Fellows Directory

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Marina Alexandrova

Current Fellow
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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College of Liberal Arts

Dr. Alexandrova teaches a variety of courses on Russian history, culture, and language. Her current research interests include international modernism and avant-garde, Russian radical and revolutionary movements, spirituality in Imperial Russia, and, most recently, cultural and spiritual ties between Russia and the United States. Her Signature Course, UGS 303 "Tsars and Mystics," examines (un)Orthodox spiritual practices of Russian rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II.

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Samy Ayoub

Current Fellow
Middle Eastern Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
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Hina Azam

Alumni
Middle Eastern Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Student Success
Skill-Building

Dr. Hina Azam teaches courses in Islamic Studies such as Islamic theology, Islamic law, the Qur'an, Qur'an interpretation, and Islamic feminism, as well as a course on comparative religions of the Middle East. Her research focuses on women/gender/sexuality in Islam, ethics, and pedagogy. She supervises or serves as reader for undergraduate and graduate theses and dissertations across the University.

Deborah Beck

Deborah Beck

Current Fellow
Classics
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning

Deborah Beck has won various awards for both teaching and research, including the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College and University Level from the Society for Classical Studies and a prize for Excellence in Faculty Teaching from the Gamma Sigma chapter of the national Classics undergraduate honors society Eta Sigma Phi (2019) and two Plumer Visiting Research Fellowships at St Anne’s College, Oxford (2017 and 2019). Her main research interest is ancient Greek and Roman epic poetry, especially Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

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Daniel Birkholz

Alumni
English
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning

Carl Blyth

Alumni
French and Italian
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College of Liberal Arts
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Brian Bremen

PTF Emeritus
English
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Graduate Student Education

Project Title: Graduate Student Training and Support in Lower-Division Literature Classes 

 

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Erika Bsumek

Alumni
History
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Undergraduate Research

Bsumek is an Associate Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts, a recipient of the Dad’s Teaching Award, the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, and she is currently a 2nd-year Provost’s Teaching Fellow. Her areas of research include Native American history, environmental history/studies, the history of the built environment, and the history of the U.S. West. Her current research explores the social and environmental history of the area surrounding Glen Canyon on the Utah/Arizona border from the 1840s to the present.

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Tanya Clement

Current Fellow
English
Information
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College of Liberal Arts
School of Information
Initiative Focus
Inclusive Teaching and Learning
Digital Humanities

Tanya E Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research are textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies as these concerns impact academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in Digital Humanities (DH).

Janet Davis

Alumni
American Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning

Juan Dominguez

Alumni
Psychology
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Skill-Building
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Jen Ebbeler

Alumni
Classics
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Online and Blended Learning

Project Title: Identifying Successful Learning Strategies in Online and Blended Classrooms 

 

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Jules Elkins

Current Fellow
Sustainability Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Interdisciplinary Learning

Dr. Elkins is the Director of Sustainability Studies and Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Geography and the Environment. Dr. Elkins’ research and teaching is in environmental health, and healthy indoor environments. She is particularly interested in low-dose chemical exposures, especially during the period from preconception to early childhood. Her interests focus on how exposures can be practically and cost-effectively reduced or prevented based on evidence-based models of what interventions measurably work.

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Michael Findley

Current Fellow
Government
Public Affairs
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College of Liberal Arts
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Initiative Focus
Mentorship
Student Success

Sam Gosling

Alumni
Psychology
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College of Liberal Arts
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Lars Hinrichs

Alumni
English
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Digital Humanities
Peniel Joseph

Peniel Joseph

Current Fellow
Public Affairs
History
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College of Liberal Arts
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Initiative Focus
Mentorship

Peniel Joseph is the First-Year Representative on the 2020 PTF Steering Committee.

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Elon Lang

Current Fellow
Liberal Arts Honors and Humanities Programs
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College of Liberal Arts

Elon Lang is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches a variety of undergraduate literature survey courses on ethical topics, medieval and early modern studies, dramatic literature, and Experiential Learning courses based in archival research. One example was his 2020-2021 courses called Archival Advocacy in which students learned how to bring archival techniques to bear on a real-world social justice issue facing the East Austin, Texas, community: the closing of one of Austin's historically Hispanic elementary schools.

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Julia Mickenberg

Current Fellow
American Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Skill-Building

Julia Mickenberg is Professor of American Studies and an affiliate in the Center for Women and Gender Studies, the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She is the author of American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream (Chicago, 2017) and Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics (Oxford, 2006) and editor or co-editor of several other books, along with articles in journals ranging from the Journal of American History to Radical Teacher.

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Amy Nathan Wright

Current Fellow
Human Dimensions of Organizations
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning

Amy Nathan Wright got her PhD in American Studies at UT Austin and returned in 2019 as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Human Dimensions of Organizations.  She is a civil rights scholar completing a book on the Poor People’s Campaign and has taught interdisciplinary courses focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion for the past decade and a half.

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Mary Neuburger

Alumni
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Curriculum Redesign
Digital Humanities

Dr. Mary Neuburger is a Professor of history, the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas of Austin. Dr.

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Adam Rabinowitz

Alumni
Classics
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Undergraduate Research
Digital Humanities

I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics. My research focuses on the archaeology of Greek colonization, culture-contact, and ancient food and drink, and I have an active field project at the ancient site of Histria in Romania, near the Danube delta. In my teaching, I try to find ways to engage students with primary sources and involve them in research inside and outside the classroom as part of the learning process. I am particularly interested in digital tools and platforms that allow students in the Humanities to carry out public-facing research projects.

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Penne Restad

PTF Emeritus
History
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Active Learning

Project Title: Transforming the Classroom: Engaging Faculty Step-by-Step 

 

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Stephanie Seidel Holmsten

Alumni
Government
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Interdisciplinary Learning

Stephanie Seidel Holmsten is an associate professor of instruction in the College of Liberal Arts where she teaches core courses in the International Relations and Global Studies program, as well as Gender and Politics in the Government Department. Her teaching methods include global virtual exchange and team-based learning. She is Chair of the Provost Teaching Fellows, co-Director of the Brumley Next Generation Scholars Program, and Director of the Global Virtual Exchange faculty learning community. Her research explores minority women's election around the world.

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Pauline Strong

Current Fellow
Anthropology
Humanities Institute
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Collaborative Learning
Inclusive Teaching and Learning

Dr. Pauline Strong is a Professor of Anthropology and served as director of the Humanities Institute and its Difficult Dialogues Program from 2009 until 2022. She is also affiliated with American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Human Dimensions of Organizations. Her research focuses on representations and self-representations of indigenous people in the US, and her teaching areas include cultural anthropology, feminist anthropology, culture and health, museum studies, youth organizations, and indigenous cultures and histories.