Faculty Experts

Elizabeth Albert

, Associate Professor

Expertise

NYC Waterfront, public art, painting

Elizabeth DeLuna

, Professor

Expertise

Graphic design, animation, motion graphics

Amy Gansell

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Ancient Near Eastern art, Iraqi cultural artifacts, feminist art

Tyreek Jackson

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Music performance and composition, cognitive neuroscience and music

Thomas Kerr

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Illustration

Susan Rosenberg

, Professor

Expertise

Art history, museum studies, Trisha Brown, dance

Aaris Sherin

, Professor

Expertise

Graphic design, typography, sustainable design

Samira Fargali, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Dr. Fargali earned her Ph.D. in Biological Science from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany. During that period, she worked in the field of Biotechnology on 3-D cultivation and the monitoring of bone tissue scaffolds in the novel prototype bioreactor systems with continuous medium exchange. After earning her Ph.D., Dr. Fargali was a postdoctoral fellow in the Neuroscience Department at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she was responsible for the investigation of the role that the neuronal and endocrine protein VGF plays in the central and peripheral nervous system neurons to regulate glucose, energy balance, depression, and memory. Her research interests include obesity, adipose, brain, chromogranins and secretogranins, cognitive neuroscience, depression, diabetes, growth factors and receptors, memory, neuropeptides, neurotrophins, protein trafficking and sorting, and signal transduction.

Expertise

Evolution of Development: Research integrates phylogenetic, molecular evolution, and developmental genetic approaches to understand evolutionary mechanisms underlying plant development.

Expertise

Research focuses on Parkinson's disease where we are defining molecular and cellular mechanisms associated with disease onset and progression. Our lab uses a combination of several model systems including plants, zebrafish and mammalian cell lines. A second focus is targeted towards iron-sulfur biogenesis mechanisms and consequences in a cellular context within various cellular compartments.

Matteo Ruggiu

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focus is the study of protein-RNA networks that control alternative splicing, and how they relate to neurons and to diseases of the nervous system. The long-term goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms regulating protein-RNA networks that control alternative splicing, and how they relate to neuron biology, and to disease of the nervous system.

Juan Santos, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Origin and modeling of biological diversity from evolutionary and ecological perspectives using bioinformatics tools. 

Laura Schramm

, Program Director, Environmental Studies (Queens)

Expertise

Regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription in breast and prostate cancer by the polyphenols EGCG (green tea), resveratrol (red wine) and genistein (soy); Environmental science

Wan Seok Yang

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on using chemical genetics approaches to study cell death pathways. Yang has identified small molecules that induce a distinctive form of cell death, named ferroptosis, and discovered GPX4 as a central regulator of ferroptosis. Research is applying this knowledge on cell death to selectively eliminate cancer cells or protect neurons from degeneration.

Richard Stalter

, Professor

Expertise

Research interests are in the areas of community ecology, plant biodiversity, the ecology of rare plants, and the ecology of invasive non-native plant species. Most of this research is in coastal areas and in urban environments.

Ales Vancura

, Professor

Expertise

Research is in the area of epigenetics and focuses on the relationship between chromatin structure/transcription and signaling/metabolism. The long-term goal is to understand how intermediary metabolism affects histone acetylation and transcriptional regulation. 

Ivana Vancurova

, Professor

Expertise

The goal of our studies is to understand the transcriptional mechanisms that regulate expression of pro-inflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokines, as they relate to cancer development and progression, as well as to numerous inflammatory disorders. 

Yong Yu

, Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of assembly, function and regulation of ion channels and membrane receptors. Research is examining the transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, proteins which are essential for sensory physiology and have been shown to play crucial roles in human diseases.

Yan Zhu

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on understanding the biological function and molecular mechanisms of the p53-Mdm2 pathway, a promising cancer therapeutic target, in cell growth control and tumor suppression.

Rachel Zufferey

, Associate Professor

Expertise

The goal of our research is to understand how the parasites generate their membranes, how this process affects their virulence, and understand the mechanism of action of lipid-based drugs, some of which are in clinical trials. The focus of our research is to characterize enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of various classes of glycerolipids with an eye toward drug and vaccine development.

Tianchan Jiang, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Dr. Jiang’s Ed.M. research was on comparing language learners in science education in traditional and online classroom settings. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research was on novel electrode materials in Liion batteries under the guidance of the Nobel laureate, M. Stanley Whittingham, D.Phil. Before joining St. John’s University, she was a research scientist in the industrial field working on high-performance batteries for military and other applications. Her future research interests will include synthesis and characterization of electrode materials in batteries.

Richard J. Rosso

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Synthesis of environmentally-friendly catalysts

Joseph M. Serafin

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Physical Chemistry, Aqueous Solution Chemistry, Surface Chemistry, Co-Solvent Effects

Anne Vázquez, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Dr. Vazquez’ research interests are in environmental analysis, specifically investigating the binding of organic pollutants in soil, and in chemistry education, studying the effects of peer-learning programs.

Frank X. Vazquez

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Using multiscale molecular modeling to understand how protein oligomerization influences cellular phenomena

Enju Wang

, Professor

Expertise

Chemical sensors

Basilio G. Monteiro

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International Communication
Media/Communication and Peacebuilding and Public Diplomacy

Candice D. Roberts

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Traditional mass communication to new media

Nancy Colodny

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research and clinical interests are in the areas of dysphagia, adult neurogenics, geriatrics and medical speech-language pathology.

Shruti Deshpande, Ph.D.

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research interests include the investigation of the use of behavioral and electrophysiologic techniques for the assessment and management of individuals with typical versus atypical listening abilities.

Gary E. Martin

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on speech and language development of children with fragile X syndrome (FXS), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and Down syndrome with a particular emphasis on pragmatic language, prosody, and the overlap of FXS and ASD.

Suzanne Miller

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research and clinical interests include distortion product otoacoustic emissions and reflectance measurements, which are objective and non-invasive tests useful for the detection and diagnosis of hearing loss in difficult to test populations.

Monica Wagner

, Undergraduate Program Coordinator

Expertise

Current research aims to uncover brain mechanisms that allow spoken words to be recognized and comprehended rapidly and with ease.

Yan Yu

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on the neurophysiological basis of language processing. She uses both behavioral and neurophysiological method to examine the neural indices of language processing in bilingual children, and also children with atypical language development such as autism spectrum disorders.

Nikhil Yadav, Ph.D.

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Health informatics, mobile and pervasive computing, mobile healthcare systems, scalable web services, and cloud systems

Expertise

Esports, sport analytics, sport coaching, sport marketing and consumer behavior

Omar Montana, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Dr. Montana’s research interests are grounded in the power dynamics of race, class, and gender found within a matrix of criminalization in American social life

Marina Sorochinski

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Serial violent crime (homicide, sexual), cyber-sexual abuse/Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence (TFSV), wrongful convictions, criminal behavior, criminal psychology, forensic and investigative psychology

Hira Shafeeq, Pharm.D.

, Associate Professor Industry Professional

Expertise

Critical Care - Surgical and Intensive Care

Denise M. Dragos

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Computer security and digital forensic topics

John M. Otero

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Cyber security (Equifax breach, etc.)

Emese Ivan

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International sport governance, innovation, emerging technology, and doping in sport

Expertise

International finance, corporate hedging, and regulatory impact on corporations

Emese Ivan

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International sport governance, innovation, emerging technology, and doping in sport

Dohra Ahmad

, Professor

Expertise

Postcolonial and world literature

Steven Alvarez

, Professor

Expertise

Specializes in literacy studies and bilingual education with a focus on Mexican immigrant communities.

Raj Chetty

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Caribbean Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Literary Studies, Black/African Diaspora Studies, Performance Studies

Scott Combs

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Film, film genres

Robert Fanuzzi

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Civic engagement, African American literature

Granville Ganter

, Associate Professor

Expertise

African American literature, Native American literature, performance, humor

Rachel Hollander

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Modernism, feminism, the Victorian novel, Olive Schreiner

Amy King

, Professor

Expertise

Romantic literature, natural history and literature, the 19th-century novel

Brian Lockey

, Professor

Expertise

Early modern literature, Shakespeare

Kathleen Lubey

, Professor

Expertise

Eighteenth-century literature, sexuality, pornography

Steven Mentz

, Professor

Expertise

Shakespeare, 16th and 17th-century English literature, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, oceanic culture

Melissa Mowry

, Professor

Expertise

Restoration and early eighteenth-century English literature and culture

Derek Owens

, Professor

Expertise

Composition and rhetoric, writing studies

Nicole Rice

, Professor

Expertise

Medieval drama, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, sex and gender, and medieval romance

LaToya Sawyer

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Rhetorical theory, digital rhetoric, feminist theory and rhetoric, and cultural rhetorics (African American and Caribbean rhetoric).

Jennifer Travis

, Professor

Expertise

19th century novels, feminism, masculinity, catastrophe, digital humanities

Elda Tsou

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Asian American studies, Ethnic Studies, literary theory and theories of racial formation

Edrex Fontanilla

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Animation, physical computing, playable media, emerging technologies

Expertise

Esports, sport analytics, sport coaching, sport marketing and consumer behavior

William Byrne

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Modern political thought, core problems of liberal democracy and late modernity

Fred P. Cocozzelli

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Post-conflict institution building, social policy development, and ethnic and community political dynamics. Geographically primary focus on the Balkans, and in particular the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo.

Diane J. Heith

, Professor

Expertise

Presidency, Public Opinion, Campaigns and Elections

David W. Kearn

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International relations theory, U.S. Foreign Policy, military innovation, comparative grand strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, and the causes of major war.

Barbara Koziak

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Ancient Political philosophy particularly Aristotle and contemporary political theory, especially feminist political theory.

Azzedine Layachi

, Professor

Expertise

Economic development, political change, political Islam, Middle East politics, African politics, and politics of ethnicity.

Frank Le Veness

, Professor

Expertise

Caribbean and Latin American Politics and Integration, comparative systems; Puerto Rico; Methodology, development politics, and international political economy.

Robert F. Pecorella

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Public administration, urban governance, state and local politics, and research methods

Mauricio Borrero

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Russian history, European history, from 1815 to 1914, and modern world history with an emphasis on sport food, and popular culture

Tracey-Anne Cooper

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Anglo-Saxon History, Manuscript Studies, Church History; Medieval Culture

Shahla Hussain

, Associate Professor

Expertise

South Asian History, ramifications of decolonization in South Asia by focusing on the contested region of Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan.

Timothy A. Milford

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Historian of colonial and early national North America. Research on political change and cultural aspiration in the late 18th century.

Ian M. Miller

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Focus on East Asia. Research centered on the interplay between ideas, institutions, and the natural environment.

Philip Misevich

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Specializes in the slave trade and the development of the Atlantic World. ts include Caribbean history, Atlantic history, and African history

Susie J. Pak

, Associate Professor

Expertise

U.S. American history (late 19th and 20th centuries). Specializes in the study of American business networks.

Alejandro Quintana

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Cultural legacies of authoritarianism, nationalism, sovereignty, state formation, and democratic processes in nineteenth and twentieth century Latin America, especially Mexico 

Nerina Rustomji

, Professor

Expertise

Intellectual and cultural formation of Islamic societies and the Middle East America's relationship with the Muslim World, prophetic biography as a historical genre, gendered configurations in Islamic societies, and the history of secularism

Susan Schmidt Horning

, Associate Professor

Expertise

20th century United States cultural history, history of technology, and sound studies, postwar U.S.

Kristin M. Szylvian

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Public History, Museum and Archival Studies. Research on housing, urban planning history, environmental and land use policy.

Konrad Tuchscherer

, Associate Professor

Expertise

African history and languages. Interests include nineteenth and twentieth century West Africa colonialism in Africa, and Gullah history in South Carolina and Georgia.

Lara Vapnek

, Professor

Expertise

Specializes in the history of gender and labor in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States

Erika Vause

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Social and cultural history of law and economics of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France.

Keith Cozine

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Transnational crime, terrorism and border security

Bernard A. Jones

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Benchmarking organizational resilience

Simon M. Pack

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Human resource management/organizational behavior in sport, sport for development (Middle East), paralympic sport

Expertise

Design of Online Collaborative Platforms, Collective Intelligence, Information Diffusion, Online Social Networks
Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship Education, Digital Entrepreneurship

Emese Ivan

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International sport governance, innovation, emerging technology, and doping in sport

Elizabeth Albert

, Associate Professor

Expertise

NYC Waterfront, public art, painting

Sophie R. Bell

, Professor

Expertise

Racial dynamics of language and literature

Roberta Hayes

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Immunology and Immunotherapy

Tamara Issak

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Relationship between rhetoric and citizenship, the connection between geographic rhetoric and identity formation, and the impacts of community literacy programs in marginalized communities

Paula Kay Lazrus

, Professor

Expertise

Archeology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), international trafficking in antiquities, settlement and land-use issues in ancient Italy

Heidi Upton

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Music theory

Emese Ivan

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International sport governance, innovation, emerging technology, and doping in sport

Eduardo Mitre

, Associate Professor of Spanish

Expertise

Hispanic-American poetry

Zoe Petropoulou

, Associate Professor of French

Expertise

French, Albert Camus

Walter Petrovitz

, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek and Latin

Expertise

Classical languages

Steve Puig

, Associate Professor of French

Expertise

French, representations of NY in French literature

Florence Russo

, Associate Professor of Italian

Expertise

Italian, Dante studies

Annalisa Saccà

, Professor of Italian

Expertise

Italian cultural studies, poetry

Christopher J. Borgen

, Professor of Law

Expertise

National security law; space law; setting up legal systems in other countries (i.e. Moldova).

Gina M. Calabrese

, Professor of Clinical Legal Education

Expertise

Consumer debt; financial crimes against elderly; predatory lending.

Elayne E. Greenberg

, Director of the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution

Expertise

Dispute resolution (mediation, arbitration) and alternate dispute resolution.

Christine Lazaro

, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs

Expertise

Securities law; fiduciary duties of broker-dealers; securities regulations.

Michael A. Perino

, Dean George W. Matheson Professor of Law

Expertise

Securities regulation and litigation; corporations; class actions; judicial decision making; Wall Street misdeeds.

Rosemary C. Salomone

, Kenneth Wang Professor of Law

Expertise

Single gender education (including single gender public education); children and the law. Specializes in charter schools; an issue that comes up in today’s climate.

Jeremy Sheff

, Professor of Law

Expertise

Trademarks; unfair competition

Jeff Sovern

, Professor of Law

Expertise

Consumer law; consumer protection; boilerplate arbitration clauses in contracts.

Eva E. Subotnik

, Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship

Expertise

Copyright law and policy; rights of artists after death

Cheryl L. Wade

, Harold F. McNiece Professor of Law

Expertise

Corporate governance and responsibility; race and business.

Christine Angel

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Information Representation and Retrieval (IRR), Archival Description, Museum Informatics, Metadata

Shari Lee

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Library services for children & young adults; Teen Spaces for Libraries; Popular Culture; Library Spaces

Kevin Rioux

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Supervised community-wide research projects that focused on health behaviors and health care provider choices.

Rajesh Singh

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Information Marketing, Branding, and Advocacy; Innovation in Information Organizations; Social Impact of Information of Information Organizations; Knowledge Sharing in Online Environments

James Vorbach

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Conceptual Modeling; Data Design; Database Design; Metadata; Online Learning Pedagogy

Joan P. Ball, Ph.D.

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Service Design, Consumer Behavior, Customer Delight

Expertise

Bridge the gap between leading scientific research and management best practices

Alla Baeva

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Cinematic Philosophy

Neil Feinstein

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Digital Advertising and Influencer Marketing

Elisabeth Fondren

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Freedom of Expression, Propaganda, History of Journalism

Edrex Fontanilla

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Animation, physical computing, playable media, emerging technologies

Basilio G. Monteiro

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International Communication
Media/Communication and Peacebuilding and Public Diplomacy

John A. Swan, Jr.

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Branding, Organizational Management and Motivation, Creative Thinking

Expertise

Math: Ergodic Theory, Random Matrices, Operator Algebras, Functional Analysis CS: AI, Sparse Modeling, Service Management

Expertise

Functional Analysis, Operator Theory, Ergodic Theory, Operator and Topological algebras, applications of Logic to Analysis.

Luke Mannion

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Applied mathematics

Expertise

Functional Analysis, Graph Theory, Metric Geometry and Its Algorithmic Applications

Vladimir Tulovsky

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Application of Weyl Calculus of pseudodifferential operators to the spectral theory

Robert J. Romano

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Sport law: contracts, antitrust issues, collective bargaining issues, NCAA violations, sport ethics and social justice

Eileen C. Engelke, Ed.D.

, Associate Professor/Industry Professional

Expertise

Experiential Learning; Teaching and Learning Theories; and Qualitative Research (Phenomenology)

Margaret Hickey, MSN, RN

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Med-Surg Nursing, Fundamentals, Perianesthesia Nursing, and Diabetes

Simon M. Pack

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Human resource management/organizational behavior in sport, sport for development (Middle East), paralympic sport

Brendan T. Conuel, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Dr. Conuel’s research interests include Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. His current work explores possible applications of Whiteheadian event-realist metaphysics to the hard problem of consciousness. Future research will focus on building out a metaphysical toolkit for better describing the relation between structure and event in nature.

Zachary Davis

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Phenomenology and environmental philosophy

Robert A. Delfino

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Metaphysics, especially naturalism and personal identity, The relationship between science, metaphysics, and religion, Medieval Philosophy and Thomas Aquinas

Francis Fallon

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Philosophy of mind and philosophy of science

Paul Gaffney

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Philosophy of law, Philosophy of language, Ethics, Philosophy of sport

Marie I. George

, Professor

Expertise

Natural philosophy, Philosophy of biology, Science and religion, Aquinas, Aristotle

Kevin Kennedy

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Metaphysics, American philosophy, Pragmatism, Marxism

Robert E. Lauder

, Professor

Expertise

Personalism, Existentialism, Theodicy, Philosophy and literature, Philosophy and film

Zhuoyao (Peter) Li, Ph.D.

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Social and political philosophy, ethics, and comparative political theory

Glenn Statile

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Science and religion

Mary Townsend, Ph.D.

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Philosophy of political psychology ancient and modern, Hegelian-influenced philosophers from Kierkegaard to Simone de Beauvoicr, and the history of the philosophy of feminism

Gen Long

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Novel nanomaterial synthesis and characterizations, functional nanostructures, energy-related nanoscale device applications, magnetic nanomaterials and applications.

Andrea Bergman

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research interests focus on the application of empirically validated treatments for underserved populations, such as emerging adults who have dropped out of high school and are experiencing multiple problems

Expertise

Research focuses on the psychophysiology of interpersonal conflict. Work has included studies of workplace conflict. Also, research focused on racism or ethnic discrimination, specifically examining interpersonal racism (i.e., racism that is directly perceived and occurs in an interpersonal context).

Elissa Brown

, Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating therapies for children who have experienced traumatic events, such as 9/11, child abuse, and bereavement related traumatic circumstances, such as September 11, 2001.

William Chaplin

, Professor

Expertise

Research interests in personality psychology, but also has interests in issues involving psychometrics and the analysis of data, particularly in applied research.

Dana Chesney

, Professor

Expertise

Research studies how people understand numbers and math and how to improve this understanding.

Expertise

Research interests include the development of early externalizing behavior, the dysfunctional parenting that maintains it, parent cognitions and/or affect that relates to dysfunctional parenting, and early prevention and intervention efforts for parents of difficult toddlers.

Expertise

Studies anger as a clinical problem and has promoted the recognition of anger as a form of psychopathology. He has developed standards for identifying anger diagnostic disorders and has published two psychological tests assessing dysfunctional anger: the Anger Disorders Scale (ADS) for adults and the Anger Regulation and Expression Scale (ARES) for children and adolescents. He has also published on the development of the theory, practice and empirical research support of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapies and their application to children, adolescents, and families.

Dawn P. Flanagan

, Professor

Expertise

Areas of specialty include cognitive assessment, tests and measurement, and diagnosis and treatment of specific learning disabilities. Flanagan is best known for her development of the CHC Cross-Battery Approach and the development of an operational definition of specific learning disability.

Carolyn Greco-Vigorito

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research interests are in developmental psychology, particularly early child development.

Beverly Greene

, Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on role of institutionalized racism, sexism, heterosexism and other oppressive ideologies in the paradigms of psychology and practice of psychotherapy in organized mental health. Understanding psychological resilience and vulnerability in socially marginalized people and their use in psychotherapy. Examining social privilege and marginalization via the development of multiple identity paradigms as more complex ways of understanding human identity. Using psychotherapy and psychological science to facilitate social justice.

Expertise

Research interests broadly include social and personality development during middle childhood and adolescence.

Expertise

Interests encompass psycholinguistic and psychoanalytic issues in research and treatment and on ethnic and cultural issues in psychoanalytic theories and practice, including on issues of violence and the impact on general cognitive and emotional functioning.

Wilson McDermut

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Recent research focuses on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, especially personality disorders, and the role of anger disorders in the psychiatric nomenclature.

Lauren Moskowitz

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on behavioral assessment and intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities (DD) in naturalistic contexts, intervention for parents of children with ASD and DD, and cognitive-behavioral therapy with children and adolescents.

Samuel O. Ortiz

, Professor

Expertise

Research interests include assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, application of modern intelligence theory in testing through CHC Cross-Battery assessment methods, differentiating cultural and linguistic differences from disorders, and development of the CHC Culture-Language Matrix as a method for determining the primary influence of culture and language on test performance.

Miguel Roig

, Professor

Expertise

Research areas include academic and research integrity with a special focus on the problem of plagiarism in the sciences. Current interests include related issues in responsible writing and authorship, as well as in other areas of publication ethics.

Marlene Sotelo-Dynega

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Areas of specialization include Bilingual School Psychology, Cognitive Assessment, and the Assessment, Identification, and Intervention of Learning Disabilities, and School Neuropsychology.

Mark D. Terjesen

, Professor

Expertise

Areas of specialization include Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment and Intervention with Children and Adolescents; Clinical Decision Making Factors among School-Based Professionals; Single-Case Methodology in School Psychology; Behavioral Assessment and Consultation with Educators; Supervision and Training in School Psychology.

Zheng Zhou

, Professor

Expertise

Areas of specialization include cross-cultural research in children’s mathematical thinking and reasoning, mathematics curriculum and teaching; basic relational concepts acquisition; school adjustment of Asian-American students.

Sanae Elmoudden

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Implications of communication technologies on Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication

Jeremiah Hickey

, Associate Professor

Expertise

The connection between public address and political philosophy, especially in relation to the development and maintenance of a democratic society

Anne M. Galvin

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Anthropology of globalization

Paula Kay Lazrus

, Professor

Expertise

Archeology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), international trafficking in antiquities, settlement and land-use issues in ancient Italy

Anthony Rodriguez

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Areas of specialization include race, class, gender and sexuality, decolonial theory, antiracist social justice, 19th- and 20th-century American culture and politics, and comparative Ethnic Studies. 

Joseph Trumino

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Sociology of sport and social theory

Yue (Angela) Zhuo

, Associate Professor

Expertise

International criminology, Chinese criminology

Robert J. Romano

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Sport law: contracts, antitrust issues, collective bargaining issues, NCAA violations, sport ethics and social justice

Simon M. Pack

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Human resource management/organizational behavior in sport, sport for development (Middle East), paralympic sport

Robert J. Romano

, Assistant Professor

Expertise

Sport law: contracts, antitrust issues, collective bargaining issues, NCAA violations, sport ethics and social justice

Expertise

Esports, sport analytics, sport coaching, sport marketing and consumer behavior

Meghan J. Clark

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Catholic social thought, especially human rights and solidarity

Jeremy V. Cruz

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Social ethics; labor ethics; theories of coloniality, race and citizenship; Catholic social thought; political theology

Michael Dempsey

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Systematic and Historical Theology

John J. Fitzgerald

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Ethics, healthcare ethics, moral theology

Erin Kidd

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research focuses on the body, particularly as it informs and intersects topics in theological anthropology, theological method and God-talk, feminist theology, and science and religion.

Paul D. Molnar

, Professor

Expertise

Trinitarian Doctrine, Christology, Revelation, Theological Epistemology, Theological Method, the Theology of Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance.

Robert (Bobby) J. Rivera

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research and teaching interests focus on Latina/o/x and Latin American theologies, Theology and Social Theories, and contemporary Christologies.

Rev. Jean-Pierre Ruiz

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Biblical Studies, Hispanic / Latino Theology, Interreligious Dialogue

Matthew Lewis Sutton

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Research interests include integrating the valuable content of Mystical Theology with Catholic Systematic Theology and researching the theologies of Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar.

Ekaterina Midgette

, Associate Professor

Expertise

Revision processes in writing, argumentative writing, and the use of humor in persuasive and argumentative writing