Faculty Experts
Contact the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150
Religion
Mark L. Blum
Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
Buddhism; religion
Nadieszda Kizenko
Associate Professor
Department of History
Russia; Ukraine; Orthodox Christianity; Russian Orthodoxy; Eastern Orthodox Christianity; confession; religion in Russian culture
Udi Sommer
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Energy; solar power; religion; Buddhism; politics; Supreme Court constitutions; constitutionalism; U.S. Supreme Court; Israeli politics; Israeli High Court of Justice
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.
