International Studies

Our Faculty

Anthropology

    • NAME

      Melissa Johnson

    • TITLE

      Professor of Anthropology

    • Specialty

      Topical: Nature, the more than human and the human; Race, Racism, Critical Race Theory; Environment and Place; Conservation; Social Theory; Environmental History; Racial History; Tourism; Gender. Area: Belize; Caribbean; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas

  • Art History

    • NAME

      Allison R. Miller

    • TITLE

      Professor of Art History

    • Specialty

      Chinese art and archaeology

  • Business

    • NAME

      Gabriela Flores

    • TITLE

      John Shearn Chair in Business and Associate Professor of Business

    • Specialty

      Organizational Behavior, Gender in Organizations, Leader Communication

    • NAME

      Andrew Ross

    • TITLE

      Director of Business Internships and Assoc. Prof. of Business

    • Specialty

      Product Marketing, Consumer Behavior, International Marketing

  • Chinese

  • English

    • NAME

      Eileen Cleere

    • TITLE

      Professor of English

    • Specialty

      Victorian literature and culture, the novel, film studies, feminist studies.

  • French

    • NAME

      Francis Mathieu

    • TITLE

      Professor of French

    • Specialty

      Intercultural Skills; French Culture and Literature; History of French Civilization; Translation; Food & Health; World War Two France; Multi-Cultural France; Introduction to Modern Literature; and African Literature

  • German

  • History

    • NAME

      Melissa K Byrnes

    • TITLE

      Professor of History and Department Chair

    • Specialty

      Modern European History, France and the French Empire, Migration, Race, Muslims and the Islamic World, Human Rights, Humanitarianism

    • NAME

      Jethro Hernández Berrones

    • TITLE

      Associate Professor of History

    • Specialty

      Modern Mexico, Latin America, Medicine, Science, Public Health, Medical Education, Homeopathy, Global Scientific Networks, Traditional/Popular Healing, Popular Science, Spiritualism/Spiritism

    • NAME

      Jessica Hower

    • TITLE

      Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History

    • Specialty

      Early Modern Era, Britain and Ireland, The British Empire, The Atlantic World, Comparative Colonialism, Women & Gender

  • Music

    Philosophy

    • NAME

      Michael Bray

    • TITLE

      Professor of Philosophy

    • Specialty

      Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

  • Political Science

    • NAME

      Alisa Gaunder

    • TITLE

      Tower-Hester Chair in Political Science and Professor of Political Science

  • Religion

    • NAME

      Elaine Craddock

    • TITLE

      Professor of Religion

    • Specialty

      Hinduism; Feminism and Religion; Tamil literature; Religion and the Body

    • NAME

      Laura Hobgood

    • TITLE

      Elizabeth Root Paden Chair and Professor of Religion

    • Specialty

      Animals in the history of the Christian tradition; human-dog history; contemporary religious-ethical issues related to other-than-human animals; religion and ecology; environmental studies; Ecofeminism; human-animal studies; alternative religious experiences (i.e. cycling as religion)

  • Spanish

    • NAME

      Ted Jobe

    • TITLE

      Director of Language Media Services

    • Specialty

      Specialty Hispanic Linguistics with emphasis on sociolinguistics. Research in learning strategies with authentic-language audiovisual materials

    • NAME

      María de los Ángeles Rodriguez Cadena

    • TITLE

      Associate Professor of Spanish

    • Specialty

      Contemporary Mexican and Latin American Literature and Culture, Cultural memory, Cultural complexes, Historical fiction in literature, film and television, Mexican television and film female directors, Feminist Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Nature and Culture, Environmental Humanities.

    • NAME

      Katy Bourland Ross

    • TITLE

      Professor of Spanish

    • Specialty

      Post-Franco Spanish literature, twentieth and twenty-first century peninsular Spanish literature and film. 

    • NAME

      Laura Senio Blair

    • TITLE

      Assistant Dean of the Faculty & Professor of Spanish

    • Specialty

      20th and 21st Century Hispano American Narrative and Drama. Chilean Narrative, Drama and Film. Hispanic Film.