2024 Faculty Council and Standing Committee Election Results

The following members of the general faculty have been elected to serve a two-year term on the Faculty Council beginning the first class day of fall 2024:


Representing the Cockrell School of Engineering 

  • Edward Castillo, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Sarfraz Khurshid, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Kara Kockelman, Professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
  • Guihua Yu, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Representing the College of Education

  • Michael A Goodman, Assistant Professor of Practice, Educational Leadership and Policy
  • Pablo Montero-Zamora, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Health Education

Representing the College of Fine Arts

  • Kate Catterall, Associate Professor, School of Design and Creative Technologies
  • Erin Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Practice, Art and Art History
  • Carma Gorman, Associate Professor, Design

Representing the College of Liberal Arts

  • Jennifer Ebbeler, Associate Professor, Classics
  • Christy Erving, Associate Professor, Sociology
  • Rebecca Falkoff, Assistant Professor, French and Italian
  • Seth Garfield, Professor, History
  • Michelle Montague, Professor, Philosophy
  • Melissa Murphy, Associate Professor of Instruction, Spanish and Portuguese
  • Suzanne Seriff, Professor of Instruction, Anthropology
  • Julija Šukys, Associate Professor, English
  • Bruce Wells, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies

Representing the College of Natural Sciences

  • Jennifer Austin, Associate Professor of Instruction, Mathematics
  • Tom Devitt, Assistant Professor of Practice, College of Natural Sciences 
  • Liz Gershoff, Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
  • Gordon Novak, Jr., Professor, Computer Science
  • Jonathan Partridge, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biology Instruction Office
  • Lorenzo Sadun, Professor, Mathematics
  • Paul Shapiro, Professor, Astronomy
  • Stefano Tiziani, Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences 

Representing the College of Pharmacy

  • Laura Fonken, Assistant Professor

Representing the Dell Medical School

  • Jorge Renner Cardoso de Almeida, Associate Professor (Medical), Psychiatry 
  • J Thomas Brenna, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics 
  • Nicole Turgeon, Professor of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Surgery and Perioperative Care
  • Greg Wallingford, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Medicine

Representing the Jackson School of Geosciences

  • Sergey Fomel, Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Representing the LBJ School of Public Affairs

  • Martin Luby, Associate Professor

Representing the McCombs School of Business

  • Christopher Meakin, Associate Professor of Instruction, Business, Government and Society
  • Michael Sury, Associate Professor of Practice, Finance
  • Dima Shamoun, Clinical Assistant Professor, Finance

Representing the Moody College of Communication

  • Mary Beltrán, Professor, Radio-Television-Film
  • Lawrence Schooler, Assistant Professor of Practice, Communication Studies
  • Spencer Smith, Assistant Professor, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Representing the School of Architecture

  • Matt Fajkus, Associate Professor

Representing the School of Information

  • Andrew Dillon, Professor

Representing the School of Law

  • Brian Pérez-Daple, Lecturer

Representing the School of Nursing

  • Li-Chen Lin, Clinical Assistant Professor 

Representing the School of Social Work

  • Diane Rhodes, Senior Lecturer

The following members of the general faculty have been elected to serve three-year terms on the listed General Faculty Standing Committees beginning the first class day of fall 2024:


A-1 Committee of Counsel on Academic Freedom and Responsibility

  • Andrea Gore, Professor, College of Pharmacy
  • Stephen Russell, Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences

A-3 Committee on Committees (4-person panel to be sent to the President, who will appoint 2 members)

  • Lina Del Castillo, Associate Professor, History
  • Jennifer Ebbeler, Associate Professor, Classics
  • Sarfraz Khurshid, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Kara Kockelman, Professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

A-4 Faculty Grievance Committee

  • Brian Evans, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Liz Gershoff, Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences
  • Julie Hardwick, Professor, History
  • Amy Lee, Professor, Neuroscience

A-6 General Faculty Rules and Governance Committee

  • Carma Gorman, Associate Professor, Design

B-3 Student Life Committee

  • Nina Palmo, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Sociology

B-4 Student Athletes and Activities Committee

  • Lara Latimer, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Kinesiology and Health Education