Faculty Experts Guide Directory
Loyola College of Arts and Sciences
Topic | Name/Title | Areas of Expertise |
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Biology | David Rivers, Ph.D. Professor of Biology |
Insect biology; forensic entomology; and forensic science |
Michael Tangrea, Ph.D. Endowed Professor of Biology and SCI&E |
Molecular diagnostics; precision medicine; medical devices; biomedical startups; business incubators | |
Christopher Thompson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology |
Microbiology, immunology, cell biology; infectious disease; complementary and alternative medicines | |
Chemistry | Birgit Albrecht, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Computational chemistry; drug design |
Brian Barr, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Biochemistry, protein chemistry; biomass/bioenergy; biosynthesis of natural products | |
Elizabeth Dahl, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Marine chemistry; atmospheric chemistry; analytical chemistry; Earth system science; environmental sustainability and climate change | |
Jesse D. More, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Organic chemistry; synthesis, medical chemistry | |
Classics |
Martha C. Taylor, Ph.D. Chair and Professor of Classics and History |
Greek and Athenian history; Peloponnesian War; women in the ancient world; classical mythology |
Robert S. Miola, Ph.D. Professor of Classics and Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English |
Ancient World Greek and Latin; Shakespeare, early modern Catholicism; Renaissance drama | |
Joseph J. Walsh, Ph.D. Professor of Classics and History |
Ancient Greek and Roman history; history of Christmas; the Classical tradition; early Christianity; the persecution of the Early Christians | |
Communication | Sara Magee, Ph.D. Chair of Communication |
Broadcast journalism; popular culture issues; digital and social media |
Neil Alperstein, Ph.D. |
Popular culture; advertising; virtual worlds; teaching with technology | |
Amy Bree Becker, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication |
Use of Twitter for communication; Facebook, election polling; Saturday Night Live; satire, political comedy; public opinion toward same-sex marriage; science issues; political tolerance | |
Greg Hoplamazian, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication and Academic Director, Emerging Media Master’s Program |
Advertising & consumer identity; crisis communication on social media; and native advertising | |
Elliott King, Ph.D. Professor of Communication |
Online journalism; press and politics; media culture and society; free speech; online learning; politics and the American news media; social media; celebrities and social media | |
Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Communication |
International communication; political communication; Brazil, media and diversity | |
Karsonya (Kaye) Whitehead, Ph.D. Professor of Communication |
Race, class and gender issues; diversity issues; 19th century Black history; Civil Rights movement | |
Computer Science | David Binkley, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science |
Software Engineering |
Engineering |
Chair and Associate Professor of Engineering |
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Robert T. Bailey, Ph.D. Professor of Engineering |
Risk and safety analysis of engineered systems; engineering education; heating and cooling energy use and efficiency | |
Suzanne E. Keilson, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Engineering |
Applied physics; engineering/science education especially for women and minorities; design education and user interface design; signal processing and biomedical sensory systems ; electronic and magnetic properties of materials | |
English | ||
Juniper L. Ellis, Ph.D. Professor of English |
Tattoo; humor literature and culture; 19th and 20th Century U.S., Maori and Pacific Islands literature; post-Colonial literature, 21st Century Literature | |
Kathleen Forni, Ph.D. Professor of English |
Chaucer, Beowulf, Middle Ages in popular culture | |
Robert S. Miola, Ph.D. Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English and Professor of Classics |
Ancient World (Greek and Latin); Shakespeare; early modern Catholicism; Renaissance drama | |
Fine Arts | Natka Bianchini, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Theatre |
Theater history; contemporary drama; 20th century American theatre; Beckett and Theatre
of the Absurd; women and gender studies; Queer theatre and film; women and gender
studies |
Jon Malis Associate Professor of Fine Arts (Photography) |
Digital color theory & applications; post-photographic processes; 3D printing & rapid prototyping in the arts; creative research; work deals primarily with the representation and display of visual imagery and information; focusing on how the viewer perceives and interprets the image based on its mode of presentation | |
Barnaby Nygren, MFA Associate Professor of Fine Arts (Art History) |
Italian Renaissance art; Michelangelo, Latin American colonial art | |
Daniel Schlapbach, MFA Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Chair (Photography) |
Photography, multimedia, contemporary art; the intersection of digital imaging with
19th century photographic techniques; particularly wet-plate collodion and stereo
photography; the history of photography |
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Global Studies/Political Science | Mary Kate Schneider, Ph.D. Director of Global Studies and Lecturer of Political Science |
Global/international politics; conflict; peacebuilding; ethnic politics; nationalism; political violence; human rights; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Balkans; education, national, and civic identity |
Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science |
Christianity in China; interactions between the Chinese Communist Party-state and Protestant Christianity; Chinese politics; Chinese globalization | |
History | Rev. Charles Borges, S.J., Ph.D. Associate Professor of History |
Jesuit history in Asia; Indian history; Indian-Portuguese relations |
David Carey, Jr., Ph.D. Doehler Chair in History, Professor |
Human rights; Native Americans; medicine and health; women's rights; environment | |
Bahar Jalali, Ph.D. |
Afghanistan; protests against Taliban black hijab mandate | |
Matthew Mulcahy, Ph.D. Doehler Chair in History, Professor |
Colonial America; history of disasters; hurricanes, Caribbean history | |
Oghenetoja (Toja) Okoh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History |
Ethnicity, Ethnic politics; Ethnic violence; gender; minority identity; minority citizenship; civil society | |
Sara Scalenghe, Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor of History |
The Middle East and North Africa; disability | |
Thomas Pegram, Ph.D. Professor of History |
Late 19th/early 20th-century American political and social history | |
Joseph J. Walsh, Ph.D. Professor of Classics and History |
Ancient Greek and Roman history; history of Christmas; the Classical tradition; early Christianity; the persecution of the Early Christians | |
Mathematics and Statistics |
Chair and Associate Professor of Mathematics |
Groups, Algebraic Groups, Representations, Algebra |
Michael P. Knapp, Ph.D. Professor of Mathematics |
Number theory | |
Christopher H. Morrell, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics |
Statistics, longitudinal data/studies; medical statistics | |
Lisa Oberbroeckling, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mathematics |
Functional analysis, operator theory, Banach algebras, generalized inverses | |
Modern Languages and Literatures | ||
Margaret A. Haggstrom, Ph.D. Associate Professor of French |
Applied linguistics; foreign language pedagogy | |
Inas Hassan, Ph.D. Visiting Affiliate Assistant Professor of Arabic |
Classical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories | |
Tasha Lewis, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Spanish |
Cognitive linguistics; second language acquisition; gesture studies; foreign language pedagogy | |
Leslie Zarker Morgan, Ph.D. Emerita Professor of Italian and French |
Medieval Italian and French literatures and languages; the chanson de geste in France and its continuations in Italy | |
Andrea Thomas, Ph.D. Associate Chair and Associate Professor of French |
19th and 20th century French literature and culture; the publishing industry in 19th century France and Belgium | |
Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chinese |
Pre-modern Chinese literature | |
Thomas Ward, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Director, Latin American and Latino Studies |
Spanish language; Latin American literatures and cultures; Peru and Central America;
Latin American Indigenous peoples in literature and the press; women in literature;
colonialism and racism |
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Philosophy | Richard Boothby, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy |
Psychoanalytic theory; theories of consciousness and unconsciousness; contemporary continental philosophy; phenomenology and existentialism; history of philosophy |
Rev. John J. Conley, S.J., Ph.D. Henry Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology |
French philosophy; ethics; bioethics; the Catholic Church; drama | |
Bret W. Davis, Ph.D. Professor and T. J. Higgins, S.J. Chair in Philosophy |
Asian and comparative philosophy; Continental philosophy | |
Joseph Farrell, Ph.D. Lecturer of Philosophy |
Ethical theory; medical and business ethics | |
Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D. |
Digital humanities; Medieval philosophy | |
Physics | Andrea Erdas, Ph.D. Chair and Professor of Physics |
Theoretical particle physics; neutrino physics; quantum field theory; the Casimir effect |
Joseph Ganem, Ph.D. Professor of Physics |
Author of the award-winning book: The Two Headed Quarter: How to See Through Deceptive Numbers and Save Money on Everything You Buy | |
Inge Heyer, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer of Physics |
Astronomy, solar system; galactic astronomy; astronomy/physics education; STEM communication | |
Psychology |
Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology |
Diversity and inclusion at work; organizational change and development; team effectiveness; LGBTQ issues |
Carolyn M. Barry, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Graduate Programs & Professor of Psychology |
Close relationships in emerging adults' psychosocial adjustment; meaning-making in emerging adulthood | |
Diana Betz, Ph.D. |
Gender, stereotyping and prejudice; body image; media & body image; psychology experimental methods | |
Sharon Green-Hennessy, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology |
Access to mental health treatment | |
Rachel L. Grover, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology |
Child psychology; child anxiety; peer relations; adolescent and young adult romantic relationships | |
Christopher Higginson, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology |
Clinical Neuropsychology | |
Michiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology |
Long-term care/caregiving; dementia, racial microaggressions; interracial marriages; Asian mental health | |
Matthew W. Kirkhart, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology |
Clinical psychology; medical psychology; learning; memory | |
Beth A. Kotchik, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology |
Clinical psychology; child, adolescent and family psychology; parenting; bullying/relational aggression | |
Jeffrey M. Lating, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology |
Posttraumatic stress disorder; critical incident stress | |
Patrick LoPresto Lecturer of Psychology & Director, Psychology Major Student Development, Clinical Professional Counseling Advisor |
Adolescent and family issues; men's issues; clinical professional counseling advisor | |
Heather Z. Lyons, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology |
Culture, discrimination and person-organization fit in the workplace; the work experience of those facing chronic unemployment; social cognitive influences on career expectations; training issues in multicultural psychology; qualitative research techniques | |
Gina Magyar-Russell, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology |
Psychology of religion and spirituality; spiritually integrated psychotherapy; cognitive behavioral therapy | |
Jason D. Parcover, Ph.D. Director of the Counseling Center |
College student counseling; marriage and family counseling; business ethics and corporate social responsibility | |
Jason Prenoveau, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology |
Anxiety; anxiety disorders; fear conditioning; open science and reproducible science | |
Sociology |
Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology |
Political sociology, social movements, the sociology of religion, human rights, and development studies with a primary regional focus in Turkey, and a secondary focus in the broader Middle East. |
Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology | Marie Kerins, Ed.D. Chair and Professor of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology |
Language and literacy |
Donna Pitts, Au.D. Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology |
Recreational based noise induced hearing loss; hearing loss and public health | |
Lisa Schoenbrodt, Ed.D. Professor of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology |
Language disorders in children; service-learning in speech-language pathology | |
Kathleen Ward, Au.D. Clinical Faculty of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology |
Audiology, hearing aids; auditory processing; hearing loss; Auditory processing and struggling learners; hearing and balance disorder; hearing and balance disorders in the elderly; hearing aids | |
Theology | James J. Buckley, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Theology |
Modern/postmodern Christian theology; Christian theology of religions; Christian ecumenism |
Rebekah Eklund, Ph.D. Professor of Theology |
Christian scripture and theology; Christian ethics; Gospels; Jesus of Nazareth; Jesus in film; lament; the beatitudes/Sermon on the Mount | |
Claire Mathews-McGinnis, Ph.D. Professor of Theology |
Biblical Hebrew; Old Testament; prophets; Biblical narrative; theological interpretation; feminist interpretation; minority interpretation; theological perspectives on the child and children; prayer and spirituality in the Christian traditions | |
Arthur Sutherland, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Theology |
Theologies of patience; hospitality, generosity, and migration; African American theology | |
Writing | Martin Camper, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Writing |
Christian religion; rhetoric, biblical interpretation; style, disagreement |
Peggy O’Neill, Ph.D. Professor of Writing |
Writing assessment, writing pedagogy | |
Jane Satterfield, MFA Associate Professor of Writing |
Contemporary poetry; creative writing; memoir; mothering and literature; writing and the arts; reviewing |
Sellinger School of Business and Management
Topic | Name/Title | Areas of Expertise |
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Accounting | John Peter Krahel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Accounting |
Accounting standards; shift in accounting standards from rules-based to principles-focused |
Hong Zhu, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Accounting |
Financial accounting; financial statement analysis; corporate governance; capital markets | |
Economics | John D. Burger, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics |
General macroeconomics; monetary policy; international finance; sports economics |
Lynne C. Elkes Lecturer of Economics |
Market movements; macroeconomics | |
Jeremy Schwartz, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics |
Economics, labor economics; unemployment, social programs | |
Kerria "Kerry" Tan, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics |
Industrial organization (i.e., how firms use different strategies to compete with other firms), pricing strategies in the airline industry | |
Finance | Lisa M. Fairchild, Ph.D. Professor of Finance |
Financial markets; fixed income securities; market regulation |
Karyl Leggio, Ph.D. Professor of Finance |
Finance, mergers and acquisitions; corporate lifecycle; energy and deregulation; telecommunications | |
Information Systems and Operations Management | Gloria Phillips-Wren, Ph.D. Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management |
Decision support; data mining; global information technology; information technology strategy; intelligent decision support systems |
Paul Tallon, Ph.D. Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management |
Evaluation of IT investments; strategic alignment; data management; financial information systems | |
Law and Social Responsibility | Rev. Timothy L. Brown, S.J., J.D. Associate Professor of Law and Social Responsibility Special Assistant to the President for Mission Integration |
Reflective leadership; Ignatian spirituality; law and ethics; literature |
Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, J.D. Professor of Law and Social Responsibility |
Race and gender discrimination in employment; ethics; corporate social responsibility | |
Elizabeth J. Kennedy, J.D. Associate Professor of Law and Social Responsibility |
Labor and employment law; leveraged financing transactions | |
Management and International Business | Jeffrey L. Cummings, Ph.D. Professor of Management and International Business |
Knowledge transfer; business strategy; strategic alliances/collaborations; strategic off-sites; strategic organizational alignment |
Hung-bin Ding, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management and International Business |
Family business, entrepreneurship, business strategy, environmental sustainability, development of 'green' products, business incubation and acceleration | |
John Michel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Management |
Industrial psychology; workplace issues; leadership, human resources; organizational culture | |
Marketing | Gerard A. Athaide, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing |
Innovation management; new product development and management |
Richard Klink, Ph.D. Professor of Marketing |
Branding | |
Marie Yeh, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing |
Social cause marketing; consumer behavior; media promotion campaigns | |
Qiyu "Jason" Zhang, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Marketing |
Marketing; consumer behavior; internet retailing; pharmaceutical industry; consumer packaged goods |
School of Education
Topic | Name/Title | Areas of Expertise |
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Educational Leadership | Peter R. Litchka, Ed.D. Professor of Education |
Educational leadership |
Education Specialties | Irene Bal Lecturer of Education Technology |
Technology integration in the Visual and Performing Arts; engagement with adult learners; professional development in the workplace; and distance learning in classrooms and for professional development |
Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Ph.D. Professor of Education and Director of the Curriculum & Instruction for Social Justice Program |
Education policy; children and media; popular culture | |
Marie Heath, Ed.D. Assistant Professor of Education Technology |
Social studies and technology centers inquiry on young people; technology use; and civic engagement in online and offline spaces | |
Kelly Keane, Ed.D. Senior Lecturer and Director of the Educational Technology Program |
Online teaching and learning | |
David Marcovitz, Ph.D. |
The digital divide, social justice in educational technology | |
Myra J. Smith, Ed.D. Senior Lecturer of Educational Leadership |
Educational leadership; professional learning communities; principal leadership | |
Joseph Stewart-Sicking, Ed.D. Professor of Education Specialties |
Spirituality in counseling; pastoral care and counseling; spiritual direction; counseling and autism spectrum | |
School Counseling | Gayle Cicero, Ed.D. Clinical Assistant Professor |
Trauma, ethics, clinical supervision; online teaching and counseling; systems and organizational change; and mindfulness |
Teacher Education | Kristina Collins Division Director of Literacy at Loyola Clinical Centers |
Language, literacy, culture, teacher development and training |
Margarita Gomez, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Literacy Education |
Understanding the writing development of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD)
learners and improving the literacy achievement of CLD students in urban settings |
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Afra Hersi, Ph.D. Dean of the School of Education Professor of Literacy Teacher Education |
Teacher education; culturally and linguistically responsive education; and adolescent English learners’ literacy practices and learning across social and ed | |
Camika Royal, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Urban Education |
Social and political context of school reform policies; urban educator efficacy and resilience; critical race theory; and historical foundations of schooling | |
Leah Saal, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Teacher Education |
Intersectionality of literacy and social justice | |
Stacy Williams Chair of Teacher Education and Coordinator of Clinical Experiences, Initial Certification |
Back-to-school issues; teacher preparation and clinical practice; supporting early career and in-service teachers; inquiry-based science education. |