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Julius A Amin
Julius A Amin
Professor; Alumni Chair in Humanities

Areas of expertise: African and African American History, African politics. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Vijayan K. Asari
Vijayan K. Asari
Professor; Ohio Research Scholars Endowed Chair in Wide Area Surveillance; Director, Vision Lab

Areas of expertise: image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning and high-performance digital system architecture design. Asari has published or written with graduate students and colleagues more than 590 research articles, including 96 peer-reviewed journal papersClick here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer
Professor

Areas of expertise: how people construct meaning in their lives and foster personal growth, personality, human development. His book, The Transformative Self: Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life (2021, Oxford University Press), explains how people create a meaningful self-identity in their life stories that helps cultivate personal growth in the directions of happiness, love and wisdom for the self and othersClick here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Paul J Becker
Paul J Becker
Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: hate crimes, white supremacy, anti-government movements, political extremism, domestic terrorism, exotic animals in the United States (zoos, sanctuaries, private ownership), and activism with an emphasis on protests. Becker attended and photographed more than 100 protests in 2020 as part of his research (See his photos here). Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Janet Bednarek
Janet Bednarek
Professor

Areas of expertise: history of American aviation, especially U.S. airports; American urban history, history of American city planning, contemporary American history. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Kimberly  Bigelow
Kimberly Bigelow
Professor; Director Mechanical Engineering Graduate Programs; Joint Appointment with Bioengineering Graduate Program; Director Engineering Wellness through Biomechanics Lab

Areas of expertise: human posture and gait, fall prevention in elderly adults and design of assistive devices. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Bob Brecha
Bob Brecha
Director of Sustainability Program; Hanley Sustainability Institute, Joint Appointments in Department of Physics and School of Engineering, Renewable and Clean Energy Program

Areas of expertise: sustainability, energy and the environment. From 2006 to 2017 he was a regular visiting scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Since 2018 he has been affiliated with Climate Analytics, including a two-year European Union Marie Curie Fellowship to research sustainable energy access and system transformation in least-developed countries and small island developing states. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Tony Caporale
Tony Caporale
Professor of Economics

Areas of expertise: business and economic forecasting. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him..

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Jun-Ki Choi
Jun-Ki Choi
Associate Professor; Director, Industrial Assessment Center (UD-IAC)

Areas of expertise: sustainable manufacturing process, energy efficiency, design for environment, life cycle assessment, end-of-life management, sustainable energy infrastructure design, energy/environmental policy design. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Jeannette Cox
Jeannette Cox
Professor of Law

Areas of expertise: disability and employment discrimination, statutory interpretation and civil procedure. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Jennifer L. Dalton, DCN, RDN, LD
Jennifer L. Dalton, DCN, RDN, LD
Associate Clinical Professor; Director, Dietetics and Nutrition Programs

Dalton's expertise is in nutrition, culinary medicine and weight management. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Riley Dugan
Riley Dugan
Associate Professor & Chairperson, Department of Management and Marketing

Areas of expertise: marketing, social influence, retail trends, sales education, sales negotiations. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Jason C Eckert
Jason C Eckert
Executive Director of Career Services

Areas of expertise: job trends and the job outlook. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Mark Ensalaco
Mark Ensalaco
Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. Ensalaco is fluent in Spanish.

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Erica Goldberg
Erica Goldberg
Professor of Law

Areas of expertise: conflicts at the intersection of constitutional liberties and social harms, especially those that touch on First Amendment doctrine; 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Michael F. Gorman
Michael F. Gorman
Niehaus Chair in Business Analytics and Operations Management

Areas of expertise: business operations, including supply chains; and railways, including derailments. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Scott E. Hall, Ph.D., LPCC-S
Scott E. Hall, Ph.D., LPCC-S
Program Coordinator & Professor, Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Hall is an 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Miranda Hallett
Miranda Hallett
Associate Professor, Director of Human Rights Studies Program

Areas of expertise: migration in the Americas; myths and facts about immigrants in the U.S., particularly undocumented immigrants from Central and Latin America; violence in Central America that fosters an increase in asylum seekers, how U.S. policies towards El Salvador affect 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 discourse by politicians in electoral campaigns; forms of immigration status and the history of laws covering immigrants, temporary workers, refugees and asylum seekers; and the history of the "sanctuary movement." Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her. She is fluent in Spanish.

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Kevin P. Hallinan
Kevin P. Hallinan
Professor

Areas of expertise: energy efficiency and savings, sustainability, energy audits, renewable energy, energy data analytics. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Umesh Haritashya
Umesh Haritashya
Professor; Director of Graduate Program in Geology; Mann Chair in the Sciences

Areas of expertise: climate change impact on glaciers in Himalaya and broader High Mountain Asia, New Zealand, Alaska and Andes; modeling of snow and glacier melt runoff; and natural hazards, including landslides floods and debris flows. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Professor of Law

Areas of expertise: 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 blogs Juries and Law and Social Media, and serves as an acting magistrate judge in Dayton Municipal Court and a judge advocate general in the National Guard. He has also been a jury consultant on several high-profile cases including U.S. v. Barry Bonds. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Natalie F. Hudson
Natalie F. Hudson
Research Professor of Law; Executive Director of the Human Rights Center

Areas of expertise: 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 have 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Jefferson Ingram
Jefferson Ingram
Professor

Areas of expertise: criminal procedure, the death penalty, civil liberties and criminal law. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Mark A. Jacobs
Mark A. Jacobs
Professor & Chairperson, Department of MIS, OSC and Business Analytics

Areas of expertise: supply chain management, interface between operations management and product development, principles of procurement. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. Please email the Office of News and Communications at mediarelations@udayton.edu to contact him.

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Arthur J Jipson
Arthur J Jipson
Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: laws regarding roadside memorials, Internet use (especially social media), white separatism and supremacy, social movements, and corporate and white-collar crime. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Christian Kiewitz
Christian Kiewitz
Professor, NCR Faculty Fellow

Areas of expertise: anger, aggression and emotions in the workplace; work stress, and organizational politics and justice. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Ben McCall
Ben McCall
Professor of Sustainability and Chemistry

Areas of expertise: sustainability, energy and the environment. McCall is among five authors of an essay to in the journal Energy Research & Social Science that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth's finite limits. The essay - "Modernity is Incompatible with Planetary Limits: Developing a PLAN for the Future" - also announces the establishment of a network of scholars and researchers to promote the understanding of planetary limits, envision scenarios for humanity to thrive within planetary limits, better educate college students about these challenges, and advise government officials and communities in developing effective responses. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Leslie H. Picca
Leslie H. Picca
Professor; Roesch Chair in the Social Sciences

Areas of expertise: race and ethnicities, white privilege, sociology of sexualities. She is an author of Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Zachary Piso
Zachary Piso
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Director of Facilitating Impactful Research at Hanley Sustainability Institute; Director of Rivers Institute

Areas of expertise: the roles values and ethics play in environmental science, policy and management; processes to facilitate public participation in research and decision-making that address our pressing sustainability challenges; ethical questions arising in food systems research, including an ongoing study of ecological citizenship and environmental governance in Rust Belt urban agriculture.

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Joel Pruce
Joel Pruce
Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: human rights and civil liberties, foreign policy and global politics, and social movements. He is the author of The Mass Appeal of Human Rights. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Tracy Reilly
Tracy Reilly
NCR Professor of Law and Technology

Areas of expertise: real property and intellectual property. 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Christopher Roederer
Christopher Roederer
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Law

Area's of expertise: Constitutional law and comparative law with a focus on the intersection between constitutional law, democracy, and private law, be it torts, contracts, property, or the law of remedies. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Johann Roten, S.M.
Johann Roten, S.M.
Scholar in Residence

Areas of expertise: 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. To contact Fr. Roten, email mediarelations@udayton.edu.

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Charles J. Russo, J.D., Ed.D.
Charles J. Russo, J.D., Ed.D.
Director, Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership; Research Professor of Law

Areas of expertise: legal issues in education. Russo has been an author or co-author of more than 325 articles in peer-reviewed journals; an author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 73 books; and has more than 1,100 publications focusing on issues in education law. He is widely sought as a guest speaker on related topics and has delivered talks in 29 countries on six continents. He also edits two journals and serves on more than a dozen editorial boards. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Wm. David Salisbury
Wm. David Salisbury
Sherman-Standard Register Professor of Cybersecurity Management

Areas of expertise: cybersecurity and criminal and terrorist use of information technology. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Juan Santamarina
Juan Santamarina
Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: Cuba, Latin America, Caribbean. Santamarina. 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). Fluent in Spanish. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Jeff Schmitt
Jeff Schmitt
Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs; Professor of Law

Areas of expertise: issues of state power within our federal system; the extraterritoriality principle, which prohibits states from regulation conduct beyond their borders; constitutional limitations on a state's choice of law and personal jurisdiction; criminal and civil procedure, and contracts. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Lori Shaw Robol
Lori Shaw Robol
Professor of Lawyering Skills

Areas of expertise: death penalty, grand juries and criminal law. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Richard Stock
Richard Stock
Director, Business Research Group

Areas of expertise: economic analysis, program evaluation and market research; especially for the regional economy as it relates to jobs, education, health and housing. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Yvonne Sun
Yvonne Sun
Associate Professor

Areas of expertise: 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Tony Talbott
Tony Talbott
Adjunct; Director, Abolition Ohio; Director of Advocacy, Human Rights Center

Areas of expertise: human trafficking, human rights, global security, nationalism and identity politics, politics of rural and marginalized people, and social movements. Talbott served as a member of the Ohio Attorney General's Human Trafficking Commission and is a credentialed Not For Sale Campaign citizen investigator of human trafficking. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Sabra Tomb, Esq.
Sabra Tomb, Esq.
Director of Training Programs and Strategic Business Development

Areas of expertise: government contracting, technology transfer and commercialization of federal technologies; U.S. Department of Defense technology transfer, commercialization and intellectual property processes; and government ethics including gifts from non-federal entities and conflicts of interest. She oversees the University of Dayton School of Law's government contracting and procurement master's degree and certificate program.

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Susan Trollinger
Susan Trollinger
Professor

Areas of expertise: visual rhetoric, religious rhetoric, the rhetoric of tourism and the rhetoric of fundamentalism and the Amish. Trollinger is the author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia. She also wrote Righting America at the Creation Museum with husband, Bill, who is a University of Dayton history professor. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Bill Trollinger
Bill Trollinger
Professor; Director of Core Integrated Studies Program

Areas of expertise: American evangelicalism and fundamentalism, creationism, the religious "nones," and the Ku Klux Klan. He wrote Righting America at the Creation Museum: Young Earth Creationism and the Culture Wars with his wife, Susan, who is a University of Dayton English professor. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Jia Wang
Jia Wang
Assistant Professor of Economics

Areas of expertise: public economics, urban economics, labor economics, economic impacts of economic development incentives. She's been featured on The Academic Minute to "Does incentive spending really take from the rich and give to the poor?" Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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Blake Watson
Blake Watson
Professor of Law; Samuel A. McCray Chair

Areas of expertise: 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Robert  J. Wilkens
Robert J. Wilkens
Professor

Areas of expertise: gas prices. Wilkens, who once worked for Shell Oil, taught an introduction to petroleum engineering graduate course. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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Shuang-ye Wu
Shuang-ye Wu
Professor; Chair of the Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Areas of expertise: impacts of climate change, particularly on coastal and inland flooding; and extreme precipitation and flooding hazards. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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