President’s Faculty Advisory Cohort
President’s Faculty Advisory Cohort (FAC) Membership
The FAC is a new body of distinguished faculty who will play an important role in advising University leadership and supporting key academic functions across the Forty Acres. The FAC brings together faculty from across our schools and colleges who have been selected in recognition of their academic leadership, the esteem in which they are held by their colleagues and their demonstrated commitment to the University’s mission. Members were nominated through a collaborative process involving deans and senior faculty and were appointed by the President and Provost.
The Cohort will serve as a flexible and engaged advisory body. In addition to occasional full-cohort meetings, FAC members may be called upon to participate in smaller committees, task forces and working groups addressing specific institutional priorities and challenges. These efforts will include areas such as curriculum development, educational and technology policy, faculty review processes, grievance and appeals procedures and library and academic resource policies.
Service on the FAC is designed to be both meaningful and manageable. Members will serve renewable two-year terms and will contribute their expertise in ways that support the University’s continued pursuit of excellence. Their insight and leadership will help ensure that the University of Texas at Austin remains responsive to the needs of our academic community while advancing our mission as a leading public research university.
A full list of the inaugural Faculty Advisory Cohort is included below.
| Deji Akinwande | Professor, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Dean Almy | Professor, School of Architecture |
| Suzanne Barber | Professor; Director, Center for Identity, Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Carola Binder | Associate Professor, School of Civic Leadership |
| Kevin Bozic | Professor of Surgery; Department Chair, Surgery and Perioperative Care, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care |
| Kate Canales | Professor of Practice, Department of Design |
| Ashley Castleberry | Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Assessment; Clinical Professor; Professor of Medical Education College of Pharmacy |
| Laura Colgin | Director, Center for Learning and Memory; Professor Department of Neuroscience |
| Steven Collis | Clinical Professor, Director of the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and the Law & Religion Clinic, School of Law |
| Maria Croyle | Professor, College of Pharmacy |
| Elizabeth Danze | Professor, School of Architecture |
| Jade DeKinder | Associate Dean for Master of Science Programs; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Marketing |
| Jeff Denning | Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs |
| Matthew Eastin | Department Chair, Advertising and Public Relations; Professor; Co-Director, Nelson Center for Brand and Demand Analytics Advertising and Public Relations |
| Patricio Fernandez | Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy |
| Peter Flemings | Interim Department Chair, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Professor; Program Director of GeoFluids, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Laura Fonken | Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy |
| Robert Gilbert | Department Chair, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Professor Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering |
| Tara Grove | Professor, School of Law |
| Eden Harrington | Chief of Staff, Associate Dean for Experiential Education; Clinical Professor, School of Law |
| Keith Hawkins | Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy |
| Maya Henry | Associate Dean for Research; Associate Professor; Associate Professor (Medical), Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences |
| James Howison | Professor; Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Information |
| Robert G. Ingram | Professor, Civitas Institute |
| Jill Ingram | Professor, Civitas Institute |
| Harvey Lederman | Professor, Department of Philosophy |
| Cristine Legare | Professor; Research Lab Director (Academic) Department of Psychology |
| Kathleen Li | Associate Professor, Department of Marketing |
| Calvin Lin | Professor; Affiliated Faculty, Oden Institute; Academic Center Affiliate, Department of Computer Science |
| Alexandra Loukas | Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education |
| Martin J Luby | Associate Professor; Director, The Center on Municipal Markets, LBJ School of Public Affairs |
| Kirk Lynn | Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance |
| Michael Mackert | Director of the Center for Health Communication; Professor; Professor (Medical), Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations |
| Cynthia McCreery | Department Chair, Radio-Television-Film; Professor, Radio-Television-Film |
| Stephanie Morgan | Director of Practice Innovation; Clinical Professor, School of Nursing |
| Paul Mueller | Department Chair, Medicine; Professor (Medical); Professor of Population Health, Department of Medicine |
| Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay | Professor, College of Pharmacy |
| Mark O’Reilly | Professor, Special Education |
| Tolga Ozyurtcu | Associate Professor of Instruction, Kinesiology and Health Education |
| Yolanda Padilla | Associate Dean for Undergrad Studies; Professor, School of Social Work |
| Danielle Parrish | Professor, School of Social Work |
| Pamela Paxton | Professor; Research Lab Director (Academic), Department of Sociology |
| Amiyatosh Purnanandam | Professor, Department of Finance |
| Daniella Rempe | Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Hyekyun Rhee | Professor, School of Nursing |
| Diego Rivera | Professor, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music |
| Ryan P. Russell | Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics |
| Daron Shaw | Professor, Department of Government |
| Ruth Shear | Professor of Practice, Freshman Research Initiative |
| Lawrence Speck | Professor, School of Architecture |
| David Stuart | Professor, Department of Art and Art History |
| Laura Suggs | Professor; Affiliated Faculty, Oden Institute, Biomedical Engineering |
| Jeremi Suri | Professor, Department of History, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs |
| Lisa B. Thompson | Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Affairs; Advisor to the Dean for Faculty Mentoring and Support; Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance |
| Clint Tuttle | Associate Professor of Instruction; University Professional (Part-Time); IT Professional (Part-Time); Self-Paced Extension Instructor, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management |
| Mary Velasquez | Professor; Professor of Population Health, School of Social Work |
| Lorraine Walker | Professor, School of Nursing |
| Greg Wallingford | Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine; Assistant Dean for Professional Fulfillment and Well-Being, Department of Medicine |
| Thomas Ward | Associate Professor, School of Civic Leadership |
| Melissa Wetzel | Department Chair, Curriculum and Instruction; Professor, Curriculum and Instruction |
| Claus Wilke | Professor, Department of Integrative Biology |
Tasha Beretvas, senior vice provost for Faculty Affairs, is an ex-officio member of the committee from the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.