Richard A. Garner
Honors College Faculty
Email: ragarner@uh.edu
Personal Website: garner.prof
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Richard A. Garner, Ph.D., L.M.S.W. is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Honors College, where he was also formerly the Director of the Speech & Debate Program (2016-2024). He received his doctorate in English from the University at Buffalo for work on early American culture, focusing on the politics and literature of slavery, sentimental fiction, and aesthetics. He also received his Masters in Social Work from Tulane University, where he focused on clinical mental health and foster kinship care.
In the Honors College, Professor Garner teaches the gateway course taken by all Honors College first-years, The Human Situation. He also teaches in the college's interdisciplinary minors.
Course offered at the University of Houston:
- The Human Situation, Fall 2013 – present
- Readings in Mental Health & Society, Spring 2026
- Leadership & Mass Psychology, Fall 2017 – present
- Debating Policy, Spring 2020 – present
- Leadership Studies Field Experience (Independent Study), Spring 2025
- Radical Leadership in the 19th Century: Abolition & Suffrage, Spring 2019