List of University of Texas at Austin faculty

This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin, Texas that is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff. It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.

College of Natural Sciences

 * Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006), Israeli physicist, politician, and president of Tel Aviv University

Accounting and finance

 * Michael Clement &mdash; KPMG Centennial professor

Administration

 * Eugene C. Barker &mdash; chairman, Department of History (Barker History Center)
 * Darlene Grant &mdash; Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
 * William Powers, Jr. &mdash; law professor, President of The University of Texas at Austin
 * Lawrence G. Sager &mdash; Dean, School of Law
 * James Steinberg &mdash; Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs
 * Ben G. Streetman &mdash; Dean, Cockrell School of Engineering
 * Paul Woodruff &mdash; Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Arts and entertainment

 * Chad Oliver &mdash; science fiction and Western writer
 * Ellen Spiro - documentary filmmaker
 * Louis Alexander Waldman - art historian

Education

 * Marye Anne Fox &mdash; chemist, Chancellor of University of California, San Diego and formerly North Carolina State University
 * Robert L. Mills &mdash; educator; former president of Georgetown College, Kentucky

History, archive, and library science

 * Eugene C. Barker — Texas historian, chair of the history department, academic journal editor
 * Nettie Lee Benson historian, archivist, and the namesake of the Benson Latin American Collection
 * Walter L. Buenger historian of the American South
 * Daina Ramey Berry History Department Chair, historian specializing in gender, slavery, and black women
 * H. W. Brands author, historian, Jack S. Blanton, Sr. Chair of history
 * Carlos Castañeda (historian) historian, librarian, and archivist
 * Robert Cotner historian, biographer of James Stephen Hogg
 * Louis Tuffly Ellis
 * Toyin Falola author and historian specializing in African studies
 * Joe Bertram Frantz historian, biographer
 * George Pierce Garrison one of the founding faculty members of the Department of History
 * A. G. Hopkins professor emeritus, economic history
 * Madeline Y. Hsu Asian-American and Chinese American history
 * Brian P. Levack professor emeritus, early modern Europe
 * Philippa Levine historian specializing in gender, race, and science; Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History and Ideas
 * Steven Mintz historian
 * Joan Neuberger Russian and Soviet history
 * David Oshinsky professor emeritus
 * Charles W. Ramsdell historian
 * Jeremi Suri historian, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Global Affairs
 * Ann Twinam professor emeritus, historian, Colonial Latin America
 * Walter Prescott Webb historian of Texas and the American West
 * Amelia Worthington Williams Texas historian

Journalism and publishing

 * Gail Caldwell
 * J. Frank Dobie &mdash; American folklorist, writer, and columnist
 * Marvin Olasky &mdash; journalist and conservative pundit

Law and government

 * James K. Galbraith &mdash; head of the University of Texas Inequality Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
 * Barbara Jordan &mdash; the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House
 * Gretchen Ritter, professor of government at UT Austin from 1992 to 2013.
 * Oran Milo Roberts &mdash; Governor of Texas from January 21, 1879, to January 16, 1883
 * T. K. Seung &mdash; professor of philosophy, government, and law

Languages and literature

 * Américo Paredes folklorist, novelist
 * J. Frank Dobie folklorist, newspaper columnist

Philosophy

 * Robert S. Boyer &mdash; professor of philosophy, computer science, and math
 * Jonathan Dancy &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * Robert Kane &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * Brian Leiter &mdash; professor of philosophy and law
 * Louis H. Mackey &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * Aloysius Martinich &mdash; professor of philosophy (world-renowned for his knowledge of Thomas Hobbes)
 * Mark Sainsbury &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * T. K. Seung &mdash; professor of philosophy, government, and law
 * Tara Smith &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * Robert C. Solomon &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * Galen Strawson &mdash; professor of philosophy
 * Paul Woodruff &mdash; professor of philosophy

Science and technology

 * Eric J. Barron, former dean of College of Geosciences; current Director of National Center for Atmospheric Research
 * Adi Bulsara, PhD, 1978 (physics) - leading physicist in the area of nonlinear dynamics
 * Franklin C. Crow &mdash; computer scientist
 * Bryce DeWitt &mdash; physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe")
 * Cécile DeWitt-Morette – mathematical physicist
 * Gordon Gunter &mdash; instructor in physiology (1939-1945), then researcher (1945-1949), acting director (1949-1954) and director (1954-1955) of the University of Texas Institute of Marine Science at Port Aransas and editor of Publications of the Institute of Marine Science (1950-1955); influential fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico
 * G.B. Halsted &mdash; mathematician
 * Clark Hubbs &mdash; ichthyologist
 * William H. Jefferys &mdash; astronomer
 * Zhimin Lu &mdash; biologist and oncologist
 * Chris Mack &mdash; photolithographer
 * Hans Mark &mdash; aerospace engineer, former Deputy Administrator at NASA and Secretary of the Air Force
 * Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. &mdash; zoologist
 * Hermann Joseph Muller &mdash; geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
 * Ilya Prigogine &mdash; physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
 * Bill Schelter &mdash; mathematician, Lisp developer
 * Roy Schwitters &mdash; physicist, former director of the now-defunct Superconducting Super Collider
 * Elliot See &mdash; astronaut
 * Jonathan Sessler &mdash; chemist, pioneering work on expanded porphyrins
 * John Tate &mdash; mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
 * Harry Vandiver &mdash; mathematician
 * John Archibald Wheeler &mdash; physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole'
 * Robert E. Wyatt – chemist

Social sciences

 * Walter Dean Burnham — political scientist
 * David Buss — evolutionary psychology
 * Mounira M. Charrad — political sociologist
 * Madonna Constantine — counseling psychologist
 * Scott Freeman — economist
 * James K. Galbraith — economist
 * Michael G. Hall - historian
 * Ian Hancock — linguist and Romani scholar
 * Milton W. Humphreys - first professor of Latin and Greek at UT Austin, 1883-1887
 * Thomas Pangle - professor of government
 * Linda Schele — expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography
 * T. K. Seung — professor of philosophy, government, and law
 * Christen A. Smith — associate professor of anthropology
 * John Traphagan — anthropology
 * Philip L. White — professor of Colonial America and Nationality, 1955–2000; political activist and academic free-speech leader
 * Luis Zayas — professor of Psychiatry