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. 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. It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.

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Administration

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
William Powers, Jr.	Administration	1977–present	President of The University of Texas at Austin	No

School of Architecture

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
Frederick Steiner	Architecture	2001–present	Dean and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture at the School of Architecture	No
Dean Almy	Architecture			No
Smilja Milovanovic-Bertram	Architecture			No
Barbara Brown Wilson	Center for Sustainable Development			No
Tami Glass	Interior Design			No
David Heymann	Architecture			No
Juan Miró	Studio Mexico		Director of Studio Mexico	No
Lawrence Speck	Architecture		Former Dean of the School of Architecture	No
Michael Benedikt	Center for American Architecture and Design		Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design	No
Fernando Lara	Latin American Architecture			No
Larry Doll	Architecture			No
Richard Cleary	Architecture			No
Allan Shearer	Architecture			No
Kevin Alter	Architecture			No
Simon Atkinson	Architecture			No
Matt Fajkus	Architecture			No
Michael Holleran	Architecture			No
Terry Kahn	Architecture			No
Elizabeth Mueller	Architecture			No
Nancy Kwallek	Architecture			No
Steven Moore	Architecture			No
Francisco Gomes	Architecture			No
Charles Moore	Architecture			No
Billie Tsien	Architecture			No

College of Communication

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference

College of Education

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference

Cockrell School of Engineering

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
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
Alan Bovik	Electrical Engineering	1984-present	Developed video quality measurement tools used in broadcast and post-production houses throughout Television industry; Primetime Engineering Emmy Award; Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering; Fellow of IEEE	No
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
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
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 to the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007; Fellow Award from the Computer History Museum in 2008; US National Academy of Engineering	No
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
Nicholas A. Peppas	Chemical Engineering	?-present	Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology; US National Academy of Engineering	No
Michael Webber	Mechanical Engineering	2006–present	Deputy Director of the university's Energy Institute; host of PBS's Energy at the Movies	Yes

College of Fine Arts

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
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

School of Information

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
Loriene Roy		1987–present	Former president of the American Library Association	No
Roberta I. Shaffer		1999-2001	Former Law Librarian of Congress; former dean	No
Brooke Sheldon		1991-1996	Former president of the American Library Association; former dean	No

Jackson School of Geosciences

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
Sharon Mosher	Dean's Office	2009–present	Dean, William Stamps Farish Chair	No

School of Law

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference

College of Liberal Arts

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
Mounira M. Charrad	Sociology	2000–present	Political sociologist	No
Alan W. Friedman	English	1971–present	Author	Yes
Lee M. Hollander	Germanic Studies	1920–1968	Old Norse scholar, head of department	No
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
Mark Regnerus	Sociology	2007–present	Sociologist and researcher	No

Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
Carolyn Heinrich	Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP)	2011–present	Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs	No

McCombs School of Business

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
Thomas W. Gilligan	Dean's Office	2008–present	Dean, Centennial Chair in Business Leadership	No
Jay C. Hartzell	Finance	2001–present	Allied Bancshares Centennial Fellow; Executive Director, Real Estate Finance and Investment Center; member of Alpha Psi Omega at Trinity University	Yes
Robert C. Solomon	ETHICS	1972–2007	Chairman, Hegel Society of America	No
Andrew B. Whinston	IROM	1988–present	Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration; Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce	No
Leigh McAlister	Marketing	1987–present	Executive Director Marketing Science Institute	No

College of Natural Sciences

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference
A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid	Physics	1975	Quantum field theory, relativity, mechanics	No
Brian Bocknack	Chemistry	?-present		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
Ruth Buskirk	Biology	1990–present	Molecular genetics, microbiology	No
K. Mani Chandy	Computer Science	1970–1989	Distributed computing, including the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm for the determination of consistent global states	No
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
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
Brent Iverson	Chemistry	1990–present	Catalytic antibodies	No
Simon S. Lam	Computer Science	1977–present	Co-inventor of Secure Sockets Layer; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering	No
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
Sahotra Sarkar	Integrative Biology	1990–present	Specialist in the history and philosophy of science	No
Robert van de Geijn	Computer Science	1987–present		No
Steven Weinberg	Physics		Nobel Laureate, author	No

School of Nursing

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference

College of Pharmacy

Name	Department	Service	Notability	Alumnus	Reference

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 — current football defensive coordinator
• DeLoss Dodds — current athletic director
• Augie Garrido — current baseball coach
• Bryan Harsin — current 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 — current football head coach

Business

• Frank W. McBee — mechanical engineer, co-founder of Tracor, Inc.

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

• John S. Dzienkowski - professor of law; legal ethics scholar
• James K. Galbraith — head of the University of Texas Inequality Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
• Mark Gunn - Associate Director of Technology
• Barbara Jordan — the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House
• 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
• John Sliber — professor of philosophy
• 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")
• 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
• 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
• David M. Oshinsky — historian and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History for Polio: An American Story
• 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

See also

• List of University of Texas at Austin presidents
• List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

External links

• UT Austin Faculty Directory