Faculty Experts
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Elise Andaya
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Cuba and political/economic changes; reproductive health; reproductive technologies; cross-cultural ideas of family; gender; sexuality
Campus phone: (518) 442-4224
Campus email: [email protected]
Allen Ballard
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
African-American history; the Civil War; Soviet history
Campus phone: (518) 442-5407
Campus email: [email protected]
Roxanne Jones Booth
College of Arts and Sciences
Adjunct
Department: Africana Studies
Expert in the following:
African American church history; African American religion; African American Christian missions history; Christian missions; cross-cultural studies; Christian education
Campus phone: (518) 442-4730
Campus email: [email protected]
Keith Chan
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Acculturation; immigrant health; elderly Asian Americans
Campus phone: 442-2589
Campus email: [email protected]
Nicholas Conway
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer
Department: Music and Theatre
Expert in the following:
Hip hop music and culture (MCing, DJing, B-boying/B-girling, and graffiti)
Campus phone: (518) 330-7602
Campus email: [email protected]
José Cruz
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Associate Professor
Department: Political Science
Expert in the following:
Comparative politics; census data; Latino culture, political values, attitudes and behavior; media studies
Campus phone: (518) 442-5377
Campus email: [email protected]
Anthony DeBlasi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: East Asian Studies
Expert in the following:
China, Chinese culture, Chinese history, Confucianism
Campus phone: (518) 442-5316
Campus email: [email protected]
Beth DuFault
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Culture, change, and consumer behavior
Campus phone: 518-956-8389
Campus email: [email protected]
Julia M. Hormes
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Psychology
Expert in the following:
Psychology of human food choice, eating behaviors, food preferences and aversions, cultural differences in eating behaviors, eating disorders, overweight and obesity, cravings, food cravings, chocolate craving, perimenstrual and pregnancy cravings, social networking and video game addiction, substance use, the status of women in academia (gender biases).
Campus phone: (518) 442-4911
Campus email: [email protected]
Ryan Irwin
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
American foreign relations; globalization; international organizations; decolonization
Campus phone: 442-5379
Campus email: [email protected]
Ron Jacobs
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following:
Theory, culture and mass media; politics and democracy
Campus phone: (518) 442-4666
Campus email: [email protected]
Istvan Kecskes
School of Education
Distinguished Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following:
Second language acquisition; bilingualism; multilingualism; intercultural communication; foreign language learning; English as a Lingua Franca; cognitive linguistics
Campus phone: (518) 442-5030
Campus email: [email protected]
Maria Keyes
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer
Department: Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Expert in the following:
Italian and French language and literature; Italian culture; civilization; film and cinema; the Italian American experience; contemporary Italian society
Campus phone: 442-4100
Campus email: [email protected]
Walter Little
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Cultures; cultural heritage; diversity; economics; indigenous peoples and languages of the Americas; Mesoamerica; Latin America; popular culture; tourism; urban studies.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4718
Campus email: [email protected]
Marilyn Masson
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Archaeology, Mexico, Pre-Columbian Maya Civilization, Ancient Urban Life and Landscapes, Pre-Modern Political Economy, Household Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology, Stone Tool Analysis
Campus phone: (518) 442-4700
Campus email: [email protected]
Paul Miesing
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Entrepreneurship; Strategic Management.
Campus phone: (518) 956-8348
Campus email: [email protected]
Olimpia Pelosi
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Expert in the following:
Italian and comparative literature; women mystic writers of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque period; Italian theatre of the Renaissance and Baroque period
Campus phone: (518) 442-4100
Campus email: [email protected]
Sean Rafferty
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Ancient tobacco; shamanism; Native American smoking pipes; archaeology of eastern North America; archaeology of New York State; cultural resource management
Campus phone: (518) 442-4713
Campus email: [email protected]
Marcia E. Sutherland
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Africana Studies
Expert in the following:
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 phone: (518) 442-4730
Campus email: [email protected]
