Brandon Rottinghaus

Brandon Rottinghaus is professor of political science at the University of Houston. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University. His teaching and research interests include the presidency…
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Luther Brown

Luther Brown spent most of his early life in Elmhurst, Illinois and received his BA from Elmhurst College.  He received is MA and PhD in ecology from Ohio State University,…
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Felipe Chavez-Ramirez

Felipe Chavez-Ramirez has a long history of involvement in whooping crane research and conservation activities, beginning in 1993 with his PhD thesis work at Texas A&M University. He is the…
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Mike Feinberg

Mike Feinberg co-founded KIPP in Houston in 1994 and served as Superintendent of KIPP Houston until 2012. He is co-founder and president of Texas School Venture Fund. (Fall 2010)
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Chris Barbic

Chris Barbic is founder of YES Prep, the founding superintendent of Tennessee's Achievement School District, and a board member of the Tennessee Charter School Center. (Fall 2010)
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Terry Grier

Houston welcomed Dr. Terry Grier as superintendent of HISD in September 2009, after the district’s trustees voted unanimously in favor of his selection. Promising to transform HISD’s educational culture, he…
08/14/2022

Kate Kirkland

Kate S. Kirkland is the author of Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941 (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), published in conjunction with Rice University’s centennial, and The Hogg Family…
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Melissa Kean

Melissa F. Kean was Rice University’s Centennial Historian from 2005 until her retirement in 2020. She is the author of Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice,…
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Rebecca Rabinow

Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection since 2016, was formerly a curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1990. She…
Houston Seminar
08/14/2022

Brian Connelly

Brian Connelly's career embraces an unusually broad range of historical and modern repertoires and styles. He has premiered works by a host of contemporary composers, and is widely known for…
08/14/2022