Roderick P. Hart is the dean and the Allan Shivers Centennial/Cronkite Chair of the College of Communication at the University of Texas, Austin, and was also the founding director of…

Richard Murray taught political science at the University of Houston from 1966 until his retirement in 2021 from a 55-year teaching career in the University of Houston Department of Political…

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…

Kim Davenport was the founding director and chief curator of the Rice University Art Gallery from 1994 until her retirement. She holds degrees from Maryland Institute College of Art and…

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 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…

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…

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)

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,…