Faculty Experts

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Minorities
 


        Frankie Bailey

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

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

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

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

Abbe Herzig
School of Education
Assistant Professor
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) 442-5020
Campus email: [email protected]



        Michael K. Hill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]