Faculty Experts
Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150Minorities
Frankie Bailey
School of Criminal Justice
Associate Professor
Expert in the following: Crime and mass media/popular culture; crime history; race, gender, crime; crime and detective fiction
Campus phone: (518) 442-5237
Campus email: fybailey@albany.edu
Allen Ballard
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Africana Studies
Department: History
Expert in the following: African-American history, Civil War history, Soviet history
Campus phone: (518) 442-5407
Campus email: aballard@albany.edu
Samantha Friedman
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following: Residential segregation; racial and ethnic disparities in housing and neighborhood quality; immigration
Campus phone: (518) 442-5458
Campus email: samfriedman@albany.edu
Abbe Herzig
School of Education
Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Women in science; women in mathematics; minorities in science; people of color in science; mathematics education; diversity equity in education; postgraduate education; statistics in the media; statistical literacy
Campus phone: (518) 442-5032
Campus email: aherzig@albany.edu
Michael Hill
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: English
Department: Women's Studies
Expert in the following: Race studies; "whiteness", U.S. minority relations; civil society; history of democracy; relation between "print culture" (the novel) and politics
Campus phone: (518) 442-4080
Campus email: mhill@albany.edu
Hayward Horton
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Sociology
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Expert in the following: Demography; race and ethnicity; rural sociology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4907
Campus email: hdhorton@albany.edu
Janine Jurkowski
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Expert in the following:
Campus phone: (518) 402-0420
Campus email: jjurkowski@albany.edu
Lee McElroy
Vice President for Athletic Administration/
Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
Expert in the following: NCAA Division I athletics; NCAA governance; race and equity in sports.
Campus phone: (518) 442-2562
Campus email: lmcelroy@albany.edu
