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…

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,…

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…

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)

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 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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…