Faculty Experts
Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150Popular Culture
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]
Jacques Bastien
College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Lecturer
Department: Informatics
Expert in the following:
Design; entrepreneurship; startups; social media; employment; finances (raising capital for business); blogging and writing; photography and video production
Campus phone: 518-442-5110
Campus email: [email protected]
Suraj Commuri
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Household decision-making; brand counterfeiting; Internet word-of-mouth; consumer-generated content
Campus phone: (518) 227-0303
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]
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]
Janell Hobson
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Expert in the following:
Women's studies; race relations; gender relations; black history month; women's history month; film; media; popular culture
Campus phone: (518) 442-5575
Campus email: [email protected]
William Husson
College of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer
Department: Communication
Expert in the following:
Popular culture; children, youth, and media; news; mass media effects; film; work; internships
Campus phone: (518) 442-4872
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]
Richard Lachmann
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following:
Sociology of culture; popular culture; political sociology; war and terrorism; fiscal crises; U.S. decline; military spending
Campus phone: (518) 956-8150
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]
Nancy Newman
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Music and Theatre
Expert in the following:
European and American music since 1800; music and popular culture; film music and feminist theory
Campus phone: (518) 442-4189
Campus email: [email protected]
Mary Valentis
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following:
Popular Culture and Mass Media, Relationships, Film, Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Gender Issues
Campus phone: (518) 442-4082
Campus email: [email protected]
