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Experts
List by Professor Name [by
Subject]
As an institution that focuses on undergraduate education by faculty who are experts in their disciplines as well as expert teachers, IUP faculty have expertise on literally hundreds of subjects.
Faculty and administrators are available to offer expert comment to media. To contact one of the experts on this list, please call
Michelle Fryling, director of media relations and community affairs, at 724-357-2302 or via e-mail at
mfryling@iup.edu.
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Dr. Robert J. Ackerman
professor of sociology and director of IUP's
Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute
Author of the groundbreaking book, Perfect
Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics and
Silent Sons and founding member of National Adult
Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) organization.
Expertise: families and relationships, adult
children of alcoholics
Ms. Nicole Aiken
advsing and testing ctr
Expertise:
Dr. Francisco Alarcon
professor of mathematics
Expertise: technology in mathematics instruction,
technology
Dr. Sanwar Ali
professor of computer science
Expertise: artificial intelligence, computing
Dr. Lynn Alvine
professor of English and co-director of the Southwestern
Pennsylvania Writing Project
Expertise: writing across the curriculum as a
teaching tool, interdisciplinary use of writing as a
teaching tool
Dr. Allan Andrew
professor of biology
Expertise: bacteriology and "emerging" diseases and
their affect on man, HIV, Enteropathogenic E. coli,
Hantavirus, Mycobaterium tuberculosis, biological
and chemical weapons of mass destruction
Dr. Thomas Ault
professor of theater
Expertise: international theater design, ancient
theaters of India
Dr. Dennis Ausel
professor of communications media and director of IUP's
Instructional Design Center
Expertise: use of technology to enhance learning,
distance education
Dr. Timothy Austin
professor of criminology and a recipient of an NSF grant
to study crime in the Philippines
Expertise: Filipino peacekeeping techniques
B
Dr. Gawdat Bahgat
professor of political science and director of the
Center for Middle Eastern studies
Internationally published author on Middle Eastern
politics.
Expertise: sanctions, Gulf politics, history of
terrorism, Middle Eastern traditions and cultures,
responses to terrorism
Dr. William Barker
professor of education and school psychology
Expertise: quantitative analysis in schools, testing
methods and psychology of testing, statistics
Dr. John Benhart, Jr.
Professor of Geography, and Director James A. Payne
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Cartography
Laboratory
Expertise: Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
Global Positioning Systems (GPS), environmental
planning; spatial decision support
Dr. Prashanth Nagendra Bharadwaj
Professor of management
Expertise: production/operations management, quality
management, international business, small business
management and entrepreneurship
Dr. Narayanaswamy Bharathan
Professor of biology
Expertise: The power of genes in Fungi, Plants, and
Viruses
Dr. William Brenneman
professor of biology
Exptertise: animals in springtime ponds
Dr. Andrew Browe
professor of biology
Expertise: Using maclab/macintosh System to evaluate the
cardiovascular system
Dr. Barkley Butler
professor of biology
Expertise: ants at a picnic: can they 'taste' what we
taste?
C
Dr. James Cahalan
professor of English
Expertise: author Edward Abbey (biographer of
Abbey), Irish literature (author of several books), the
teaching of literature
Dr. Robert Camp
dean
of Eberly College of Business
Expertise: entrepreneurship, technology in business
education, international marketing and business
Dr. Karen Rose Cercone
professor of geoscience
Dr. Cercone authors "Star Trek" fiction novels,
incorporating true facts about geology and geological
phenomenon.
Expertise: science as portrayed in the media,
science in science fiction
Dr. Miriam Chaiken
professor of anthropology
Expertise: international development, maternal and
child health care, nutritional anthropology,
African-Southeast Asia anthropology, "the death of
cooking"
Dr. David Chambers
professor of political science
Expertise: the presidency, Pennsylvania politics
Dr. Stuart Chandler
professor of philosophy and religious studies
Expertise: religious traditions in Western
Pennsylvania
Dr. Beverly Chiarulli
professor of anthropology and director of IUP
Anthropological Studies
Expertise: anthropological sites in Pennsylvania
(IUP Anthropological Studies contracts with the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to do
surveying of all new state construction sites),
archeological research in Belize, Mayan culture
D
Dr. Susan Dahlheimer
professor of food and nutrition and coordinator of
Community Nutrition Services
Expertise: community nutrition trends, food and
nutrition, eating disorders
Dr. Victoria Damiani
professor of educational psychology
Expertise: crisis interventions in schools,
educational tests and measurements, bullying, careers in
school psychology, gifted children, school responses to
national emergencies, talking to children about national
attacks and emergencies, how schools should deal with
communicating reassurances at times of national
emergencies
Dr. Joseph Domaracki
professor of special education and clinical services
Recipient of a grant from the Pennsylvania Disabilities
Council for teacher education for special needs students
Expertise: teaching special needs students in the
regular classroom, teacher education for special needs
students
Dr. Ed Donley
professor of mathematics
Expertise: technology in mathematics instruction,
technology
Dr. Kurt Dudt
professor of communications media
Expertise: technology in education, distance education
E
Dr. Roberta Eddy
professor of chemistry
Expertise: biological and chemical weapons of mass
destruction
Dr. John M. Engler
professor of safety science
Expertise: chemical health issues
F
Dr. Thomas Falcone
professor of management
Expertise: entrepreneurship, small business development
Dr. Linda Federoff
professor of psychology
Epertise: psychotherapy
G
Dr. Victor Garcia
professor of anthropology
Expertise: Hispanic immigrants in Pennsylvania
Dr. Rajendar Garg
professor of marketing and 1998 Fulbright recipient
Expertise: international marketing, economics of
third-world countries, "BEM" (Big Emerging Markets)
Dr. Robert Gendron
professor of biology
Expertise: ecology, evolution and animal behavior
Dr. Michele Gerwick
professor of nursing
Expertise: the effect of heart attacks on victims'
families
Dr. James Gibson
professor of philosophy and religious studies
Expertise: trends in religion, trends in world religions
Dr. Rosemary Gido
professor of criminology
Expertise: the Molly McGuires, prisons and prison
reform, incarceration of women
Dr. Dennis Giever
professor of criminology
Expertise: cybersecurity, information assurance
Dr. Eileen Glisan
professor of Spanish and classical languages
Chosen as 1997 Pennsylvania State Modern Language
Association’s "Foreign Language Educator of the Year."
Expertise: foreign language instruction in elementary
grades, immersion techniques, foreign language
instruction by distance education, foreign language
standards
Dr. Susan Glor-Sheib
professor of special education and clinical services
Expertise: teaching special needs students in the
regular classroom, teacher education for special needs
students, recipient of a grant from the Pennsylvania
Disabilities Council for teacher education for special
needs students
Dr. Janet Goebel
professor of English and director of the Robert E. Cook
Honors College
Expertise: peer mentoring, honors education
Dr. Edward Gondolf
professor of sociology and research director at the
Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute
Expertise: evaluation of batterers' programs (programs
funded by Centers for Disease Control)
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Dr.
David Hanauer
professor of
english composition
and tesol
Expertise:
scientific inquiry
education, poetry, 2nd language teaching
Dr. Kate Hanrahan
professor of criminology
Expertise: fear of crime, violence against the elderly
Dr. Patricia Heilman
professor of journalism (leave of absence, 2005-2006)
Expertise: trends in the media
Dr. Bob Hinrichsen
professor of biology
Expertise: biotechnology in medicine and law, forensics
Dr. Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt
professor of political science
Expertise: local political races, polling
Dr. Steve Hovan
professor of geoscience
Expertise: global climate changes as reflected by
changes in the ocean floors (recipient of an NSF grant
to study these climate changes and analysis)
J
Dr. Steve Jackson
professor of political science
Expertise: technology in the classroom, Web design,
Chinese politics, Afghanistan and neighboring
countries, history of terrorism, Osama Bin Ladin,
assassinations, "What is a Jihad"
Dr. Mary Jalongo
professor of professional studies in education
Expertise: education of young children, literature for
young children
Dr. Rita Johnson
professor of food and nutrition
Expertise: food and nutrition issues, sports and
nutrition, vitamins
K
Dr. Krys Kaniasty
professor of psychology
Expertise: psychology of aid for victims of natural
disasters, community response to man-made disasters,
healing in the wake of national attacks
Dr. Nicholas Karatjas
professor of economics
Expertise: economics of sports, environmental economics
Dr. Anne Kondo (along with Dr. Sharon Sowa)
professor of chemistry
Expertise: crime scene chemistry
Dr. Krish Krishnan
professor of marketing
Expertise: international marketing, global business and
marketing issues
Dr. Laurence Kruckman
professor of anthropology and president of
Postpartum Support International Expertise:
postpartum depression, postpartum social support
programs, fatherhood and birth
Dr. Lawrence Kupchella
professor of chemistry
Expertise: the detection of alcohols in household
substances by gas chromatography
Dr. Barbara Kupetz
professor, professional studies in education
Expertise: teacher training, literature for young
children, gender issues in literature for children
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Dr. Erick Lauber
professor of communications media
Expertise: Media; impact on society; multimedia
creation; websites; new digital technologies; games --
educational and impact on society; learning by adults
and children and educational technology in schools;
corporate training; video animation
Dr. Mary Beth Leidman
professor of communications media
Expertise: impact of media on society
Dr. Sally Lipsky
Reading/Study Skills/SI Coordinator
Learning Enhancement Center
Expertise: Developmental Education; College Reading;
College Study Skills/Learning Strategies; Supplemental
Instruction; Peer Educator Training; First Year
Retention & Programming
Dr. Lori Lombard
professor of speech-language pathology
Expertise: voice disorders; communication and
swallowing disorders due to head and neck surgery
Dr. Thomas Lord
professor of biology
Expertise: bats, spatial perceptions (the ability to
hold and manipulate an image in one's mind)
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Dr. Sarah Mantel
professor of music and co-director of IUP's Festival of
Women Composers
Expertise: women composers, past to present
Dr. Paul McCauley
professor of criminology
Expertise: security issues and liability, police
training
Dr. Charles McCollester
professor of industrial and labor relations
Expertise: history and development of labor unions in
the Pittsburgh region
Dr. Maureen McHugh
professor of psychology
Expertise: psychology of women, gender issues
Dr. Alida Merlo
professor of criminology
Expertise: prisons and society
Dr. Robert Millward
professor of professional studies in education
Expertise: administrator/principal evaluation and
training techniques, one-room schoolhouses, history of
education
Dr. Brenda Mitchell
professor of art and director of IUP Women's Studies
Expertise: art and gender
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Dr. Phil Neusius
professor of archaeology and co-director of IUP
archaeological services
Expertise: archeological research and efforts in
Pennsylvania
Dr. Sarah Neusius
professor of archaeology and co-director of IUP
archaeological services
Expertise: archeological research and efforts in
Pennsylvania
Dr. Richard Nowell
professor of education of persons with hearing loss
Expertise: education of deaf and hard-of-hearing
students; identification and measurement of hearing loss
O
Dr. William Oblitey
professor of computer science
Expertise: cybersecurity, information assurance,
local area network design
Dr. Steve Osborne
professor of management
Expertise: business and society, business
community's response to terrorism, "stagflation,"
entrepreneurial businesses and opportunities related to
terrorism fears
P
Dr. Kevin Patrick
professor of geography and regional planning
Co-author of Diners of Pennsylvania and
Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders
Expertise: Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania geography,
transportation- related landscapes and geography
Dr. Terry Peard
professor of biology, director of Teacher Education
Center for Science, Mathematics and Technology and
project director of the NSF Collaborative Program for
Excellence in Teacher Preparation in Pennsylvania
Expertise: teaching teachers to teach science; science
education; freshwater jellyfish
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Dr. Willard Radell
professor of economics
Expertise: local economic impact of transportation
improvements (airport upgrades, roads, rail), government
involvement in key industries in the nation (especially
transportation industry) to help address economic fears,
economic recessions and depressions, efficiency and
productivity in higher education, commentary on the
Joint State Government Commission Report on higher
education costs (released annually in February)
Dr. Mary Ann Rafoth
professor of educational and school psychology
Expertise: child development psychologists, children
and teens, youth development, social promotion and
holdback programs in schools
Dr. Laura Rhodes
professor of safety science and Pennsylvania
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Program
Expertise: business safety and related issues, OSHA
regulations
David Rhodes
Pennsylvania Occupational Safety and Health
Administration Program
Expertise: business safety and related issues, OSHA
regulations
Dr. Shari Robertson
professor of speech-language pathology
Expertise: childhood speech and language disorders,
including early reading development
S
Dr. Jack Scandrett
professor of music
Expertise: use of computer technology in music
composition
Dr. Robert Sechrist
professor of geography and regional planning, director
of Spatial Sciences Research Center at IUP and director
of the Pennsylvania One-Call program
Expertise: mapping, geography and spatial sciences,
geography of Pennsylvania
Dr. Ronald See
professor of chemistry
Expertise: Careers in Chemistry
Dr. Ronald Shafer
professor of English, director of the IUP Arts and
Humanities Film Series and director of the World
Congress of Poets
Expertise: Milton and Milton's Cottage, Shakespeare,
poetry
Dr. Ruth Shirey
professor of geography and regional planning and
director of the Pennsylvania Geographic Alliance
Expertise: teaching geography, national geography
standards
Dr. Thomas Simmons
professor of biology, director of the IUP Environmental
Health Program and director of Healthy Homes project
Expertise: radon detection in home construction, safe
communities programming, environmental health issues
(pollutants, etc.), insects in stream habitats
Dr. Thomas Slater
professor of English and editor of the IUP film journal
Expertise: literature in film
Dr. Theresa Smith
professor of philosophy and religious studies
Expertise: Native American religions, Wicca
Dr. Stan Sobolewski
professor of physics
Expertise: forces in physics
Dr. Jonathan Southard
professor of chemistry
Expertise: molecular visualization: seeing the
invisible
Dr. Sharon Sowa (along with Dr. Anne Kondo)
professor of chemistry
Expertise: crime scene chemistry
Dr. David Stein
professor of speech-language pathology
Expertise: communication and swallowing disorders due
to neurologic disease and head and neck surgery
T
Dr. Devki Talwar
professor of physics
Expertise: solid state physics
Dr. Gordon Thornton
professor of psychology
Expertise: grief and mourning, grief traditions, grief
in children, participating in psychological experiments
Dr. Gwen Torges
professor of political science
Expertise: civil liberties versus security, privacy
versus protection, information technology, technology
security
Ronald Trenney
professor of health and physical education
Expertise: sports medicine and human physiology
V
Dr. Frank Viggiano
professor of human development and environmental studies
Internationally known expert on consumer products and a
consultant and product tester for international
companies
Expertise: consumer affairs
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Dr. Xi Wang
professor of history and winner of National Book Award
for his work on the Reconstruction
Expertise: African-American studies, the Reconstruction
Dr. Susan Wheatley
professor of music and co-director of IUP's Festival of
Women Composers
Expertise: women composers, past to present
Dr. Lorraine Wilson
professor of music
Expertise: African-American contribution to music,
jazz, New Orleans jazz
Dr. Robert Witchel
Counseling Services
Expertise: sexual abuse
Dr. John Wood
professor of chemistry
Expertise: forensic chemistry, biological and chemical
weapons of mass destruction
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Dr. Mary Lou Zanich
professor of psychology
Expertise: sensation and perception
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