Faculty Experts

Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150

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Diversity
 

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]

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Expert in the following: Immigration; Asian Americans/ Korean Americans; race and ethnicity; community and urban sociology; gender and family
Campus phone: (518) 442-4666
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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Expert in the following: student services; gender; LGBTQ+; sexuality, transgender; social justice; coalition building; intersectionality; transitioning to college; conference management
Campus phone: (518) 442-5580
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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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) 442-5020
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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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]

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Expert in the following: Demography; race and ethnicity; rural sociology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4907
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Low-income housing; migration; residential segregation; housing inequality; urban development
Campus phone: (518) 442-4792
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Mental health; Black feminism and therapy; evidenced-based practice and group work
Campus phone: 442-5167
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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Expert in the following: Intercultural Engagement; diversity; inclusion; cultural competency training; multiculturalism; coalition building; mentorship; LGBTQ* training & student support; Dignity Act training
Campus phone: (518) 442-5566
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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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]

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Expert in the following: At-risk students; diversity; conflict resolution; motivation; student success; community relations; effective study strategies; social work; women's issues; coalition building; the importance of mentoring
Campus phone: (518) 442-5179
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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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]

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Expert in the following: Domestic violence; diversity
Campus phone: 442-3488
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Anthropology; minority health disparities; epidemiology; biostatistics; childhood development; environmental health; risk factors
Campus phone: (518) 442-4714
Campus email: [email protected]

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Expert in the following: Black literature; black history; black poetry; and 19th century American literature, particularly author Herman Melville; American literary bibliography
Campus phone: (518) 442-4726
Campus email: [email protected]

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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]

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Expert in the following: Second language acquisition; foreign language acquisition; teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL); multicultural education; diversity in education
Campus phone: (518) 442-9085
Campus email: [email protected]

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