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For University of Dayton Research Institute experts, contact Pamela Gregg at 937-229-3268 or pgregg1@udayton.edu.
Aaron Altman
Professor; Director, Graduate Aerospace Program
Altman's areas of expertise include unsteady low-speed aerodynamics, unconventional and morphing air vehicle configuration, design, performance and aerodynamics; aerodynamics; and identification of aircraft from their turbulent wakes. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: USA Today, The Columbus Dispatch, UPI, Wired.com, New York Post, Industry Week, KNX-AM (Los Angeles).
Julius A Amin
Professor
Amin's area of expertise is African-American history. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Local media, The (Toledo) Blade.
Vijayan K. Asari
Professor; Ohio Research Scholars Chair Wide Area Surveillance; Director, Vision Lab
Asari's areas of expertise include image processing, computer vision, facial recognition software and wide-area surveillance. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Dayton-area media.
Jack Bauer
Professor
Bauer's research examines how people construct meaning in their lives and foster personal growth. He uses philosophy, sociology, neuroscience and world religions to study "What is a good life, and how do we foster it?" He teaches courses in personality and human development. Bauer is an associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Personality, and is the co-editor of the book Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego (2008). The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Chicago Tribune, Dayton-area media.
Paul J Becker
Associate Professor
Becker's expertise includes hate crimes, white supremacy, anti-government movements, political extremism, domestic terrorism, animals and society (including exotic animals), corporate deviance, sociology of the Internet, hate crimes, extremism, corporate crime, environmental crime, exploitation of children, crime in film and on television and exotic animals. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Spin magazine, Dayton Daily News.
Janet Bednarek
Professor
Bednarek's expertise includes aviation history, especially U.S. airports. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: Several outlets nationwide during the 100th anniversary of flight in addition to recent appearances in the Dallas Morning News, MSNBC.com, The Associated Press, The Cincinnati Enquirer, ABC News.com, Newsday, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, Voice of America, The Washington Post, The Toronto Star, The Christian Science Monitor, The Record (Bergen County, N.J), Investor's Business Daily, The Gazette (Montreal).
Kimberly Bigelow
Associate Professor; Joint Appointment with Bioengineering Graduate Program; Director of Engineering Wellness through Biomechanics Lab
Bigelow's expertise includes human posture and gait, fall prevention in elderly adults and design of assistive devices. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: Dayton-area media.
Bob Brecha
Professor; Research Director for the Hanley Sustainability Institute; School of Engineering, Renewable and Clean Energy Graduate Program
Brecha's expertise is in sustainability, energy and the environment. Since 2006, he has spent summers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research in Germany with economists and scientists investigating a more sustainable world energy system that avoids serious economic consequences while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Climate Change magazine, Dayton-area media.
Susan W. Brenner
Samuel A. McCray Chair in Law
Brenner's areas of expertise include criminal law, criminal procedure, federal grand juries and cybercrimes (primary focus is on cyberwar and transnational cyberattacks). She has spoken at numerous conferences, including Interpol's International Conference on Cybercrimes, the American Bar Association's National Cybercrime Conference, the Asia-Pacific Fraud Convention and the National Association of Attorneys General's cybercrime training program. "NBC Nightly News" featured her internationally known website, http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/. Also an expert in grand juries, she has published numerous law review articles and book chapters dealing with criminal law, and two books - Federal Grand Jury Practice and Precedent Inflation. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: NPR, Houston Chronicle, USA Today, The Associated Press, Daily Southtown (Chicago), South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, Reforma (Mexico City).
Keri Brown Kirschman
Associate Professor
Kirschman's expertise includes pediatric injury prevention and health promotion, including toy recalls; psychosocial aspects of burn injury, and positive psychology and child development. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: MSNBC, The Associated Press, Consumer Reports, CBS Early Morning Show, Dayton Daily News.
Tony Caporale
Professor & Chairperson, Department of Economics & Finance
Caporale's expertise is in business and economic forecasting. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Dayton-area media.
Jun-Ki Choi
Assistant Professor; Assistant Director, Industrial Assessment Center (UD-IAC)
Choi's areas of expertise include energy efficient manufacturing and design. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Columbus Business First.
Jeannette Cox
Professor of Law
Cox's areas of expertise include disability and employment discrimination, statutory interpretation and civil procedure. Her recent work analyzes the conceptual relationship between the newly amended Americans with Disabilities Act and traditional civil rights laws. The North Carolina Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, San Diego Law Review, Florida Law Review and Boston College Law Review have published her work. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: The Takeaway, a national public radio morning show co-produced by WNYC with The New York Times, the BBC, and Public Radio International; Toronto Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, CNN.com WGN-AM (Chicago), the syndicated show "The Doctors," CBS Marketwatch.
Diana Cuy Castellanos, Ph.D., R.D.
Assistant Professor
Cuy Castellanos' areas of expertise include nutrition for exercise and sport, nutrition and health, community nutrition. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: Food and Wine, Women's Health and Men's Health.
Jennifer L. Dalton
Director of Didactic Program in Dietetics
Dalton's expertise is in nutrition and weight management. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: WVXU-FM, ABC22/Fox45 TV and Dayton Daily News.
David Darrow
Associate Professor
Darrow's expertise is in Russian history. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: local media
Irene Dickey
Lecturer
Dickey is an expert in retail marketing and advertising, especially Internet marketing. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: The Columbus Dispatch, Entrepreneur, Dayton-area media.
James Geoffrey Durham
Professor of Law
Durham's areas of expertise include eminent domain, real estate and legal ethics. He wrote a three-volume treatise on Ohio real property law written for use by practitioners and as a casebook for use in advanced real estate transactions classes. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: The Associated Press, Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, WLW-AM (Cincinnati). Ohio News Network.
Jason C Eckert
Director of Career Services
Eckert can discuss job trends and the job outlook. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: WalletHub, Catholic News Service, Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dayton-area media.
Mark Ensalaco
Associate Professor; Director of Human Rights Research
Ensalaco's expertise is in terrorism, political violence, human rights, dictators, human trafficking, immigration and Latin America. He is the author of the book Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11 and several journal articles on human rights. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: CBS Radio News, CNN en Espanol, CNN International, Fox News Channel, BBC, Reuters, The New York Times, Voice of America and several on-camera appearances in Dayton. Ensalaco is fluent in Spanish.
James Farrelly
Professor
Farrelly's areas of expertise are pop culture, film and business communication. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: CBS Radio, Parade, CNN.com, The Associated Press, Forbes, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Sacramento Bee, The Arizona Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, Voice of America.
Harry Gerla
Professor Emeritus
Contact
Gerla's areas of expertise include corporations, anti-trust laws and consumer cases. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: CBS Marketwatch.com, CBS Sportsline.com, Orlando Sentinel, The Columbus Dispatch, San Francisco Daily Journal.
Erica Goldberg
Assistant Professor of Law
Goldberg specializes in conflicts at the intersection of constitutional liberties and social harms, especially those that touch upon First Amendment doctrine. She teaches privacy law, tort law (civil proceedings to provide relief for persons who have suffered harm from the wrongful acts of others), the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable searches and seizures), and Fifth and Sixth Amendments (rights related to criminal and civil legal proceedings). She blogs at In a Crowded Theater. Links to her blog posts have appeared in media, including The Washington Post and CNN.com.
Michael F. Gorman
Professor
Gorman's areas of expertise include business operations and railways. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Wired, NPR, McClatchy News Service, The Columbus Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor.
Thomas Hagel
Professor Emeritus
Contact
Email: Thomas Hagel
Hagel's areas of expertise include criminal procedure, criminal law and evidence. Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland appointed him to the Ohio Judicial Appointment Recommendation Panel (his second appointment) to interview and select applicants to fill the judgeship in the Montgomery Court of Common Pleas. He also serves as an acting local judge. Hagel has represented criminal clients in more than 200 bench trials, motion hearings and post-trial proceedings in state and federal courts. He was also the lead trial attorney in approximately 20 homicide cases. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: CBS Radio News, The Associated Press, New York Post, National Law Journal, The Columbus Dispatch and WCPN-FM (Cleveland).
Scott E. Hall, Ph.D.
Professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Hall is co-author of Managing the Psychological Impact of Medical Trauma: A Guide for Mental Health and Health Care Professionals. He is also a partner at Hawthorne Integrative, LLC, a health care consulting and clinical counseling firm, where he counsels adults with depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD and divorce-related concerns. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: NBC News, Health Professional Radio and the Dayton Daily News.
Miranda Hallett
Assistant Professor
Contact
Phone: 937-229-2430
Hallett’s research deals with immigration, including myths and facts about immigrants, particularly undocumented immigrants from Latin America, and their impact on the economy, the tax base and crime rates; violence in Central America that fosters an increase in asylum seekers and how current patterns of U.S. military intervention in Latin America affects migration patterns; Central American youth gangs, particularly MS-13, and policies to control their activities and movement in El Salvador and in the U.S.; anti-immigrant rhetoric and stereotypes by politicians in electoral campaigns; the legal differences of forms of immigration status and the history of laws covering immigrants, temporary workers, refugees and asylum seekers; and the history of the "sanctuary movement." The following media outlets have quoted her: Houston Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Dayton Daily News.
Kevin P. Hallinan
Professor
Hallinan's expertise is in energy savings, sustainability and energy audits. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: The Associated Press, Ohio News Network, local media.
Charles Hallinan
Professor of Law
Hallinan's areas of expertise include Ohio law, contracts, legislation and commercial transactions. He has chaired the evidence rules subcommittee of the Ohio Rules Advisory Committee, which sends proposals for the next year's rule-making to the Ohio Supreme Court. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Cincinnati Enquirer, The Associated Press, Dayton Daily News, Akron Beacon Journal.
Umesh Haritashya
Associate Professor
Haritashya leads a group reviewing satellite photos of the Nepalese peak section of Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, for secondary and tertiary hazards from earthquakes like landslides and river blockages. This effort is part of the 50-member international volunteer group formed after the Gorkha quake in Nepal under the umbrella of the NASA international Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project led by Jeff Kargel from the University of Arizona. He also has expertise in climate change impact on Himalayan glaciers, modeling of snow and glacier melt runoff, and natural hazards, including landslides and floods. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: local TV.
John Heitmann
Professor
Heitmann's areas of expertise include the auto industry and auto history. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: BBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, The Associated Press.
Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Professor of Law
Hoffmeister's areas of expertise include jury behavior, how social media can affect a jury, how pop culture is affecting the jury pool, criminal law, criminal procedure and international law, including war tribunals. He edits and produces the blog at http://juries.typepad.com/. The judge in the Barry Bonds case used his proposed jury instructions as a guideline. As major in the U.S. Army reserves, he served as a JAG officer. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Chicago Tribune, WLW-AM (Cincinnati), The Baltimore Sun, ABA Journal, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Reuters and many more.
Natalie F. Hudson
Associate Professor; Director of Human Rights Studies Program
Hudson's areas of expertise include gender and international relations, the politics of human rights, human security, and international law and organization. Her book, Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) examines the organizational dynamics of women's activism in the United Nations system and how women have come to embrace and been impacted by the security discourse in their work for rights and equality. Her current research centers on the deployment and impact of female military and police personnel in UN peacekeeping missions. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: Dayton Daily News.
Jefferson Ingram
Professor
Ingram's areas of expertise include criminal procedure, the death penalty, civil liberties and criminal law. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: WLW-AM (Cincinnati), Dayton-area media.
Mark A. Jacobs
Associate Professor
Jacobs' areas of expertise include supply chain management, operational effectiveness, product and portfolio complexity, and closely held firms, which Jacobs worked in or managed for 20 years. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Bloomberg Businessweek, Dayton Daily News. For print media only. Please call the Office of Media Relations.
Arthur J Jipson
Associate Professor
Jipson's areas of expertise include laws regarding roadside memorials. He also directs the criminal justice studies program and has taught courses on Internet use (especially social media), white separatism and supremacy, social movements, corporate and white-collar crime, sociological theory, labor movements (especially the Teamsters) and the sociology of popular music. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: WLW-AM (Cincinnati), Dallas Morning News, The Associated Press, Arizona Republic, USA Today, CBS Radio News, NBC.com Technolog.
Christian Kiewitz
Professor
Kiewitz's areas of expertise are anger, aggression and emotions in the workplace, work stress, and organizational politics and justice. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: USA Today, Dayton-area media.
J. Kelly Kissock
Chairperson and Professor
Kissock's areas of expertise include building energy systems and efficiency, energy data analysis, industrial energy systems and efficiency, and renewable energy systems. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: The New York Times Upfront Magazine, The Columbus Dispatch, The Associated Press, The Canadian Press, Mechanical Engineering magazine, Green Living Guy blog.
Allen J McGrew
Associate Professor
McGrew's expertise is in earthquakes. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: WLW-AM (Cincinnati), The Christian Science Monitor, Dayton-area media.
Leslie H. Picca
Professor; Chair of Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Picca's areas of expertise are race and ethnicities, white privilege, sociology of sexualities. She is a co-author of Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: The Associated Press, Inside Higher Ed, CNN, WLW-AM (Cincinnati), Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News.
Joel Pruce
Assistant Professor
Pruce's expertise is in human rights and civil liberties, foreign policy and global politics, and social movements. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: local media.
Tracy Reilly
NCR Professor of Law and Technology and Director of the Program in Law and Technology
Reilly teaches real property and intellectual property courses in the Program of Law & Technology. Before joining the faculty in 2006, she was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, where she worked in the areas of intellectual property, entertainment, advertising, e-commerce and corporate law. Prior to that she worked as in-house counsel for an independent record label, where she specialized in foreign licensing transactions, and at a boutique entertainment law firm in Chicago. Her clients have included Kraft, Sara Lee, Kellogg, Honeywell, Madison Dearborn Partners, United Airlines, the Chicago Sun-Times, Rand McNally and the estates of gospel star Mahalia Jackson and Charles Stepney, producer for Earth, Wind & Fire.
Fr. Johann Roten
Director of Research and Special Projects
Father Roten's expertise includes how faith and the Catholic Church intersect in different cultures, especially how cultures see the birth of Christ and express their perspectives in Nativities. He frequently also serves as a resource on canonization and apparitions. A former student of Pope Benedict XVI, Roten served on a Vatican-appointed commission about Mary in the 1990s. Swiss by birth, Roten speaks English, French, German, Swiss-German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Latin and Greek. He ministers in Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian in the ethnic churches of Dayton. Interviewed by: PBS, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, The Cincinnati Enquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, Denver Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Baltimore Sun, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, among others.
Charles J. Russo, J.D., Ed.D.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership; Research Professor of Law
Russo specializes in legal issues in education and holds a doctorate in education and a law degree. He is widely sought as a guest speaker on related topics and has delivered talks in 29 countries on six continents. Russo has written or helped write more than 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals and written or edited all or parts of 62 books. He also edits two journals and serves on more than a dozen editorial boards. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Education Law Reporter, School Business Affairs, The Huffington Post, School Business Affairs, Christian Science Monitor, and Education Week, among others.
Wm. David Salisbury
Sherman-Standard Register Professor of Cybersecurity Management
Salisbury's areas of expertise include cybersecurity and criminal and terrorist use of information technology. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, MSN Money, Govinfosecurity.com, Infosecurity.com and Bankinfosecurity.com.
Juan Santamarina
Associate Professor; Chair of Department of History
Fluent Spanish. Juan has been traveling to Cuba and studying and writing about the history of the island for nearly two decades. He has published broadly on the topic of Cuban history and also has been a writer for three documentary films on Cuba, including Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion (2006). The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: International Business Times.
Richard Saphire
Professor Emeritus
Contact
Saphire's areas of expertise are Constitutional law, Patriot Act, federal courts and elections law. Serves as a member of the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Associated Press, USA Today, Newsday, The Boston Globe, ABC News.com, National Law Journal, The Oregonian, The Star-Ledger, Ecumenical News International, The Columbus Dispatch, The Christian Science Monitor.
Lori Shaw
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Lawyering Skills
Shaw's specialties include the death penalty, grand juries and criminal law. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: The Associated Press, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Salon.com, XM Radio's Catholic Channel, National Jurist, Ohio News Network, WLW-AM (Cincinnati), WCPO-TV (Cincinnati), Dayton-area media.
Randy Sparks
Professor & Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
Sparks' areas of expertise are marketing, advertising, market analysis and buyer behavior. He's a guest to discuss Super Bowl commercials. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Washington Times, CTV Newsnet, New Scientist, WLW-AM, Dayton-area media.
Richard Stock
Director, Business Research Group
Stock, director of the University of Dayton's Business Research Group, has 29 years of experience in economic analysis, program evaluation and market research. In his current role, he forecasts the regional economy and conducts program evaluations in the region in education, health and housing. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: USA Today, Newsweek, The Associated Press, Knight Ridder/Tribune Business Wire, Akron Beacon-Journal, WLW-AM (Cincinnati), POLITICO, ABC News, Cincinnati Enquirer, The Columbus Dispatch, The New York Times, BBC Newsnight.
Yvonne Sun
Assistant Professor
Sun's research examines how listeria, a bacterium that can contaminate food and cause potentially fatal infections, senses and responds to changes in oxygen and acids in its host environment, and how those conditions affect its ability to cause disease in people.
Tony Talbott
Lecturer; Director of Abolition Ohio; Interim Executive Director of Human Rights Center
Talbott's expertise is in human trafficking, southeast Asia, North Korea and China, human rights, global security, nationalism and identity politics, politics of rural and marginalized people, and social movements. He is the faculty advisor to the New Abolitionist Movement Student Organization and chair of Abolition Ohio. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: The Associated Press, CNN International, Our Sunday Visitor, WVXU-FM, The Columbus Dispatch, Dayton-area media.
Susan Trollinger
Professor
Trollinger is the author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: The Observer (UK), Inside Higher Ed and the nationally syndicated WAMC-FM Academic Minute.
Blake Watson
Professor of Law
Watson can discuss Indian gaming law, oil and gas law, natural resources law, hydraulic fracturing law and property law. Before coming to the School of Law, Watson worked for the Department of Justice where he represented the United States before federal courts of appeal and state supreme courts in cases relating to environmental, natural resources, wildlife, and Indian law. He also assisted on a few cases that went to the Supreme Court. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: Several Ohio media regarding Indian casinos and Indian fishing rights in Ohio, The Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Ohio News Network, WLW-AM (Cincinnati), Philadelphia Inquirer, GamblingMagazine.com.
Robert J. Wilkens
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation; Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Wilkens, who once worked for Shell Oil, is an expert in gas prices. He also teaches the graduate course Introduction to Petroleum Engineering. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted him: local media.
Shuang-ye Wu
Associate Professor
Wu studies potential impacts of climate change, particularly on coastal and inland flooding. She is an author of Potential Impacts of Sea-level Rise on the Mid- and Upper-Atlantic Region of the United States in the journal Climatic Change and Vulnerability of coastal communities to sea-level rise, a case study of Cape May County, New Jersey in Climate Research. The following media outlets have interviewed or quoted her: Ohio News Network, WVXU-FM (Cincinnati), local media.