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Arts & Humanities
Media contact: Daniel Robison, 216-368-6515, daniel.robison@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Henry Adams | Art authentication, American art, Thomas Hart Benton, Dale Chihuly, Andrew Wyeth |
Tim Beal | Religion in America, the Bible, Book of Revelation |
Erin Benay | Italian painting and visual culture of the early modern period, Renaissance and Baroque art, sensory perception, gender issues, and devotional art, the history of science and art |
Sophie Benn | Ballet, American social dance, body cultures, notation, historical anatomy, performance |
Paul Ferguson | Jazz music |
Gary Galbraith | Dance: choreography, technology, wellness |
Lisa Koops | Music: early childhood education, world music in education, philosophy of music education |
Nate Kruse | Music cognition and learning, vernacular music, classroom guitar, adult music education and lifespan learning |
Eunyoung Park | Global contemporary visual culture, globalization effects on contemporary East Asian art and Western modern and contemporary art |
Lihong Shi | China's birth-control policies, reproductive politics, family and gender relations, reproductive choice, family change, sex ratio imbalance in China |
Holly Witchey | Cleveland history, philanthropy, arts, and culture |
Economy & Business
Media contact: Daniel Robison, 216-368-6515, daniel.robison@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Lee Blazey | Taxation, accounting, political subdivision finances |
Lakshmi Balasubramanyan | Fintech, blockchain, economic efficiency, bank regulation, corporate finance, credit risk |
Alan Dowling | Health/medical informatics, health information technology |
Steven Feldman | China, tariffs, trade |
Michael Goldberg | Entrepreneurship, early-stage finance, small business development, start-ups |
Anurag Gupta | Banking regulation, global macro-economics, financial markets, monetary policy, economic policy |
Susan Helper | Manufacturing, innovation, globalization |
Thomas King | Accounting, healthcare accounting, financial forecasts, investor relations |
Casey Newmeyer | Marketing, branding, brand relationships, consumer behavior |
R.L. Shankar | Blockchain, A.I., machine learning, financial risk management |
Daniel Shoag | Industrial and Rust Belt economics, macroeconomics, public policy, public finance, retail |
Roman Sheremeta | Behavioral economics, game theory, microeconomics, negotiations |
Mark Sniderman | General economic conditions, economic outlook, monetary policy |
John Paul Stephens | Organizational psychology/behavior and aesthetics, mindfulness/attention, negotiations and bargaining |
Energy
Media contact: Mike Scott, 216-368-1004, mike.scott@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
Rigoberto Advincula | Oil and gas energy |
Rohan Akolkar | Batteries |
Eric Baer | Batteries |
Laura Bruckman | Solar energy |
Liming Dai | Energy storage, fuel cell conversion, |
Mark De Guire | Oil and gas energy |
Roger French | Solar energy |
Mario Garcia-Sanz | Energy innovation |
YeongAe Heo | Oil and gas energy |
Kenneth Loparo | Power grid, electricity market, batteries, solar energy |
Soumyajit Mandal | Oil and gas energy |
David Matthiessen | Wind energy |
Marija “Maya” Prica | Microgrid, power grid, electricity market |
John Protasiewicz | Batteries |
Mohan Sankaran | Fuel cell conversion, ammonia |
Bob Savinell | Fuel cell conversion, batteries |
Beverly Saylor | Oil and gas energy |
Dan Scherso | Batteries |
David Schiraldi | Oil and gas energy, fire suppression |
Jesse Wainwright | Fuel cell conversion, batteries |
David Zeng | Wind energy |
Lei Zhu | Batteries |
Ica Manas-Zloczower | Wind energy |
Health & Medicine
Media contact: Bill Lubinger, 216-368-4443, william.lubinger@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Celeste Alfes | Medical simulation, medical helicopters |
Eben Alsberg | Tissue engineering, biomaterials, drug delivery |
Anita Aminoshariae | Opioids, opioids/opiates in dentistry, adverse effects of smoking |
Lyla Blake-Gumbs | Nutrition for disease risk reduction; obesity and cancer risk; mindfulness-based stress reduction; environmental toxin reduction |
Ronald Blanton | Global health parasitic diseases; viral diseases; diseases of low-income countries |
Barbara Daly | End-of-life care, critical care |
Rebecca Darrah | Genetics, genome counseling |
Michael J. Decker | Sleep medicine, effects of sleep loss on decision-making and other function |
Mary Dolansky | Medical errors, nursing leadership |
Evelyn Duffy | Aging |
Joyce Fitzpatrick | Nursing Profession, nursing leadership |
Scott Frank | Public health and health systems (including the Affordable Care Act); health equity and social justice violence as a public health issue; community health assessment; adolescent health |
Darcy Freedman | Food access, food security, healthy food retail, obesity, community nutrition |
Faye Gary | Children's mental health, health disparities, issues in nursing education, community mental health |
Charles Halbeck | Medical anthropology, systems of inequity in medical programs |
Ronald Hickman | End-of-life decisions, technology based medicine, nursing |
Karen Horowitz | General internal medicine, access to care, health care reform |
Vanessa Hildebrand | Reproductive health, women's health |
Irena Kennely | Infectious diseases |
Leena Khaitan | Obesity, obesity management, gastroesophageal reflux disease, patient wellness |
Bruce Latimer | Evolution |
Lynn Lotas | Lead poisoning in children |
Susan Ludington | Breastfeeding, “kangaroo care” |
Debra Leizman | General internal medicine, medical education |
Donald Mann | Problem-based learning, IQ |
Susan Mazanec | End-of-life decisions, patient decisions |
Maureen McEnery | Separation of church and state; global warming; importance of science education in society; role of female leadership in medicine and medical education |
Shirley Moore | Patient/family self-care of chronic illnesses, the science of behavior change |
Carol Musil | Caregiving and family care issues, intergenerational relationships (especially grandmothers raising grandchildren due to drugs, parents' incarceration, mental-health issues) |
Goutham Narla | General internal medicine; medical genetics; care of high-risk cancer patients; drug discovery and development; experimental therapeutics |
Tej Kumar Pareek | Public health, business management, biomedical research |
Leena Palomo | Postmenopause, periodontics |
Martin Palomo | Sleep disordered breathing |
Pushpa Pandiyan | Antibiotics, oral health |
Rebecca M. Patton | Health care, Affordable Care Act (helped draft the legislation as president of the American Nurses Association) |
Tamara Randall | Nutrition, diabetes, public health |
Ali Syed | Community health, community dentistry |
Joachim Voss | Long-term management of people living with HIV, workforce-related issues in HIV and evidence-based practice |
Allison R. Webel | Living well with HIV, HIV self-management |
Jaclene Zauszniewski | Technology dependent children |
History
Media contact: Daniel Robison, 216-368-6515, daniel.robison@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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John Grabowski | History of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio; editor of the online edition of The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History; strong knowledge of the GOP in Cleveland from the 1850s to mid-20th century |
Kenneth Ledford | German history, politics, social security network and legal system |
Luke Reader | Brexit, general British history, British Labour Party, internationalism, imperialism, present-day conflict between democracy and authoritarian populism, general contemporary history |
Renee Sentilles | American history, American women's history |
Law
Media contact: Colin McEwen, 216-368-4442, colin.mcewen@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Jonathan Adler | Constitutional law; environmental law; Supreme Court judicial nominations; regulatory law and policy; conservative politics |
Mike Benza | Criminal law and sentencing; criminal justice, incarceration, and reentry |
Jaime Bouvier | Food policy, land-use law, civil rights |
Juscelino Colares | Climate change; federal courts and procedure; environmental law; international trade law |
Avidan Cover | Civil rights; race and American law; police excessive force; counter-terrorism interrogation; detention; drone policy; Iran nuclear agreement; international law |
Jonathan Entin | Constitutional law; the Supreme Court; civil rights and civil liberties; regulatory issues |
Benjamin Faller | Community development, public interest, blight remediation and land use, landlord and tenant law, local building/housing/zoning/health code compliance and enforcement, and housing law generally |
Richard Gordon | Money laundering and terrorism finance, comparative corporate governance, South Asia law, international tax, sovereign debt, tax administration and IMF/World Bank |
Ayesha Bell Hardaway | Social justice, health law, criminal law, constitutional law, best practices in policing, intersection of race and the law |
Jessie Hill | Constitutional law, law and religion, reproductive rights, civil rights, back-up on employment dis-crimination, can speak to Constitutional law issues related to same-sex marriage |
Shannon French | Military ethics |
Christian Grostic | Civil litigation; criminal law and sentencing; criminal justice, incarceration, and reentry; Supreme Court and federal appellate courts |
Sharona Hoffman | Health law; health information technology; aging issues; employment discrimination issues, including discrimination based on race, national origin, religion, sex, age, and disability; sexual harassment |
Judith Lipton | Human trafficking law |
Craig Marvinney | Relationship of Ohio to national political scene; Greater Cleveland history |
Laura McNally-Levine | Public interest, health law, disability law |
Maxwell Mehlman | Healthcare law, ethics, and policy |
Craig Nard | Patent law, intellectual property, marijuana law |
Andrew Pollis | Legal issues arising from campaign platform and disturbances at the convention that could lead to legal challenges, such as protesters |
Michael Scharf | Foreign relations, national security, international law |
Marvin Sicherman | Bankruptcy, commercial law |
Maya Simek | Foreign relations, national security, international law |
Katharine Van Tassel | health law, food and drug law, public health law |
Political Science
Media contact: Daniel Robison, 216-368-6515, daniel.robison@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Karen Beckwith | Gender and politics; women and politics; U.S. political parties and elections; social movements and protest |
Justin Buchler | U.S. elections; parties; interest groups; Congress and the Presidency |
Kathryn Lavelle | U.S. foreign economic policy; international organizations, U.S. Congress, International Monetary Fund; World Bank, politics of stock markets, banking policy. |
Kelly McMann | Comparative politics, democratization, political economy, local politics, political participation, corruption, post-communist politics, Russia, Central Asia. |
Elliot Posner | International politics of finance, international relations, the European Union, Sub-Saharan Africa and international non-governmental organizations |
Joseph White | Federal budget—both policy and politics; Social Security and Medicare; health care policy and politics, including "Obamacare;" partisan and ideological divisions in America |
Psychology
Media contact: Daniel Robison, 216-368-6515, daniel.robison@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Amy Przeworski | anxiety, parenting, ADHD, hoarding |
Alex Rothbaum | PTSD origins, treatment |
Sandra Russ | benefits of play in children - relationship between pretend play, adaptive functioning: creativity, coping, and emotional understanding |
Science & Engineering
Media contact: Mike Scott, 216-368-1004, mike.scott@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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Rigoberto Advincula | Oil and gas, polymers, plastics, nanotechnology, biomaterial |
Mark De Guire | Energy and natural gas resources associated with engineered materials |
Anthony Jack | Scientific perspective on empathy, religion, and ethics; how different political points of view arise from our brain/psychology |
Stacy McGaugh | Science funding, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, dark matter climate change from a planetary perspective |
Patricia Princehouse | Science—particularly evolution, the creationism controversy and similar church and state issues, including national and state supreme court cases |
Donald Schuele | Science and engineering education |
Glenn Starkman | Physics, particle physics, cosmology |
Peter Whiting | Earth, environmental, planetary science |
Ajiboye “Bolu” Abidemi | Brain, brain-computer interface, neuroscience |
Sarah Bagby | Microbes |
Cynthia Beall | Tibet, low-oxygen, high-altitude adaptation |
Michael Benard | Amphibians, frogs, snakes, herpetologty |
Jesse Berezovsky | Experimental condensed matter physics, nanostructures, mathematical nature of music |
Daniela Calvetti | Mathematical modeling, data science and inverse problems |
Jeffrey Capadona | Biomaterials, neural interfacing |
Harold Connamacher | AI, Artificial Intelligence |
Kathyrn (Katie) Daltorio | Robotics, biomimetics, soft robots |
Sarah Diamond | Ants and evolution, climate change |
Colin Drummond | Informatics, patient care |
Dominique Durand | Neural engineering, computational neuroscience, neural interfacing, epilepsy control |
Philip Feng | Nanoelectromechanics |
Melvyn Goldstein | Tibet |
Umut Gurkan | Nanotechnology |
Ozsoyoglu Gultekin | Internet data mining, web mining, bioinformatics |
Burcu Gurkan | Ionic liquids, CO2 conversion, oxygen in space |
Carlos Crespo-Hernandez | Light harvesting, energy conversion |
Steven Hauck | Moon landing, planetary surfaces, planetary core |
Cong Huynh | Biodegradable polymers |
Dan Lacks | Static electricity, electrostatic charging |
Gregory Lee | Robotics |
Kiju Lee | Robotics, technology-embedded healthcare solutions |
Peter McCall | Benthic ecology, riverbeds, sediment, environmental law |
Anant Madabhushi | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and precision medicine |
Harsh Mathur | Theoretical physics, condensed matter, cosmology |
Elizabeth Meckes | Chaos theory, randomization, mathematics |
Chris Mihos | Astronomy, Black Holes, space dust |
Christos Papachristou | Internet hardware design |
Vikas Prakash | Structural batteries, electric flight |
Michael Pollino | Steel structures, earthquake engineering |
Kurt Rhoads | Pollution, algal biofuel, energy from wastewater, environmental engineering |
Clare Rimnac | Joint replacement, polymers |
Julie Renner | Ammonia synthesis |
Adel Saada | Soil science, soil testing |
David Schiraldi | Flame-retardant materials, polymer aerogels |
Donald Schuele | Science and engineering education |
Alp Sehirlioglu | Batteries, energy conversion, energy storage |
Anirban Sen Gupta | Nanomedicine, biomaterials |
Guiseppe Strangi | Experimental condensed matter physics |
Fumiaki Takahashi | Fire science, smoke toxicity |
Phil Taylor | Theoretical physics |
Peter Thomas | Mathematical neuroscience, oscillations, mathematics and communications |
James Tien | Fire science, combustion |
Blanton Tolbert | Biochemistry |
Dustin Tyler | Neural engineering, neuromimetic prostheses, prosthetics, |
James Van Orman | Planetary cores, solar system |
David Wilson | Biomedical imaging |
Gary Wnek | Polymers for regenerative medicine |
Xiong (Bill) Yu | Smart infrastructure, thermochromic roofing, smart cars |
Chris Yuan | Batteries, solar energy conversion, lithium ion batteries |
Xiangwu Zeng | Earthquakes, offshore wind power, shale gas |
Huichin (Judy) Zhang | Wastewater treatment, water treatment, pollution |
Christopher Zorman | Medical microsystems |
Social Sciences
Media contact: Colin McEwen, 216-368-4442, colin.mcewen@case.edu
Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
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David Crampton | Child welfare, foster care, homelessness |
Child welfare, diversity | |
Dan Flannery | Violence prevention and mental health intervention in children and adolescents, crisis intervention, juvenile delinquency |
Brian Gran | Law and social policy; children's rights and welfare; human rights |
Dana Prince | LGBTQ issues, transgender issues, oppression and privilege |
Rachel Lovell | Human trafficking, sexual assault, rape kits |
Jane Timmons-Mitchell |
Suicide prevention, community-based services for juvenile justice and child welfare involved youth, gun violence prevention |
Elizabeth Anthony | Early childhood education, health and wellbeing |
Mark Chupp | Community development, neighborhood revitalization |
Claudia Coulton | Community development, using technology to inform social policy |
Rob Fischer | Poverty, public services, lead poisoning in children, non-profits, community development |
Mark Singer | Substance abuse, youth violence, community policing, adolescent behavior |
Laura Voith | Domestic violence (Intimate partner violence); boys and men’s mental health and wellbeing; adverse childhood experiences (trauma); violence prevention and intervention |
Jeff Kretschmar | Juvenile justice issues |