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Arts & Humanities
Media contact: Daniel Robison, 216-368-6515, daniel.robison@case.edu
| Faculty Name | Area of Expertise |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |