Sixteen faculty members have been selected for the second cohort of the Provost’s Authors Fellowship, a program designed to provide more support to associate professors pursuing promotion to full professor.
This new program provides financial and programmatic support to faculty members engaged in the development and publication of scholarly books, and is intended to provide greater support to pursue research and scholarship at a critical point in their careers. The fellowship begins in June 2020 and will last 15 months.
“We have exceptional associate faculty members with exceptional creativity, ambition and important perspectives to share through their research and scholarship. The goal of this fellowship is to support their vision and contributions in published works,” said Maurie McInnis, executive vice president and provost at UT Austin. “We are excited to continue this program and welcome the second cohort of this exciting new initiative.”
2020 Provost’s Authors Fellows
College of Fine Arts
Christina Bain, Department of Art and Art History
Eric Drott, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
Ann Reynolds, Department of Art and Art History (Deferred from 2019-20)
Rebecca Rossen, Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Liberal Arts
Samuel Baker, Department of English (Deferred from 2019-20)
Kirsten Belgum, Department of Germanic Studies
Benjamin Brower, Department of History
Erika Bsumek, Department of History
Kirsten Cather, Department of Asian Studies
Mounira Charrad, Department of Sociology
Marcelo Paixao, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
Jennifer Wilks, Department of English
Moody College of Communication
Lucy Atkinson, Stan Richards School of Advertising & PR
Dawna Ballard, Department of Communication Studies
Lalitha Gopalan, Department of Radio-Television-Film
Dhiraj Murthy, School of Journalism