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CENTERS & OTHERS
Freshmen ONLY
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Undergraduate
Graduate
Darryl Lauster
ASSOCIATE CHAIR, MFA DIRECTOR
PROFESSOR
Department of Art & Art History
Undergraduate
Email: laura.bolton@uta.edu
Office: FA 126
Email: rachel.dix@uta.edu
Office: FAB 126
Email: commadvising@uta.edu
Office: Fine Arts Building 125
Graduate
Dr. Erika Pribanic-Smith
Journalism Sequence Coordinator
Graduate Studies Coordinator and Advisor
Associate Professor, Journalism
Email: epsmith@uta.edu
Office: FAB 2114
Undergraduate
Barrie Hill
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Book Appointment with Barrie Hill (Last names beginning with L-Z)
Email: barriehill@uta.edu
Amber Owens
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Book Appointment with Amber Owens (Last names beginning with A-K)
Email: amber.owens@uta.edu
Graduate
Dr. Sarah El Sayed
Associate Professor and Traditional MA Director
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Email: sarah.elsayed@uta.edu
Research Areas: Developmental and Life-course Criminology, Gendered pathways to crime, Quantitative research methods
Dr. Seokjin Jeong
Associate Professor and Cohort MA Director
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Email: sjjeong@uta.edu
Research Areas: Juvenile justice, Program evaluation
Undergraduate
Email: kodonnell@uta.edu
Office: 209 Carlisle Hall
Graduate
Desirée Henderson
Email: dhenderson@uta.edu
Office: 611 Carlisle Hall
Additional Info: Desirée Henderson specializes in American literature, life writing, and women's writing, and is the author of two books: Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870 (Ashgate, 2011) and How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers (Routledge, 2019). She has published numerous essays including in the edited collections A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and The New Dickinson Studies, and in journals such as a/b: Auto/biography Studies, American Periodicals, Early American Literature, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Her research interests include: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, feminist literary criticism and women's writing, genre studies, autobiography studies, archival research and manuscript studies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
Undergraduate
Email: gandre@uta.edu
Dr. Alex Hunnicutt
Department of History
Medieval Studies (Minor)
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Email: hunnicut@uta.edu
Graduate
Paul Conrad
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Associate Professor (2015) & Ph.D Advisor
Department of History
Email: paul.conrad@uta.edu
Office: 322 University Hall
Areas: Native American History, North American West, History of Slavery
Patryk Babiracki
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (2008)
Associate Professor (2009) & M.A Graduate Advisor
Department of History
Email: patryk@uta.edu
Office: 310 University Hall
Areas: Modern Russia, Eastern Europe, International History, Culture and Society
Undergraduate
Lauren Vanpool
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics and TESOL
Email: lauren.vanpool@uta.edu
Office: 434 University Hall (UH)
Graduate
Dr. Daniel Scarpace, PhD, UIUC
Department of Linguistics and TESOL
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Email: daniel.scarpace@uta.edu
Office: Hammond 125
Interests: Phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition, Romance languages.
Dr. Cynthia Kilpatrick, PhD, UC San Diego
Department of Linguistics and TESOL
Interim Director of the English Language Institute
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Email: cynkil@uta.edu
Office: Hammond 403
Interests: TESOL, second language acquisition, bilingualism, phonology, phonological acquisition, phonotactics, experimental phonology/phonetics, Romance languages (especially Spanish), dialects of the Southern U.S.
Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Carolyn Buckhout
Department of Music
Graduate
Dr. Clifton Evans, D.M.A. University of Houston
Department of Music
Associate Professor, Director of Orchestras, Strings Area Coordinator, Graduate Advisor
Area: Strings
Bio: Dr. Clifton Evans currently serves as Director of Orchestras, Associate Professor of Music, and String Area Coordinator at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Evans has enjoyed a conducting career that has taken him to Hong Kong, England, China, Austria, the Czech Republic and throughout the United States. Highly sought after as a clinician and lecturer, Dr. Evans has conducted numerous Region Orchestras and Bands and given multiple lectures on conducting and rehearsal technique. His upcoming schedule includes a return engagement with the American Festival for the Arts Conservatory Orchestra in Houston in the summer of 2021. In addition to his duties as a professor at UTA, Dr. Evans maintains an active schedule at summer festivals, conventions, and workshops. For six years, he conducted the Fargason concerts for the Texas Music Teachers Association, which featured concerto competition winners selected from across the state of Texas. He has also conducted the prestigious American Festival for the Arts Conservatory Orchestra in Houston numerous times and has been invited back for the 2020 season. In the summers of 2010, 2013, and 2017, he presented conducting workshops and other lectures at the state convention for the Texas Orchestra Directors Association in San Antonio. Each summer at UTA, he serves as Executive Director and a faculty member of the Texas Conducting Workshop, a program he founded together with the string faculty, and Summer Strings, a camp that hosts roughly 400 students from throughout the Metroplex. Dr. Evans’ previous positions include Artistic Director of the Arlington Youth Symphony, Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music for the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Music Director for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston, Conductor for the Houston Youth Symphony, and Music Director and Conductor of the Houston Civic Symphony. He currently maintains professional memberships in TMEA, TODA, Conductors Guild, and Mu Omicron. He is an honorary member of the Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi chapters at UTA and also served as the faculty advisor to the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapter for 5 years. He resides in Arlington with his wife, Christy, and their children.
Undergraduate
Email: hermes@uta.edu
Undergraduate
Email: kharper@uta.edu
Graduate
Email: boyea@uta.edu
Interests: American political institutions, judicial politics, state politics, and elections
Undergraduate
Lauren Vanpool
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Department of Linguistics and TESOL
Email: lauren.vanpool@uta.edu
Office: 434 University Hall (UH)
Graduate
Dr. Kelly Bergstrand
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor, Sociology
PhD University of Arizona
Email: kelly.bergstrand@uta.edu
Office: 425 University Hall (UH)
Research Specialization: Social movements; environmental sociology; and social psychology
Undergraduate
Email: miranda.marin@uta.edu
Minor
Email: mikila.salazar@uta.edu
Undergraduate
Dr. Alex Hunnicutt
Department of History
Medieval Studies (Minor)
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Email: hunnicut@uta.edu
Minor
Freshmen Only - UAC
Email: christopher.dauria@uta.edu
Luis Munoz
[FRESHMEN ONLY] Fine Arts, English, History, Linguistics
Email: luis.munoz@uta.edu
Janet Vinet
[FRESHMEN ONLY] Excluding Fine Arts, English, History, Linguistics, Political Science) & Interdisciplinary Studies First-Year Students
Email: janet.vinet@mavs.uta.edu