Topic |
Name/Title |
Areas of Expertise |
Biology |
David Rivers, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
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Insect biology; forensic entomology; and forensic science
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Michael Tangrea, Ph.D.
Endowed Professor of Biology and SCI&E |
Molecular diagnostics; precision medicine; medical devices; biomedical startups; business incubators
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Christopher Thompson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology |
Microbiology, immunology, cell biology; infectious disease; complementary and alternative medicines |
Chemistry
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Birgit Albrecht, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
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Computational chemistry; drug design
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Brian Barr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Biochemistry, protein chemistry; biomass/bioenergy; biosynthesis of natural products |
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Elizabeth Dahl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry |
Marine chemistry; atmospheric chemistry; analytical chemistry; Earth system science; environmental sustainability and climate change
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Jesse D. More, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry
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Organic chemistry; synthesis, medical chemistry |
Classics |
Martha C. Taylor, Ph.D. Chair and Professor of Classics and History
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Greek and Athenian history; Peloponnesian War; women in the ancient world; classical mythology |
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Robert S. Miola, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics and Gerard Manley Hopkins Professor of English
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Ancient World Greek and Latin; Shakespeare, early modern Catholicism; Renaissance drama |
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Joseph J. Walsh, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics and History
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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
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Broadcast journalism; popular culture issues; digital and social media |
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Neil Alperstein, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
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Popular culture; advertising; virtual worlds; teaching with technology |
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Amy Bree Becker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
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Use of Twitter for communication; Facebook, election polling; Saturday Night Live; satire, political comedy; public opinion toward same-sex marriage; science issues; political tolerance
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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 |
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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
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Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication |
International communication; political communication; Brazil, media and diversity |
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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
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Software Engineering |
Engineering |
Robert Pond, Jr., Ph.D.
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 |
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Suzanne E. Keilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Engineering
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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 |
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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 |
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Kathleen Forni, Ph.D.
Professor of English
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Chaucer, Beowulf, Middle Ages in popular culture |
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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
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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
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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 |
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Barnaby Nygren, MFA
Associate Professor of Fine Arts (Art History)
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Italian Renaissance art; Michelangelo, Latin American colonial art |
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Daniel Schlapbach, MFA
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Chair (Photography)
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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
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Global/international politics; conflict; peacebuilding; ethnic politics; nationalism; political violence; human rights; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Balkans; education, national, and civic identity
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Carsten Vala, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science
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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
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Jesuit history in Asia; Indian history; Indian-Portuguese relations
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David Carey, Jr., Ph.D.
Doehler Chair in History, Professor |
Human rights; Native Americans; medicine and health; women's rights; environment |
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Bahar Jalali, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor of History
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Afghanistan; protests against Taliban black hijab mandate |
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Matthew Mulcahy, Ph.D.
Doehler Chair in History, Professor |
Colonial America; history of disasters; hurricanes, Caribbean history |
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Oghenetoja (Toja) Okoh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History |
Ethnicity, Ethnic politics; Ethnic violence; gender; minority identity; minority citizenship; civil society |
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Sara Scalenghe, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor of History
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The Middle East and North Africa; disability |
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Thomas Pegram, Ph.D.
Professor of History |
Late 19th/early 20th-century American political and social history
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Joseph J. Walsh, Ph.D.
Professor of Classics and History
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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
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Groups, Algebraic Groups, Representations, Algebra
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Michael P. Knapp, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
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Number theory
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Christopher H. Morrell, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
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Statistics, longitudinal data/studies; medical statistics |
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Lisa Oberbroeckling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
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Functional analysis, operator theory, Banach algebras, generalized inverses
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Modern Languages and Literatures |
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Margaret A. Haggstrom, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of French |
Applied linguistics; foreign language pedagogy |
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Inas Hassan, Ph.D.
Visiting Affiliate Assistant Professor of Arabic |
Classical Arabic linguistics and modern linguistics theories |
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Tasha Lewis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish |
Cognitive linguistics; second language acquisition; gesture studies; foreign language pedagogy |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jinghua Wangling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chinese |
Pre-modern Chinese literature |
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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
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Psychoanalytic theory; theories of consciousness and unconsciousness; contemporary continental philosophy; phenomenology and existentialism; history of philosophy
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Rev. John J. Conley, S.J., Ph.D.
Henry Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology |
French philosophy; ethics; bioethics; the Catholic Church; drama |
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Bret W. Davis, Ph.D.
Professor and T. J. Higgins, S.J. Chair in Philosophy
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Asian and comparative philosophy; Continental philosophy |
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Joseph Farrell, Ph.D.
Lecturer of Philosophy |
Ethical theory; medical and business ethics |
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Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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Digital humanities; Medieval philosophy |
Physics |
Andrea Erdas, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Physics
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Theoretical particle physics; neutrino physics; quantum field theory; the Casimir effect |
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Joseph Ganem, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
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Author of the award-winning book: The Two Headed Quarter: How to See Through Deceptive Numbers and Save Money on Everything You Buy |
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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
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Diversity and inclusion at work; organizational change and development; team effectiveness; LGBTQ issues
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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
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Diana Betz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
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Gender, stereotyping and prejudice; body image; media & body image; psychology experimental methods |
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Sharon Green-Hennessy, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
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Access to mental health treatment |
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Rachel L. Grover, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
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Child psychology; child anxiety; peer relations; adolescent and young adult romantic relationships |
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Christopher Higginson, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology |
Clinical Neuropsychology |
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Michiko Iwasaki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology |
Long-term care/caregiving; dementia, racial microaggressions; interracial marriages; Asian mental health |
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Matthew W. Kirkhart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology |
Clinical psychology; medical psychology; learning; memory |
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Beth A. Kotchik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
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Clinical psychology; child, adolescent and family psychology; parenting; bullying/relational aggression |
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Jeffrey M. Lating, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
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Posttraumatic stress disorder; critical incident stress |
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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 |
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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 |
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Gina Magyar-Russell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology |
Psychology of religion and spirituality; spiritually integrated psychotherapy; cognitive behavioral therapy |
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Jason D. Parcover, Ph.D.
Director of the Counseling Center |
College student counseling; marriage and family counseling; business ethics and corporate social responsibility |
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Jason Prenoveau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology |
Anxiety; anxiety disorders; fear conditioning; open science and reproducible science
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Sociology |
Joshua Hendrick, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology
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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 |
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Donna Pitts, Au.D.
Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology |
Recreational based noise induced hearing loss; hearing loss and public health |
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Lisa Schoenbrodt, Ed.D.
Professor of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology |
Language disorders in children; service-learning in speech-language pathology |
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Kathleen Ward, Au.D.
Clinical Faculty of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology
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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
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Modern/postmodern Christian theology; Christian theology of religions; Christian ecumenism |
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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 |
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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 |
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Arthur Sutherland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Theology
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Theologies of patience; hospitality, generosity, and migration; African American theology |
Writing |
Martin Camper, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Writing
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Christian religion; rhetoric, biblical interpretation; style, disagreement |
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Peggy O’Neill, Ph.D.
Professor of Writing |
Writing assessment, writing pedagogy |
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Jane Satterfield, MFA
Associate Professor of Writing |
Contemporary poetry; creative writing; memoir; mothering and literature; writing and the arts; reviewing
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