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Helen R. Desfosses   Helen R. Desfosses
Associate Professor
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
 
Areas of expertise:
Politics--local, state, national and international; public policy; campaigns and elections; legislative politics; Africa; Middle East; women and families
 
Campus e-mail:   h.desfosses@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-5254
 
 
Kajal Lahiri   Kajal Lahiri
Distinguished Professor
Department of Economics
 
Areas of expertise:
Economic forecasting; applied econometrics; economics of health and disability; New York State economy; New York regional economic trends; economics of energy; transportation economics; and energy/gasoline prices
 
Campus e-mail:   klahiri@albany.edu
Campus phone:   (518) 442-4758
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
 
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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