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Projects

Undergraduate Research Assistant

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This position supports the work of the Latino Research Institute’s primary data collection of a new research study that will examine the implementation and efficacy of a culturally adapted…

Latinx/Hispanic Freshmen Study

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In this survey project, we seek to understand the experiences of Latinx/Hispanic freshmen students as they transition to UT Austin. We will be recruiting Latinx/Hispanic freshmen students to participate in an online…

JUNTOS (TOGETHER): Cultural stress and coping among Latinx high school students

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Project JUNTOS (TOGETHER) is a lab in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Research in this lab focuses on the well-being of Latinx/Hispanic youth and their families. The lab currently has two…

Faculty

Blake Atwood

Affiliated Departments:
Middle Eastern Studies
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Film and Visual Culture
Contemporary Persian Literature
Youth Culture

Douglas Biow

Affiliated Departments:
Comparative Literature, French and Italian, History, Medieval Studies Program, Plan II Honors Program
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Renaissance Italy. The History of the Individual from Antiquity to the Modern World. Translating Italian Renaissance masterpieces into English.

Gregory W Knapp

Affiliated Departments:
Geography / Environment, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Knapp’s research has focused on four themes in cultural and regional geography: adaptive dynamics of agriculture; ethnic territoriality and mapping; modernization contextualized in historical cultural ecology; and…

Soncia Reagins-Lilly

Affiliated Departments:
Educational Psychology
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Higher Education policy, administration and finance; strategic planning; Leadership Development; Cultural Competence and International Cultural exchange

Pauline T Strong

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, American Studies, Anthropology, Center for Women's and Gender Studies
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I am interested in cultural anthropology; climate justice; Museum Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; culture and health; cultural identities and differences; the politics of representation; youth…