Faculty Experts Guide Directory

Loyola College of Arts and Sciences

Topic	Name/Title	Areas of Expertise
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. Emeritus Professor	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	Robert Pond, Jr., Ph.D. Chair and Associate Professor of Engineering
	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
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
	Carsten Vala, Ph.D. 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. Visiting Associate Professor of History	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	Ethan Duckworth, Ph.D. 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
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. Assistant Professor of Philosophy	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	Frank Golom, Ph.D. 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. Assistant Professor of Psychology	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	Joshua Hendrick, Ph.D. 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
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
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. Associate Dean of the School of Education and Professor of Educational Technology	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
	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.

Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication

Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication