Experts

This guide features faculty who have agreed to be available to reporters as expert sources for stories. Each listing includes contact information and a brief summary of the individual's research interest or area of expertise.

Experts are listed in alphabetical order.

Adler, Micah
Computer Science

(o) 413/577-0233; micah@cs.umass.edu
Techniques to ward off denial-of-service attacks by hackers on the Internet. 

Adrion, W. Richards (Rick)
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-2475; adrion@cs.umass.edu
Computing, information technology, education, diversity. 

Ahern, Jack
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

(o) 413/545-6632; jfa@larp.umass.edu
The environment and design. Ecology as it influences planning and design; planning for watershed protection, wildlife corridors; the establishment of wildflower/meadow ecosystems in the landscape. 

Ahlfeld, David
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-2681; ahlfeld@ecs.umass.edu
Groundwater contamination; industrial pollution. Involved in two high-profile cases: San Fernando Valley (Calif.) cleanup; Beatrice Foods/W.R.Grace & Co. site in Woburn, Mass. 

Alfandari, Dominique
Veterinary and Animal Science

(o) 413/577-4269; alfandar@vasci.umass.edu Cell migration that shapes the embryo, protease function during neural crest formation, fate of the cells that create the face and proteins involved in cellular migration. 

Alhabeeb, M.J.
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-5010; mja@resecon.umass.edu
Consumer affairs: Personal and family finance; children and teenagers as consumers; teens and employment. 

Alpert, Peter
Biology

(o) 413/545-4357; palpert@bio.umass.edu
Conservation science, including conservation and development projects in sub-Saharan Africa. How weeds, or non-native plants, threaten the survival of native plants, and what can be done about it. 

Altstadt, Audrey
History

(o) 413/545-2378; altstadt@history.umass.edu

Central Asia, Azerbaijan. 

Anderson, Daniel R.
Psychology

(o) 413/545-2069; anderson@psych.umass.edu
Children and how they are affected by television. 

Anderton, Douglas L.
Sociology
Director, Social and Demographic Research Institute

(o) 413/545-5973/3416; dla@sadri.umass.edu
Demographics; America's population history; race and ethnicity; "grammars of death" research. 

Andrianopoulos, Mary
Communication Disorders

(o) 413/545-0551; mva@comdis.umass.edu
Disability issues: Clinical voice disorders, motor speech disorders, neurological bases of speech and language disorders, and differential diagnosis of speech and language disorders. 

Appy, Christian
History

(o) 413/545-6768; appy@history.umass.edu

Modern U.S. history; Vietnam War. 

Arcaro, Kathleen F.
Veterinary and Animal Sciences

(o) 413/577-1823; karcaro@nre.umass.edu
Toxicology iin the environment; pesticides; effect of pollution on human endocrine system and possible links to cancer; studies involve in vitro model of breast cancer development to assess impact of complex mixture of pollutants. 

Arons, Steve
Legal Studies

(o) 413/545-3536; arons@legal.umass.edu
Education and the law; national education reform. Disabiliity issues: Mental health and disability law. Constitutional law. Race and the law. 

Asselin, Micheline
Nursing

(o) 413/545-3790; asselin@nursing.umass.edu
Death and dying: Hospice clinical practice and end-of-life issues. History of the American hospice movement. 

Autio, Wesley R.
Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/545-2963; autio@pssci.umass.edu
Agriculture: Fruit-tree cultivation. Pesticides. 

Avakian, Arlene
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies (retired)

(h) 413/530-0563; avakian@wost.umass.edu
Women's issues. Race/gender/class interactions. Armenian-American women. Food studies with an emphasis on gender. Social construction of whiteness. 

Badgett, M.V. Lee
Economics

(o) 413/545-3162; lbadgett@econs.umass.edu
Consumer affairs: Spending habits and economic status of gays and lesbians; gay marriage and same-gender unions. Gender issues: economic effects of gender discrimination. 

Baker, Erin
Mechancial and Industrial Engineering

(o) 413/545-0670; edbaker@ecs.umass.edu
Climate change, energy policy, costs and benefits of alternative energy. 

Baker, Martha
Natural Resources and the Environment,
Associate Dean

(o) 413/545-1969; mbaker@nre.umass.edu
Consumer affairs: Retailing, fashion and apparel, textiles. Fashion industry. 

Baran, Jane
Communication Disorders

(o) 413/545-0565; baran@comdis.umass.edu
Disability issues: Speech and language characteristics in individuals with hearing impairments; central auditory processing; anatomy and physiology of auditory systems. 

Barr, Carol A.
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5610; cbarr@sportstudy.umass.edu
Collegiate athletics. Gender issues in sports: gender equity. 

Barten, Paul K.
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-4853; pkbarten@forwild.umass.edu
Marine science: status of Atlantic salmon. Forestry/wildlife: Forest management in municipal watersheds; water quality and quantity. 

Barton, Carlin
History

(o) 413/545-6758; cbarton@history.umass.edu
Ancient Rome and the emotional life of the Romans. 

Baskin, Tobias
Biology

(o) 413/545-1533; baskin@bio.umass.edu
Growth of plants; regulation of morphogenesis. 

Beemyn, Brett Genny
Director, The Stonewall Center

(o) 413/545-4826; brettgenny@stuaf.umass.edu
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual concerns; Co-chair, National Consortium of Directors of LGBT Resources in Higher Education; board member, Transgender Law and Policy Institute. 

Begay, Michael
Public Health

(o) 413/545-1203; begay@schoolph.umass.edu
Politics of health care and health care policy. 

Ben-Ur, Aviva
Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

(o) 413/577-0649; aben-ur@judnea.umass.edu
Sephardic Jews. 

Berger, Emery
Computer Science

(o) 413/577-4211; emery@cs.umass.edu
Computer science, computer security, improving the speed and accuracy of computer programs. 

Berger, Joseph B.
Educational Policy, Research and Administration

(o) 413/545-3610; jbberger@educ.umass.edu
Post-secondary education, especially regarding access, attainment issues, and K-16 transitions. 

Berkovitz, Jay
Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

(o) 413/545-5868; jrb@judnea.umass.edu
Jewish social and intellectual history. 

Berkowitz, Eric
Marketing

(o) 413/545-5608; enb@mktg.umass.edu
Marketing of health care for hospitals, HMOs, group practices. 

Bernhard, J. Gary
Director, University Without Walls

(o) 413/545-1378; bernhard@uww.umass.edu
Adult education: University Without Walls offers degree programs for non-traditional students, specifically for working adults who may design individualized programs and earn credits for non-formal and experiential learning. 

Berthier, Neil
Psychology

(o) 413/545-0535; berthier@psych.umass.edu
Motor development in infants and the application of that knowledge to intelligent machines. 

Bertone-Johnson, Elizabeth
Public Health

(o) 413/577-1672; ebertone@schoolph.umass.edu
Effect of diet and other lifestyle factors on ovarian cancer incidence; hormonal risk factors for breast and ovarian cancer; cancer epidemiology in animal populations; smoking: effects of second-hand smoke on children and pets. 

Berwald, Jean Pierre
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (retired)

(o) 413/545-3439; berwald@frital.umass.edu
Education: Foreign language teacher training. 

Bestor, Charles
Music and Dance (retired)

(h) 413/253-7326; bestor@music.umass.edu
Music composition; electronic music; installation art. 

Bischoff, Annaliese
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

(o) 413/545-6623; abischof@larp.umass.edu
Public art and the landscape; memorial design; greenway design; landscape interpretation; landscape architecture theory and criticism; history of the built landscape and environment; urban park design and theory; children and the built environment. 

Blais, Madeleine
Communication

(o) 413/545-5924; mhblais@journ.umass.edu
Literary journalism. Memoirs, writing. 

Blaustein, Jeffrey
Psychology

(o) 413/545-1524; blaustein@cns.umass.edu
Reproductive neuroendocrinology; neuronal responses to ovarian hormones; ovarian hormones and behavior; environmental influences on brain, behavior and hormones; hormones and sex; neurotransmitters and hormones; neuroscience. 

Bloniarz, David
Natural Resources Conservation
Director, Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry

(o) 413/545-3755; bloniarz@nrc.umass.edu
Urban trees, forestry; city planning and urban design. 

Boyce, James K.
Economics

(o) 413/545-0915; boyce@econs.umass.edu
Economic development in Latin America and Asia, especially India and Bangladesh; the environment and economics; globalization. 

Bradley, Raymond S.
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-2120; rbradley@geo.umass.edu
Climate and weather: Modern climatology, global warming, prediction of future climates. Research in Canadian high Arctic on environmental changes, and the cause of those changes. Contribuating member of group that received Nobel Prize for climate change research. 

Bramlage, William J.
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences (retired)

(h) 413/548-9175; malusleverett@earthlink.net
Agriculture: Handling and storage of harvested fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Plants. 

Branch, Ben
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-5690; branchb@som.umass.edu
Bankruptcy; investing; mergers and acquisitions; corporate finances. 

Brandt, Sylvia
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-5722; brandt@resecon.umass.edu
Effects of regulation on fishing industry. Joint effect of environmental regulation and organization of the health-care sector on prevalence of asthma. 

Braun, Barry
Exercise Science

(o) 413/577-0146; bbraun@kin.umass.edu
Relationship between exercise and diabetes; food and nutrition. 

Brena, Sergio
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-0349; brena@ecs.umass.edu
Natural disasters, earthquakes: Structural vulnerability; seismic rehabilitation of concrete buildings; innovative techniques in structural concrete; use of fiber-reinforced composite materials to strengthen existing structures. Homeland security. 

Brigham, John
Political Science

(o) 413/545-0450; brigham@polsci.umass.edu
Civil liberties; law and politics; the U.S. Supreme Court; property law; free-speech issues; gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues; women's reproductive rights. 

Brigham-Grette, Julie
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-4840; juliebg@geo.umass.edu
Climate and weather: Glacial and sea-level history of the Bering Strait, Alaska, and adjacent areas of Russia and the Arctic. General questions of glacial geology, ice-sheet history, sea-level change, climate. Recent research on sediments recovered from the lakebed of a remote, frozen lake in eastern Siberia. 

Brock, Oliver
Computer Science

(o) 413/577-0334; oli@cs.umass.edu Protein docking, structural computational biology, protein structure prediction, making robots independently mobil in various environments, mobile manipulation of robots, motion generation and planning and mobile navigation. 

Brown, T. Dennis
Music and Dance

(o) 413/545-6135; tdbrown@music.umass.edu
American popular music; jazz; jazz drummers and performance styles. 

Buchanan, David
Public Health

(o) 413/545-1005; buchanan@schoolph.umass.edu
Alcohol abuse; alcohol marketing; substance abuse; public policy and drugs. Community health education and health policy management. 

Byg, Barton
Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Director, East German Film Archive

(o) 413/545-6671; byg@german.umass.edu
German cinema; East Germany; Cold War. 

Calabrese, Edward
Public Health

(o) 413/545-3164; edwardc@schoolph.umass.edu
Hormesis; soil contamination; fuel spills; sodium in drinking water; occupational pollutants; environmental health legislation; underground storage tanks; male/female differences in toxic susceptibility. 

Caldwell, Graham
Kinesiology

(o) 413/545-0017; gc@kin.umass.edu
Biomechanics, muscle mechanics and modelling, movement control and coordination in sprinting, cross-country skiing, pathalogical gait and cycling. 

Cannon, Frank
Director, Biotechnology Program

(o) 413/577-3804; fcannon@biotech.umass.edu
Biotechnology and related issues. 

Carbaugh, Donal
Communication

(o) 413/545-3585; carbaugh@comm.umass.edu
How communication creates cultural identities (especially contemporary American) and senses of the natural world; intercultural and multicultural communication. Popular culture. 

Carroll, Kathleen
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-0895; kcarroll@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture: Landscape nursery and urban forestry. 

Caruso, Frank
UMass Extension

(o) 508/295-2212, ext. 18; fcaruso@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture: Production of cranberries. 

Caswell, Julie
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-5735; caswell@resecon.umass.edu
Economics of food safety and nutrition regulations; labeling of food products; food marketing, both processing and retailing; food markets; operation of the food system. 

Cattani, Eduardo
Mathematics and Statistics (retired)

(h) 413/549-3742
Mathematics. 

Chakravartty, Paula
Communication

(o) 413/545-6346; pchakrav@comm.umass.edu
High-tech development in South Asia; high-skilled migration, globalization and media in South Asia; anti-globalization and global justice movement. 

Chandler, Genevieve
Nursing

(o) 413/545-5094; gec@nursing.umass.edu
Nursing labor issues. Empowerment in patients, nurses, students, and adolescents. 

Chang, Edward S.
Physics

(h) 413/253-1486, chang@physics.umass.edu
Atoms, spectroscopy, the sun. 

Chasan-Taber, Lisa
Public Health

(o) 413/545-1664; lct@schoolph.umass.edu
Physical activity and breast cancer/gestational diabetes. 

Childs, Robert D.
Director, Urban Forestry Diagnostic Laboratory

(o) 413/545-1053; rchilds@psis.umass.edu
Entomologist. Fall foliage. Insects and problems wth trees, woody ornamentals, and lawns. 

Chilton, Elizabeth
Anthropology

(o) 413/545-2867; echilton@anthro.umass.edu
North American Indians; the archaeology of eastern North America. Regional history: involved in archaeological digs in Pioneer Valley. Native Americans. 

Chilton, Roland
Sociology

(o) 413/545-0817; chilton@soc.umass.edu
Criminal justice: urban crime trends; expert on FBI uniform crime statistics; characteristics of person arrested (age, race, sex). 

Civjan, Scott
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-2521; civjan@ecs.umass.edu
Civil engineering perspective on why the World Trade Center towers withstood the initial impact of the terrorist airliners but later crumbled. “Terror-proofing” of structures. 

Clark, J. Marshall
Veterinary and Animal Sciences; Director, Massachusetts Pesticide Analysis Laboratory

(o) 413/545-1052; jclark@vasci.umass.edu
Insects: head lice treatments; pesticides resistance. 

Clarkson, Priscilla M.
Exercise Science
Dean, Commonwealth College

(o) 413/577-3902; clarkson@kini.umass.edu
Exercise and sports nutrition. Women and exercise. Muscle physiology. 

Clingman, Stephen
English

(o) 413/545-3474; clingman@english.umass.edu
Colonial and postcolonial fiction; contemporary British fiction; South African fiction. South Africa native. Nadine Gordimer biographer. 

Clouston, Peggi
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-1884; clouston@nrc.umass.edu
Building materials: Trees, use of wood. 

Clydesdale, Fergus
Food Science

(o) 413/545-2275; fergc@foodsci.umass.edu
Additives and safety in foods; nutritional fortification; color-sensory interactions in foods. Policy/regulatory issues concerning food and food safety. All aspects of the food industry; food processing. 

Cohen, Nancy L.
Nutrition

(o) 413/545-2526; cohen@nutrition.umass.edu
Nutrition, aging, and the elderly. General nutrition; diet and health; food safety. 

Cole, John W.
Anthropology (retired)

(h) 802/276-3851
Folklore: Transylvania, vampires, Dracula. Cultural anthropology: peasant societies, holidays, cultural ecology, political economy, and social evolutionary theory. Alpine and Southeast Europe, Oceania. Political and social transformation in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, most notably Romania. Political and social transformation in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, most especially Romania. Women's reproductive rights: abortion; natalism and antinatalism; efforts to limit births. 

Coli, William M.
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-1501; wcoli@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture: Integrated pest management (IPM); minimum-chemical approach to crop pest control; organic pest controls; food safety; orchard insects management; pesticides and food safety; pollution. Also: agro-tourism; farm vacation rentals, maple syrup production. 

Cooke-Andresen, Michele
Geosciences

(o) 413/577-3142; cooke@geo.umass.edu
Structural Geology, Brittle Fracture Analysis, LA Basin Fault Studies. 

Cooley, Daniel
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/577-3803; dcooley@microbio.umass.edu
Fruit-tree cultivation. Agriculture as a business; sustaintable agriculture. Pesticides and related agricultural and ecological issues; alternative methods for plant disease management; plant disease impact on society; pollution effects on plants; integrated pest management. 

Coombs, Margery
Biology

(o) 413/545-0514; mccc@bio.umass.edu
Dinosaurs. Vertebrate paleontology research; fossil mammals, especially perissodactyls and artiodactyls; clawed herbivores. 

Cottom, Michael
Theater

(o) 413/545-6821; mcottom@theater.umass.edu
Technical theater; computer-assisted design and drafting; technology. 

Couch, N.C. Christopher
Comparative Literature

(o) 413/577-1309, (h)413/584-5257; nccouch@complit.umass.edu
Graphic novels and comics, graphic novelist Will Eisner, science fiction, Aztec manuscripts 

Craker, Lyle E.
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/545-2347; craker@pssci.umass.edu
Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants: culture and use. Medical use of marijuana. 

Cromack, Duane
Engineering (retired)

(h) 413/586-4352
Energy; wind power; aerodynamics. 

Cronen, Vernon
Communication (retired)

(h) 413/687-2146
Interpersonal communication, family relations, organizational conflict. 

Crosset, Todd
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5060; tcrosset@sportmgt.umass.edu
Sports, social issues and aggression. Sexual assault in athletics; rape. Sociology of sports. Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). 

Culley, Joan
Nursing

(o) 413/545-1737; jculley@nursing.umass.edu
Homeland security: training of first responders. 

D'Errico, Peter
Legal Studies (retired)

(h) 413/548-9284
Legal issues involving American Indians and other indigenous peoples. Native Americans. 

Damery, David
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-1770; ddamery@nrc.umass.edu
Forest product marketing, e-commerce, and market research. 

Davis, Jeffrey
Chemical Engineering

(o) 413/545-2916; jmdavis@ecs.umass.edu
Chemical engineering, liquid behavior at nanoscale, nanodevices. 

de Vries, Geert
Psychology

(o) 413/545-0663; devries@cns.umass.edu
Neurochemical basis of differences or lack of differences in male/female behavior. Neuroscience. 

Decker, Eric
Food Science

(o) 413/545-1026; edecker@foodsci.umass.edu
General issues concerning food and food science. Natural antioxidants. Nutritional role of antioxidants and lipids. Muscle biochemistry. Benefits of omega-3 fatty acids and methods for adding them to foods. 

DeConto, Robert
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-3426; deconto@geo.umass.edu
Formation of Antarctic ice sheet 34 million years ago; global warming. 

Demerath, N.J. (Jay)
Sociology

(o) 413/545-4068; demerath@soc.umass.edu
Asia: Religion and conflicts in India, Pakistan, Kashmir and Indonesia, as well as Israel. Middle East. 

DeMoranville, Carolyn
Director, Cranberry Experiment Station, East Wareham

(o) 508/295-2212; carolynd@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture: Cranberries. 

Denny, Walter B.
Art History

(o) 413/545-4801; wbdenny@arthist.umass.edu
Art of the Islamic world. Art museums and museology; art of the Ottoman Empire; Oriental carpets. Middle East. 

Devi, Ranjanaa
Director, Asian Arts and Culture Program

(o) 413/545-1980; devi@admin.umass.edu
Classical Indian dance; dance and theater of India. Multicultural arts programming; music and dance. 

DiNardi, Salvatore R.
Public Health (retired)

(h) 413/256-0006; sdinardi@schoolph.umass.edu
Health and the environment; industrial hygiene; occupational health. Homeland security: indoor air pollution; detection of low-level contaminants. 

Dincauze, Dena F.
Anthropology (Retired)

(h) 413/253-5739; dincauze@anthro.umass.edu
Regional history: Connecticut Valley archaeology and pre-history. American Indians; New England archaeology; Indian-white relations; reburial issues; archaeology and the law; ancient environments; New England ethnohistory. Native Americans. 

Dinsmore, Anthony
Physics

(o) 413/545-3786; dinsmore@physics.umass.edu
Development of targeted pharmaceutical therapies and nutrition-enhanced foods known as “nutraceuticals,” and nanoscopic sensors for medical imaging and diagnostics. Nanotechnology. 

Donoghue, John
Physics

(o) 413/545-2540; donoghue@physics.umass.edu
Elementary particle physics; high-energy physics; general relativity/quantum gravity; theoretical physics. 

Donson, Andrew
History and Germanic Languages & Literatures

(o) 413/545-6676; adonson@german.umass.edu

Europe and 19th and 20th century European history; history of women, youth, workers, and minorities; German nationalism; socialism; liberalism; intellectual history; Weimar Republic; World War I. 

Dragicevich, Milan
Theater

(o) 413/545-6814; miland@theater.umass.edu
Acting; Serbian theater. 

Dumont, Betsey
Biology/Anatomy

(o) 413/545-3565; bdumont@bio.umass.edu
Evolution of feeding strategies in mammals, anatomy of skull in relation to feeding, finite element analysis of biological systems. 

Edie, Carlene
Political Science

(h) 413/253-2931; (o) 413/545-6172; cjedie@polsci.umass.edu
Comparative politics of Africa and the Caribbean; international development 

Einhorn, Eric
Political Science

(o) 413/545-4079; einhorn@polsci.umass.edu
International relations; politics in Western Europe and Scandinavia; war. 

Elbow, Peter
English (retired)

(h) 413/549-0024
Process of writing. Teaching writing. 

Elkinton, Joseph
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/545-4816; elkinton@ent.umass.edu
Insects: gypsy moths, especially population dynamics and why outbreaks occur when they do. 

Emrick, Todd
Polymer Science and Engineering

(o) 413/577-1613; tsemrick@mail.pse.umass.edu
Nanoscopic materials and quantum dots. Development of targeted pharmaceutical therapies and nutrition-enhanced foods known as “nutraceuticals,” and nanoscopic sensors for medical imaging and diagnostics. Nanotechnology. 

Enghagen, Linda
Hospitality and Tourism Management

(o) 413/545-4044; lke@ht.umass.edu
Business ethics; hotel overbooking; the law and the hospitality industry; intellectual property; trade secrets; product liability; time management; smoking: second-hand smoke issues; sexual harassment in the workplace. Also an attorney. 

Epstein, Gerald
Economics

(o) 413/577-0822; gepstein@econs.umass.edu
Federal Reserve policy; international financial policy; international debt; exchange rates; domestic macroeconomic issues such as inflation, interest rates, and unemployment. Foreign investment in China; free trade; effects of globalization on wages; impact of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations on world economy. 

Epstein, Seymour
Psychology (retired)

(o) 413/545-0887; sepstein@psych.umass.edu
Personality theory testing; practical intelligence; irrational thinking and behavior. 

Erdman, Harley
Theater

413/545-6812; harley@theater.umass.edu
Jewish theater, Spanish and Latin American theater, Interview theater 

Espada, Martin
English

(o) 413/545-6594; mespada@english.umass.edu
Bilingual education, civil rights, multiculturalism, race. Poet and former lawyer. Multiculturalism in general and multicultural theory as it applies to literature. U.S. Latino issues, i.e., immigration, bilingual education. U.S. Latino poetry; “political” poetry. 

Fabos, Julius Gy.
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (retired)

jfabos@larp.umass.edu
Greenway planning: protection and management of landscapes along rivers, streams, and coasts; greenway networks: linking parks and open spaces with greenways. Developer of METLAND system for landscape assessment and planning. 

Faulkingham, Ralph
Anthropology

(o) 413/577-0906; faulkingham@anthro.umass.edu
Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Niger; West Africa: culture and society, agriculture, droughts; political economy of colonialism and develeopment; editor of African Studies Review. 

Faulkner, Robert
Sociology

(o) 413/545-4072; faulkner@soc.umass.edu
Business and professions; markets; careers. Criminal justice: corporate crime. Film business. Music and dance: sociology of jazz. 

Fein, Richard
Director of Placement, Isenberg School of Management

(o) 413/545-5598; rfein@som.umass.edu
Preparing for careers in the business world; job-search techniques; college students and the job market; the employment outlook. 

Feldman, Allan
Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies

(o) 413/545-1570; afeldman@educ.umass.edu
Secondary education; science education; evaluation and assessment of students, teachers, programs, and curricula. 

Feldman, Fred
Philosophy

(o) 413/545-4226; ffeldman@philos.umass.edu
Philosophical problems about death and dying; personal identity and death; hedonism. 

Felton, Debbie
Classics

(o) 413/545-5780; felton@classics.umass.edu
Ancient Greece and Rome. Role of the supernatural in Roman and Greek history; holidays. Folklore: ancient and modern ghost stories. 

Ferguson, Ann
Philosophy & Women's Studies (retired)

(h) 413/367-2310; ferguson@philos.umass.edu
Social Justice, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy 

Field, Barry
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-5709; field@resecon.umass.edu
Economics and the environment; economics of property rights. 

Fisette, Paul
Director, Building Materials Technology and Management Program

(o) 413/545-1771; pfisette@nrc.umass.edu
Light-frame construction; housing; energy efficiency; sustainable construction practices; material/product performance and structural properties of building materials; wood and wood-based products. 

Fisher, Donald L.
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

(o) 413/545-1657; dfisher@ecs.umass.edu
Transportation, automobiles: studies driver safety using the driving simulator lab, a sedan with computer circuitry in place of its engine. Highway safety (i.e., highway signage). Text messaging and safety. Developed computer-simulated drive of Big Dig to study efficacy of highway signs. Homeland security: Emergency evacuation planning; decision-making simulations and modeling. 

Fissore, Rafael
Veterinary and Animal Sciences

(o) 413/545-5548; rfissore@vasci.umass.edu
Infertility: In-vitro fertilization techniques, animals and humans. 

Fite, Katherine
Psychology

(o) 413/545-0351; kfite@psych.umass.edu
How the brain receives, processes, and interprets visual information transmitted from the retina of the eye. Visual stimulation and behavior. Light stimulation as it influences biological rhythms, moods, and emotions. Neuroscience. 

Fitzgerald-Hayes, Molly
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

(o) 413/545-0235; mollyfh@biochem.umass.edu
Genetics/Genomics: Technology of DNA research; developed “My DNA” course for non-science majors. 

Folbre, Nancy
Economics

(o) 413/545-3283; folbre@econs.umass.edu
Welfare reform, poverty. Economic and social policies affecting the family. Gender issues: Feminist theory and political economy; “caring labor” and non-market work done by women. 

Forbes, Neil
Chemical Engineering

(o) 413/577-0132; forbes@ecs.umass.edu Developed device to deliver oxygen to cancer cells and manipulate their life or death, use of bacteria to treat tumors, application of chemical engineering to tumor formation and treatment, nutrient gradients and tumor treatment. 

Forger, Nancy
Psychology

(o) 413/545-5982; nforger@psych.umass.edu
Development during the fetal stage of structural differences in the nervous systems of male and female mammals. Neuroscience. 

Forman, George
Education (retired)

(o) 413/256-8846; gforman@aol.com
Child development. Toy design. Pre-school education, ages 2-5. Digital technology for children. Holidays and children. 

Forward, Jean S.
Anthropology

(o) 413/545-2063; jforward@anthro.umass.edu
North American Indians; cultural anthropology; environmental education; ethnicity, race. Native Americans. 

Foulkes, Andrea
Biostatistics

(o) 413/545-1881; foulkes@schoolph.umass.edu Biostatistics, statistical methods for AIDS research, racial differences in plasma lipid levels in HIV patients on retorviral therapy. 

Fountain, Jane E.
Political Science and Public Policy

(o) 413/545-1007; fountain@pubpol.umass.edu

Digital government; e-government; electronic government; public management; global information and communication technologies; institutional change; social implications of technology; social implications of nanotechnology; women and information technology; cyberinfrastructure; director of the National Center for Digital Government; director of the Science, Technology and Society Initiative; director of the Women in the Information Age Project 

Fox, James
Hazardous Waste Services Manager, Environmental Health and Safety (Retired)

jpfox@ehs.umass.edu
Environment: pollution control; hazardous waste management. 

Freedson, Patty
Exercise Science

(o) 413/545-2620; psf@kin.umass.edu
Exercise and children; exercise and health; women and exercise; energy cost of exercise; fitness. 

Freeman, James
English

(o) 413/545-5490; jfreeman@english.umass.edu
American radio of the Golden Age (1928-1955). Popular culture. 

Friedman, Gerald
Economics

(o) 413/545-6357; gfriedma@econs.umass.edu
Labor economics; labor unions (U.S., Europe, especially France); economic history (U.S., Europe/France); labor history (U.S., Europe/France); economics of slavery and African-American life. 

Fu, Kevin
Computer Science and Security

(o) 413/545-4006; kevinfu@ecs.umass.edu
RFID "smart tag" security, computer filing systems, security of defribrillators, Web security, cryptography. 

Fuller, Todd
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-4723; tkfuller@nrc.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Forest mammals; population ecology, international wildlife. 

Galvis-Assmus, Patricia
Art

(o) 413/545-6983; tga@art.umass.edu
Art/Design: Traditional fine arts combined with experimental film-making and digital technology. 

Ganesan, Deepak
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-2450; dganesan@cs.umass.edu Data storage systems for smart devices, camera sensor networks, CASA radar sensor networks, wireless mesh for traffic monitoring. 

Garrabrants, Nancy
Director, UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-5302; n.garrabrants@umext.umass.edu
History and significance of flowers associated with certain holidays. 

Geman, Donald
Mathematics and Statistics (retired)

geman@math.umass.edu
Medical, satellite, and astronomical image processing; automated vision. 

Gerber, John
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/545-5301; jgerber@psis.umass.edu
Sustainable agriculture 

Gerstel, Naomi
Sociology

(o) 413/545-5976; gerstel@sadri.umass.edu
Gender issues: family and gender. The relationship of work and family; survival strategies among homeless families; impact of state policies on the homeless. Commuter marriage and divorce. 

Ghoniem. Ahmed
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-3927; aghoniem@som.umass.edu

Retail supply chain management; airport terminal management; sports and machine management; airport management in Qatar; large-scale optimization in logistics; Nonconvex optimization; deterministic models in management science; integer programming. 

Giacobbe-Miller, Jane
Management

(o) 413/545-5692; jkmiller@som.umass.edu
Human resource management practices including teamwork, equal employment opportunity, and downsizing; employee mobility including relocation and turnover; labor relations. Women and careers; women in the workplace. 

Gierasch, Lila
Biochemistry

(o) 413/545-6094; gierasch@biochem.umass.edu
Protein folding and misfolding in neurodegenerative diseases, prevention of protein clumping in Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases. 

Giloth, Copper
Director of Academic Computing

(o) 413/545-3092; giloth@oit.umass.edu
Art/Design: Computer graphics, computer animation, and video art. Introducing students to computer skills. Academic computing; distance learning. 

Gintis, Herbert
Economics (retired)

gintis@econs.umass.edu
Economic models incorporating neuroscience, political science, and other disciplines. 

Gizzi, Peter
English

(o) 413/545-5456; gizzi@hfa.umass.edu
Poetry; contemporary American literature and film. 

Gjertson, Donald
Languages, Literatures and Cultures

(o) 413/545-4957; dgjertson@asianlan.umass.edu
Asia: Chinese language, literature, religion. 

Glassberg, David
History

(o) 413/545-4252; glassberg@history.umass.edu
American public history as represented in politics, culture, and the environment. History-based celebrations and holidays; public history. Nuclear issues and regional history: Cold War sites in Massachusetts. 

Godfrey, Laurie R.
Anthropology

(o) 413/545-2064; lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu
Animals: Primate anatomy and evolution; vertebrate paleontology, geomorphology, human evolution, evolutionary theory; prosimiams (lemurs). The lemur population of Madagascar. 

Godfrey, Paul J.
Water Resources Research Center (retired)

sgodfrey@tei.umass.edu
Environment: acid rain, water pollution. 

Goldman, Sheldon
Political Science

(o) 413/545-6179; sheldon.goldman@polsci.umass.edu
Federal judiciary; U.S. Supreme Court; constitutional law. 

Goldsmith, Seth B.
Public Health (retired)

(h) 954/270-6211
Nursing homes. Legal issues in health care for the aging. 

Goldstein, Joseph I.
Engineering

(o) 413/545-2165;jig0@ecs.umass.edu
Astronomy, geosciences: Geology of meteorites and lunar rocks. Engineering education; technical education. Led Commonwealth IT Initiative, effort to develop information technology curriculum across 29-campus higher education system. 

Goodwin, Steve
Microbiology

(o) 413/545-4204; sgoodwin@nre.umass.edu
Environment: Microbial aspects of solid waste disposal; composting; anaerobic digestion; production and decomposition of biodegradable plastics. Also: bioremediation of contaminated soils and groundwaters; recycling in western Massachusetts. 

Griffin, Curtice R.
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-2640; cgriffin@nrc.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Wetland wildlife ecology and management; biodiversity conservation; endangered species. African animals, especially large mammals. 

Griffin, Patricia
Student Development & Pupil Personnel Services (retired)

(h) 413/253-7210
Gay and lesbian issues in sports and education. 

Grosse, Ian
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

(o) 413/545-1350; grosse@ecs.umass.edu Finite element modelling, analysis and model validation, finite element based design tools for concurrent design, biomechanical and biological applications of finite element analysis. 

Grupen, Roderic
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-3280; grupen@cs.umass.edu
Robotics; dexterous manipulation in robots; artificial intelligence in computing. 

Haas, Peter M.
Political Science

(o) 413/545-6174; haas@polsci.umass.edu
International politics and the environment; environmental cooperation; marine pollution control; international relations. International political economy, globalization and governance. 

Halgin, Richard
Psychology

(o) 413/545-5966; rhalgin@psych.umass.edu
Professional issues in psychology such as ethics and standards of practice; the teaching of psychology; clinical supervision. 

Hambleton, Ronald K.
Educational Policy, Research and Administration

(o) 413/545-0262; rkh@educ.umass.edu
Educational testing research; test development; new approaches to assessment in education. MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System). SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test). 

Hanson, Allen
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-2746; hanson@cs.umass.edu
Computer vision and image processing; applications of computing vision techniques to biomedical images and aerial or satellite images. 

Harbison, Craig
Art History

(o) 413/545-6986; craighar@arthist.umass.edu
Western European art history, especially 1400-1900; symbolism in art; history of printmaking. 

Hardy, Doug
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-0659; dhardy@nsm.umass.edu
Climate and weather: High-elevation climate; paleoclimatology; mountain glaciers. Interactions between land, atmosphere and ice- and snow-covered surfaces in Canadian high Arctic; paleoclimatic research on Arctic lake sediments. Disintegration of glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. Global warming. 

Hardy, Jeanne
Chemistry

(o) 413/545-3486; hardy@chem.umass.edu
Apoptosis activators and inhibitors in disease treatment, allosteric regulation of proteins. 

Harmatz, Morton
Psychology

(o) 413/545-0664; harmatz@psych.umass.edu
Eating disorders; body image; food, obesity and weight loss; psychotherapy. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Chairs state Board of Registration of Psychologists. 

Harris, Stephen J.
English

(o) 413/545-6598; sharris@english.umass.edu
Beowulf; medieval literature; Anglo-Saxon history and literature. 

Hart, David
Executive Director, Center for Computer-Based Instructional Technology (CCBIT) and Center for Knowledge Communication

(o) 413/545-3278; dhart@cs.umass.edu
Development and deployment of instructional technology for use on campus, the UMass Medical School and K-12 schools in Massachusetts; development of computer-based learning and tutoring technology for students. 

Harvey, Elizabeth
Psychology

(o) 413/577-2755; eharvey@psych.umass.edu
Parenting and issues of young children. The effects on development for children of working and non-working parents. 

Hebert, Daniel
Biochemistry

(o) 413/545-0079; dhebert@biochem.umass.edu
Maturation and degradation of proteins, mechanisms for viral invasion of cells. 

Helfer, Karen
Communication Disorders

(o) 413/545-4014; khelfer@comdis.umass.edu
Disability issues: Hearing loss in aging; hearing aids and other devices for hearing-impaired people; hearing rehabilitation. Understanding speech. 

Herbert, Stephen J.
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-2250; sherbert@pssci.umass.edu
Agriculture: Soils and plant nutrition. 

Herrington, Anne
English

(o) 413/545-2971; anneh@english.umass.edu
Literacy of issues in South Africa. Teaching of composition. Also: writing across the curriculum, specifically relationships among writing, learning, and teaching. 

Hewitt, John P.
Sociology (retired)

(h) 520/578-2171; hewittjp@earthlink.net
Social psychology; relationship between self and society; American culture and its impact upon the person; self-esteem, addiction, co-dependency, the life cycle. Popular culture. 

Hill, Willie L. Jr.
Director, Fine Arts Center

(o) 413/545-3517; drwhill@acad.umass.edu
Music and dance: History of instrumental jazz; music education. 

Hird, John
Political Science

(o) 413/545-6184; jhird@pubpol.umass.edu
The environment, public policy and risk management; Superfund; domestic public policy; social regulations. 

Ho, Carlton
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-9703; ho@ecs.umass.edu
Natural disasters, earthquakes: Movement of unstable slopes; hazard analysis of slopes susceptible to seismic triggering; soil behavior. 

Hoadley, Bruce
Natural Resources Conservation (retired)

(o) 413/545-1834; hoadley@forwild.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Building materials: General wood science and wood product technology. Criminal justice: Role of wood evidence in criminal investigations and civil court cases. History: historic furniture; Hoadley is often consulted to help verify authenticity of museum collections of historic furniture; assisted in cataloging and refurbishing of furniture collection at U.S. Department of State. 

Hollander, Paul
Sociology (retired)

(h) 413/586-5546
Intellectual and other cultural political elites; “political correctness;” post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia; political extremism; literature and society; mass culture. Europe: former Soviet Union, other communist countries and why they collapsed. 

Hollingsworth, Craig
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-1055; chollingsworth@umext.umass.edu
Integrated pest management (IPM). Pesticides use in agriculture and efforts to reduce its use. As state pest survey coordinator, helps to detect introduction of new insects in region. Can discuss Partners with Nature, state certification program for growers who use IPM techniques to raise their crops. 

Howell, John
UMass Extension (retired)

(o) 413/545-5307; howell@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture: Vegetable crops. Growing and cultivating tobacco. 

Hubert, John
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-1525; jhubert@geo.umass.edu
Regional history: sedimentary rocks of the Connecticut River Valley; rocks containing the tracks of dinosaurs; Mesozoic red beds. 

Hugus, Frank R.
Director, International Programs
Languages, Literatures and Cultures

(o) 413/545-2710; hugus@ipo.umass.edu
International education at UMass.
Germanic literature; modern Danish literature, including Hans Christian Andersen. 

Irvine, Janice
Sociology

(o) 413/545-2926; irvine@soc.umass.edu
Religion: the Christian right and sex education. 

Jackson, Scott
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-4743; sjackson@umext.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Reptiles and amphibians; wetlands; biodiversity issues. Massachusetts environmental regulations and policies. Conservation and the environment. 

Jakob, Elizabeth
Psychology

(o) 413/547-0707; ejakob@psych.umass.edu
Animal behavior, behavioral neuroscience. 

Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie
Psychology

(o) 413/545-0264; janbul@psych.umass.edu
Psychology of victimization and trauma; rape. 

Jefferson, Stephen W.
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-6259; swj@sportmgt.umass.edu
Social issues in sport; sports and violence. 

Jensen, David
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-9677; jensen@cs.umass.edu
Knowledge discovery, machine learning, computing policy. Homeland security: data mining. 

Jerry, Joseph
Veterinary and Animal Sciences

(o) 413/545-5335; jjerry@vasci.umass.edu
Lactation biochemistry and physiology; mammary gland development; breast cancer. 

Jhally, Sut
Communication

(o) 413/545-4609; sutj@comm.umass.edu
Socialization of males in American culture; male aggression. Issues concerning the media and journalism; music videos; television; gender issues: gender and sex in the media; advertising from a critical perspective; advertising as a cultural product. Popular culture; portrayal of women. 

Jones, Robert E.
History (retired)

(h) 413/253-7827; rejones@history.umass.edu
Expert on Russsia, Eastern Europe and Russian History. 

Juanes, Francis
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-2758; juanes@nrc.umass.edu
Marine science: ecology, evolution, and behavior of fishes; Atlantic salmon ecology; predator-prey dynamics of Georges Bank fish. 

Juravich, Tom
Labor Relations and Research Center

(o) 413/545-5986; juravich@lrrc.umass.edu
National and state labor issues; the workplace; labor unions; national labor contracts and organizing efforts. 

Karasz, Frank
Polymer Science and Engineering (retired)

(o) 413/545-4783; fekarasz@polysci.umass.edu
Polymer alloys, composites, and electrically conducting polymers; plastics. 

Karpinski, Gary S.
Music and Dance

(o) 413/545-4229; garykarp@music.umass.edu
Music perception, listening; music training; 20th-century music; music theory and technology. 

Katsh, Ethan
Legal Studies

(o) 413/545-5879; katsh@legal.umass.edu
Law and legal issues related to computers, computing networks, and new information technologies. Conflict resolution on the Internet. Co-founder, with Janet Rifkin, of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution. 

Keimig, Frank
Geosciences, Manager, Climate System Research Center

(o) 413/545-0659; frank@geo.umass.edu
Weather data analysis and comparison. 

Kelty, Matthew
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-1799; kelty@nrc.umass.edu
Trees, forest management. 

Kim, Byung
Mechanical Engineering

(o) 413/545-2005; kim@ecs.umass.edu
Asia: Culture and history of North and South Korea. Born in South Korea; U.S. resident since 1971. 

King, M. Christine
Nursing

(o) 413/545-5095; mcking@nursing.umass.edu
Nursing and health care; primary health care; role of the nurse practitioner in health care. School nursing issues. Family: domestic violence. Violence against women; sexual assault; rape. 

Kinney, Arthur
English, Director, Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

(o) 413/577-3600; afkinney@english.umass.edu
Literary history. Renaissance prose and poetry; Shakespeare; Faulkner; American realism; modernism; theory; writing. 

Kitagawa, Chisato
Asian Languages and Literatures (retired)

christomary@aol. com
Linguistics; Japanese language. 

Kittredge, David
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-2943; dbk@nrc.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Forestry, silviculture (the care/cultivation of forest trees), forest policy, erosion control, fall foliage. 

Klekowski, Edward
Biology (retired)

(o) 413/545-0524; libbyk@bio.umass.edu
Conducting an ongoing deep-water exploration of the Connecticut River, including the river's flora and fauna, geology, and historical artifacts found beneath the river's surface. Regional history: collecting sediments from the river bottom to learn more about local climate history. 

Kurose, James
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-1585; kurose@cs.umass.edu
Telecommunication; computer networks; the Internet; educational software for children. Led Commonwealth IT Initiative, effort to develop information technology curriculum across 29-campus Massachusetts higher education system. 

La Follette, Laetitia
Art History

(o) 413/545-0634; laelaf@arthist.umass.edu
Mediterranean archaeology. Ancient history; classical world of Greece, Rome. Renaissance drawings of Roman antiquities (e.g. Palladia). Modern Greece and Italy. Instructional technology applications for teaching art history; involved in development of CD-ROM and web-based multimedia teaching tools. 

Labbe, Ronald G.
Food Science

(o) 413/545-1021; rlabbe@foodsci.umass.edu
Food microbiology; food-borne disease agents. Bacterial sporulation and germination. Effects of caffeine on microbial growth and metabolism. Effect of natural products on food-borne pathogens. 

Lanza, Guy
Environmental Sciences

(o) 413/545-4945; glanza@nre.umass.edu
Environment: Internationally recognized expert on Mekong Delta watershed; hydroelectric dams in China, other ecology issues in Asia. Bioremediation; specifically, phytoremediation: the use of living plants in pollution control and cleanup. Wetlands. 

LaRaja, Raymond
Political Science

(o) 413/545-6182; laraja@polsci.umass.edu
American politics; political parties and elections; campaign finance. 

Larson, Joseph
Natural Resources Conservation, Director, The Environmental Institute (retired)

(o) 413/256-8256; larson@tei.umass.edu
Environment: leading authority on wetlands. Freshwater wetlands; functions, value, state and national policy. Asia: wetlands in China; effects of Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River and endangered species. Hungary: effects of Danube River dams. International issues of wetland treaties and policy. 

Laurie, Bruce
History (retired)

(h) 413/253-7034; laurie@history.umass.edu
Politics, Labor Relations, International Scene 

Le, C.N.
Sociology

(o) 413/545-4074; le@soc.umass.edu
Race relations; immigration; Asian-Americans; ethnic communities and enclaves; assimilation of Vietnamese-Americans and other Asian-American groups. 

Learned-Miller, Erik
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-2993; elm@cs.umass.edu Computer vision systems, Applying ideas and methods from machine learning to problems in computer vision, involved with computer vision lab. 

Lederer, Karen
Women's Studies

(o) 413/545-1922; lederer@wost.umass.edu
Lederer is one of the principal developers of a computer archive (stored on CD-ROMs) of the AIDS Quilt assembled by the Names Project. 

Lenson, David
Languages, Literatures and Cultures

(o) 413/545-0921; lenson@complit.umass.edu
Drugs and consciousness from a philosophical perspective. Drugs and society; popular music and culture. 

Lester, Julius
Judaic and Near Eastern Studies (retired)

lester@judnea.umass.edu
Black-Jewish Relations; African-American politics and culture; religion: Judaism; anti-Semitism; race; 1960s; civil rights movement. Prolific and well-known author. 

Levine, Brian
Computer Science

(o) 413/577-0238; brian@cs.umass.edu
Homeland security: response management. 

Liang, Bing
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-5620; bliang@som.umass.edu
Capital market efficiency; hedge funds and mutual funds; econometrics. 

Lindhult, Mark
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

(o) 413/545-6640; lindhult@larp.umass.edu
Computer-aided design. 

Long, Sharon
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-5390; long@ecs.umass.edu
Bioremediation: Use of microbes to treat environmental contamination and pollution. Microscopic organisms that provide information about water quality and sources of contamination. 

Loomis, David K.
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-6641; loomis@nrc.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Human dimensions of fishing and hunting: motivation, personality, conflict; crowding; use of outdoor recreational facilities such as national parks. 

Love, Barbara
Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services

(o) 413/545-0013; bjlove@educ.umass.edu
Multicultural organizational development; race; issues of oppression; participation of women, African-Americans and all people of color in organizations; management. 

Lovley, Derek
Microbiology

(o) 413/545-9651; dlovley@microbio.umass.edu
Bioremediation: use of anaerobic microorganisms to control soil and water pollution. Energy: research on geobacter, bacteria capable of producing electricity. 

Lowry, Linda
Hospitality and Tourism Management

(o) 413/545-4041; llowry@ht.umass.edu
Tourism issues in general; business aspects of tourism industry. 

Lutenegger, Alan J.
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-2508; lutenegg@ecs.umass.edu
Regional history: restoration of historic bridges. 

Maddox, Donald
Languages, Literatures and Cultures (retired)

(h) 413/549-0445; maddox@frital.umass.edu
European community, European history, French history. 

Mammen, Sheila
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-2470; smammen@resecon.umass.edu
Conusmer affairs: Family and consumer economics. Financial well-being of families. Consumption economics. Welfare policies. 

Mangaliso, Mzamo
Management

(o) 413/545-5698; mangaliso@som.umass.edu
Management of South African companies; corporate strategies, administrative and management theory. Originally from South Africa; formerly a production manager for Unilever in South Africa. Election process in South Africa 

Mangan, Frank
UMass Extension

(h) 978/422-6374; fxmangan@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture: Vegetable and small fruit crops. 

Mann, Ray Kinoshita
Art

(o) 413/577-0943; rkmann@art.umass.edu
Art/Design: Architecture and interior design. 

Manning, William
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/545-2289; wmanning@microbio.umass.edu
Environment: Biological effects of air pollution and global climate-change on plants; growth, productivity, and interactions with fungi. 

Manwell, James
Renewable Energy Research Project

(o) 413/577-1249; manwell@ecs.umass.edu
Director: Renewable Energy Research Project; wind power. 

Manz, Charles C.
Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership

(o) 413/545-5584; cmanz@som.umass.edu
Business leadership models; management. 

Masteralexis, Lisa Pike
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5061; lpmaster@sportmgt.umass.edu
Labor relations in sports; international sport law and management; discrimination. 

Matthews, Gareth
Philosophy (retired)

(o) 413/545-5801; matthews@philos.umass.edu
Ancient and medieval philosophy; philosophy of religion; medical ethics. 

May, Gretchen
UMass Extension

(o) 413/577-0332; gmay@umext.umass.edu
Children: Child and family development. 

McBride, Nicholas
Journalism

(o) 413/545-5921; mcbride@journ.umass.edu
Journalism: how the press covers race, including history and topics currently in the news such as the death penalty, affirmative action, police brutality, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa. 

McCarthy, John
Linguistics

(o) 413/545-6830; jmccarthy@linguist.umass.edu
English pronunciation, especially Boston dialect; regional history. 

McCauley, Gilbert
Theater

(dept. main number) 413/545-3490; gilmac@theater.umass.edu
Directing, African theater, African-American theater 

McDermott, Kathryn A.
Educational Policy, Research and Administration

(o) 413/545-3562; mcdermott@educ.umass.edu
School vouchers, educational accountability, and urban schooling issues. 

McDonald, Mark A.
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5062; mcdonald@sportmgt.umass.edu
Sports marketing; sports sponsorship; niche marketing. 

McGill, George
Geosciences (retired)

(o) 413/545-0140; gmcgill@geo.umass.edu
Astronomy: Planetary geology, particularly on Mars. Helped NASA select the landing site for Mars rover Spirit in 2004 

McKelvey, Steve
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5066; mckelvey@sportmgt.umass.edu
“Ambush” marketing; sports sponsorship and sales. Sports law and intellectual property. 

McLandsborough, Lynne
Food Science

(o) 413/545-1016; lm@foodsci.umass.edu
Rapid detection of food-borne pathogens; detection of E. coli, especially in meat. Application of bacterial genetic techniques to food microbiology and safety. Food fermentation. Use of bacteriocins as food preservation agents. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs). 

McLaughlin, David J.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere

(o) 413/577-2149; mclaughlin@ecs.umass.edu

Mednicoff, David M.
Public Policy

(o) 413/577-1238; mednic@legal.umass.edu
International relations: globalization, international law and politics; political development theory, especially in the Middle East and North Africa; Morocco and its culture and development under the late King Hassan II; politics. Homeland security: teaching about terrorism; war. 

Meyer, Jerrold
Psychology

(o) 413/545-2168; jmeyer@psych.umass.edu
Cocaine. Cocaine-addicted infants. Drugs and drug abuse, especially cocaine; drug treatment. Drug treatment of specific disorders; drug treatment of depression. 

Mietlicki, Shirley
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-4420; mietlicki@umext.umass.edu
Children: Child and family development. 

Miller, Marla
History

(o) 413/545-4256; mmiller@history.umass.edu
Women in clothing trade before industrialization in 18th and early 19th centuries; active in Valley Women's History Collaborative; archives and historic preservation; public history; museum and historic site interpretation. Regional history. 

Milne, George
Marketing

(o) 413/545-5669; milne@mktg.umass.edu
Direct marketing and privacy issues. 

Minear, Richard
History

(o) 413/545-0389; rhminear@history.umass.edu
Asia: Hiroshima and the Nuclear Age; Pacific War; war crimes; Japanese history. Nuclear issues. 

Moffitt, L. Joe
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-5719; moffitt@resecon.umass.edu
Economics of integrated pest management issues and the environment. Pesticides. 

Moore, Gary S.
Public Health (retired)

(h) 413/323-6236; gmoore@schoolph.umass.edu
Natural disasters and homeland security: provides courseware and instruction on emergency preparedness to four New England states. Distance learning courses and issues. Environment: air and water pollution; neurotoxological studies and the effects of pollutants on the central nervous system. 

Morgan, Michael
Communication

(o) 413/545-4314; mmorgan@comm.umass.edu
The role of the media and journalism in daily life; how the media shapes popular opinion. Popular culture, television. 

Mulholland, Mitchell T.
Director, Archaeological Services

(o) 413/545-1626; mulholland@tei.umass.edu
Cultural resource management and archaeology; investigation of historic, prehistoric and industrial sites in New England and New York. 

Mullin, John
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Director, Center for Economic Development
Dean of the Graduate School

(o) 413/545-5271 or 545-2255/6628; jmullin@provost.umass.edu
Economic development; industrial planning; industrial and commercial revitalization; urban renewal; city planning. 

Nagurney, Anna
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-5635; nagurney@gbfin.umass.edu
Logistics: researches supply chain networks (including global ones) to determine optimal production of goods and services; cooperation versus competition issues. Models the interactions and impacts of telecommunications networks on other network computing systems, including transportation/logistical and financial. Researches “supernetworks.” Study of congested urban transportation systems to predict flow of automobiles and other vehicles and the economic impacts; sustainable transportation and environmental networks. Studies interrelationships among decision-makers in energy markets from an economic perspective and has specific interests in utility/power issues. 

Nakosteen, Robert A.
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-5687; nakosteen@som.umass.edu
Business and forecasting of economics; executive editor of Massachusetts Benchmarks, quarterly journal analyzing the state's economy. 

Nasca, Philip C.
Public Health

(o) 413/545-4534; pcn@schoolph.umass.edu
Epidemiology of cancers of the breast and women's reproductive organs; epidemiology of childhood cancers; use of available data to plan and evaluate cancer control programs; shaken baby syndrome. 

Nash, Alice
History

(o) 413/545-6761; anash@history.umass.edu
Impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of northeastern North America. Native Americans. Regional history: 1704 Indian raid on Deerfield. 

Ndikumana, Leonce
Economics

(o) 413/545-6359; ndiku@econs.umass.edu
External debt and capital flight in sub-Saharan Africa; economics and politics of conflicts and post-war reconstruction in Central Africa (Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo); globalization. 

Nelson, John
English (retired)

(o) 413/545-6025
American studies. Technical writing. 

Nieto, Sonia
Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (retired)

(h) 413/549-1414; snieto@educ.umass.edu
Multicultural and bilingual education; education of students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. 

Norden, Martin
Communication

(o) 413/545-0598; norden@comm.umass.edu
Film history, theory and criticism, and screenwriting; Disability issues: Portrayal of physical disabilities in movies. 

Norkin, Leonard
Microbiology

(o) 413/545-2009; lnorkin@microbio.umass.edu
AIDS: Virologist studying a virus that induces tumors under laboratory conditions. 

Normark, Benjamin
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/577-3780; bnormark@ent.umass.edu
Classification of insects. Evolution of insects. 

Novak, Melinda
Psychology

(o) 413/545-2387; mnovak@psych.umass.edu
Animal welfare; animal rights; psychological well-being of animals; social behavior of rodents. Non-primate bonding. Development and aging in primates. 

Nusslein, Klaus
Microbiology

(o) 413/545-1356; nusslein@microbio.umass.edu
Microorganisms. Bioremediation of heavy metals and acid in mines. 

Nyachuba, David G.
Nutrition

(o) 413/545-0552; dng@nutrition.umass.edu
Food microbiologist and food safety specialist/educator. Studies foodborne pathogenic bacteria with an emphasis on Listeria monocytogenes. 

Olf, Julian
Theater

(o) 413/545-9563; jolf@theater.umass.edu
Playwriting; screenwriting; experimental theater. 

Olson, Rita Brennan
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-0552; ritabo@nutrition.umass.edu
Food safety. 

Osborne, Barbara
Veterinary and Animal Sciences

(o) 413/545-4882; osborne@vasci.umass.edu
Immunology: The immune system and cell death. Research has implications for humans and in the treatment of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and spinal cord injuries. Role of enzymes in disease. 

Overtree, Christopher
Clinical Psychology

(o) 413/545-5943;
overtree@psych.umass.edu

School climate reform: bullying and cyberbullying, teacher trainings, special needs students. Psychotherapy: cognitive-behavioral treatment, anxiety disorders, depression, childhood disorders and parenting, psychotherapy training, psychotherapy research, mental health administration. Program evaluation: academic and social programming, outcomes assessment, technological integration. 

Owen, Mary
UMass Extension

(o) 508/892-0382; mowen@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture, plants: Turf grass. 

Pader, Ellen
Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

(o) 413/545-6620; pader@larp.umass.edu
Gender issues: housing; race, ethnicity and housing; social planning and applied anthropology; housing discrimination and fair housing. 

Page, Max
Art

(o) 413/545-6940; mpage@art.umass.edu
Art/Design: New York history; urban development; the politics of the past. Monuments, memorials, architecture; World Trade Center towers. 

Page, Priscilla
Theater

(o) 413/545-6816; pmpage@theater.umass.edu
Multicultural theater; Latino/Latina theater 

Park, Yeonhwa
Food Science and Nutrition

(o) 413/545-1018; ypark@foodsci.umass.edu
Conjugated linoleic acid in the treatment of obesity; studies of acrylamide - a possible carcinogen found in fried foods. 

Parks, George
Music and Dance
Director, Minuteman Marching Band

(o)413/545-6061; gnp@music.umass.edu
Bands, marching bands. 

Partee, Barbara
Linguistics (retired)

(o) 413/545-0889; partee@linguist.umass.edu
Philosophy and language; relation of formal mathematics logic and everyday human language, semantics, syntax, and cognitive science. 

Patterson, William A. III
Natural Resources Conservation (retired)

(o) 413/545-1970; wap@nrc.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Wildfire management; trees; forest ecology; paleoecology (fire/vegetation history). 

Paynter, Robert W.
Anthropology

(o) 413/545-2658; rpaynter@anthro.umass.edu
Lead archaelogist at W.E.B. DuBois homestead in Great Barrington; archaeology of complex societies; the archaeology of New England; role of African-Americans in early 20th century; slavery in New England. General issues in anthropology, especially pertaining to race, class, and gender. Multiculturalism. Regional history. 

Pazmany, Andrew
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory

(o) 413/545-0779; pazmany@mirsl.ecs.umass.edu
Climate and weather, natural disasters: Tornado and severe weather detection and tracking. Designed and built specialized, narrow-beam radar that produces highest-resolution information available to study tornadoes. Sensors. 

Peelle, Howard A.
Education

(o) 413/545-1114; hapeelle@educ.umass.edu
Computer/math notation; artificial intelligence computing applications in education. Math problem-solving; educational programming languages. Education and curriculum studies. 

Perry-Jenkins, Maureen
Psychology

(o) 413/545-0258; mpj@psych.umass.edu
Family issues in general; working mothers; work and the family; working-class families. Gender roles within the family structure, in particular the roles of men and women re: contributions to child care, outside work, and the performance of household tasks, inequities between the two roles. 

Petersen, Sandra
Veterinary and Animal Sciences

413/545-1808; spetersen@vasci.umass.edu
Process of ovulation. Treatment of infertility and new methods of contraception that interrupt the process of ovulation. Neuroscience. 

Peterson, M.J.
Political Science

(o) 413/545-6171; mjp@polsci.umass.edu
International relations: cooperation among nations. Antarctic treaty. 

Philippides, Marios
Classics

(o) 413/545-3142; mphilipp@classics.umass.edu
Greek mythology and religion, Greek vase painting; Late Byzantine history. 

Phillis, Randall
Biology

(o) 413/545-3494; rphillis@bio.umass.edu
Instructional technology: use of handheld transmitters in large lecture classes. 

Platt, Gerald
Sociology

(o) 413/545-0456; platt@soc.umass.edu
Civil rights movement, African-Americans, especially how Martin Luther King Jr. was viewed by his followers. 

Platt, Rutherford
Geosciences (retired)

(h) 413/586-6641; platt@geo.umass.edu
Environment: federal policies and programs regarding natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes; coastal management; wetland policy; floods. The rebuilding and redesign of communities in order to protect them from wildfires. Also: emergency preparedness. Urban planning, especially parks and open space. Land use, Water, Natural Disasters, Ecological Cities. 

Platt, Stephen
History

(o) 413/545-2785; platt@history.umass.edu
History of China, contemporary Chinese society, nationalism, US-China relations. 

Podos, Jeff
Biology

(o) 413/545-0847; jpodos@bio.umass.edu
Mechanisms and evolution of animal behavior, particularly vocal behavior in songbirds. How birdsongs may be influenced by the evolutionary diversification of birds’ beaks. Ongoing research examines beaks and song evolution in Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. 

Pollin, Robert N.
Economics, Co-director Political Economy Research Institute

(o) 413/577-0126; pollin@econs.umass.edu
Labor, living wage movement; political economy. Globalization and economic policy. 

Pollin, Sigrid Miller
Art

(o) 413/545-6944; smillerp@art.umass.edu
Cross-media transformations in art and architecture; award-winning architect; member of American Institute of Architects (AIA). 

Portuges, Catherine
Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Director, Film Studies Program

(o) 413/545-3659; portuges@complit.umass.edu
French and East European cinemas; cinema and psyche; and autobiographical film; national cinemas; and women directors. 

Powers, Sally I.
Psychology

(o) 413/545-3307; powers@psych.umass.edu
Children and family: depression among teens. Depession in women and young girls. 

Proulx, Donald A.
Anthropology (retired)

(h) 413/256-6751
Latiin America: Peruvian archaeology; ancient civilizations, pre-Columbian art and iconography. 

Rabin, Monroe S.Z.
Physics

(o) 413/545-0424; rabin@physics.umass.edu
High-energy physics and medical physics: nuclear issues: weapons, power plants, waste disposal, and radiation exposure. Lightning. Electromagnetic fields; effects of electricity and magnetic forces on health. 

Rausch, Jane
History (retired)

(h) 413/253-7218; jrausch@history.umass.edu
Latin America: Colombian history and current events. 

Reckhow, David
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, The Environmental Institute

(o) 413/545-5392; reckhow@ecs.umass.edu
Environment: water purification and drinking water treatment systems, pollution. Homeland security: protection of water supplies. 

Reising, Steven C.
Electrical and Computer Engineering

(o) 413/577-0697; reising@ecs.umass.edu
Climate and weather: Lightning. Remote sensing of the ocean surface and the atmosphere. Lightning sprites: luminous glows associated with lightning that rise from thunderclouds. Also: aurora borealis, or “Northern lights.” Sensors. 

Rhodes, J. Michael
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-2841; jmrhodes@geo.umass.edu
Natural disasters: volcanoes. 

Rife, Frank
Exercise Science

(o) 413/545-2634; frife@kin.umass.edu
Corporate employee fitness benefits. 

Rifkin, Janet
Legal Studies

(o) 413/545-4173; jrifkin@legal.umass.edu
Computing: Conflict resolution on the Internet. Law: Co-founder, with Ethan Katsh, of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution. 

Roberts, Chris
Hospitality and Tourism Management

(o) 413/545-4411; q@ht.umass.edu
Strategic management; hotel operations management; resort management; gaming and management of casinos. 

Roberts, Janine
Education (retired)

(o) 413/545-3569; (h) 413/548-9583; janine@educ.umass.edu
Family therapist. The changing family. Family rituals. Step-parenting; divorce; remarried families. Families and life-threatening illness and death. Families and holidays. Family therapy in Latin America. Working with street working children, families and schools. 

Robinson, Alan G.
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-5640; agr@som.umass.edu
Corporate creativity; creativity in the workplace. Japanese management models; total quality management in business. 

Roche, Barbara J.
Journalism

(o) 413/545-5930; bjroche@journ.umass.edu
Freelance writing; writing for magazines. 

Rogers, Richard
Resource Economics

(o) 413/545-5741; rogers@resecon.umass.edu
Instructional technology for large enrollment courses. 

Romero, Miguel
Theater

(o) 413/545-4649; mromero@theater.umass.edu
Scenic design and puppetry. 

Rotello, Vincent
Chemistry

(o) 413/545-2058; rotello@chem.umass.edu
Large carbon molecules known as “buckyballs.” Use of Vitamin B-2 embedded in glass as an environmentally friendly chemical catalyst. Biosensors. 

Rothstein, Jonathan
Engineering

(o) 413/577-0110; rothstein@ecs.umass.edu
Fluid dynamics, hydrodynamics stability, microfluidics, optical measuring techniques, laminar and turbulent drag reduction. Recent Navy contract to reduce drag on hulls. 

Rothstein, Robert
Literatures and Cultures

(o) 413/545-0894; rar@slavic.umass.edu
Slavic and Yiddish folklore; Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. Slavic and Yiddish folklore and popular music; proverbs. Former Soviet Union. 

Royer, James M.
Psychology (retired)

(o) 413/545-2154; royer@psych.umass.edu
Educational testing, gender issues: Differences in how males and females perform on standardized tests. MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System). SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test). 

Rudman, Masha K.
Education

(o) 413/545-1116; rudman@educ.umass.edu
Elementary education; teacher education; cooperative learning; literature for children. 

Russell, Thomas
Polymer Science and Engineering

(o) 413/577-1516; russell@mail.pse.umass.edu
Various topics in the field, including how scientists are creating still-smaller integrated circuits, greater magnetic storage in computer, and on-chip-sensors. Russell's work has also focused on the creation of precise arrays of nanowires and extremely fine resolution images on computer monitors. Nanotechnology. 

Ryan, Dennis
Natural Resources Conservation

(o) 413/545-6626; dr@nrc.umass.edu
Forestry/wildlife: Arboriculture, trees, and urban forest management. 

Ryavec, Karl
Political Science (retired)

(h) 413/253-0881
Russian politics: foreign policy, economy, and recent history. U.S.-Russia relations. Slovenia. Nuclear issues: weapons and arms control involving Europe. International relations; war; former Soviet Union. 

Sarti, Roland
History (retired)

(h) 413/549-6360
Modern Italy. Politics in Europe. Fascism. 

Scharrer, Erica
Communication

(o) 413/545-4765; scharrer@comm.umass.edu
Media effects on aggression and socialization; media issues: portrayals of gender and violence; portrayals of sitcom fathers. Popular culture, television. 

Schewe, Charles
Marketing

(o) 413/545-5672; schewe@mktg.umass.edu
Marketing management. Marketing to an aging population 

Schimmel, David
Educational Policy, Research and Administration

(o) 413/545-1529; schimmel@educ.umass.edu
Law and education. Community-service learning. 

Schmitter, Monika A.
Art History

(o) 413/545-6988; mschmitt@arthist.umass.edu
Italian Renaissance art; history of art collecting. 

Schneider, Stephen
Astronomy

(o) 413/545-2076; schneider@astro.umass.edu
Radio astronomy; galaxies. 

Seldin, Clement
Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies

(o) 413/545-4707; caseldin@educ.umass.edu
Teacher training: standards and preparation; teaching portfolios; parent/teacher conferencing. 

Sheridan, Ann
Nursing (retired)

(h) 413/737-7917; sheridan@nursing.umass.edu
History of nursing at UMass and information about nursing programs at UMass. 

Shetty, Kalidas
Food Science

(o) 413/545-1022; kalidas@foodsci.umass.edu
Food biotechnology. Production of natural disease-fighting and food preservative agents. Phenolic pathways in plants, primarily of the mint family. (Phenolics are complex sequences of biochemical reactions by which plants produce certain chemicals to help the body resist disease and help food last longer.) 

Shuldiner, Paul
Civil and Environmental Engineering

(o) 413/545-2688; shuldiner@ecs.umass.edu
Transportation engineering; transportation and regional planning; environmental assessment related to transportation issues. Driver safety. Is one of the principal researchers in a program using high-tech methods to track traffic problems during the renovation of the Coolidge Bridge and reconstruction of Route 9. 

Siegelmann, Hava
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-2744; hava@cs.umass.edu
Biocomputation, biomodelling of circadian rythms, bioinformatics, adaptive and active information systems. 

Sievert, Lynette Leidy
Anthropology

(o) 413/545-1379; leidy@anthro.umass.edu
Women's health with an emphasis on the study of menopause. 

Sims, Norman
Journalism

(o) 413/545-5929; sims@journ.umass.edu
Nonfiction writing; literary journalism; freedom of the press; journalism history; computer-assisted reporting. 

Simurda, Stephen
Journalism

(o) 413/545-5927; ssimurda@journ.umass.edu
Freelance writing; magazine writing. 

Sireci, Stephen G.
Educational Policy, Research and Administration

(o) 413/545-0564; sireci@acad.umass.edu
Educational testing: assessment; test development; cross-lingual assessment in education. MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System). SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test). 

Skerrett, Joseph
English

(o) 413/545-3694
American literature, American studies; African-American and ethnic American fiction; contemporary literature. 

Smethurst, James
Afro-American Studies

(o) 413/545-2751; jsmethur@afroam.umass.edu
African-American literature and culture, especially 20th century poetry and novels. 

Smircich, Linda
Management

(o) 413/545-5693; smircich@mgmt.umass.edu
Organizational culture and ethics in business; gender issues and management. 

Smith, Tina
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-5306; tsmith@umext.umass.edu
Agriculture, plants: floriculture and greenhouse crops. 

Snell, Ronald L.
Astronomy

(o) 413/545-1949; snell@astro.umass.edu
Radio astronomy; molecular clouds and star formation. 

Snyder, Will
UMass Extension

(o) 413/545-3876; wsnyder@umext.umass.edu
K-12 environmental education. 

Solak, Senay
Finance and Operations Management

(o) 413/545-5681; solak@som.umass.edu

Air transportation planning; efficient use of airports; use of air space and airport terminal capacity; has done research for NASA, the FAA and the U.S. Department of Transportation; system simulation and business process simulation; technology portfolio management. Also: working with community development agencies on acquisition of housing involved in foreclosures in Lowell and Boston. 

Sondheimer, Norman K.
Co-Director, Electronic Enterprise Institute

(o) 413/545-5654; sondheimer@cs.umass.edu
Emerging issues in information technology in business; commercial applications of information technology; systems development methods for digital government information technology. 

Sorcinelli, Mary Deane
Director, Center for Teaching

(o) 413/545-1255; msorcinelli@acad.umass.edu
Faculty development; improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. 

Stage, Michael
Astronomy

(o) 413/545-2456; mikstage@astro.umass.edu
Astronomy, origin of cosmic rays and the evolution of galaxies. 

Staub, Ervin
Psychology (retired)

(o) 413/545-0071; estaub@psych.umass.edu
How to raise caring children; youth violence; values; altruism; helpful behavior: morality; family. Ethnic conflict; war; the Holocaust; aggression; behavior of bystanders in crises; group violence; urban life; human rights. 

Sternheim, Morton
Director of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Teacher Education Collaborative (STEMTEC) (retired)

(h) 413/253-9462; mort@umassk12.net
Teacher training: STEMTEC is a major initiative aimed at improving science and math education by helping teachers evaluate and modify their teaching methods, and providing support and mentoring to aspiring teachers. Collaborators include other members of the Five Colleges, local community colleges, and a number of K-12 schools. 

Story, Ronald
History (retired)

(h) 413/665-1358
World War II, modern U.S. conservatism. 

Strehorn, Kregg
Advising and Student Support Services

(o) 413/545-5103; strehorn@acad.umass.edu
Disability issues: Learning disabilities and academic support; assistive technologies 

Strickland, Bonnie
Psychology (retired)

(o) 413/545-4304; bonnie@psych.umass.edu
Gender issues: gender identity development; women and depression; women's health issues. 

Strickland, William
Afro-American Studies

(o) 413/545-5167
Expert on W.E.B. Du Bois collection housed at UMass. Civil rights movement and African-American issues; Malcolm X; 1960s; social change movements; freedom movement in the South; politics. 

Stuart, Elizabeth
Microbiology

(o) 413/545-6750; esstuart@microbio.umass.edu
Immunology: Chlamydia vaccine. Member of research team that developed and patented a vaccine. 

Subramaniam, Banu
Women's Studies

(o) 413/545-1922; banu@wost.umass.edu
Issues relating to gender, race, and science. 

Sulzner, George
Political Science (retired)

(o) 413/545-2761; (h) 413/253-2195 sulzner@polsci.umass.edu
Government and politics in Canada. Labor relations and arbitration. 

Sunderland, Edward
Mechanical Engineering (retired)

(o) 413/545-2178; edsunderland@comcast.net
Energy. Solar energy storage; food processing, including heat transfer, freeze drying; industrial energy conservation. 

Swartz, Marvin
History (retired)

(h) 413/529-0024; mswartz@history.umass.edu
Europe since the French Revolution; World Wars I and II; the Holocaust. 

Tattar, Terry
Microbiology (retired; in Amherst from May to October)

(h) 413/256-6998; tattar@microbio.umass.edu
Fall foliage. Plants. Diseases of trees and shrubs; Dutch elm disease; mangrove trees. 

Taub, Jennifer
Business law

(o) 413/577-3168; jtaub@som.umass.edu
Commercial law, global financial crisis, financial regulation, corporate governance, mutual fund governance, hedge fund regulation, corporate social responsibility, investor protection and consumer protection.

Member of the Economists’ Committee for Stable, Accountable, Fair and Efficient Financial Reform (SAFER). Former associate general counsel for Fidelity Investments in Boston and assistant vice president for the Fidelity Fixed Income Funds. 

Tausky, Curt
Sociology (retired)

(h) 413/253-9893
Business organizations 

Telfer, Janice
Veterinary & Animal Science

(o) 413/545-5564: telfer@vasci.umass.edu
Stem cell expansion, viability, expression and differentiation, RUNX family transcription factors in immune system development. 

Tew, Gregory N.
Polymer Science and Engineering

(o) 413/577-1612; tew@mail.pse.mass.edu
Creating synthetic material with antibacterial properties at molecular level. 

Thayumanavan, Sankaran "Thai"
Chemistry

(o) 413/545-1313; thai@chem.umass.edu
Design and synthesis of biomimetic materials for targeted drug delivery, catalysis and tissue engineering; design and synthesis of light harvesting and light emitting materials. Leads federally funded energy research center that focuses on hydrogen fuel cells. 

Theroux, James
Management

(o) 413/545-5677; theroux@som.umass.edu
Entrepreneurship, small business; cable television and media markets. 

Towsley, Don
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-0207; towsley@cs.umass.edu
Information technology: high-speed networks, architecture of the next generation of the Internet; multimedia applications. 

Tracy, Steven
Afro-American Studies

(o) 413/545-3275; sctracy@afroam.umass.edu
Harlem renaissance; Langston Hughes. Music and dance: blues music. African-American life. 

Tropp, Linda
Psychology

(o) 413/577-0934; tropp@psych.umass.edu

Prejudice; interracial attitudes; intergroup contact; interracial contact; intergroup relations; race relations; ethnic relations; minority/majority relations; racail segregation; school desegregation; racial and ethnic diversity; racial and ethnic inequality. 

Tuominen, Mark
Physics, co-director MassNanoTech

(o) 413/545-1944; tuominen@physics.umass.edu
Polymer self-assembly and development of magnetic data storage techniques. Nanotechnology. 

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Vandriesche, Roy
Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences

(o) 413/545-1061; vandries@nre.umass.edu
Biological insect control; suppression of non-native species of insects. 

Walker, Nefertiti A.
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5021; nwalker@isenberg.umass.edu
College sports, professional sports organizations, gender issues in sports, organizational behavior in sport business and sport Management; former NCAA Div. 1 basketball player at Georgia Tech and Stetson University. 

Wang, Daniel Q.
Astronomy

(o) 413/545-2131; wqd@astro.umass.edu
X-ray astronomy; structure and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters. 

Warner, Patricia
Theater (retired)

(o) 413/545-3490 (dept. main number); warner@theater.umass.edu
20th-century fashion; costume history. Clothing and film, primarily movies in the period 1915-1960; costuming for period movies; 19th and early 20th century women's history and the clothing for sport of that period. 

Warnick, Rodney
Hospitality and Tourism Management

(o) 413/545-6629; warnick@ht.umass.edu
Recreation marketing. Race, gender, and age-group participation in recreational activities. Exercise for the aging. Trends in recreation, sports, and tourism activities. Recreation resource management, marketing and planning, including trend and market analysis. 

Watkins, James
Chemical Engineering, co-director MassNanoTech

(o) 413/545-2569; watkins@polysci.umass.edu
Process technology using supercritical CO2 to enable the deposition of metals and porous dielectrics (insulators) at the nanoscale. Nanotechnology. 

Weems, Charles
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-3163; weems@cs.umass.edu
Computing: Development of image-understanding architecture systems for mobile robot vision; parallel processing; supercomputers; robotics. 

Weinbaum, Eve
Labor Relations and Research Center

(o) 413/577-0458; weinbaum@lrrc.umass.edu
Community response to plant closings; labor organizing, labor and politics; impact of economic development and the global economy. 

Weinberg, Martin D.
Astronomy

(o) 413/545-3821;weinberg@astro.umass.edu
Stellar dynamics, binary star systems, galactic structure and evolution. 

Weinberger, Marc G.
Marketing (retired)

(c) 413/773-0736; marcw@mktg.umass.edu
Advertising. Humor in advertising. negative publicity. 

Welburn, Ron
English

(o) 413/ 545-5518; rwelburn@english.umass.edu
Literature of Native Americans. 

Whelan, Thomas A.
Chemistry

(o) 413/545-6092; whelan@chem.umass.edu
Instructional technology: use of handheld transmitters in large lecture classes. 

Whitbourne, Susan Krauss
Psychology

(o) 413/545-4306; swhitbo@psych.umass.edu
Psychology of aging. Aspects of adult development such as personality, identity, intimacy, relationships, values, "mid-life crises." Leads Office of National Scholarship Advisement on campus. 

Whitehead, Ralph
Journalism

(o) 413/545-5922; rww@journ.umass.edu
Journalism, media coverage of public affairs. Political climate; national moods; understanding the nature of public debate over public policy; culture wars; changing values. Changing nature of American middle class; character of the baby boom and baby bust generations. Analysis of trends in the workforce; politics. Popular culture; political writing. 

Whiteman, Michael J.
Accounting and Information Systems

(o) 413/545-5660; whiteman@acctg.umass.edu
Taxes: federal laws, tax planning and opportunities, changes in tax law. 

Wickwire, Mary B.
History (retired)

(h) 413/628-3869; wickwire@history.umass.edu
Europe: Great Britain; British Empire; the royal family. 

Wilson, Mary C.
History

(o) 413/545-6774; wilson@history.umass.edu
Modern Middle East; Ottoman Empire. 

Wisocki, Patricia A.
Psychology (retired)

(h) 401/789-1749; wisocki@psych.umass.edu
Gerontology; aging; therapy for older adults. Worry and anxiety; psychotherapy. 

Wolff, Richard D.
Economics

(o) 413/545-6351; rdwolff@worldnet.att.net
U.S. economy: recession, unemployment, labor, foreign trade issues. Economic transformations in Russia and Eastern Europe. Former Soviet Union. 

Wolff, Robert Paul
Afro-American Studies

(o) 413/545-2751; rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
Directs university scholarship program for South African students. 

Wong, Glenn
Sport Management

(o) 413/545-5053; gwong@sportmgt .umass.edu
Sports labor relations. Sports and the law. Sports management programs and issues; business aspects of sports. Collegiate athletics. UMass faculty representative to the NCAA. 

Woolf, Beverly
Computer Science

(o) 413/545-4265; bev@cs.umass.edu
Computing: Intelligent tutors and educational software systems for students from K-12 through college. Human-machine communication; multimedia. Instructional technology: Building systems with extended multimedia and communication capabilities to produce real-time performance support and on-demand advisory and tutoring systems. Instructional applications include human physiology, mathematics, manufacturing, molecular genetics, K-12 education, art history, geosciences, chemistry, history, forestry, and microbiology. Led development On-line Web-based Learning (OWL) homework system for use by UMass faculty. Helped produce a software program aimed at easing math anxiety in girls. 

Young, James
English/Judaic and Near Eastern Studies

(o) 413/545-5872; jeyoung@english.umass.edu
Art/Design: How nations and artists remember the Holocaust in public spaces. Memorials. World Trade Center site and memorial. Jury member for international World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition following the terrorist attacks. Only foreigner on the five-member panel for Germany's national Holocaust memorial. Literary and narrative theory; 20th-century literature; Jewish literature; cultural studies. 

Young, Judith
Astronomy

(o) 413/545-4311; young@astro.umass.edu
Astronomy. Creator of the campus sunwheel, a stone construction which lines up with solstices and equinoxes. 

Yuretich, Richard
Geosciences

(o) 413/545-0538; yuretich@geo.umass.edu
Environment: groundwater issues; water quality; petroleum formation and exploitation; geologic phenomena. 

Zacharias, Larry
Management

(o) 413/545-5683; lsz@som.umass.edu
Business-government relations; law and legal history; economic regulation. 

Ziff, Howard
Journalism (retired)

(h) 413/549-5433; (o) 413/545-1376; hmz@journ.umass.edu
Journalism ethics; evaluating the press; recent journalism history. Motion picture industry; film classics. 

Zoeller, R. Thomas
Biology

(o) 413/545-2088; tzoeller@bio.umass.edu
Role of the thyroid hormone in brain development and function. Neuroscience. 

Zuniga, Ximena
Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services

(o) 413/545-0918; xzuniga@educ.umass.edu
Teacher training: Multicultural issues in the classroom.