Experts by Expertise: Crime and Criminal Justice

Robert Adelman

Chair and Professor of Sociology

Expertise: urban sociology, segregation, race, immigration, U.S. Census

Phone: 716-645-8478

Email: adelman4@buffalo.edu

Daniel Antonius

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Expertise: terrorism, violence, aggression, CTE and behavior, mental health and the legal system

Phone: 716-898-5290

Email: danielan@buffalo.edu

Christine P. Bartholomew

Professor of Law

Expertise: class actions, antitrust law, consumer protection, clergy abuse, clergy privilege

Phone: 716-645-7399

Email: cpb6@buffalo.edu

Guyora Binder

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Law and Hodgson Russ Faculty Scholar

Expertise: criminal law, felony murder, homicide, jurisprudence, legal theory, international law

Phone: 716-645-2673

Email: gbinder@buffalo.edu

S. Todd Brown

Professor of Law

Expertise: business bankruptcy, bankruptcy trusts, complex litigation/mass torts, corporate governance, and corporate fraud

Phone: 716-645-2052

Email: stbrown2@buffalo.edu

Mary Bush

Associate Professor of Restorative Dentistry

Expertise: forensic dentistry, bite mark analysis, victim identification

Phone: 716-829-2862

Email: bushma@buffalo.edu

Peter Bush

Director of the South Campus Instrument Center

Expertise: forensic dentistry, bite mark analysis, victim identification

Phone: 716-829-3561

Email: pjbush@acsu.buffalo.edu

Charles P. Ewing

SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus

Expertise: crime, psychology of crime, forensic psychology, criminal trials, murder trials, insanity defense, death penalty, juvenile law, sex offenders

Phone: 716-645-2770

Email: cewing@buffalo.edu

Patricia Logan-Greene

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Expertise: violence and victimization, juvenile justice, adverse childhood experiences, prevention of problem behaviors, forensic social work

Phone: 716-645-1533

Email: pblogang@buffalo.edu

Carine Mardorossian

Professor of English, and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: medical humanities, death and dying, feminism, sexism, sexual violence, Caribbean literature

Phone: 716-645-0711

Email: cmardoro@buffalo.edu

Nadine “Shaanta” Murshid

Associate Professor of Social Work

Expertise: microfinance, mobile financial services, domestic violence, street harassment, women’s health, trauma

Phone: 716-645-5749

Email: nadinemu@buffalo.edu

Athena D. Mutua

Professor of Law and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar

Expertise: civil rights law; constitutional law (Fourteenth Amendment); critical race and feminist legal theory; law and political economy; race and the legal justice system

Phone: 716-645-2873. Athena D. Mutua can sometimes be contacted more quickly through the UB Media Relations team at ub-news@buffalo.edu.

Email: admutua@buffalo.edu

Anthony O’Rourke

Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice

Expertise: criminal law and procedure, inequality in the criminal justice system

Phone: 716-645-3097

Email: aorourke@buffalo.edu

Kelly Patterson

Associate Professor of Social Work

Expertise: social welfare policy; residential segregation; fair housing; gentrification; homelessness; poverty and economic inequality; race and class

Phone: 716-645-1248

Email: klp27@buffalo.edu

Michael Rembis

Director of the Center for Disability Studies

Expertise: disability history; disability studies; history of madness and mental illness; mental health in the context of prisons/mass incarceration; history of eugenics

Phone: Michael Rembis can be reached most quickly via email. He can also be reached through Charlotte Hsu in University Communications at 716-645-4655 or chsu22@buffalo.edu.

Email: marembis@buffalo.edu

David Schmid

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: popular culture, cultural studies, celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the city

Phone: 716-645-0679

Email: schmid@buffalo.edu

John M. Violanti

Research Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Expertise: police stress, health and suicide; PTSD

Phone: 716-829-5481

Email: violanti@buffalo.edu