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Faculty Experts
| Name | College | Department | Research & Teaching Interests | Contact Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fehlbaum, Amanda | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Humanities Social Sciences | Adolescence, Body and Embodiment, Deviance, Family, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Health and Medical Sociology, Media and Culture, Qualitative Methods, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of the Life Course, Stratification | Contact |
| Sumell, AJ | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Economics Education, Environmental Economics, Housing Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Public Policy, Sports Economics, Urban Economics | Contact |
| Fluker, Amy | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Humanities Social Sciences | American Civil War, Civil War Memory, History of Ohio and the Midwest, History of Warfare and Society, Nineteenth Century U.S. History, U.S. History to 1877, Women's History, the American Civil War | Contact |
| Marculetiu, Alina | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | experiential learning, innovative pedagogical approaches, operations management, project management, supply chain analytics, supply chain management, sustainability drivers and barriers, sustainable supply chain management, triple bottom line | Contact |
| Park, Byung-Wook | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Rayen School of Engineering | Bioelectronics, Chemical Engineering Principles, Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering, Engineered biohybrid materials, Measurements and Instrumentation, Microrobots, Multifunctional hydrogels, Principles of Biomedical Engineering, Unit Operation Laboratory | Contact |
| Jackson Leftwich, Cryshanna | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Humanities Social Sciences | African American Politics, American Government, American Public Policy and Analysis, Public Administration, Public Budgeting, Public Management, Research Methods, anti-racism, cultural competence, public policy and gender equality, social equity | Contact |
| Barzak, Christopher | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | English World Languages | Creative writing, Revisionist and adaptive writing, creative nonfiction, fabulist literature, fantasy, fiction writing, folklore, gothic fiction, magical realism, mythology, nature and environmental writing, poetry writing, speculative fiction, surrealism, the fairy tale, writing about place | Contact |
| Jackson, Carrie | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Psychological Sciences Counseling | Educational assessment, Post-secondary transition, autism, autism spectrum disorder, behavior analysis, equity and inclusion, neuropsychology, psychometrics, social justice, training of school psychologists | Contact |
| Saenger, Christina | Williamson College of Business Administration | Williamson College of Business Administration | Advertising Promotions, Consumer Behavior, Interactive Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Management, Marketing Research, Marketing Strategy, Social Media, cognitive processing of product and brand information, consumer behavior in a social world, consumers' use of brands in identity construction and expression | Contact |
| Guyo, Dessalegn | Bitonte College of Health and Human Services | Social Work | Business skills in social work, Integrated foundations, Oppression and diversity in social work, Practice evaluations, Social Research Methods, Statistics, adoption, child protection, immigration, implicit bias and its management, indigenous knowledge, loneliness and connection, social policy, social work groups, social work teaching and practices | Contact |
| Congdon, Eleanor | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Humanities Social Sciences | American Church Architecture from Civil War to WWI through the work of Henry Martyn Congdon, Asia to 1500 including the Silk Road, Europe in General, European specifically, Francesco di Marco Datini, Great Britain specifically, Greek and Roman History, History of textiles and paper, Medieval History, Medieval Mediterranean, Medieval Mediterranean History, Medieval Middle East including Islamic regimes, Pharonic Egypt, Venetian merchants in Syria in the 1480s, World History, World History in General, agricultural history, history of technology, maritime history, the merchant of Prato | Contact |
| Boczkowska, Ewelina | Cliffe College of Creative Arts | Dana School of Music University Theatre | American Music, Chopin, European Cinema, Film Music, Music and Culture, Music and Memory, Music in the Sixties, Polish Cinema, Polish Émigré Composers, Popular American Music, Research in Music, The Beatles, Western Art Music | Contact |
| Herman McMillan, Emily | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Psychological Sciences Counseling | Counseling Children Adolescents, Counseling Theories, Diagnosis Treatment for Children Adolescents, Field Experience Supervision, Group Counseling, Guided Group Counseling, Human Growth Development, Orientation Ethics for School Counseling, School Counseling Program Development | Contact |
| Yu, George | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Computer Science, Information, Engineering Technology | Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data Management, Data Science | Contact |
| Protivnak, Jake | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Psychological Sciences Counseling | Adolescents, Counseling Internship, Counseling Interventions for Children, Counseling Methods, Counseling Practicum II, Counselor Education and Supervision Issues, Field Experience Supervision, Transition-Aged Youth | Contact |
| Choo, Kyosung | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Rayen School of Engineering | Additive and advanced manufacturing, Electronics cooling, Energy efficiency of data centers and buildings, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Two-phase flow | Contact |
| Bagley, Morgan | Bitonte College of Health and Human Services | Graduate Studies in Health Rehabilitation Sciences | ACL Return to play, patellar tendon, point of care diagnostic ultrasound | Contact |
| Nelson, Michelle | Cliffe College of Creative Arts | Art | Children Book Illustration, Design Layout, Expressive Design, Font Design, Grid, Illustration, Illustration through the Graphic Design Curriculum, Logo and Branding, Packaging, Professional Practice and the Classroom, Social Activism, Typeface Development, Typography | Contact |
| Vopat, Mark | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Humanities Social Sciences | AI and Ethics, Applied Ethics, Business Ethics, Children's Rights, Ethics, Intersection of religion and social and political thought, Social and Political Philosophy | Contact |
| Landgraff, Nancy | Bitonte College of Health and Human Services | Graduate Studies in Health Rehabilitation Sciences | Stroke rehabilitation, outcomes assessment, population health | Contact |
| Balaz, Snjezana | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Physics, Astronomy, Geology, Environmental Sciences | Properties of advanced electronic material thin films, interfaces, nanoclusters, polycrystalline photovoltaics at the nano scale, semiconductors, single crystal complex oxides | Contact |
| Giraldo, Sebastian | Cliffe College of Creative Arts | Art | B2B Experience Design, Branding, Context Analysis, Contextual Inquiry, Design Problem-Solving, Graphic Design, Industry Collaboration, Interactive Design, Problem-Solving, SaaS Experience Design, Software for design, Technology Integration in Design, UI/UX Design, Usability Testing, User Experience (UX), User Needs Analysis, User-Centric Design, Visual Design | Contact |
| Moldovan, Stefan | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Rayen School of Engineering | Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Current research interests are in the fields of hypersonics, Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Senior Design, combustion, computational modeling, renewable energy, wind tunnel testing | Contact |
| Blank, Sheila | Bitonte College of Health and Human Services | Centofanti School of Nursing | Autism Spectrum Disorder, Contemporary Nursing, Graduate Capstone, Infant Mortality, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, School Nursing, Service Learning | Contact |
| Borra, Vamsi | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Rayen School of Engineering | 3D electronics, CdTe Photovoltaics, Condensed matter physics-related research, Controlled whisker growth, Electronic materials, Embedded systems, Flexible electronics, Reliability testing, Thin-film fabrication and characterization | Contact |