Faculty Experts
Suffolk University faculty are available for commentary and analysis.
Suffolk University faculty and administrators have agreed to make themselves available for interviews, comments, on-air discussions, and opinion/editorial views. The following list of faculty includes areas of expertise in general categories.
Specific topics may be found through a browser page search.
For additional information, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 617-573-8447.
Arts, Culture & Society
Amy Agigian, Sociology
- Health
- Gender
- Women's issues
- Human rights
- Reproductive rights
- Gun issues
- Violence
- Political issues from the perspectives of gender, health, human rights
Elif Armbruster, English
- American Literature pre-1920: American Realism (1870-1920)
- Authors Edith Wharton, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Willa Cather
- Higher education
- Women and Gender Studies and Social Media: #metoo movement, "Nasty Women," #pinkpussyhat, LGBTQ issues, sexual harassment and assault, female empowerment, feminism
- Women, and Self-Image: addiction, anxiety, depression, opioids
- American West: Pioneering, ecology, environmental studies, frontier mentality, pioneer girls, Native Americans,
- Black Lives Matter, minorities, immigration
- US culture
- American Studies broadly
- Boston art and architecture: houses, museums, summer colonies, summer houses, winter houses.
Linda Leslie Brown, Art & Design
- STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics)
- Art and Design
Gary Fireman, Psychology (Professor & Associate Provost)
- Sleep quality, dreams, and nightmares
- Bullying
Rev. Amy Fisher, Religious Studies/Philosophy, University Chaplain
- World Religions: Politics, role of women, interfaith dialogue
Erika Gebo, Sociology
- Juvenile justice
- Criminal justice
- Youth gangs
- Crime prevention
- Justice in communities, youth justice
- Violence in communities
Amy Marks, Psychology
- At-risk youth
- Culture and immigration
- Identity
- Developmental psychology (social & emotional)
Thomas McGrath, World Languages & Cultural Studies
- History of art, particularly the art of Renaissance and Baroque Italy
- Specialization in drawings
D. Quentin Miller, English
- American literature
- Contemporary literature
- African American literature
- Fiction
- Law and literature.
- The authors James Baldwin, John Updike, John Edgar Wideman, Toni Morrison, T.C. Boyle, Joanna Scott, Don Delillo, Jack Kerouac
Steve Novick, Art & Design
- Visual arts and related issues
James Ptacek, Sociology
- Violence against women
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual harassment
- Abusive men
- Gender inequality
- Masculinity
Monika Raesch, Communication & Journalism
- Film studies
- Film adaptation
- Film industry
- World cinema (different film industries, film history)
- German reunification
Bob Rosenthal, Advertising, Public Relations, & Social Media
- Politics, political communication
- Public affairs
Susan Sered, Sociology
- Women and crime
- Drugs and society
- Illness and healing
- Religion and society
- Women's health
- Health care policy
Rebecca Stone, Sociology
- Substance use during pregnancy
- Opioid epidemic
- Maternal drug use and fetal drug exposure
- Women and crime
- Women as victim-offenders
- Women and substance use
- Women's experiences on probation/parole/reentry/recidivism
- Public health and criminal justice
- Health of criminal justice populations
- Unmet health needs in prisons and jails
- Barriers to health care for justice-involved people
- Poor health’s impact on reentry after incarceration
David Yamada, Law
- Workplace bullying, mobbing, and abuse
- Sexual harassment and the Me Too campaign
- Unpaid internships
- Therapeutic jurisprudence
Business
James Angelini, Accounting
- Taxation and tax policy - federal and state
- New or proposed tax laws.
Bari L. Bendell, Management & Entrepreneurship
- Sustainability
- Natural environment
- Climate change from a business perspective
- Entrepreneurship
- Dry cleaning industry
- Women on boards of directors
- Corporate social responsibility
Pelin Bicen, Marketing
- Innovation management
- Marketing strategy
- High-tech marketing
- Startups and new ventures
- Disruptive technologies (robotics, machine learning/AI/deep learning, internet of things)
- Public policy debate around disruptive technologies
Nancy Chun Feng, Accounting
- Nonprofit accounting and auditing
- Nonprofit governance
- Nonprofit accountability
- Nonprofit accreditation
- Nonprofit financial disclosure
- Nonprofit financial reporting
- Governmental accounting and auditing
- Governmental financial reporting
- Accounting research
- Accounting regulations
- Public charities
- Internal control
- Single audits
- Corporate social responsibility
Katrina Graham, Management & Entrepreneurship
- Workplace
- Organizations
- Ethics
- Leadership
- Power
Jonathan Haughton, Economics
- Economics generally
- City, state economic issues
- Taxation
- Budgeting
- Economic development
- U.S. economy
- Tax reform
- Public policy related to the economy
- Growth, employment, and inflation
- Energy issues
- International (Has visited 60+ countries. Recent focus on Ireland, Thailand, Vietnam, Rwanda)
- Poverty and inequality
- Sustainable development goals
- Micro-credit
- Entrepreneurship
Kuo-Ting (Ken) Hung, Information Systems and Operations Management
- Global supply chain
- Supply chain strategy
- Supply chain disruption
- Supply chain relationship management
- Business analytics
- Behavioral operations management
- Decision-making process
Nesij Huvaj, Management and Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Angel investing
- Venture capital
- Business planning
- Funding pitches
- Technology entrepreneurship
- EdTech
- FinTech
- Entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Startups
- Incubators
- Accelerators
- Coaching/mentoring (for students, entrepreneurs, and executives)
- Strategic management (particularly in entrepreneurial contexts)
Ariel Markelevich, Accounting
- Financial accounting
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Audit quality
- Accounting reporting quality
- Corporate reporting
- Standardized data
- Data analytics
Peter Martelli, Healthcare Administration
- High reliability organizations (HRO) across sectors, especially in health care
- Avoiding organizational errors and promoting quality/safety
- Intersection of theory and practice
- Organizational evidence and the application of knowledge in sociotechnical systems
- Knowledge and evidence
- Translation of research into practice and policy
- Organizational barriers/facilitators to evidence-based management
- Implementation science, knowledge translation, and applied epistemology
- Role of expertise, professionalism, and social networks
- Behavioral approaches to managing risk
- High reliability organizing, resilience engineering, and other systems risk models
- Learning, safety culture, and relational coordination
- Systems theory, complexity and cybernetics
- Simulation training and research
- Reconciling theory and practice implications across models
Michaele Morrow, Accounting
- Corporate and individual tax policy
- Behavior of multinational corporations that stash earnings offshore
- Effects of lowering the corporate tax rate vs expanding the domestic manufacturing deduction
- Effects of tax credits, e.g., on purchasing energy-efficient products and health insurance
- Tax code impacts: marriage, death, etc.
- National tax instructor for PwC and for KPMG--topics: individual, corporate, partnership, international, and state and local tax.
- Tax prep center
- Foreign student/international tax returns
Suzyn Ornstein, Management & Entrepreneurship
- Sustainability
- Climate change
Peter Rivard, Healthcare Administration
- Healthcare management
- Patient safety
- Leadership
- Primary care
Carlos Rufin, Strategy & International Business
- Climate change
- Energy
- Sustainability
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Spain
- Catalonia
- International development
- Urbanization
- Public-private partnerships
Russell Seidle, Strategy and International Business
- Innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate strategy
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Biotechnology industry
Andrew Smith, Marketing
- Marketing
- Consumer behavior
- Branding
- Augmented reality
- Social media marketing
Richard Torrisi, Finance and International Business
- U.S. economic policy
- International trade and investment
- Global economy
- US dollar and global financial markets
- Inflation and unemployment trends
Dmitry Zinoviev, Math & Computer Science
- Computing
- Data science
Economic Issues
Brenda J. Bond, Institute for Public Service
- Public administration and reform
- Public sector performance measurement and management
- Public organizational change
- Policing
- Police reform
- Accountability in public sector
- Public safety
- Criminal justice reform
- Community-police relationships
- Public policy implementation
- Community engagement
Kathleen C. Engel, Law
- Financial services
- Financial regulation
- Consumer protection
- Discrimination in housing, employment, credit, etc.
- Torts
- Personal injury
- Employment law
Jonathan Haughton, Economics
- Economics generally
- City, state economic issues
- Taxation
- Budgeting
- Economic development
- U.S. economy
- Tax reform
- Public policy related to the economy
- Growth, employment, and inflation
- Energy issues
- International
- Poverty and inequality
- Sustainable development goals
- Micro-credit
- Entrepreneurship
(Has visited 60+ countries. Recent work has been related to Ireland, Thailand, Vietnam and Rwanda)
John Infranca, Law
- Land use law, planning, and zoning
- Housing law and policy - affordable housing, gentrification, market urbanism
- Urban law and policy
- Local government law
- The sharing economy - Airbnb, Uber, Lyft
- Religion and law - First Amendment free exercise and establishment clause
Shahruz Mohtadi, Economics
- International trade policy
- Federal Reserve monetary policy
- Exchange rate
Environment & Nature
Scott Lussier, Center for Urban Ecology and Sustainability
- Digital mapping
- Geospatial analysis
- Drones
- GIS
- Cartography and environmental science
Lauren Nolfo-Clements, Biology
- Ecology
- Wildlife
- Wildlife Conflict
- Environment
- Dogs
- Rats
- Rodents
- Habitat
- Evolution
Suzyn Ornstein, Management & Entrepreneurship
- Sustainability
- Climate change
Carlos Rufin, Strategy & International Business
- Climate change
- Energy
- Sustainability
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Spain
- Catalonia
- International development
- Urbanization
- Public-private partnerships
Government & Politics
Brenda J. Bond, Institute for Public Service
- Policing
- Police reform
- Accountability in public sector
- Public sector performance measurement and management
- Public safety
- Criminal justice reform
- Community-police relationships
- Public administration and reform
- Public policy implementation
- Public organizational change
- Community engagement
Rachael V. Cobb, Government
- Voting rights
- Election administration
- Congress
- U.S. politics generally
- Presidency
- Massachusetts politics
Ken Cosgrove, Government
- Congress
- Republicans; Republican brand
- Political marketing
- Political branding
- Lobbying
- Campaigns
- Sports and politics
- Culture and politics
- NFL kneeling protests
- Olympics
- Trump
- Midterms
- Wave elections
- Canada, Canadian politics
- Congressional oversight and investigations
Roberto Dominguez, Government
- International security
- European politics
- Latin American politics
- International relations
- International human rights
Christina Kulich-Vamvakas, Government
- American politics
- Women and politics
- European politics
- Democracy
- Social movements
Weiqi Zhang, Government
- North Korea
- China
Health & Science
Melanie Berkmen, Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Biochemistry
- Microbiology
Gary Fireman, Psychology (Professor & Associate Provost)
- Sleep quality, dreams and nightmares
- Bullying in school and college age population
Matthew Jerram, Psychology
- Mental Health
- Mental health policy
- Neuroscience and behavior
- Psychiatric and neurological disorders
- Psychotherapy
- Psychological interventions
- Psychological research
- Statistics and statistical interpretation
Scott Lussier, Center for Urban Ecology and Sustainability
- Digital mapping
- Geospatial analysis
- Drones
- GIS
- Cartography and environmental science
Jessica Mak, Biology (Radiation Science Program)
- Radiation therapy cancer treatment
- Cancer
- Radiation therapy student training
Peter Martelli, Healthcare Administration
- High reliability organizations (HRO) across sectors, especially in health care
- Avoiding organizational errors and promoting quality/safety
- Intersection of theory and practice
- Organizational evidence and the application of knowledge in sociotechnical systems
- Knowledge and evidence:
- Translation of research into practice and policy
- Organizational barriers/facilitators to evidence-based management
- Implementation science, knowledge translation, and applied epistemology
- Role of expertise, professionalism, and social networks
- Behavioral approaches to managing risk
- High reliability organizing, resilience engineering, and other systems risk models
- Learning, safety culture and relational coordination
- Systems theory, complexity and cybernetics
- Simulation training and research
- Reconciling theory and practice implications across models
Lauren Nolfo-Clements, Biology
- Ecology
- Wildlife
- Wildlife Conflict
- Environment
- Dogs
- Rats
- Rodents
- Habitat
- Evolution
Susan Orsillo, Psychology
- The nature and function of worry/fear/and anxiety.
- Differences between worry and problem solving - how to identify & respond
- Strategies for coping with anxiety and related emotions
- Mindfulness (and common misconceptions about mindfulness)
- Identifying and articulating personal values that can be helpful with anxiety and related problems
- Differences between values and goals
- Career paths in psychology
Peter Rivard, Healthcare Administration
- Healthcare management
- Patient safety
- Leadership
- Primary care
Rebecca Stone, Sociology
- Substance use during pregnancy
- Opioid epidemic
- Maternal drug use and fetal drug exposure
- Women and crime
- Women as victim-offenders
- Women and substance use
- Women's experiences on probation/parole/reentry/recidivism
- Public health and criminal justice
- Health of criminal justice populations
- Unmet health needs in prisons and jails
- Barriers to health care for justice-involved people
- Poor health’s impact on reentry after incarceration
International Issues
Roberto Dominguez, Government
- International security
- European politics
- Latin American politics
- International relations
- International human rights
Shahruz Mohtadi, Economics
- International trade policy
- Federal Reserve monetary policy
- Exchange rate
Ragini Shah, Law
- Immigration
- Ineffectiveness of border security
- Constitutional analysis (travel ban, DACA litigation)
- Criteria for admission (i.e., no such thing as chain migration)
- Intersection of immigration and crime
- Citizenship, qualification as refugee/asylee
- Mexican immigration to the U.S.
- Latin American immigrant communities generally
Weiqi Zhang, Government
- North Korea
- China
Law & Courts
Rosanna Cavallaro, Law
- Criminal Law
- Evidence
- Professional responsibility
- Law and literature
Kathleen C. Engel, Law
- Financial services
- Financial regulation
- Consumer protection
- Discrimination in housing, employment, credit, etc.
- Torts
- Personal injury
- Employment law
John Infranca, Law
- Land use law, planning, and zoning
- Housing law and policy - affordable housing, gentrification, market urbanism
- Urban law and policy
- Local government law
- The sharing economy - Airbnb, Uber, Lyft
- Religion and law - First Amendment
Renée M. Landers, Law, Director of the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration
- Affordable Care Act
- Affirmative action
- Roe v. Wade
- Marriage rights
- Regulatory agencies
- Voting rights
Kim McLaurin, Law – Clinical Programs
- Criminal law
- Criminal and juvenile court systems
- Juvenile justice and juveniles generally
- Constitutional law
Marc Perlin, Law
- Massachusetts law and procedure
- Family law
Rene Reyes, Law
- U.S. constitutional law
- Comparative constitutional law (with special attention to US/UK comparisons and to Brexit issues)
- Law and religion
Elbert L. Robertson, Law
- Civil rights
- Administrative law
- Antitrust
- Business associations
- Corporations
- Criminal law
- Evidence
- Jurisprudence
- Law and economics
- Legal method
- Torts
Ragini Shah, Law
- Immigration
- Ineffectiveness of border security
- Constitutional analysis (travel ban, DACA litigation)
- Criteria for admission (i.e., no such thing as chain migration)
- Intersection of immigration and crime.
- Citizenship, qualification as refugee/asylee
- Mexican immigration to the U.S.
- Latin American immigrant communities generally
David Yamada, Law
- Workplace bullying, mobbing, and abuse
- Sexual harassment and the Me Too campaign
- Unpaid internships
- Therapeutic jurisprudence
Sports
Ken Cosgrove, Government
- Sports and politics
- NFL kneeling protests
- Olympics
- Culture and politics
- Congressional oversight and investigations