College of Liberal Arts

Email: ebrunson@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Medical anthropology, applied anthropology, qualitative methods, social network analysis, childhood vaccination, health care access, health disparities, health policy.

Bio: here

Email: npcarter@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Mesoamerica, archaeology, cultural heritage, museum collections, Maya hieroglyphic writing, development and history of writing systems, archaeology of cannibalism and human sacrifice, formation and collapse of complex polities.

Email: ee10@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-8272

Research Interests: Primate behavior.

Bio: here

Email: mh69@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-8272

Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic anthropology, skeletal biology, diseases in antiquity, taphonomy.

Bio: here

Email: nph16@txstate.edu

Phone: 245-512-6440

Research Interests: Bioarchaeology; Forensic Anthropology; Skeletal Biology; Archaeology; Isotopic Research.

Bio: here

Email: david.kilby@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3033

Research Interests: Archaeology, Quaternary Geology, United States Southwest

Bio: http://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/kilby.html

Email: sm78@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-1900

Research Interests: Bone histology, Age-at-death estimation, Accuracy and precision investigations of anthropological methods.

Bio: here

Email: Pruetz@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Biological anthropology, primatology, ecology & behavior of chimpanzees and other primates.

Bio: Dr. Jill Pruetz is Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University, specializing in Biological Anthropology at Texas State University. She received her bachelor’s degrees in 1989 at Texas State and received a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1999 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.As a primatologist, Dr. Pruetz has studied the behavior of non-human primates such as chimpanzees, spider monkeys, howling monkeys, moustached tamarin monkeys, patas monkeys, and vervets in various locales. Countries in which she has conducted fieldwork include Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Kenya, and Senegal. Dr. Pruetz is especially interested in the influence of ecology on primates and the implications of such findings on early human feeding, ranging, and social behavior. She has been directing the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project in southeastern Senegal since 2001. Her research has been funded by the National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, Leakey Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and others. The goal of her ongoing Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project is to study chimpanzees in a habitat similar to that of early hominids in order to identify important selective pressures that may have influenced early members of our own lineage.

Email: ntaylor@txstate.edu

Phone: 512.245.2473

Research Interests: Social media, identity, and youth; body image and gender; childhood obesity and teasing practices; adolescent and emerging adult health; qualitative and applied research methods; internet ethnography; institutional culture, decision-making, and collaboration; contemporary U.S. and educational research settings.

Bio: here

Email: akvbroek@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-4304

Research Interests: My work sits at the intersection of business and design anthropology and science and technology studies and focuses on how ambitions for better futures by states, citizens and entrepreneurs are coopted and reformed by innovation culture and its infrastructures. Broadly speaking my interests are: Science and technology studies (STS); feminist STS; business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology innovation; entrepreneurship; technologies; design; futures and foresight; expertise; ignorance and agnotology; and infrastructure.

Bio: here

Email: r.warms@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-8272

Research interests: Various including African culture, ethnic and individual identity, history of anthropology, relation of economy to culture and society, materialist theoretical perspectives particularly Bourdieu, Ortner, etc..

Bio: Longtime Texas State anthropology professor. More here.

Email: dwescott@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-1945

Research Interests: Forensic anthropology, skeletal biology, bone biomechanics, taphonomy, decomposition ecology, computed tomography.

Bio: here

Email: lk21@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-7672

Research Interests: Origins of civilization, world religions, writing of the Indian diaspora, postcolonial studies, memoir.

Email: akr@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-7668

Research Interests: Medical Communication, Science Communication, Technical Communication, Text Mining, Qualitative Research, Usability Research, Visual Communication, Digital Media.

Bio: Aimee Kendall Roundtree teaches courses in usability research, medical and science writing, digital media and technology, Web publishing and accessibility, visual design, and technical communication. She has helped with social media campaigns for organizations including the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and Connexions journal. She also serves as a medical writer and qualitative researcher in the Texas Medical Center, where she has participated on research teams at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies. She worked as a communications specialist for the Texas Medical Foundation and public relations officer for Air Combat Command at Langley AFB. She is currently working on several projects, including research into emergency incident reporting, big data methodology for text mining, usability for underserved communities, and technical and simulated data in public discourse.

Email: twister@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3579

Research Interests: Creative writing, fiction writing, narrative writing, professional writing, literary editing, American literature, American fiction, contemporary American fiction, contemporary literature, and literary critical theory.

Bio: Twister Marquiss, M.F.A., is director of the Common Experience at Texas State, and he is a senior lecturer in University College with faculty appointments in English and Honors. His Honors course, "Plotting the American Experience," examines the past 20 years of American fiction through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on the critical theory of plot in novels and stories. He also teaches creative writing and professional writing, and his fiction and photography have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Callaloo, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. He is the former senior editor of the journals Southwestern American Literature and Texas Books in Review, and he served as co-editor of the Journal of Texas Music History and copy editor for The Journal of Research on Women and Gender.

Email: es46@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2185

Research Interests: European cinema of the 1960s and 70s, popular music, Texas music, Irish literature, Czech literature, technical and professional writing.

Bio: I teach a course in the Honors College titled European Cinema of the 1960s. In the Department of English I regularly teach technical and professional writing, sophomore literature, and first-year college writing. I am currently teaching a course titled Writing About Music.
I edited Homegrown: Austin Music Posters, 1967 to 1982, which was published by University of Texas Press in 2015, and I co-curated the Homegrown exhibit at Texas State's Wittliff Collections. I serve as co-editor of the Journal of Texas Music History. I recently served as guest editor of Southwestern American Literature for an issue focusing on music of Texas and the southwest. I have presented papers on Irish writers Flann O'Brien and James Joyce.

Phone: 512.245.2536
Email:  sb74@txstate.edu
Research Interests: Migration, Gender, Political Geography, Development Studies

Email:  ag22@txstate.edu

Research Interests: GIScience, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Historical Geography

Bio: here

Email: eb26@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3747

Research Interests: Dr. Elizabeth Bishop is an Associate Professor of Modern Arab History at Texas State University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She co-edited Imperialism on Trial (which the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History called "an important contribution to the study of twentieth-century colonialism and the variety of guises it took"). Dr. Bishop has held multiple Core Fulbright Scholar grants in North Africa, as well as received research grants from Notre Dame University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Texas at Austin; she was instrumental in bringing Institute of Turkish Studies funds to Alkek LIbrary. At Texas State, Dr. Bishop is certifying advisor for both the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, and the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Here is a partial list of Honors College theses she advised: 

Geoff Sloan, “Diplomacy of Qatar” [working title] (2019)

Coffey McCurdy, “The Baghdad Pact Nuclear Research Center” (2018)

Meghan Blizinski, “Defeating ISIS in Iraq: An Analysis of the Counterinsurgency Strategy Used to Liberate the City of Tikrit” (2016)

Bio: https://www.txstate.edu/history/people/faculty-staff/bishop.html

Email: sdamiano@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-5750

Research Interests: Early American history; women's and gender history; economic history; legal history.

Bio: https://www.txstate.edu/history/people/faculty-staff/damiano.html

Email: jp74@txstate.edu

Phone: 614-804-1092

Research Interests: Women's History, History of Sexuality, Sex Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery, Women's Rights.

Bio: Jessica R. Pliley is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender History at Texas State University and holds a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Harvard, 2014) and Global Anti-Vice Activism (Cambridge, 2016).  She is the co-director of Yale University’s Working Group on Modern-Day Slavery and Trafficking at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. She also is the book review editor for the Journal of Women’s History. Dr. Pliley is a Fulbright specialist and serves on the advisory board of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project “Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in Gendered and Historical Perspective, c. 1870 – 2000.”  Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Her current research explores the long history of anti-trafficking movement from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. For more information please visit her website at jessicapliley.com.

Email: ET19@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2177

Research Interests: 19th-20th century military history and the Americas, especially naval history, race, military interventions, military occupations, and US-Latin American relations.

Bio: https://www.txstate.edu/history/people/faculty-staff/tillman.html

Email: LValencia@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2103

Research Interests: Early and Late Modern European, Spanish, Mediterranean, and Transatlantic history, with interests in print and digital technology, knowledge creation and distribution, visual culture, urban space, youth and queer culture, fascism, anarchism, exile and displacement, education, and health care. He is also interested in public history, digital and museum curation, museum education, and methodology.

Bio: Dr. Louie Dean Valencia-García is an Assistant Professor of Digital History at Texas State University. Prior to joining Texas State, Dr. Valencia-García served on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He currently serves on the Research Editorial Committee for EuropeNow, the monthly journal of Council for European Studies at Columbia University. His forthcoming book, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism, will be published with Bloomsbury Academic. Dr. Valencia-García has held fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the United States Library of Congress, the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and Santander Universities, amongst others. He is a member of the Scientific and Editorial Committee for the Archivo de la Frontera, a UNESCO project of the Centro Europeo de la Difisión de las Ciencias Sociales at the Universidad de Alcalá in Spain. He has curated and contributed to multiple exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, and has presented and published his work internationally to academic and public audiences. He has also taught for the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America at Princeton University.

Dr. Valencia-García received his A.M. and Ph.D. in Early and Late Modern European History from Fordham University in New York City, and graduated in the Honors College at Texas State University with a B.A.I.S. in European Studies and B.A. in Spanish. Link to faculty page here.

Email: ab53@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Existentialism, Philosophy of Literature, Philosophy of Art, Military Ethics, Ecology, Animal Rights, Applied Ethics.

Email: meb211@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception, Phenomenology, Embodied Cognition, Enactive Cognition, 20th Century European Philosophy.

Email: hutcheson@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2285

Research Interests: Philosophy of knowledge (epistemology), philosophy of science, philosophy of religion.

Bio: Peter Hutcheson (Ph.D. 1979 University of Oklahoma) has been part of the Faculty of Philosophy at Texas State University since 1979.

Prof. Hutcheson regularly teaches these upper-division and graduate courses: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Immortality, and the Problem of Evil. He also teaches Elementary Logic every semester. He occasionally teaches the required course Philosophy & Critical Thinking. In the past he taught Existentialism & Phenomenology, History of 17th & 18th Century Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and the Concept of God.

Prof. Hutcheson is the author of several articles on Husserl's phenomenology, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, Sartre's existentialism, and history of 17th & 18th Century philosophy. He and Prof. Glenn Joy wrote a supplementary logic text that St. Martin's Press published.

Email: n.mikles@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Buddhism, Tibet, China, Asian Religions.

Email: jw1795@txstate.edu

Phone:  5122456504

Research Interests: Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Philosophy of Ecology, Integral Ecology, Field Environmental Philosophy, Ontology, Metaphysics, Human-Nature Value Theory, Eco-social Flourishing, Axiology, Complexity Science.

Bio: I am the departmental coordinator for environmental philosophy. I am a Senior Lecturer here at Texas State and an affiliated researcher with the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program at the University of North Texas and the Omora Ethnobotanical Park in Chile. I am currently working on the Biocultural Ethics Initiative with the Holon Cooperative, the Philosophy Dialogue Series, and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment to develop a mindfulness approach to Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP) here in the Texas Hill Country. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of North Texas in Environmental Philosophy. I had the privilege of working alongside many of the founders of my school of thought. I am working on establishing the foundations, here at Texas State, for out students to participate in an international research exchange network with Chile.

Email: rpa14@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3258

Research Interests: Constitutional Powers, Public Law, the Presidency

Bio: Roger P. Abshire is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University. He teaches courses in the University core curriculum, introductory political science courses for department majors and minors, as well as courses in public law. His primary research interests include constitutionalism, American political thought, and the American political development. He received is B.S. from Texas A&M University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Houston.

Email: ecf35@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3255

Research Interests: Political Theory, International Relations, American Politics 

Bio: Emily Cedillo is a lecturer at Texas State University. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Texas A&M University and a M.A. with a teaching emphasis in American Studies from Texas State University. She teaches courses on the Principles and Functions of American Government. 

Email: wf16@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Sustainable urban development, transportation, green infrastructure, resilience.

Bio: Billy Fields (Ph.D., Urban Studies, University of New Orleans) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. His research focuses on understanding the key elements of resilient communities. He has examined resiliency from transportation, urban planning, public health, and hazard mitigation perspectives with publications in the Journal of Planning, Education, and Research (JPER), Journal of Public Health Policy, the Journal of Urbanism, the Journal of Urban Design, and Cityscape.  He is also co-editor of the spring 2013 release by Island Press, Transport Beyond Oil. Prior to joining Texas State University, Dr. Fields was Director of the Center for Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans and Research Director for the Rails to Trails Conservancy where he developed and explored the concept of trail-oriented development.

Email: emily.hanks@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-5608

Research Interests: Public values, public administration theory, the nonprofit & voluntary sector, communication.

Bio: Dr. Emily Kay Hanks (Ph.D., University of Texas- Austin, 2011) is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Texas State University where she teaches and conducts research on ethics in government, public values, the nonprofit and voluntary sector, applied communication, and public administration theory. She has published book chapters and articles examining the implications stemming from seismic shifts in the nonprofit and voluntary sector such as the intrusion of competition, professionalization, and the continued devolution of government. Dr. Hanks’ work has appeared in Administrative Theory & Praxis, and The Public Manager and is part of a growing movement of critical scholarship in the nonprofit and voluntary sector.

Email: dianne.rahm@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-1565

Research Interests: Public policy for energy and the environment, sustainability.

Bio: Dianne Rahm, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science at Texas State University.  She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.  Her research interests include environmental policy, energy policy, science and technology policy. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters and seven books including:  Climate Change Policy in the United States, Handbook of Globalization and the Environment, Sustainable Energy and the States, United States Public Policy, Toxic Waste and Environmental Policy in the 21st Century United States, University-Industry R&D Collaboration in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and Technology and U.S. Competitiveness.

Email: abramovitch@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2236

Research Interests: Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology, Cognitive functions, Impulsivity, Daily function & Psychopathology.

Bio: http://www.neuropsychopathology.com

Email: jclegg@txstate.edu

Phone: 256-503-9487

Research Interests: Child development; Social cognitive development; Cross-cultural comparisons

Bio: My research focuses on how children develop tools for social learning and how cultural environments may impact this development. faculty bio page

Email: mc07@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2526

Research Interests: Social and cross-cultural psychology.

Bio: http://hb2504.txstate.edu/viewinstructor.html#197756

Email: rg30@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-6806

Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, Social neuroscience, Emotion, Attention, Electrophysiology.

Bio: Dr. Graham's research is in the area of social/affective neuroscience; in particular, the electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of visual processing evoked in response to stimuli of motivational significance (e.g., social and appetitive stimuli). Current research interests lie in understanding how individual differences in attitudes and exposure to target stimuli moderate attentional processes and event-related potentials (ERPs) to appetitive and motivationally relevant stimuli like faces, bodies, food, alcohol, and tobacco. This research enriches our understanding of motivation from a basic science perspective, with implications for our understanding of phenomena such as social anxiety and prejudice, as well as health-risk behaviors.

Email: wk12@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2526

Research Interests: Human Memory, Metacognition, Experimental Psychology.

Email: rm04@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3023

Research Interests: Broadly, my research interests are in social, personality, cultural and health psychology areas. Specifically, I investigate how personality factors interact with social and cultural factors to influence personal health decisions (e.g. adherence to medical advice) and the ability to recognize and detect different emotions in others. I am also interested in researching cultural differences in identity and the dynamics in interpersonal relationships.

Bio: I grew up in South Texas speaking, writing and reading both English and Spanish. I received my degrees (B.A.&PhD) in psychology at the UT Austin. I studied at Harvard U. in 1987 and 1988 on a fellowship. I have taught and continue to teach university courses in Mexico on occasion. At Texas State I enjoy teaching the Psychology of Diversity and Social psychology courses and mentoring students in research in order to prepare them for graduate school and their professional careers.

Email: oberle@txstate.edu

Research Interests: 

1. Health psychology: I am interested in the reasons underlying healthy and disordered behaviors in eating, exercise, substance use, and sexual activity.

2. Learning and memory: I am interested in how student learning and memory is affected by various factors, such as music, memory training, and personal biases.

Email: ro10@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-8236

Research Interests: Sport psychology - especially personality variables that influence vulnerability to and recovery from injury. Also, how athletes make attributions for their own and teammate injuries.

Forensic Psychology - especially police cynicism, causes and effects.

Prejudice, Discrimination and hate - especially how intercultural sensitivity and tolerance for ambiguity can be enhanced in individuals to decrease prejudice, discrimination and hate.

Bio: Dr. Randall E. Osborne is Professor of Psychology at Texas State University.
Dr. Osborne received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. He successfully defended his dissertation in the Fall of 1989 while serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Luther College in Decorah Iowa. After serving two years as an Assistant Professor at Phillips University, Dr. Osborne joined the faculty at Indiana University East in 1992 and was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 1997. In 2005 Dr. Osborne was promoted to Full Professor at Texas State. Randall’s background is in Social Psychology but his teaching interests range from introductory psychology, forensic psychology, sport psychology and cross-cultural psychology.
For almost three years, Dr. Osborne served as chair of the Behavioral and Social Science Division at Indiana University East and the psychology department at Texas State from Fall 2001 to Fall 2005. His colleagues describe him as endlessly enthusiastic. He himself lives by the motto, “take your job seriously and yourself lightly.”

Dr. Osborne has published more than 50 teaching and research articles in scholarly journals, teaching journals, and applied journals. In addition, his more than 30 books include textbooks, resource manuals for faculty, study guides for students, a humor book about nerds and self-esteem, two co-edited books on Global Security and Social Justice and two fantasy adventure novels. Randall has served as Regional Coordinator for the Midwestern Region and then President of the National Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology, served two terms as Southwestern Regional Vice-President of Psi Chi – The International Honor Society in Psychology (from 2008-2012), has been a Psi Chi advisor for over 20 years and helped establish the Psi Chi chapters at Luther College and Indiana University East.

Over most of his career, he has emphasized the importance of connecting scholarship and teaching in such a way that teachers prioritize assessing if students are learning what we believe they are learning as a regular element of how we construct our courses. Additionally, his emphasis on intercultural sensitivity promotes an atmosphere of course design that infuses progress on Bennett’s Model of Intercultural Sensitivity as a primary goal for how we teach, what we teach, the assignments we develop and the assessments methods we use. The belief is simple, in a pluralistic world, educators should be concerned not just with content but with the degree to which students can or cannot interact effectively with others who are different from them (all manner of differences from economic, religious, racial, sexual orientation, generational, etc.). In other words, he believes that fostering progress along the continuum of intercultural sensitivity (moving students from the more "ethnocentric” levels of Denial, Defense and Minimization to the more “ethnorelative” levels of Acceptance, Adaptation and Integration) should be a goal of all courses and degree programs at the university and that ALL courses can be infused with such an emphasis.

Email: schepis@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-6805

Research Interests: Drug use in adolescents and young adults, particularly prescription misuse.

Bio: here

Email: ktooley@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-4384

Research Interests: Cognitive Psychology, language processing, memory and language.

Bio: Dr. Tooley received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 2004 from Colorado State University. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2009 from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Tooley then completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Illinois. She joined the Psychology faculty as an assistant professor in 2013. Dr. Tooley's research focuses on understanding language processes, particularly those related to syntactic structure and aspects of prosody. Dr. Tooley's research laboratory includes eye-tracking and speech processing capabilities.

Email: warnell@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-5564

Research Interests: Social development; cognitive development; individual differences; autism spectrum disorder; theory of mind.

Bio: here Warnell CV

Warnell Lab

Email: cw54@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, memory, sleep.

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

Email: kh36@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-8710

Research Interests: Health Psychology; medical provider-patient communication; patient adherence to treatment; mobile health interventions.

Bio: Kelly Haskard-Zolnierek received her B.A. in psychology from Claremont McKenna College in 2000 and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2007.

Email: cb59423@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-0877

Research Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations, Education, Health

Bio: Dr. Bonazzo teaches courses in introduction to sociology, race and ethnicity, gender and society, and death and dying. Dr. Bonazzo received his bachelor of science in applied sociology (2001) and his master's in sociology (2004) at Texas State. Dr. Bonazzo then received his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His dissertation work focused on Latinx Teachers and the School-Based Involvement of Latino/a Parents of Young Students.

Email: np11@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-8229

Research Interests: Criminology, Delinquency, and Social Deviance, Globalization, Socioeconomic Development.

Bio: Dr. Pino teaches courses in deviance, globalization, delinquency and criminology at the graduate and undergraduate levels.  In the summer of 2008, he served as a visiting scholar at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea. During the spring semester of 2009, Dr. Pino served as a Fulbright scholar in Trinidad and Tobago, conducting research on police-community relations and police reform efforts.  While in Trinidad he also taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of the West Indies.

Dr. Pino's diverse research interests include the relationship between globalization, development, and crime; policing and security sector reform in an international context; sexual and other forms of extreme violence; the sociology of deviance; the attitudes and behaviors of college students; and pedagogical issues in college teaching.  He has authored or co-authored four books, over twenty academic journal articles, and numerous book chapters and book reviews.  Dr. Pino has been recognized as a “Rising Star of Liberal Arts” at Texas State.

Email: rromero@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-3035

Research Interests: Arts Based Research, Qualitative Research Methods, Popular Culture, Social Justice.

Email: yb10@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-7271

Research Interests: Language Change, Historical Linguistics, Language Contact, U.S. Spanish-Business Spanish-Spanish in the Professions, Borderlands Spanish, Medieval Spanish, Spanish-Arabic Contact, Applied Linguistics- Second Language Acquisition, Language Loss.

Bio: http://www.modlang.txstate.edu/people/faculty/beale-rivaya.html

Email: agolato@txstate.edu

Research Interests: Conversation Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, German Applied Linguistics.

Bio: Dr. Andrea Golato became dean of The Graduate College at Texas State University in July of 2013. She holds the equivalent of a master's degree in translation studies with a specialization in economics from the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz at Germersheim, Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in German applied linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Texas State University, she held faculty appointments at the University of Oregon, Utah State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was also one of the associate deans of The Graduate College. Since her arrival at Texas State University, Dr. Golato has created professional development opportunities for graduate students, increased scholarship funding, and made changes to policies and procedures reflecting best practices at the national level in graduate education.

Dr. Golato’s research falls within the methodological framework of conversation analysis. Specifically, she investigates the connection between grammar and interaction on the one hand, and language use in different cultures on the other. She has published a research monograph and a textbook as well as a series of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in refereed venues. She has mentored master's and doctoral students in multiple departments in both their research and teaching efforts. In 2005, she received the University of Illinois’s Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring

Email: pgolato@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2360

Research Interests: Conversation analysis; French linguistics; general linguistics; applied linguistics; second language learning and teaching; language and social interaction.

Bio: http://www.modlang.txstate.edu/people/faculty/pgolato

Email: here.

Phone:  512-245-2360

Research Interests: I teach French and Italian Language, Culture, History, Film and Business classes. My education was in Political Science (BA) and French and in Comparative Literature (Ph.D.) in French, English and Italian Literatures. I have also training in CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) for any student interested in this. I take a Summer group to Italy every year for Service Learning and International Culture credits.

Bio: Dr. Di Mauro-Jackson, a native Italian from Rome, completed her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in Italian, French and English Comparative Literature. Her field of study revolves around French, Italian, and English Narrative and Drama of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, as well as Computer Assisted Language Learning Technologies.

For more info on her and her research interest log onto:

https://www.worldlang.txstate.edu/people/faculty/jackson.html

Email: ag20@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2494

Research Interests: Language and cognition, Discourse Analysis, Translation (English- Spanish).

Bio: here

Email: cj10@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2492

Research interests: Spanish literature, 18th-20th century, women writers, quixotism, Spain.

Bio: http://www.modlang.txstate.edu/people/faculty/jaffe.html

Email:  cm25@txstate.edu

Research Interests: French Literature and Civilization, Interdisciplinary research conducted at the crossroad of International Studies and Humanities.

Bio:  Dr. Carole Martin, Professor of French, Ph.D., with distinction, New York University, Texas State University Honors Professor, Honorary Professor of International Studies, Exchange Faculty, Université Rennes, France

Awards in the past five years:

Faculty Development Leave; Alpha Chi National Honor Society’s “Favorite Professor”; Honorary Committee Member, National Commemoration of the Tercentenary of Les Illustres Françaises (Organized by the CNRS, the BNF and Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Courses taught in the past five years:

Masterpieces of French Literature: Literary Institutions in France; Queer Love in 18th-20th C French Literature; Marie-Antoinette and Revolutionary Literature; Women of Letters (1745-1825)

French Film: French Poetic Realist Cinema; Cinema and its Relationship with Other Arts; French Civilization through Film

French Civilization: French Reading Comprehension and Written Expression for Graduate Students—The French Press; French Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression for Graduate Students—The French Media; Education in France and Abroad

Advanced French: Advanced French Language for Graduate Students; Acting French (a Theater and Film Production course); Creative Writing in French (a Composition and Stylistics course)

French for the Professions: Business French

Courses taught in English: Intimations of the Great Paris; French Cinema from the New Wave to Contemporary Film; Surrealism and Film; Film Analysis; Travel and the Critical Mind; Responses to the French Revolution; American Expatriates in Paris

Program Development:

French for the Professions, comprised of 3 upper-division courses, including student mentoring, preparation for the Diplômes de français professionnel delivered by the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris, and administering of examinations over the period 2001-2017

Summer Study in France at Université Rennes2, comprised of a language component in French, from introductory to advanced levels, and a culture component taught in Paris, including various topics developed for the Honors College

Scholarly Monograph:

Imposture utopique et procès colonial: Denis Veiras—Robert Challe. Charlottesville: Early Modern France Critiques, 2000. Distributed in France by Honoré Champion. With Preface by Frédéric Deloffre, General Editor of Challe’s Complete Works. Collection Editor: David Lee Rubin, University of Virginia.

Publications in the past five years:

•“Portraits dans les Voyages aux Indes de Robert Challe et de Guy Tachard.” Enjeux, formes et motifs du portrait à l’époque classique. Eds. Marc Hersant, Catherine Ramond. Amsterdam: Brill / Rodopi, forthcoming.

“Robert Challe et le commerce: escale à Pondichéry.” Bulletin de la Société des Amis de Robert Challe, Robert Challe et le commerce 16 (2017): 27-46. http://robert-challe.org/sites/default/files/Bulletin-Challe-2017.pdf

“1713, ou la clé d’une lecture ironique des Illustres Françaises.” Paris 1713: l’année des Illustres Françaises. Ed. Geneviève Artigas-Menant. Louvain: Editions Peeters, 2016. 277-291.

“La brodeuse des Confessions: figure iconique, procédé rhétorique et pratique sexuelle.” La question sexuelle: interrogations anthropologiques, éthiques et politiques de la sexualité dans l'oeuvre et la pensée de Rousseau. Ed. Jean-Luc Guichet. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 113-131.

“Topique, lieu et lieu commun.” Rev. of Topique(s) du public et du privé dans la littérature romanesque d’Ancien Régime. H-France Review 16.52 (April 2016): 1-7. http://h-france.net/vol16reviews/vol16no52martin.pdf

Rev. of Faïck, Denis, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: la cité et les choses. Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 3 (2014): 741-742.

“Trumpocoque: y a-t-il risque d’infection invasive?” http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2015/10/15/trumpocoque-y-a-t-il-risque-d-infection-invasive_1404762 . Libération (10/15/2015): 1-4.

Reviewer for H-France Review; Revue d’Histoire Littéraire de la France; Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Romanische Forschungen; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

Funded Grants in the past five years:

Tournées Film Festival Grant, French American Cultural Exchange; Common Experience Grant; Equity & Access Diversity Plan Funding (awarded to organize “Journeys Through Film: An International Cinema Festival”, Texas State University, 2012)

Email: p_s139@txstate.edu

Research Interests: China and Tibet.

Bio: Dr. Schiaffini-Vedani has a Ph.D. Degree by the University of Pennsylvania and an MA degree by Stanford University. She has taught courses about China, Tibet and Mandarin Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, Pomona College, Southwestern University and Texas State University. Her research deals with Tibetan writers who write in Chinese, and she has published about this topic and Chinese-literature related topics in books and peer reviewed journals. Has recently conducted research in Tibetan areas in China about environmental problems in the Tibetan plateau. Her book _Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change_was published in 2008 by Duke university press. Dr. Schiaffini-Vedani is now translating a book of short stories by Tibetan writer Pema Tseden which will be published next year by SUNY Press.