Box 19617, Arlington, TX 76019
Phone: 817-272-3291
Advising
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MODERN LANGUAGES
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PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANITIES
POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
THEATRE ARTS AND DANCE
CENTERS & OTHERS
Freshmen ONLY
If you are a freshman, please talk to your respective University Advising and Engagement Center (UAEC) advisor. If you are a transfer student, please select your department above instead.
Undergraduate
Email: eduardo.cardona@uta.edu
Email: sierra.garcia@uta.edu
Email: jsrose@uta.edu
Amy Stephens
Adjunct
Email: amy.stephens@uta.edu
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
Professor, Journalism
Email: epsmith@uta.edu
Office: FAB 2114
Undergraduate
Email: Melani.Soto@uta.edu
Phone #: 817-272-7686
Graduate
Dr. Sarah El Sayed
Associate Professor and Traditional MA Director
Associate Department Chair
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. Jaya Davis
Professor
Email: jbdavis@uta.edu
Research Areas: Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Reentry, Women and crime
Undergraduate
Email: kodonnell@uta.edu
Office: 209 Carlisle Hall
Emmy Piercy
Undergraduate Staff Advisor
Email: allison.piercy@uta.edu
Graduate
Erin Murrah-Mandril
Director of Graduate Studies
Email: erin.murrahmandril@uta.edu
Office: 612 Carlisle Hall
Additional Info: Erin Murrah-Mandril earned her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of English and a core faculty member of the Center for Mexican American Studies. Her research focuses on Mexican American literary recovery and literary history, and she teaches American literature and Mexican American Studies courses. Her book, In the Mean Time: The Temporal Colonization of Mexican America, examines the ways Mexican American authors navigated the colonizing force of U.S. time in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Ji Nang Kim
Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator
PhD, Texas A&M University (2015)
Email: jinang.kim@uta.edu
Office: CARH 419
Undergraduate
Email: gandre@uta.edu
Alexandra Rains
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Department of History & Geography
Email: alexandra.rains@uta.edu
Graduate
Patryk Babiracki
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (2008)
Associate Professor (2009) & M.A Graduate Advisor
Email: HistoryMAadvisor@uta.edu
Office: 310 University Hall
Areas: Modern Russia, Eastern Europe, International History, Culture and Society
Paul Conrad
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Associate Professor (2015) & Ph.D Advisor
Email: paul.conrad@uta.edu
Office: 322 University Hall
Areas: Native American History, North American West, History of Slavery
Undergraduate
Email: andrea.jenkins@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: 544 University Hall
Interests: Phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second-language acquisition, Romance languages.
Dr. Peggy Semingson, PhD, UT Austin
Department of Linguistics and TESOL
Associate Professor
Email: peggys@uta.edu
Office: 548 University Hall
Interests: Digital pedagogies, online learning, literacy teacher education, bilingualism, ESL.
Undergraduate
Email: modladvisor@uta.edu
Office: Check-in: 230 Hammond Hall
Office Hours
Mondays 8:00AM - 11:30AM 1:30PM - 4:30PM Tuesdays 8:00AM - 11:30AM 1:30PM - 4:30PM Wednesdays 8:00AM - 11:30AM 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Graduate
Amy Austin
Associate Chair, Department of Modern Languages
Associate Professor of Instruction in Spanish
Graduate Advisor
Email: amaustin@uta.edu
Office: 321 Hammond Hall
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
Graduate
Martin Gallagher, DPHIL, University of Oxford (2012) Major: Classical Archaeology (2023)
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Classical Studies
Kenneth Williford, Ph.D. University of Iowa (2003)
Professor, Philosophy
Email: williford@uta.edu
Research Interests: Philosophy of Mind, Logic, Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, History of Modern Philosophy.
Undergraduate
Kimberly Caraway
Academic Advisor II
kimberly.caraway@uta.edu
(817) 272-9194
Email: kimberly.caraway@uta.edu
Phone #: (817) 272-9194
Office: University Hall, Room 449
Office Hours
M-TH 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM and T/TH 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, also by appointment
Graduate
Email: boyea@uta.edu
Phone #: (817) 272-5449
Interests: American political institutions, judicial politics, state politics, and elections
Undergraduate
Email: andrea.jenkins@uta.edu
Office: 434 University Hall (UH)
Graduate
Dr. Kelly Bergstrand, PhD University of Arizona
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor, Sociology
Email: kelly.bergstrand@uta.edu
Office: 425 University Hall (UH)
Research Specialization: Social movements; environmental sociology; and social psychology
General
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
General
Freshmen Only - UAEC
First Year Liberal Arts Advisor
Lisa Rose
First Year Liberal Arts Advisor
Janet Vinet
First Year Liberal Arts Advisor
Claudia Arredondo
