Faculty Experts
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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]

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]

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]

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: [email protected]

Abbe Herzig
School of Education
Lecturer
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) 442-4712
Campus email: [email protected]

Hayward Horton
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following:
Demography; race and ethnicity; rural sociology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4907
Campus email: [email protected]

Youqin Huang
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Geography and Planning
Expert in the following:
Low-income housing; housing inequality, residential segregation in China; migration, mobility and urbanization in China.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4792
Campus email: [email protected]

Julia Jennings
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
human demography (fertility, mortality, and migration) and 19th century Europe (with an emphasis on Scotland); household ecology; historical population change
Campus phone: (518) 442-4703
Campus email: [email protected]

Johana Londoño
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies
Expert in the following:
Latino Studies, urban studies, barrios, comparative ethnic studies, race and ethnicity in US Cities, and the cultural politics of urban design
Campus phone: 518-442-4890
Campus email: [email protected]

Blanca Ramos
School of Social Welfare
Associate Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Immigration; Latino aging community; Hispanic cultures in the U.S.; cross-cultural social work
Campus phone: 442-5365
Campus email: [email protected]