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Hofstra University Experts
The following experts from Hofstra University's faculty are qualified to provide commentary on a variety of subjects. Please browse through the topics to find the expert you need.
| Hofstra's experts are available for interviews. To contact the experts profiled here, please call Hofstra University's Public Relations office at (516) 463-6818. |
| Advertising |
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| Charles McMellon (Business) |
| Advertising strategy and tactics; consumer behavior |
| Yong Zhang (Business) |
| Advertising strategy and tactics; consumer behavior |
| African American Culture |
| Cheryl Mwaria (Anthropology) |
| Afro-American culture; African cultures; cultural diversity |
| Alan Singer (Education) |
| Slavery in the northern states |
| Anxiety and Depression |
| William C. Sanderson, (Psychology) |
| Anxiety, worry, phobias |
| Archaeology |
| Christopher Matthews (Anthropology) |
| Urban archeology; historical archaeology; cultural heritage; American landscapes; Creole culture |
| Artificial Intelligence |
| Simona Doboli (Computer Science) |
| Intelligent systems; artificial neural networks; computational neuroscience |
| Astronomy |
| Stephen Lawrence |
| Astronomy, Space Travel |
| Auto Industry |
| Kaushik Sengupta (Business) |
| Andrew Spieler (Business) |
| Corporate governance, shareholder activism and real estate |
| Anoop Rai (Business) |
| Steven Krull (Business) |
| Biology |
| Christopher Sanford |
| Biology, Marine Life |
| Business; Economics and Labor Studies |
| Gioia Bales (Business) |
| Domestic and international bond, money and foreign exchange markets, international investing |
| Robert Campbell |
| Real Estate |
| Gregory DeFreitas (Labor Studies) |
| Job and pay trends; the economics of immigration; earnings inequality; labor unions; youth unemployment and the New York City economy. |
| Joel Evans (Business) |
| Consumer shopping trends; retail; online retail; big box companies; ethics in marketing; internet marketing; marketing strategy; retailing and marketing research |
| David Flynn (Business) |
| Effects of federal; state and local initiatives on new business development; international business |
| Daniel J. H. Greenwood (Law School) |
| Corporate law, corporate governance, business and politics |
| Dr. Robert Guttmann (Chair, Economics Department) |
| Money and banking, international trade and finance, European economic integration, history of economic thought |
| Ahmet K. Karagozoglu (Business) |
| Academic Director, Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room |
| Financial markets (futures & options, electronic trading); hedge funds; risk management, including credit risk |
| Sharryn Kasmir (Anthropology) |
| Working class cultures; industrial organizations |
| Steven Krull |
| Hedge funds, investing (stocks and bonds), commodities/futures and derivatives (options, swaps, mortgage backed securities, CDO) |
| Harold Lazarus (Business) |
| Leadership; managing time; managing change; effective meetings; problem solving; decision making; communications |
| Janet A. Lenaghan (Business) |
| Work-family conflict; employee benefits; and human resource management (compensation, recruitment, selection of employees, performance issues) |
| Esmerelda Lyn (Business) |
| Corporate finance; mergers and acquisition; international finance; corporate governance; gender issues in finance and portfolio management. |
| Martin Melkonian (Economics) |
| Long Island regional economy; energy economics; military spending |
| Kaushik Sengupta |
| Chinese products in worldwide distribution; supply chain management; the auto industry; quality related issues; logistics and purchasing. |
| Salvatore Sodano (Dean; Business) |
| Financial markets |
| Matthew C. Sonfield (Director; Hofstra Small Business Institute) |
| Entrepreneurship; small businesses; minority businesses; family businesses; automotive business |
| Yong Zhang |
| Chinese businesses, international business, export promotion and marketing |
| Children |
| Linda Davey (Education) |
| Early Childhood Education |
| Doris Fromberg (Education) |
| Early Childhood Education |
| Andrea Garcia (Education) |
| Literacy expert, Children and Reading Skills, Summer Reading Lists |
| Phyllis Ohr (Psychology) |
| Child psychology |
| Denise Ruscio |
| Speech Therapy, Toddler Language Delays |
| Joseph Scardapane (Psychology) |
| Child and adolescent psychology |
| Andrew Schepard (Law School) |
| Family law (children) |
| College |
| Sandra Johnson (VP for Campus Life) |
| College experience; adjusting to college life |
| Communication |
| Larry Russell (Communication) |
| Ritual practices and healing; healing rituals in the aftermath of terrorist bombings in New York |
| Matt Sobnosky (Communication) |
| Boundaries of publicity in contemporary society; communication and public spaces; rhetoric of AIDS activism |
| Dan Van Benthuysen |
| Layout and graphic communication |
| Criminal Justice; Forensic Science; DNA Evidence |
| J. Herbie DiFonzo; (Law School) |
| DNA evidence; forensics; the "CSI effect." |
| Scott Kovar, (Chair, Forensic Science program) |
| Forensic science, DNA evidence, forensic toxicology |
| Robert Leonard (Linguistics) |
| Forensic linguistics; language and crime |
| William P. Schaefer (Political Science) |
| Politics and history of American criminal justice |
| Day Laborers / Hispanic Immigrants on Long Island |
| Gregory Maney (Sociology) |
| Race and ethnic studies; social movements |
| Dinosaurs |
| J. Bret Bennington (Biology) |
| Paleoecology; paleobiology |
| Domestic Violence |
| Margaret Abraham (Sociology) |
| Domestic violence |
| Alafair Burke (Law School) |
| Domestic violence intervention and prosecution |
| Drama/Theater |
| James J. Kolb (Drama) |
| American musical theater; drama; opera |
| Earthquakes/Tsunami |
| Charles Merguerian (Geology) |
| Geologic structure of New York City area; Earthquake and tsunami implications; subsurface geologic structures; Fault and foundation analysis |
| Education (School of Education) |
| Doris Fromberg |
| Early childhood education |
| Andrea Garcia |
| Literacy studies; children and reading |
| Laurie Johnson |
| Conflict resolution; counseling |
| Andrea Libresco |
| School tips for parents; suggestions for new teachers; teaching about the holidays in school. |
| Alan Singer |
| New curriculums for teaching the Irish famine; New York and slavery and the Holocaust; New York City school policies |
| Environment/Ecology/Pollution |
| Russell Burke (Biology) |
| Wildlife ecology; natural resources; conservation biology, urban ecology |
| Margaret Hunter (Engineering) |
| Water and soil contaminants; watershed protection, management; energy issues |
| E. Christa Farmer (Geology) |
| Global warming |
| Ethics and Morality |
| Ralph Acampora (Philosophy) |
| Environmental ethics, animal ethics |
| Carol Alberts |
| Ethics in sports |
| Arthur Dobrin (University Studies) |
| Instilling morals in children; conflict resolution; moral development; comparative religious ethics; human rights; teaching right from wrong |
| Janet Dolgin (Hofstra Law School) |
| Medical ethics |
| Monroe Freedman (Hofstra Law School) |
| Legal ethics |
| Roy Simon (Hofstra Law School) |
| Legal ethics |
| Kathleen Wallace (Philosophy) |
| Ethics |
| Evolution |
| Russell Burke (Biology) |
| Evolution; ecology; conservation biology |
| J. Bret Bennington (Biology) |
| Paleoecology; paleobiology |
| Joanne Willey Ph.D. (Biology) |
| Bacteriology; bacterial genetics/molecular biology |
| Family Issues |
| Amy Armenia (Sociology) |
| Sociology of the family |
| Janet A. Lenaghan (Business) |
| Work-family conflict; employee benefits |
| Madeline Seifer (Marriage and Family Therapy) |
| Parenting issues; family conflict |
| Filmmaking |
| Sybil DelGaudio (Communication) |
| Documentary filmmaking; animation |
| First Amendment Issues |
| Eric Freedman (Law School) |
| Leon Friedman (Law School) |
| Gay (LGBT) Issues |
| David Powell (LGBT Studies) |
| Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues |
| Joanna Grossman (Law School) |
| Gay marriage |
| Linda McClain (Law School) |
| Gay marriage |
| Genetics |
| Beverly Clendening (Biology) |
| Molecular genetics; development of muscular systems |
| Global Warming |
| E. Christa Farmer (Biology) |
| Climatology; paleontology |
| Health Care |
| Richard Himelfarb (Political Science) |
| Government and health care |
| Dr. Corinne Kyriacou (Health Professions and Family Studies) |
| Health care in the United States |
| Robert Lazow (Health Professions and Family Studies) |
| Health care in the United States |
| David M. Weiss (Health Professions Family Studies Dept.) |
| Health care in the United States |
| Homelessness/Poverty |
| Cynthia Bogard (Sociology) |
| Poverty; homelessness. |
| Immigration |
| Margaret Abraham (Sociology) |
| Ethnicity; gender and migration; South Asian Diaspora |
| Gregory DeFreitas (Labor Studies) |
| Economics of immigration; earnings inequality |
| Nora Demleitner (Law School) |
| International human rights; immigration law |
| Gregory Maney (Sociology) |
| Race and ethnic studies; social movements; day laborers on Long Island |
| Marc Silver (Chair; Sociology) |
| Race relations; social justice |
| International Business/Marketing |
| David Flynn (Business) |
| Economic development, entrepreneurship in China, India and other Asian countries |
| Shawn Thelen (Business) |
| International business and marketing |
| Yong Zhang (Business) |
| International business studies |
| Internet |
| Joel Evans (Business) |
| Internet marketing |
| Andrew Forman (Business) |
| Internet marketing |
| Songpol Kulviwat (Business) |
| Internet marketing; high-tech marketing |
| Iraq War |
| Carolyn Eisenberg (History) |
| Michael D'Innocenzo (History) |
| David Green (Political Science) |
| Richard Himelfarb (Political Science) |
| Irish History |
| Maureen Murphy (Education) |
| Irish folklore; history; teaching the Irish famine |
| Journalism |
| Susan Drucker |
| Media ethics and law; shield laws; libel |
| Peter Goodman |
| Media as it relates to arts and culture |
| Maurice Krochmal |
| Online journalism |
| Bob Papper |
| Broadcast journalism, TV station economics |
| Geoffrey Roth |
| Changing trends in local newsrooms,New business models in local media, The impact of new technology on local news |
| Gregory Smith |
| TV news reporting and production; video journalism |
| Dan Van Benthuysen |
| Newspaper layout and graphic communication |
| Kristal Zook |
| Minority journalism |
| Law (Law School) |
| Alafair S. Burke |
| Criminal law and procedure; domestic violence intervention and prosecution |
| Robin Charlow |
| Criminal law; constitutional law; religion and law |
| Nora Demleitner |
| International law; international human rights; immigration law; criminal sentencing |
| Eric Freedman |
| Constitutional law; history; civil and criminal procedure and strategy; death penalty; First Amendment and other civil liberties issues |
| Monroe Freedman |
| Legal ethics |
| Leon Friedman |
| Copyright law; civil rights; civil procedure; criminal procedure; Constitutional law; First Amendment |
| Joanna Grossman |
| Sexual harassment; sex discrimination; family; medical leave and pregnancy discrimination; family law; same-sex marriage |
| Grant Hayden |
| Labor law; collective bargaining; employment discrimination; election law; voting rights |
| Marcia Levy |
| Criminal Law and procedure |
| Literacy |
| Andrea Garcia |
| Literacy expert, Children and Reading Skills, Summer Reading Lists |
| Marine Life and Animals |
| Christopher Sanford |
| Biology, Marine Life |
| Marriage and Divorce |
| Margaret Abraham (Sociology) |
| Marital violence |
| Joan Atwood (Marriage and Family Therapy) |
| Custody; Family; Remarriage; Divorce; Single Parents |
| Madeline Seifer (Marriage and Family Therapy) |
| Custody; Family; Remarriage; Divorce; Single Parents |
| Media |
| Mary Ann Allison (Journalism, Mass, and Public Relations) |
| New media and its affects on society; corporate media and communications |
| Paul Mihailidis (Journalism, Mass, and Public Relations) |
| National and international expert in media and news literacy |
| Peter Goodman |
| Media as it relates to arts and culture |
| Mental Illness |
| Fugen Neziroglu (Psychology) |
| OCD; self-injury; body-dysmorphic disorder; eating disorders; compulsive hoarding |
| Mark Serper (Psychology) |
| Violence and Mental Illness, Schizophrenia |
| Middle East |
| Marcus Dressler (Religion) |
| Islam in the Middle East; Turkey |
| Stephanie E. Nanes (Political Science) |
| Middle East politics; Iran; women and gender in the Middle East |
| Daniel Varisco (Anthropology) |
| Islam in the Middle East; Iraq; Yemen; Somalia |
| Music |
| Dr. David Lalama (Music) |
| Jazz |
| Dr. Kenneth Lampl (Music) |
| Music merchandising and technology |
| Parenting |
| Andrea Libresco |
| Tips for parents on going back to school, parent-teacher conferences, teaching holidays/special events in the classroom, tips for new teachers |
| Fugen Neziroglu |
| OCD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Self Mutilation, Hoarding |
| Denise Ruscio |
| Speech Therapy, Toddler Language Delays |
| Philosophy |
| Amy Baehr (Philosophy) |
| Contemporary political philosophy; philosophy of law; feminist philosophy |
| Christopher Eliot (Philosophy) |
| Philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; aesthetics; environmental philosophy |
| Terry Godlove (Philosophy) |
| Modern philosophy; epistemology; philosophy of religion; philosophy of love |
| Physics |
| Stephen Lawrence |
| Astronomy, Space Travel |
| Politics / Government / Elections |
| Meena Bose (Center for the Study of the American Presidency) |
| The American presidency |
| Rebecca Curry (Political Science) |
| Campaign finance reform, the courts & modern political campaigns |
| Mike D’Innocenzo (History) |
| Nonviolent social change, citizen/student activism, American history, Italian Americans |
| Phil Dalton (Speech Communication) |
| Political communication; campaign rhetoric |
| Leslie Feldman (Political Science) |
| Nassau and Suffolk politics; state politics; American politics; the presidency; Ronald Reagan;; Memorial Day; terrorism; State of the Union |
| David Green (Political Science) |
| International relations; American politics; European politics and integration; EU; foreign policy and international organization |
| Rich Guardino; (Director; Center for Suburban Studies) |
| Local government and politics; suburbia |
| Grant Hayden (Law School) |
| Election law; voting rights |
| Richard Himelfarb (Political Science) |
| Presidential election; 2008 presidential primaries |
| Philip Dalton (Speech Communication, Rhetoric and Performance Studies) |
| Political communication, political advertising, swing voters, political disaffection. |
| Eric Lane (Law School) |
| New York City government/politics; New York City charter revision; voting rights. |
| Linda Longmire (New College) |
| Local politics; local elections; contemporary political issues |
| Stefanie E. Nanes (Political Science) |
| Middle East politics; women and gender in the Middle East |
| Rosanna Perotti(Political Science) |
| Immigration reform; American politics; political parties; elections; public opinion and the mass media |
| Popular Culture |
| Sharryn Kasmir (Anthropology) |
| Popular culture; working class cultures |
| Guillermo Caliendo (Communication) |
| Popular culture; public address; persuasion; political communication |
| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| Roy Aranda (Psychology) |
| Post traumatic stress disorder |
| Mitchell Schare (Psychology) |
| Post traumatic stress disorder |
| Psychology (Psychology Dept.) |
| Roy Aranda |
| Post traumatic stress disorder |
| Jeffrey Froh |
| Gratitude in children; positive psychology |
| Fugen Neziroglu |
| OCD; self-injury; body-dysmorphic disorder; eating disorders; compulsive hoarding |
| Joseph Scardapane |
| Child psychology; giftedness in children; virtual reality technologies |
| Mitchell Schare |
| Post traumatic stress disorder; effects of caffeine; relationship issues; virtual reality to treat fear of flying |
| Keith Shafritz |
| Autism and the brain |
| Public Relations |
| Ellen Frisina (Communication) |
| Public relations industry |
| Race and Ethnic Relations/ Social Justice |
| Margaret Abraham (Sociology) |
| Ethnicity; gender and migration; South Asian Diaspora |
| Michael D'Innocenzo (History) |
| Non-violent social change; citizen activism; Civil Rights movement |
| Linda Longmire (New College) |
| Social justice; global peace efforts |
| Gregory Maney (Sociology) |
| Race and ethnic studies; social movements |
| Marc Silver (Chair; Sociology Department) |
| Race relations; social justice |
| Reading |
| Andrea Garcia |
| Literacy expert, Children and Reading Skills, Summer Reading Lists |
| Real Estate |
| Robert Campbell |
| Real estate finance |
| Rich Guardino |
| Long Island real estate, commerical development |
| Andrew Spieler (Business) |
| Real Estate finance |
| Religion (Department of Religion) |
| Julie Byrne |
| Catholic studies; American Catholicism; race and gender issues in Catholicism. |
| Robin Charlow (Law School) |
| Religion and law |
| L. Stephanie Cobb |
| New Testament/early Christianity; gender and sex in antiquity; women in early Christianity; the historical Jesus |
| Warren Frisina |
| American philosophy; religious studies; Chinese traditions |
| Balbinder Bhogal |
| Sikh and South Asian studies; theory of religion; philosophy of dialogue. |
| Phyllis Zagano |
| Catholic studies; women deacons; Catholic theology. |
| Seniors |
| Richard Himelfarb (Political Science) |
| Social Security; elderly and poverty policy |
| Elaine Sherman (Business) |
| The elderly consumer |
| Sexual Offenses |
| J. Herbie DiFonzo; (Law School) |
| Statutes of limitations; forensics; unreliability of DNA evidence |
| Joanna Grossman (Law School) |
| Sexual harassment; sex discrimination |
| Speech-Language-Hearing |
| Levi Reiter |
| Audiology, "Kiss of Deaf" condition |
| Denise Ruscio |
| Speech Therapy, Toddler Language Delays |
| Space Travel |
| Stephen Lawrence |
| Astronomy, Space Travel |
| Stem Cell Research |
| Janet Dolgin, (Law School) |
| Stem cell research and health care law |
| Sina Rabany (Engineering) |
| Stem cells, science, ethics and politics; bioengineering |
| Steroids/ Performance Enhancement in Sports |
| Carol Alberts (Physical Education & Sport Sciences) Ethics in sports |
| Steve Frierman (Physical Education & Sport Sciences) |
| Sport and exercise psychology; performance enhancement; coaching; exercise motivation; adherence; dropout; parental roles |
| Suburbia/Long Island |
| Mary Ann Allison (Journalism, Mass, and Public Relations) |
| New media and its affects on society; corporate media and communications |
| Lawrence Levy (Executive Director; Center for Suburban Studies) |
| Suburbia; development; politics; local government |
| Christopher Niedt |
| Suburbia |
| Geri Solomon (Long Island Studies Institute) |
| Long Island history |
| Terrorism |
| Tadeusz Krauze (Sociology) |
| Terrorism |
| Transportation |
| Jean-Paul Rodrigue |
| Transportation and energy prices, freight distribution, public transit, alternative fuels |
| Urban Issues |
| Gail Satler (Sociology) |
| Culture of dining out; urban architecture; manners/politeness |
| Virtual Reality |
| Joseph Scardapane (Psychology) |
| Virtual reality technologies |
| Mitchell Schare (Psychology) |
| Virtual reality to treat fear of flying |
| Women's Studies |
| Margaret Abraham (Sociology) |
| Women's studies; violence against women; marital violence |
| Cynthia Bogard (Sociology) |
| Gender issues |
| Linda Longmire (New College) |
| Women's studies; women in politics |
| Hofstra's experts are available for interviews. To contact the experts profiled here, please call Hofstra University's Public Relations office at (516) 463-6818. |