NAME

David Asbury

TITLE

Associate Professor of Music

Specialty

Guitar, Music Theory, Music Technology

NAME

Lamiyah (LB) Bahrainwala

TITLE

Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Specialty

Anti-Muslim sentiment; feminist surveillance studies

NAME

Michael Bray

TITLE

Professor of Philosophy

Specialty

Political Philosophy; Critical Theory

NAME

Melissa K Byrnes

TITLE

Professor of History

Specialty

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

NAME

Sergio Costola

TITLE

Dean of the Faculty

Specialty

Theatre History, Dramaturgy

NAME

Carlos De Oro

TITLE

Professor of Spanish

Specialty

Contemporary Latin American Film, Literatures, and Cultures

NAME

Abby Dings

TITLE

Associate Professor of Spanish

Specialty

Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Interactional Competence

NAME

Patrick Thomas Hajovsky

TITLE

Associate Professor of Art History

Specialty

The Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and the Andes

The Art History of the Spanish Colonial Period in Latin America

Ancient and Colonial Aesthetics and Embodiment in the Americas

NAME

Jethro Hernandez 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

Joseph E. Hower

TITLE

Associate Professor of History

Specialty

U.S. History, Labor and Politics in Modern America, Social Movements, Urban History, Policy History

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

NAME

Jim Kilfoyle

TITLE

Associate Professor of English

Specialty

Eighteenth-century British literature, postcolonial literature, literary theory

NAME

Maria R. Lowe

TITLE

Professor of Sociology

Specialty

Race and racism, racialized spaces, neighborhood coveillance & surveillance, campus climate research (race and gender), the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, & the construction of gender in sports.

NAME

Ken Mello

TITLE

Associate Professor of Religion

Specialty

Native American traditions, Contemporary Indigenous Identity, Sacred Space, Gender and Sexuality, Indigenous Myth and Narratives, other non-textual religious traditions.

NAME

Allison R. Miller

TITLE

Associate Professor of Art History

Specialty

Chinese art and archaeology

NAME

Alicia Moore

TITLE

Associate Professor of Education

Specialty

Multiculturalism/Culturally Responsive Teaching; Differentiated Instruction for diverse populations; Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and  Equity Advocate, Early Childhood Best Practices

NAME

Valerie Renegar

TITLE

Professor of Communication Studies

Specialty

Rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist movements, third wave feminism, environmental rhetoric, Kenneth Burke.

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

Catherine Bourland Ross

TITLE

Professor of Spanish

Specialty

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

NAME

Eric Selbin

TITLE

Professor of Political Science

Specialty

Comparative Politics (Comparative Revolutions; Contentious Politics; Latin American and Caribbean Politics; Ideologies); International Politics (Peace and Conflict; IR Theory); Political Sociology.

NAME

Brenda Sendejo

TITLE

Associate Professor of Feminist Studies

Specialty

Anthropology of religion, Mexican American spiritualities and indigenous heritage, gender and racialization, and Chicana feminisms. Geographic specialization: U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, Central and South Texas.

NAME

Emily Sydnor

TITLE

Associate Professor of Political Science

Specialty

political communication, political psychology, political behavior, public opinion