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7/15/21
Robert Adelman

Chair and Professor of Sociology

Expertise: urban sociology, segregation, race, immigration, U.S. Census
Phone: 716-645-8478
Email: adelman4@buffalo.edu
7/12/21
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
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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
8/18/21
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
12/19/18
Mary Bush
Associate Professor of Restorative Dentistry

Expertise: forensic dentistry, bite mark analysis, victim identification
Phone: 716-829-2862
Email: bushma@buffalo.edu
12/5/16
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
8/16/21
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
4/7/23
Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
Associate Professor of Law
Expertise: legal philosophy, transnational law, transitional justice, truth commissions, Colombia’s peace agreement, international human rights and compensation

Phone: 716-645-3292
Email: jorgefab@buffalo.edu
11/10/21
Lindsay Hahn
Assistant Professor of Communication

Expertise: media psychology, morality, media effects, children and media, media and radicalization
Phone: 716-645-1172
Email: lhahn2@buffalo.edu
4/12/23
Patricia Logan-Greene
Associate Professor of Social Work

Expertise: violence and victimization, adverse childhood experiences, gun violence and prevention, child maltreatment

Phone: 716-645-1533
Email: pblogang@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
4/12/23
Nadine Shaanta Murshid

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Expertise: microfinance, mobile financial services, domestic violence, street harassment, women’s health, trauma
Phone: 716-645-5749
Email: nadinemu@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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
4/12/23
Kelly Patterson

Associate Professor of Social Work

Expertise: social welfare policy; cannabis policy; residential segregation; fair housing; gentrification; homelessness; poverty and economic inequality; race and class
Phone: 716-645-1248
Email: klp27@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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