Faculty Experts
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Cultures
Elise Andaya
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Cuba and political/economic changes; reproductive health; reproductive technologies; cross-cultural ideas of family; gender; sexuality
Allen B. Ballard
Professor
Department of History
Department of Africana Studies
African-American history, Civil War history, Soviet history
Brett Bowles
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Politics, society, and mass media; contemporary France; European Union; French and European film; documentary film
Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Literatures, cultures, and language issues of the Francophone areas of the world, particularly West Africa, the Caribbean (Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe), and North America (Quebec, New England, Louisiana); cinema of Francophone West Africa, Caribbean and Quebec
Ray Bromley
Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Urban planning; regional planning; urban development; urban renewal; community development; housing policy; neighborhood decline; neighborhood revitalization; abandoned buildings; fire tragedies; micro-enterprise; micro-credit; retail markets; street vendors; Peru; Colombia
Nicholas Conway
Lecturer
Department of Music
Hip hop music and culture (emceeing, disc jockeying, break dancing, graffiti art)
Anthony DeBlasi
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
China, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Confucianism
Susanna Fessler
Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
Japanese literature and culture of the modern era
Phyllis Galembo
Professor
Department of Art
Masks; ritual costumes
Pierre Joris
Professor
Department of English
Contemporary literature, especially poetry and poetics, of the U.S., U.K., Europe, North Africa, and beyond; theory of the avant-garde and diaspora studies; comparative literature and translation studies; North African culture
Maria Giuliana Keyes
Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture
Italian and French language and literature; Italian culture; civilization; film and cinema; the Italian American experience; contemporary Italian society
Steven A. Leibo
Lecturer
Department of History
Modern China and globalization; U.S. China relations; Asian-Western relations; Vietnam; Southeast Asia; international politics; modern world history
Walter E. Little
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Cultures; diversity; economics; indigenous peoples of the Americas; language; Latin America; popular culture; tourism; urban
Paul Miesing
Associate Professor
Department of Management
Strategic management; executive leadership; corporate boards and governance; organizational learning and transformation; technology transfer; international business and globalization; cross-culture management and organization; corporate social responsibility and business ethics
Olimpia Pelosi
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque
Sean M. Rafferty
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Ancient tobacco; shamanism; native American smoking pipes; archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of New York State; cultural resource management
Marcia E. Sutherland
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Social and psychological development of black children, inclusiveness of education, transracial adoption, HIV/AIDS and people of African descent, enslavement and colonial experiences of people of African descent, black studies, mock jury trials, nonverbal behavior of people of African descent
Maurice Thornton
Lecturer
Department of Africana Studies
Affirmative action programs; African and African American history; the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.; black history; the African and African American family
Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
David Wills
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department of English
French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology
Theodore P. Wright, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science
Politics; policies; foreign policies of India; Pakistan; Bangladesh in South Asia; Minorities, especially Muslims in India; attitudes towards events in the Middle East; Islam as a religion; comparative ethnicity; Dutch in colonial Albany, N.Y.
