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Dr. Parra-Medina is professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Latino Research Institute. Dr. Parra-Medina’s research and teaching focuses on…
Black Central America, Performance and Diaspora Theory, Afro-Latinx and Caribbean Migration and Identity Formations, Hemispheric Black and Indigenous Feminist Thought
Professor Reyes is the Director of the UT-Austin Education Research Center which is a virtual research center dedicated to helping state policymakers evaluate or analyze education policies. As a social scientist, Dr…
Higher education policy issues; Educational benefits of racial/ethnic diversity; Desegregation issues; Access, transition, and retention issues for underrepresented college students; Policy impacts of affirmative…
Dr. Straubhaar's primary teaching, research and writing interests are in global media, international communication and cultural theory, the digital divide in the U. S. and other countries, television in Latin America…
His current book project “Cinematic Comanches: In the Media Borderlands of The Lone Ranger” (under contract with the University of Nebraska Press’ “Indigenous Films” series) continues his interest in the politics of…
Archaeology; Texas and Mesoamerica; social systems; material culture; field methodologies; origin & demise of complex societies.
The study of material culture such as ceramic and lithic technologies,…
Urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level. Other areas of interest include immigration, human rights, and U.S.-Mexico…