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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 Joseph | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Economics Education, Environmental Economics, Housing Economics, Microeconomics, Public Policy, Sports Economics, Urban Economics | Contact |
| Fluker, Amy Laurel | 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 A | 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 Michael | 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 Rae | 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 Negeri | Bitonte College of Health and Human Services | Social Work | Business skills in social work, Generalist social work with Larger groups and Communities, Immigration and adaptation, Indigenous knowledge, Integrated foundations, International Social work, Oppression and Cultural competence, Practice evaluations, Social Research Methods/Statistics, Social Work Foundation Practices II, Trauma Informed Care, adoption, child protection, community Development, implicit bias and its management, indigenous knowledge, social policy development and analysis, social work groups, social work teaching and practices | Contact |
| Congdon, Eleanor A | Beeghly College of Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, and Education | Humanities Social Sciences | Airforce History, American Church Architecture from Civil War to WWI through the work of Henry Martyn Congdon, American History, Asia to 1500 including the Silk Road, Church architecture between 1850 and 1922, 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, economic history maritime history, history of technology, 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 Rae | 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 |
| Wright, Jessie Christine | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Audit Committees, Auditing, Auditing Theory and Practice, Auditing and Fraud Investigation, Financial Accounting, Fraud, Fraud Models and Accounting Education, Managerial Accounting | Contact |
| Hinz, Jessi Danielle | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | Grief-Work Interface, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Listening, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development and Growth, Positive Relationships at Work | Contact |
| Sperry, Dana Dana | Cliffe College of Creative Arts | Art | 2D Animation, Audio Walks, Creative Strategies, Expressive Forms of Data Visualizations, Video | Contact |
| Protivnak, Jake John | 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 |
| Forbes, Joanna Rae | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | diversity, equity, human resources, inclusion, leadership, management, marketing, training and development, workplace diversity | 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 |
| Fowler, Kendra | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | Marketing Management, Retailing, Services Marketing, advertising, retailing, services marketing | Contact |
| Pleva, Kimberly Marie | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | Compensation Performance Appraisal, Employee Relations, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management, Organizational Behavior, Recruiting Selection, Training Development | Contact |
| Dewberry, Laura | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | Business Communication, Foundations of Business, Nonprofit Leadership | Contact |
| Bagley, Morgan C | 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 |
| Chung, Miri | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | Consumer Behavior, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Digital Marketing, Machine Learning, Text Mining | Contact |
| Villano, Michael Christopher | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Business Finance, Cost/Managerial Accounting, Elementary/Intermediate/Advanced Financial Reporting | 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 |
| Grubb, Max V | Williamson College of Business Administration | Communication | Communication Studies, Communication and International Development, Journalism, Media Business (Strategic Media Management), Media History, Multimedia | Contact |
| Vopat, Mark C | 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 | Interprofessional Education, Physical Therapy basic skills, Stroke rehabilitation, leadership, outcomes assessment, population health, professionalism | Contact |
| Ross, Omar Alphonso | Bitonte College of Health and Human Services | Graduate Studies in Health Rehabilitation Sciences | Manually Resisted Exercise, Orthopedics, Outpatient, Physical Therapy Anatomy Instruction, Portable Ultrasound (POCUS), Sports Medicine | Contact |
| Genc, Omer F | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Export/Import, Foreign Direct Investment, Global Strategy, Innovation, International Business, International Marketing, International Trade, Internationalization of firms, Mergers and Acquisitions, Small and medium sized enterprises, Strategic Management | Contact |
| Woodlock, Peter David | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Accounting and Finance with emphasis on valuing private equity | Contact |
| Bateman, Patrick J | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | computer-mediated communications, dynamic interactions between people and technologies, individuals' use of interactive and social-technical systems (e.g, management and leadership, management of information systems and technology, organizational use of interactive and social-technical systems, social media in consumer processes, social media use by and within business, social media), technology adoption | 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 |
| Citrak, Susan | College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Chemical Biological Sciences | General Chemistry Series, Inorganic Chemistry, Instrumental Chemistry, Ionic Liquids, Metal Organic Coordination Polymers, Metal Organic Frameworks, Metal-Substituted Aluminophosphates, Porous Liquids | Contact |
| Jenyk, Sarah Elizabeth | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Income Inequality, Innovative Teaching Methods in Economic Education, Personal Financial Literacy, Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Survey of Economics | 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 I | 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 Marie | 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 |
| Yang, Xiaolou | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Banking and financial liquidity, Business Finance, CEO compensation and Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Credit analysis, Financial Analysis | Contact |
| Uppal, Yogesh | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | Big Data, Business Analytics, Data Analysis, Development Economics, Health Care Analytics, Predictive modelling, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics | Contact |
| Wang, Ying | Williamson College of Business Administration | Management Marketing | advertising and public relations, consumer behaviors and new technologies, cross-cultural marketing communication, digital marketing, luxury brands and CSR, marketing communications, marketing concepts and practices, mobile marketing/advertising, social media marketing | Contact |
| Zhang, Yiyang | Williamson College of Business Administration | Lariccia School of Accounting Finance | ERP system implementation, Accounting Information System, Asset Pricing, Audit Quality, Auditor litigation , Business Intelegence system implementation. Blockchain, Corporate Governance, Cost of capital, Data Analytics, Database Managment, ESG, Earnings Management, Financial Disclosure, Financial accounting, IT Capability, Intermediate accounting, Mergers Acquisitions, XBRL | Contact |