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9/20/22
Stephanie Argentine

Executive in Residence at the Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
Expertise: employee engagement, recruitment and retention; startups and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs); compensation and benefits; the future of work; succession planning; board governance; strategic planning
Contact: Stephanie Argentine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Kate Bezrukova
Associate Professor and Chair of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: team chemistry in business and sports; managing a diverse workforce; unconscious bias at work; negotiations and gender; work-life balance; conflict management; artificial intelligence in teams

Contact: Kate Bezrukova can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Lora Cavuoto
Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Expertise: ergonomics, occupational safety and health, fatigue monitoring, worker quality of life

Phone: 716-645-4696
Email: loracavu@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Abigail Cooke

Associate Professor of Geography

Expertise: economic impact of immigration; economic impact of international trade; urban economies; international trade

Phone: 716-645-0486
Email: amcooke@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Matthew Dimick

Professor of Law
Expertise: income inequality, tax and welfare policy as it relates to income inequality, corporations, employment law, labor law
Phone: 716-645-7968
Email: mdimick@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yige Dong

Assistant Professor of Sociology, and of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: labor, work, gender and political economy, especially in China; labor and feminist movements in China and in a global context
Phone: 716-645-2417
Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Helen A. “Nellie” Drew
Director of the Center for the Advancement of Sport

Expertise: sports law, including student-athletes’ name, image and likeness (NIL), antitrust laws, collective bargaining, discipline of athletes, drug testing, NCAA compliance and Title IX; diversity in sport
Phone: 716-645-2071
Email: hdrew@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Lucinda M. Finley

Frank G. Raichle Professor of Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Expertise: abortion, reproductive rights, women and the law, Supreme Court, employment discrimination, equal protection law, tort law and reform
Phone: 716-645-6152
Email: finleylu@buffalo.edu
Contact: Finley can also be contacted through Doug Sitler in UB Media Relations at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Emily Grijalva
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: narcissism, gender, leadership

Contact: Emily Grijalva can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
2/15/23
Erin Hatton

Professor of Sociology

Expertise: labor movements, gig economy, job security, coerced labor, pay for college athletes, minimum wage, workfare
Phone: 716-645-8476
Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Dave Hostler

Chair of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Expertise: effect of diving on human health; environmental physiology; hyperthermia; hypothermia; firefighter and emergency responder health and safety

Phone: 716-829-6795
Email: dhostler@buffalo.edu
12/6/21
Kenneth Joseph

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: computing for social good; societal impacts of social media and online platforms (including in news and politics); inequality and societal divides
Phone: 716-645-0682
Email: kjoseph@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Tiffany Karalis Noel

Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: sociocultural inequity in education, teacher preparation and retention, mentoring in higher education

Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: tbkarali@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
G. James Lemoine
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: servant leadership; gender and leadership; ethics and moral leadership; leadership and motivation; entrepreneurial leaders; creativity and innovation; managing under volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA)

Contact: G. James Lemoine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Li Lin

Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expertise: industrial and systems engineering; manufacturing and health care systems; workspaces; workflow; health care delivery
Phone: 716-645-4713
Email: indlin@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Jordana Maisel

Director of Research for the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center)
Expertise: universal design, inclusive design, accessible transit, streetscapes, aging in place
Phone: 716-829-5902
Email: jlmaisel@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Timothy Maynes
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: employee-driven innovation and change; employee productivity, engagement and performance; effective team functioning (especially in sports)

Contact: Timothy Maynes can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
6/27/22
Joanne Song McLaughlin
Associate Professor of Economics

Expertise: labor economics; health insurance mandates; age discrimination; older workers; AI and the future of work
Phone: 716-645-8685
Email: jsmclaug@buffalo.edu
8/20/18
Ryan Muldoon

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Expertise: social and political philosophy, diversity, international development policy, social norms, behavior change, ethics

Phone: 716-645-0140
Email: rmuldoon@buffalo.edu
2/11/20
Robert Neubert
Director of Entrepreneurship Academic Programs in the UB School of Management

Expertise: entrepreneurship; intrapreneurship and corporate innovation; business model development for early-stage firms; lean startup methods; mentoring early-stage technology companies

Contact: Robert Neubert can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
6/27/22
Joanna Pepin

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Expertise: family sociology, inequality, gender and work, childcare, paid family leave
Phone: 716-645-2417
Email: jpepin@buffalo.edu
12/12/22
Raechele L. Pope

Associate Dean for Faculty and Student Affairs and Chief Diversity Officer in the Graduate School of Education

Expertise: multicultural education; equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education; campus climate; campus unrest; race, racism and race relations
Phone: 716-645-1098
Email: rlpope@buffalo.edu
2/21/22
Riana R. Pryor

Assistant Professor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Expertise: heat and exercise; heat illness, including heat stroke; hydration; high school sports and athlete safety; occupational safety; exercise physiology
Phone: 716-829-5456
Email: rpryor@buffalo.edu
1/17/23
Sarah A. Robert

Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: teaching as an occupation; teachers’ unions; labor issues in education; global education reform; gender and equity in education; school food
Phone: 716-645-4046
Email: sarah@buffalo.edu
1/24/22
Margaret Sallee

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: university work environment, work/family policies, work/life balance, faculty diversity, gender on college campuses, graduate student experience

Phone: 716-645-1091
Email: mwsallee@buffalo.edu
12/2/21
Matilde Sanchez-Pena

Assistant Professor of Engineering Education

Expertise: engineering education, cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity in the engineering field, women in STEM, intersectionality
Phone: 716-645-5861
Email: matildes@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Edward Steinfeld

Director of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center)

Expertise: universal design, inclusive design, accessibility, building design, inclusive restrooms, accessible transit, architecture
Phone: 716-829-5899
Email: arced@buffalo.edu
3/1/18
Corrie Stone-Johnson

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy

Expertise: school leadership, school reform, schools and communities, organizational culture of schools

Phone: 716-645-2471
Email: corriest@buffalo.edu
9/20/22
Inho Suk

Associate Professor of Accounting and Law
Expertise: corporate voluntary disclosures; accounting fraud; environmental, social and governance (ESG) accounting; mergers and acquisitions (consolidation) accounting; executive and employee turnover; accounting-marketing interface
Contact: Inho Suk can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/23/21
Gwynn Thomas, PhD

Chair and Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: gender and politics; feminism; global women’s movements, including #MeToo; politics in Latin America
Phone: 716-645-0793
Email: gmthomas@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Letitia Thomas

Assistant Dean for Diversity in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Expertise: STEM education and pipelines; women and students of color in STEM; sociology of education; social justice; social networks; microaggressions
Phone: 716-645-3071
Email: lthomas@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Min-Hsuan Tu
Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: abusive leadership; power and influence; leader identity and development

Contact: Min-Hsuan Tu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
5/6/22
Marion Werner

Associate Professor of Geography

Expertise: global trade; agriculture, food, labor rights and trade; agri-business; development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Phone: 716-645-0475
Email: wernerm@buffalo.edu