Ann Huff Stevens is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and David Bruton Jr. Regents Chair in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was the deputy director of the Center for Poverty Research and professor of economics at UC Davis. Her current work examines returns to career and technical education programs, EITC eligibility and deep poverty, and aspects of rising male non-employment. Stevens previously served on the faculty at Rutgers and Yale Universities and is a faculty research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. At UC Davis, Stevens has served as chair of the Department of Economics and interim dean of the Graduate School of Management. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has served as a principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.