Research and Creative Activity
Argentina
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Faculty Research & Creative Activity in 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
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
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.
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.
Ian Dalziel
Earth and Planetary Sciences
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, 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.
Andres Drenik
Economics
Andres Drenik's research interests include macroeconomics, international economics, and labor economics.
Ariel Dulitzky
Law, Human Rights and Justice, 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, Integrative Biology, Geography and the Environment, Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia Institute, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Public Health, Institute for Innovation
David Eaton's research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution.
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.
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.
George Flaherty
Art and Art History
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.
Daniel Fridman
Sociology
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.
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
Kenneth Greene's research focuses on authoritarian regimes and political competition in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico.
Dean Hendrickson
Integrative Biology, 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
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
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, Latin American Studies, Women’s and Gender 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- and 20th-century Latin American literature, focusing on Latin American Jewish Studies, literary translation, sociology of the arts, and the comparative study of Jewish life in the Americas.
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.
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, 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
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 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.
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
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.
Partnerships
- Universidad Austral, IAE Business School
- Universidad De Buenos Aires
- Universidad De San Andres
- Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Alumni Connections
Texas Exes Argentina Chapter
Participate in the Argentina's Texas Exes International Chapter to stay connected to UT, meet fellow alumni, participate in a variety of activities and programs, cultivate professional relationships, and find opportunities to engage in the local community.