Ann Huff Stevens

Ann Huff Stevens became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in July 2019. Stevens came to UT Austin from the University of California, Davis, and is a Texas native with roots in Corpus Christi. At UC Davis, Dean Stevens was a professor of economics and served in a variety of leadership roles, including chair of the Department of Economics, chair of the Economics Graduate Program, interim dean of the Graduate School of Management, and founding director of the Center for Poverty Research. She earned an undergraduate degree from American University and a doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan. Prior to her work at UC Davis, she served as a faculty member at Rutgers University and Yale University.