert O. Williams III’s research focuses on formulation development; design of complex drug delivery systems; optimization; and delivery of small organic compounds, peptides, and proteins by a variety of technologies, including depot drug delivery, oral drug delivery and pulmonary/nasal drug delivery. Additionally, his research has focused on aerosol device technology, and novel analytical methods to quantitate and characterize these

Robert Williams

Pharmacy

Robert O. Williams III's research focuses on the design of complex drug delivery systems and their optimization, focusing on the delivery of small organic compounds, peptides, and proteins by a variety of technologies. These include depot drug delivery, oral drug delivery, and pulmonary/nasal drug delivery. He also investigates aerosol device technology and novel analytical methods to quantitate and characterize these technologies.

Pilar Zazueta

Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Pilar Zazueta is a historian. Her research focuses on how food and nutrition became a public policy issue in Mexico during the 20th-century.

Jorge Zornberg

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Jorge Zornberg conducts research on soil reinforcement, new earth retention systems, transportation geotechnics, geosynthetics, unsaturated soils, liner systems, and numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems.

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