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UT Austin has experts in a range of subjects who can offer context and analysis on the shootings in Garland, Texas. Interested journalists can contact the experts directly or call University Media Relations (512-471-3151) for assistance.

Art and Islam

Stephennie Mulder, associate professor of Art History and assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies

[email protected]

512-471-5851

Relevant expertise: Islamic Art and depictions of Mohammed

Domestic and International Terrorism

Will Inboden, director of the Clements Center, associate professor of Public Affairs

[email protected]

512-471-2411

Relevant expertise: National security, terrorism, contingency planning, counter-radicalization

Ami Pedazur, professor of Government and Middle Eastern Studies

[email protected]

512-232-1452

Relevant expertise: Political radicalism, terrorism and counter-terrorism

Freedom of Expression and Civil Liberties

David Anderson, professor of Law

[email protected]

512-232-1365

Relevant expertise: Hate speech and free speech

Wanda Cash, professor of Journalism

[email protected]

512-471-1965

Relevant expertise: Freedom of expression, media coverage of Islam

Jeremi Suri, professor of Public Affairs and History

[email protected]

512-475-7242

Relevant expertise: Freedom of expression and civil liberties

Religious Freedom

John Traphagan, professor of Religious Studies

[email protected]

512-232-0874

Relevant expertise: Religious freedom

Lauren Meyers, professor of Integrative Biology

512-699-2525, [email protected]

*Available Noon – 2:30 p.m.

Meyers can discuss the spread of infectious diseases and howoutbreaks such as measles are governed by complex math.

Elizabeth Hand, clinical assistant professor of Pharmacy

210-551-3569, [email protected]

As President Obama's executive order on deportation of immigration sparks continued discussion of U.S. policy and border issues, experts from across disciplines at UT Austin are poised to share their insights with journalists on a variety of topics related to immigration.

Bruce Buchanan

Professor of Government

512-232-7212

[email protected]

Buchanan is an expert on presidential politics, American political institutions and public policy.

Denise Gilman

Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic, UT Austin School of Law  

512-232-7796

[email protected]

*Available for interviews in English and Spanish

Gilman has written and practiced law extensively in the international human rights and immigrants’ rights fields. Her areas of expertise include immigration, immigrants’ rights, civil rights advocacy and human rights advocacy. Prior to joining the UT Law faculty, she was director of the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs from 2000 to 2005. 

Luis Zayas

Dean of the School of Social Work

512-471-1937

[email protected]

*Available for interviews in English and Spanish

Zayas studies the plight of citizen-children whose parents are being deported. Through funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, he is examining the effects of deportation on the psychosocial functioning of U.S.-born citizen-children of undocumented Mexican immigrants. 

Barbara Hines

Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic, UT Austin School of Law 

512-699-3338

[email protected]

Hines has practiced in the field of immigration law since 1975. Previously, Hines served as the first co-director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Texas Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. She has litigated many issues relating to the constitutional and statutory rights of immigrants in federal and immigration courts including the lawsuit leading to the closure of the controversial T. Don Hutto Detention Center. She frequently comments and publishes on topics related to immigration law and immigrants’ rights.

Alfonso Gonzales

Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies

512-471-0151

[email protected]

*Available for interviews in English and Spanish

Gonzales specializes in Latino and Latin American politics, immigration policy, deportation, human rights, asylum and migration. 

Bill Beardall

School of Law Clinical Professor - Transnational Worker Rights Clinic

512-784-0683

[email protected]

Beardall is a leading expert in low-income employment law and in securing access to the justice system for working people regardless of their income or immigration status. He leads the Equal Justice Center, which partners with UT Austin School of Law faculty and students. The center will train regional non-profits in Texas to work with immigrants on education and documentation in accordance with the the executive action.

Néstor Rodríguez

Professor of Sociology

512-232-8072

[email protected]

*Available for interviews in English and Spanish

Hospitals and Health Policy 

Sam Richardson, assistant professor of Public Affairs

[email protected]; 512-232-3687

Richardson can address whether or not US hospitals are prepared to deal with Ebola cases and incentives playing into the fact that there is not an effective treatment for the disease.

Ebola Immunity and The Math of the Outbreak

Lauren Meyers, professor of Integrative Biology

[email protected]; 512-471-4950

Meyers is working to understand how Ebola may be silently immunizing the population. She can discuss her findings and also how outbreaks such as Ebola are governed by complex math.

Nursing and Health Care

Terry Jones, assistant professor of Nursing

[email protected], 512-471-9075

Jones has been a nurse for over 25 years and has served in a variety of roles ranging from critical care staff nurse to Chief Nurse Executive in a large academic medical center and public hospital.

Linda Yoder, associate professor of Nursing

[email protected], 512-471-7938

Yoder is plugged into the local community of nurses and nursing administrators as well as professional nursing associations. She can speak from experience in hospitals and clinics. 

Alexandra Garcia, associate professor of Nursing 

[email protected], 512-471-7973

Garcia teaches students how to properly use equipment to protect from infection on the front lines of health care. She says that an emergency such as the Ebola outbreak highlights how important it is to have procedures in place all the time.

Karen Johnson, assistant professor of Nursing

[email protected], 512-471-7971

Johnson is helping nursing students evaluate the Ebola outbreak in Dallas, examine the systems at play and evaluate how nurses can contribute to the clear communication of information in a health crisis.

History of Medicine in Africa

Abena Osseo-Assare assistant professor of History

[email protected]; 617-818-4868

Abena Osseo-Asare is a historian of medicine and science in Africa. She offers her view on the need for equitable distribution of Ebola treatments.

Media and Health Communication

Jay Bernhardt, director of the Center for Health Communication

[email protected]; 512-471-1931

Bernhardt is former director of the National Center for Health Marketing at the CDC. He can evaluate the way media is covering the crisis and how the CDC, state agencies, and public health officials are responding.

Matthew McGlone, associate professor of Communication Studies 

matthew_mcglone@ mail.utexas.edu, 512-471-1920

McGlone argues that efforts to fight the spread of Ebola could be improved with changes to health and risk communication.

Infectious Disease

Jaquelin Dudley, professor of Molecular Biosciences

[email protected]

Dudley’s expertise is the study of animal viruses, including those that infect humans, such as Ebola.

Sara Sawyer, associate professor of Molecular Biosciences

[email protected]

Sawyer can speak about emerging human viral epidemics including Ebola and virus evolution over time.