List of University of Texas at Austin faculty
This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin, Texas that is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.[1][2][3] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff.[4] It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.[5]
Administration
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Gregory L. Fenves | Administration | 2015–present | President of The University of Texas at Austin | No | [6] |
School of Architecture
Name | School | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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David Heymann | Architecture | Professor, Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor | No | [7] | |
Juan Miró | Architecture | Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Urban Design, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Academy of Distinguished Teachers University of Texas, and Director of Studio Mexico | No | [8] | |
Lawrence Speck | Architecture | Professor, The W. L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor | No | [9] | |
Michael Benedikt | Architecture | Professor, Hal Box Endowed Chair in Urbanism, Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design | No | [10] | |
Kevin Alter | Architecture | Professor, Sid W. Richardson Centennial Professor of Architecture, Director of the Summer Academy in Architecture, and Associate Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design | No | [11] | |
Steven Moore | Architecture | Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor in Architecture | No | [12] |
College of Communication
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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College of Education
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Oscar Mink | Curriculum and Instruction | 1973 - 2004 | Assistant professor Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1961-1964. Senior scientist, manager Management & Executive Development-Xerox Corporation, Rochester, 1964-1966. Associate professor, director division clinical studies West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1966-1970, Associate professor, consultant West Virginia College Graduate Studies, Institute, 1972-1973. Professor University Texas, Austin, from 1973. Consultant Telecom, Australia, since 1988. | No |
Cockrell School of Engineering
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Willis Adcock | Electrical Engineering | 1986-1993 | Assisted with invention of the silicon transistor and integrated circuit; Fellow of AAAS and IEEE; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [13] |
Alan Bovik | Electrical Engineering | 1984–present | Invented picture quality measurement tools used throughout global broadcast and streaming Television and cinematic industries; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development; IEEE Fourier Award; Edwin H. Land Medal | No | [14] |
Edith Clarke | Electrical Engineering | 1947-1957 | First woman faculty member of electrical engineering in the US; power engineer; inventor of Clarke Calculator and method of symmetrical components; Fellow of IEEE; Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award | No | [15] |
Donglei Fan | Mechanical Engineering | 2010–present | Principal investigator of the Nanomaterial Innovation Lab; developed techniques for moving nanosctructures; built fast nanomotors | No | [16] |
John B. Goodenough | Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering | 1986–present | Research led to the first lithium ion battery; US National Academy of Engineering; Japan Prize | No | [17] |
Robert M. Metcalfe | Electrical Engineering | 2011–present | Inventor of Ethernet; founded 3Com Corporation; recipient of ACM Grace Hopper Award in 1980, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1988, IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996, National Medal of Technology in 2005; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007; Fellow Award from the Computer History Museum in 2008; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [18] |
Yale Patt | Electrical Engineering | 1999–present | Breakthroughs in computer architecture to make faster processors; inventor of the WOS module; the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon; Fellow of ACM and IEEE; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [19] |
Nicholas A. Peppas | Chemical Engineering | ?-present | Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [20] |
Michael Webber | Mechanical Engineering | 2006–present | Deputy Director of the university's Energy Institute; host of PBS's Energy at the Movies | Yes | [21] |
College of Fine Arts
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Robert Freeman | Butler School of Music | Dean of the College of Fine Arts (1999-2006); Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professor of Fine Arts (2006–present) | Dean of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, 1972-1996; he was President of the New England Conservatory 1996-1999; performed as a concert pianist throughout North America and Europe; has published on topics related to 18th-century music history and music education | No | [22] |
School of Information
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Loriene Roy | 1987–present | Former president of the American Library Association | No | [23] | |
Roberta I. Shaffer | 1999-2001 | Law Librarian of Congress; former dean | No | [24] | |
Brooke Sheldon | 1991-1996 | Former president of the American Library Association; former dean | No | [25] |
Jackson School of Geosciences
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Sharon Mosher | Dean's Office | 2009–present | Dean, William Stamps Farish Chair | No | [26] |
School of Law
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Ted Cruz | Law | 2004-2009 | Future US Senator and a 2016 Candidate for the Republican Nomination for President of the United States | No | [27] |
William Willard Gibson Jr. | Law | 1965-1998 | Provost of Judicial Education with the Texas Supreme Court for 1992-1993 | Yes | [28] |
College of Liberal Arts
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Simone Browne | Sociologiy | 2007–present | Author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness | No | [29] |
Mounira M. Charrad | Sociology | 2000–present | Political sociologist | No | [30] |
Elizabeth Cullingford | English | 1982–present | Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English Literature since 2011, head of department since 2006 | No | [31] |
Lee M. Hollander | Germanic Studies | 1920–1968 | Old Norse scholar, head of department | No | [32] |
Frances Karttunen | Linguistics Research Center | 1968–2000 | academic linguist and researcher on Uto-Aztecan and Finno-Ugric languages; historian of Mesoamerican literature and Nantucket local history | No | [33] |
Jerome Loving | English | Professor of American Literature and Culture | No | [34] | |
David Oshinsky | Sociology | 2002-2013 | historian and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History for Polio: An American Story | No | [35] |
Mark Regnerus | Sociology | 2007–present | Sociologist and researcher | No | [36] |
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Carolyn Heinrich | Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) | 2011–present | Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs | No | [37] |
McCombs School of Business
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Thomas W. Gilligan | Dean's Office | 2008–present | Dean, Centennial Chair in Business Leadership | No | [38] |
Robert C. Solomon | ETHICS | 1972–2007 | Chairman, Hegel Society of America | No | |
Steve Salbu | Bobbie and Coulter R. Sublett Centennial Endowed Professor; associate dean for graduate programs | 1990-2006 | dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006-2014) | No | [39] |
Andrew B. Whinston | IROM | 1988–present | Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration; Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce | No | [40] |
Leigh McAlister | Marketing | 1987–present | Executive Director Marketing Science Institute | No | [41] |
College of Natural Sciences
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid | Physics | 1975 | Quantum field theory, relativity, mechanics | No | |
Robert S. Boyer | Computer Science | 1981–2008 | Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm; co-creator of the Nqthm and ACL2 theorem provers | Yes | [42] |
Ruth Buskirk | Biology | 1990–present | Molecular genetics, microbiology | No | [43] |
K. Mani Chandy | Computer Science | 1970–1989 | Distributed computing, including the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm for the determination of consistent global states | No | [44] |
Edsger W. Dijkstra | Computer Science | 1984–2000 | Numerous foundational contributions to various computing disciplines, especially programming languages, formal verification, and distributed computing; Turing Award for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages; ACM Fellow | No | [45] |
E. Allen Emerson | Computer Science | ?-present | Turing Award for "developing model checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries" | Yes | [46] |
Simon S. Lam | Computer Science | 1977–present | Co-inventor of Secure Sockets Layer; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering | No | [47] |
J Strother Moore | Computer Science | 1981–1988, 1997–present | Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm; co-creator of the Nqthm and ACL2 theorem provers; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering; department chair 2001-2009 | No | [48] |
Nancy A. Moran | Integrative Biology | 2013–present | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; elected to the National Academy of Sciences; 2010 winner of the International Prize for Biology | Yes | [49] |
Sahotra Sarkar | Integrative Biology | 1990–present | Specialist in the history and philosophy of science | No | |
Robert van de Geijn | Computer Science | 1987–present | No | [50] | |
Steven Weinberg | Physics | Nobel Laureate, author | No | [51] |
School of Nursing
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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College of Pharmacy
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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School of Social Work
Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
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Administration
- Eugene C. Barker — Chairman, Department of History (Barker History Center)
- Darlene Grant — Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
- William Powers, Jr. — law professor, President of The University of Texas at Austin
- Lawrence G. Sager — Dean, School of Law
- James Steinberg — Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Ben G. Streetman — Dean, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Paul Woodruff — Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Arts and entertainment
- Chad Oliver — science fiction and Western writer
- Ellen Spiro - documentary filmmaker
Athletics
- Fred Akers — former head football coach
- Major Applewhite — current football co-offensive coordinator
- Rick Barnes — head basketball coach
- Mack Brown — former head football coach
- Jody Conradt — former women's basketball coach
- Gary Darnell — former football defensive coordinator
- Manny Diaz — former football defensive coordinator
- DeLoss Dodds — former athletic director
- Augie Garrido — former baseball coach and host of Home Plate on the Longhorn Network
- Bryan Harsin — former football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach
- John Mackovic — former head football coach
- Greg Robinson — former football co-defensive coordinator
- Darrell Royal — former football head coach
- Charlie Strong — former football head coach
Education
- Marye Anne Fox — chemist, Chancellor of University of California, San Diego and formerly North Carolina State University
- Robert L. Mills — educator; former president of Georgetown College, Kentucky
Journalism and publishing
- Gail Caldwell
- J. Frank Dobie — American folklorist, writer, and columnist
- Marvin Olasky — journalist and conservative pundit
Law and government
- James K. Galbraith — head of the University of Texas Inequality Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Barbara Jordan — the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House
- Gretchen Ritter, professor of government at UT Austin from 1992 to 2013.[52]
- Oran Milo Roberts — Governor of Texas from January 21, 1879 to January 16, 1883
- T. K. Seung — professor of philosophy, government, and law
Philosophy
- Robert S. Boyer — professor of philosophy, computer science, and math
- Jonathan Dancy — professor of philosophy
- Robert Kane — professor of philosophy
- Brian Leiter — professor of philosophy and law
- Louis H. Mackey — professor of philosophy
- Aloysius Martinich — professor of philosophy (world-renowned for his knowledge of Thomas Hobbes)
- Mark Sainsbury — professor of philosophy
- T. K. Seung — professor of philosophy, government, and law
- Tara Smith — professor of philosophy
- Robert C. Solomon — professor of philosophy
- Paul Woodruff — professor of philosophy
Science and technology
- Eric J. Barron, former dean of College of Geosciences; current Director of National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Adi Bulsara, PhD, 1978 (physics) - leading physicist in the area of nonlinear dynamics
- Franklin C. Crow — computer scientist
- Bryce DeWitt — physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe")
- Gordon Gunter — instructor in physiology (1939-1945), then researcher (1945-1949), Acting Director (1949-1954) and Director (1954-1955) of the University of Texas Institute of Marine Science at Port Aransas and editor of Publications of the Institute of Marine Science (1950-1955); influential fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- G.B. Halsted — mathematician
- William H. Jefferys — astronomer
- Chris Mack — photolithographer
- Hans Mark — aerospace engineer, former Deputy Administrator at NASA and Secretary of the Air Force
- Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. — zoologist
- Hermann Joseph Muller — geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Ilya Prigogine — physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Bill Schelter — mathematician, Lisp developer
- Roy Schwitters — physicist, former director of the now-defunct Superconducting Super Collider
- Elliot See — astronaut
- Jonathan Sessler — chemist, pioneering work on expanded porphyrins
- John Tate — mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Karen Uhlenbeck — mathematician, National Medal of Science
- Harry Vandiver — mathematician
- Rachel Ward (mathematician) — applied mathematician
- Steven Weinberg — Nobel Laureate in Physics, author
- John Archibald Wheeler — physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole'
- Robert E. Wyatt, chemist
Social sciences
- Eugene C. Barker — Texas historian
- Walter Dean Burnham — political scientist
- David Buss — evolutionary psychology
- Mounira M. Charrad — political sociologist
- Madonna Constantine — counseling psychologist
- Scott Freeman — economist
- James K. Galbraith — economist
- J. Evetts Haley — historian of the American West
- Ian Hancock — linguist and Romani scholar
- Milton W. Humphreys - first professor of Latin and Greek at UT Austin, 1883-1887
- Thomas Pangle - professor of government
- Linda Schele — expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography
- T. K. Seung — professor of philosophy, government, and law
- John Traphagan — anthropology
- Philip L. White — professor of Colonial America and Nationality, 1955–2000; political activist and academic free-speech leader
- Luis Zayas — professor of Psychiatry
See also
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