Faculty Expert Guide

Susan Adams

Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Quality Management, Food Science, Food Systems, Food and Culture, Sustainability, Management in Food service and Dietetics, Senior Nutrition

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Tom Adams, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of Expertise: Auditing, Corporate Governance, Financial Reporting, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As), Shareholder Activism

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Br. Don Alger, FSC, EdD

Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Areas of Expertise: Learning Sciences, Chemical Education

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Barbara C. Allen, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of History

Areas of Expertise: Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian Revolution & Civil War, Soviet Union, Ukraine

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Jan Ambrose, Ph.D.

Professor, Chair, Department of Finance

Areas of Expertise: Corporate finance, Health care economics, Health care policy, Risk management

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Sharon Lee Armstrong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of PsyD Research & Dissertations, Department of Psychology

Areas of Expertise: Cognition & Language in Autism and Selective Mutism, Cognitive Science, Concepts & Categorization, Metacognition, Psycholinguistics, Reasoning and Decision Making, Research methods

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Rosemary Barbera, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Social Work Chair and Program Director, Social Work

Areas of Expertise: Community organizing and community social work, Community rebuilding after trauma, Human rights social movements, International and national human rights

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Sarah Barnes, M.S., R.D.N., L.D.N.

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric endocrine conditions, Pancreatic insufficiency, Pediatric overweight and obesity, Nutrition counseling

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Geoffrey Beatty

Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Arts

Areas of Expertise: Animation, Interactive design

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Kathryn C. Blohm

Professor, Marketing

Areas of Expertise: Advertising and Sales, Marketing

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Kathleen A. Bogle, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Areas of Expertise: Dating, Domestic violence, Gender, Hookup culture, Intimate relationships, Sex behavior, Sexual assault, Women’s studies

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Susan C. Borkowski, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of Expertise: Accounting information systems, Enterprise resource systems, Gender issues in business, International tax and transfer pricing, Managerial accounting

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Swee-Lim Chia, Ph.D.

Co-Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing

Areas of Expertise: Behaviors related to consumer satisfaction, Consumer complaints, International business, International education, Market research and behavior, Marketing strategy, Retail

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Kristen Clermont, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise: Plant Physiology, Genetics

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Siobhan Conaty, Ph.D.

Chair, Associate Professor, Art History, School of Arts and Sciences

Areas of Expertise: Health Humanities, Medical Humanities

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Elizabeth Cooper, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Finance

Areas of Expertise: 2008 financial crisis, Banking, CEO compensation, Financial institutions, The Federal Reserve

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Patrick T. Coyle, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Leadership

Areas of Expertise: Individual differences, Leadership, Organizational effectiveness

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Kathleen Czekanski, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Nursing Dean

Areas of Expertise: Community health, Dementia caregiving, Home caregivers, Hospice, Nursing education, Palliative care

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Robin Danowski

Assistant Professor, Director, Master’s Coordinated Program in Nutrition Director of the Coordinated Programs in Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Healthy eating for individuals and families, Nutrition support, Nutritional genomics, Pediatric nutrition, Renal nutrition, Weight loss

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Mike DiPietro

Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Director, Center for Sales Excellence

Areas of Expertise: Customer relationship management, Sales, Sales management

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Katie Neary Dunleavy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of Programs in Strategic Communication

Areas of Expertise: Instructional Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication

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Scott Fishman

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Integrated Science, Business, and Technology

Areas of Expertise: Biopharmaceuticals diagnostics and medical devices, Business development, Commercialization strategy, Early stage investing, Executive management including opportunity analysis, Market research, technology and market assessment

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Fred J. Foley, Jr., Ph.D.

Adjunct instructor, Department of Political Science

Areas of Expertise: American Government and Politics, Political Parties and Elections, U.S. Congress, American Presidency, and State and Local Government.

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Laura B. Frank, PhD, MPH, MEd, RDN, LDN

Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Food Security/Food Justice/Sustainable Food Systems, Health counseling, Nutrition education program development and assessment, Nutrition research methods and implementation, Feeding issues related to neurological disabilities and learning differences

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Craig Franson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of English

Areas of Expertise: British literature, Critical theory, Culture wars, Literature and politics, Literature and trauma, Pedagogies, Political rhetoric, Popular culture, Science fiction and fantasy, Superheroes, Writing

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Charles “Chip” Gallagher, Ph.D.

Chair, Professor, Departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Areas of Expertise: How ethnic history shapes perceptions of privilege, Race in America, Race theory, Racial innumeracy, Sociological functions of colorblind political narratives

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Dr. Kristen Hamm, DHSc., R.D.N., L.D.N.

Associate Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Childhood Obesity, Nutrition Counseling, Long-term Care Nutrition/ Geriatric Nutrition, Food Science

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Miguel Glatzer, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Political Science

Areas of Expertise: Financial literacy, Globalization and welfare state development, Immigration policy, Labor market policy, Social welfare and the Catholic Church, Taxation and redistribution

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Kevin Harty, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of English

Areas of Expertise: Business and technical writing, Cinematic representations of the Middle Ages focusing on King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and Robin Hood, Joan of Arc, literary and cinematic responses to the continuing AIDS pandemic, Management and evaluation of academic programs in literature and writing, Medieval studies

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Ryan S. Husak, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Areas of Expertise: Aphasia

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Dennis Kennedy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Business Systems and Analytics, Accounting

Areas of Expertise: Conceptual framework of accounting, Earnings recognition and valuation in financial reporting, Group decision support systems, Multicriteria decision making, Natural resources accounting

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Evelyn R. Klein, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL

Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Areas of Expertise: Language Disorders, Selective Mutism, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Counseling

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Meredith E. Kneavel, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Assessment, Concussion, Concussion education, Gender differences, Learning and memory, Pedagogy, Peer education, Psychology, Research methods, Statistics, Stress, Stress management

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Lisa M. Laura, J.D., R.D.N., L.D.N.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Community Nutrition, Nutrition Policy and Legislation, National Food and Nutrition Programs

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C. Andrew Lafond, DBA

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of Expertise: Accounting, Accounting education, Changes in tax law, Corporate tax, Federal taxation, Small business and individual taxes, Tax accounting, Tax law

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Stuart Leibiger, Ph.D.

Chair, Professor, Department of History

Areas of Expertise: American Presidency, American Revolution, Civil War, Early National America, The founders and the founding of Americ

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Zhi-fang Li

Assistant Professor, Digital Arts

Areas of Expertise; Interactive Media, Graphic Design

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Florence T. Ling, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biology, Environmental Science

Areas of Expertise: climate change mitigation, environmental mineralogy, Environmental science, geochemistry, lead soil contamination

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Hannah Locke, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biology, Department of Natural Sciences

Areas of Expertise: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Plant Communities, Soil Microbes, Climate Change, Science Education

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James M. Mancinelli, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Areas of Expertise: Clinical education and supervision, Fluency disorders, Medical speech pathology, Neurogenic communication disorders

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Rachel McCabe, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Areas of Expertise: Composition and Rhetoric, Film Studies, Rhetoric of Fashion

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Margaret McCoey

ITL Graduate Director, Assistant Professor, Computer Science CIS

Areas of Expertise: Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Databases, Information Technology, Network Theory, Technology Architecture

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Trent McLaurin, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Education

Areas of Expertise: Classroom and behavioral management, Special education, Teaching students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, Trauma-informed pedagogy

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Steve Melick

Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship at La Salle University

Areas of Expertise: Budgeting, Business modeling and forecasting, Finance, High technology consulting, Innovation in technology, Integrated Science, New business venture creation, Small businesses, Start-up companies, Technology-related businesses

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Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Art History

Areas of Expertise: Art and identity, Art and social practice, Colonial to contemporary Latin American art, Public art

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Yuuki Nakayachi, Ph.D., RDN

Director, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Community Health Partnerships/Coalitions, Chronic Disease Prevention, Cultural Humility, Nutrition Counseling, Qualitative Research

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Maureen O’Connell, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Religion

Areas of Expertise: Christian/Catholic Social Ethics, Racial Justice, Racism, The Arts and Social Justice

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Luisa Ossa, Ph.D.

Professor Global Languages, Literatures, & Perspectives

Areas of Expertise: Afro-Chinese Connections in Cuba, Afro-Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Connections between racism and anti-Blackness in Latin America and the U.S., Edelma Zapata Pérez, Manuel Zapata Olivella, Race in Latin America, Race in the music of Grupo Niche

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Meghan Pierce, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing

Areas of Expertise: International social behavior, Interpretation of facial expressions, Social cues, Social information processing

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Anthony D. Pizzo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Leadership

Areas of Expertise: College Sports, Esports, health and fitness industry, international business, international sports management, Italian work culture, Japanese work culture, large scale sporting events and management, leisure management, sport management, strategic management, survey design and analysis, technology innovations, wearable technology devices

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Evgenii Radetskii, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Finance

Areas of Expertise: Financial analysts, Financial regulation, Insider trading laws, Real estate valuation

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Candace Robertson-James, DrPH, MPH

Assistant Professor of Public Health Director, Bachelor & Master of Public Health Program

Areas of Expertise: Community based participatory research, Intimate partner violence, Program planning (Needs assessment, Program design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation), Qualitative and mixed methods research methodologies, Racism and Race and Gender based disparities in Health, Social determinants of health, Women’s health

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Daniel Rodriguez, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Urban Public Health and Nutrition

Areas of Expertise: Biostatistics, Developmental psychology, Epidemiology, Grant writing, Research methods

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David S. Rothblat, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Biology Department

Areas of Expertise: Neuroscience, Human Physiology

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Cesar E. Ruiz, SLP.D.

Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Areas of Expertise: Bilingual speech-language pathology, Head and neck cancer rehabilitation, Multiculturalism, Selective mutism, Swallowing disorders, Voice disorders

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Walter Schubert, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Finance

Areas of Expertise: China’s Belt and Road Initiative Derivatives, Global finance, Post-World War II economic performance, Sovereign wealth funds

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Michael Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Communication

Areas of Expertise: Activism and Public Relations, Communication about public issues, Community relations, Conflict management, Crisis Communication, Place promotion, Social movement communication

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Madjid Tavana, Ph.D.

Chair, Professor, Department of Business Systems and Analytics

Areas of Expertise: Business analytics, Business intelligence, Decision sciences, Decision support systems, Operations research, Supply chain management, Systems analysis

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Caitlin Taylor, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Areas of Expertise: Causes of crime, Corrections (prisons, jails, probation, parole), Criminal justice system reform, Drug abuse and drug policy, Incarceration and families, Prisoner reentry, Problem solving courts (drug court, reentry court, etc.)

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Mark A. Thomas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Areas of Expertise: Critical infrastructure Protection, Cyber policy, Democratic transitions, Domestic and foreign policies of Ukraine, Federal and state election laws, Foreign policy, Information operations/disinformation, National security, Political parties, Politics of race and ethnicity, Politics of states of the former Russian/Soviet empire, Russia, Russian politics, Supreme Court, Terrorism and extremism, Ukrainian Politics, United States Constitution

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C.A. Tsakiridou, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Philosophy Director, Diplomat-in-Residence Program

Areas of Expertise: Byzantine iconography, Japanese Buddhist, Metaphysics, Modern Greek culture, Philosophy of art, Photography, Religion and ideology, Religious art (Christian)

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Joseph Ugras, Ph.D., CMA

Interim Dean, School of Business and Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise: Business Strategy and Finance, Data Driven Decision Making, Higher Education, International Business Environment, Small and Medium Business Environment

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Nilofar Varzgani, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Business Systems and Analytics

Areas of Expertise: Data analytics, Dynamic programming, Financial modeling, Machine learning, Statistical modeling, Stochastic modeling and optimization

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Anne Walsh, DSW

Professor Emerita, School of Business, Management and Leadership Department

Areas of Expertise: Implementation of technology upon strategic decisions, Mentoring and network analysis, Strategic ventures in health and non-profit sectors

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Mary L. Wilby, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Nurse Practitioner Track Coordinator

Areas of Expertise: Blood disorders, Cancer, Cancer related pain care of adults with mobility impairment and other disabilities, Care of adults with chronic illness, Chronic lung disorders, Diversity in nursing, Holistic health, Hospice and palliative care, Human trafficking

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Brendan Young, DSW, LSW

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work

Areas of Expertise: Civic Engagement, Educational Competencies, Human Behavior, Managed Care, Political Ideology and Identity, Political Social Work Practice, Social Work and Health Care, Social Work Education, Social Work Identity

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Elaine Zelley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Communication

Areas of Expertise: Interpersonal Communication, Relationships, Friendship, Gender Roles, Gender and Communication, Workplace Communication, Organizational Communication

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