Fellows Directory

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Deborah Beck smiling, with grey hair split down the middle and wearing an orange top, against a grey background.

Deborah Beck

Alumni
Classics
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning

Deborah Beck has won various awards for both teaching and research, including the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics at the College and University Level from the Society for Classical Studies and a prize for Excellence in Faculty Teaching from the Gamma Sigma chapter of the national Classics undergraduate honors society Eta Sigma Phi (2019) and two Plumer Visiting Research Fellowships at St Anne’s College, Oxford (2017 and 2019). Her main research interest is ancient Greek and Roman epic poetry, especially Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

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Tasha Beretvas

Alumni
Educational Psychology
Faculty Affairs
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College of Education
Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
Initiative Focus
Assessment

Tasha Beretvas is a professor in the Quantitative Methods program in the Department of Educational Psychology. She joined UT's faculty in 2000. Beretvas has served as the Quantitative Methods program chair and the College of Education's Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. She is currently the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. She is also a member of the board of directors for the college's Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and a faculty associate of UT's Population Research Center.

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Daniel Birkholz

Alumni
English
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Digital Humanities
Experiential Learning

Janet Davis

Alumni
American Studies
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College of Liberal Arts
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
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Jade DeKinder

Alumni
Marketing Administration
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning
Project-Based Learning
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Cynthia LaBrake

Alumni
Molecular Biosciences
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College of Natural Sciences
Initiative Focus
Active Learning
Peer Education

Cynthia LaBrake is a former Chair of the Provost's Teaching Fellows. Cynthia was instrumental in the design and creation of the Provost's Teaching Fellows program, first as a faculty affiliate of the Center for Teaching and Learning, and then as a member of the 2015 cohort of Teaching Fellows. She served as 2017 Chair. Cynthia's current interest is in serving the CNS as the Badging Fellow. In this role, she is leading the college effort to create sustainable structures for the development and awarding of badged micro credentials.

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Sanford Leeds

Alumni
Finance
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Peer Education
Skill-Building

Project Title: The McCombs Business Journal was an effort to give students an opportunity to read and write about research.  

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Luis Martins

Alumni
Management
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McCombs School of Business
Initiative Focus
Skill-Building
Peer Education

Luis Martins is the Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship and the James B. Goodson Professor in Business at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Management and Organizational Behavior from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Martins teaches courses on leadership and organizational behavior, innovation, entrepreneurship, and change management in the McCombs School’s full-time, professional, and executive MBA programs, and in its non-degree executive programs.

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Steven Vokes

Alumni
Molecular Biosciences
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College of Natural Sciences
Initiative Focus
Experiential Learning