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Elise Andaya  

Elise Andaya
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

 
Areas of expertise:
Cuba and political/economic changes; reproductive health; reproductive technologies; cross-cultural ideas of family; gender; sexuality
 
Campus e-mail:   eandaya@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4224
 
 
Allen Ballard  

Allen B. Ballard
Professor
Department of History
Department of Africana Studies

 
Areas of expertise:
African-American history, Civil War history, Soviet history
 
Campus e-mail:   aballard@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-5407
 
 
Eloise Briére  

Eloise Briére
Associate Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 
Areas of expertise:
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
 
Campus e-mail:   ebriere@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4103
 
 
Ray Bromley   Ray Bromley
Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
 
Areas of expertise:
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
 
Campus e-mail:   r.bromley@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4766
 
 
Nicholas Conway  

Nicholas Conway
Lecturer
Department of Music

 
Areas of expertise:
Hip hop music and culture (emceeing, disc jockeying, break dancing, graffiti art)
 
Campus e-mail:   conway.nicholas@gmail.com
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4187
 
 
Phyllis Galembo   Phyllis Galembo
Professor
Department of Art
 
Areas of expertise:
Masks; ritual costumes
 
Campus e-mail:   pgalembo@cnsunix.albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4031
 
 
Pierre Joris   Pierre Joris
Professor
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
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
 
Campus e-mail:   joris@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4085
 
 
Maria Giuliana Keyes   Maria Giuliana Keyes
Lecturer
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture
 
Areas of expertise:
Italian and French language and literature; Italian culture; civilization; film and cinema; the Italian American experience;  contemporary Italian society
 
Campus e-mail:   mgkeyes@csc.albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4108
 
 
Steven A. Leibo   Steven A. Leibo
Lecturer
Department of History
 
Areas of expertise:
Modern China and globalization; U.S. China relations; Asian-Western relations; Vietnam; Southeast Asia; international politics; modern world history
 
Campus e-mail:    
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4800
 
 
Paul Miesing   Paul Miesing
Associate Professor
Department of Management
 
Areas of expertise:
Strategic management; executive vision and leadership; organizational learning and transformation; cross-culture management and organization; corporate social responsibility; business ethics
 
Campus e-mail:   paul.miesing@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4942
 
 
Sean M. Rafferty   Sean M. Rafferty
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
 
Areas of expertise:
Ancient tobacco; shamanism; native American smoking pipes; archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of New York State; cultural resource management
 
Campus e-mail:   rafferty@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4713
 
 
Marcia Sutherland  

Marcia E. Sutherland
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

 
Areas of expertise:
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
 
Campus e-mail:   ms781@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4727
 
 
Maurice Thornton   Maurice Thornton
Lecturer
Department of Africana Studies
 
Areas of expertise:
Affirmative action programs; African and African American history; the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.; black history; the African and African American family
 
Campus e-mail:   mediarelations@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4730
 
 
Barry Trachtenberg   Barry C. Trachtenberg
Assistant Professor
Department of Judaic Studies
 
Areas of expertise:
Holocaust; anti-semitism; Yiddish; Kiryas Joel, N.Y.
 
Campus e-mail:   btrachtenberg@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-3078
 
 
David Wills   David Wills
Professor
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department of English
 
Areas of expertise:
French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology
 
Campus e-mail:   dwills@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4228
 
 
Theodore P. Wright   Theodore P. Wright, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science
 
Areas of expertise:
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.
 
Campus e-mail:   wright15@juno.com
Campus phone:   (518) 442-5255
 
   
 


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