Faculty Experts
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Frankie Bailey
School of Criminal Justice
Professor
Department: Criminal Justice
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: [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]

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]

Julia Hastings
School of Social Welfare
Assistant Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Poverty issues among ethnic minority populations; mental health and welfare participation dynamics; African American health and mental health disparities
Campus phone: 591-8751
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]

Michael K. Hill
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following:
Race studies; "whiteness"; U.S. minority relations; civil society; multiracialism; U.S. demographic change; racial passing; history of democracy; relation between "print culture" (the novel) and politics; 18th-century political economy and culture
Campus phone: (518) 442-4046
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]

Lani Jones
School of Social Welfare
Associate Professor
Department: Social Welfare
Expert in the following:
Mental health; Black feminism and therapy; evidenced-based practice and group work
Campus phone: 442-5167
Campus email: [email protected]

Janine Jurkowski
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Expert in the following:
Community-based participatory research; health disparities; low-income communities, women's health
and family health
Campus phone: (518) 402-0420
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]

Justin Pickett
School of Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor
Department: Criminal Justice
Expert in the following:
Public opinion on crime and criminal justice; social threat and social control; juvenile justice and delinquency; community influences on attitudes and behavior; sociology of punishment
Campus phone: (518) 442-5210
Campus email: [email protected]

Feng (Johnson) Qian
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Expert in the following:
Comparative effectiveness research; quality of care and patient safety; evaluation of medical technology and digital health; health disparities and practice variation; global health
Campus phone: (518) 402-0325
Campus email: [email protected]