Faculty Experts
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New York State
Helen R. Desfosses
Associate Professor
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
Politics--local, state, national and international; public policy; campaigns and elections; legislative politics; Africa; Middle East; women and families
Kajal Lahiri
Distinguished Professor
Department of Economics
Economic forecasting; applied econometrics; economics of health and disability; New York State economy; New York regional economic trends; economics of energy; transportation economics; energy/gasoline prices
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
Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
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.
