Michael Agresta


  • Toy Story

    COLA alumnus Jeremy Padawer has transformed the toy industry with a keen sense for how collectors think


  • Carmen, Chameleon

    Jennifer Wilks tracks an opera heroine’s many guises, from Bizet to Beyoncé


  • A Place to Belong

    With her gift to the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies at UT, Mary Braunagel-Brown supports students as they find their footing on campus


  • Pictures Snapping into Place

    Steven Hoelscher brings a geographer’s critical eye to the study of photography and history.


  • The Oracle of the Enlightenment 

    How did one of the 18th century’s greatest students of Rome become its foremost voice for balance and moderation in the construction of the modern state?