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8/16/21
Jenifer Barclay

Assistant Professor of History

Expertise: disability history; disability, race, gender, class and sexuality; intersectionality; ableism; African American history; history of slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War
Phone: 716-645-8409
Email: barclay7@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Susan K. Cahn

Professor of History

Expertise: gender and sexuality in sports, homophobia in sports, women’s history, feminist theory, history of chronic illness, history of mental illness
Phone: 716-645-8418
Email: cahn@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
David Castillo
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Expertise: early modern culture, Baroque literature, horror and fantasy, new media and culture
Phone: 716-645-0869
Email: dc63@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
David Felder
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Music
Expertise: composition: chamber, choral, orchestral and electronic music. Music production: concerts, recording and festivals
Email: felder@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Cecil Foster

Professor of Transnational Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Canadian studies; multiculturalism, politics, race, ethnicity and immigration in Canada
Phone: 716-645-0786
Email: cecilfos@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Shira Gabriel

Associate Professor of Psychology
Expertise: social psychology, social connections, sense of self, the need to belong, comfort food
Phone: 716-645-0227
Email: sgabriel@buffalo.edu
1/24/22
Jeff Good

Chair and Professor of Linguistics

Expertise: morphology, syntax, evolution of languages, endangered languages, language documentation, multilingualism
Phone: 716-645-0126
Email: jcgood@buffalo.edu
9/7/21
Melanie Green
Chair and Professor of Communication

Expertise: persuasion, power of narrative, storytelling, online friendships, trust and deception online
Phone: 716-645-1508
Email: mcgreen2@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Donald A. Grinde Jr.

Professor in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Native American studies, Native American thought, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois history, U.S. Indian Policy since 1871, American Indian activism
Phone: 716-645-0828
Email: dgrinde@buffalo.edu
10/22/21
David Herzberg
Associate Professor of History

Expertise: opioid epidemic; history of prescription drugs, street drugs and other psychoactive substances; drug wars; drugs and popular culture

Phone: 716-645-8416
Email: herzberg@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Erin Kearney
Associate Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: language teaching and learning, intercultural competence and language education, language teacher training and development
Phone: 716-645-4058
Email: ekearney@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Jessica Kruger

Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior

Expertise: binge-watching, consumption, addictive behaviors, substance use and abuse, health behavior decision-making
Phone: 716-829-6748
Email: jskruger@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Jeehyun Lim

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Asian American literature; migration and diaspora; bilingualism; social and cultural dimensions of the Korean War and Vietnam War
Phone: 716-645-0703
Email: jeehyunl@buffalo.edu
9/3/21
Joan Linder
Professor of Art

Expertise: drawing, consumption and mass production, mundane objects, modern life, Love Canal and other toxic sites, environmental art, feminist art, power, public art
Phone: 716-645-0539
Email: joannder@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yan Liu

Assistant Professor of History

Expertise: history of Chinese medicine, food and spices; history of epidemics; history of the senses; comparative historical perspectives in medicine
Phone: 716-645-8404
Email: yliu253@buffalo.edu
12/16/21
Siwei Lyu

Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: digital media forensics, deepfakes, computer vision, machine learning, art authentication
Phone: 716-645-1587
Email: siweilyu@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
8/16/21
Elizabeth Mazzolini

Associate Professor of English

Expertise: Mountaineering deaths, climbing technology, consumerism, material culture, garbage, culture of waste

Phone: 716-645-0691
Email: mazz@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Ndubueze L. Mbah

Associate Professor of History

Expertise: African history; the Atlantic World; colonialism; gender in West Africa; history of slavery and emancipation; Boko Haram
Phone: 716-645-8415
Email: ndubueze@buffalo.edu
9/23/21
Cody Mejeur

Assistant Professor of Media Study

Expertise: game studies; trans, queer and feminist studies; narrative; storytelling; social justice and inclusion in video games and new media; games pedagogy
Phone: 716-645-0932
Email: codymeje@buffalo.edu
10/16/19
Danielle Meyer

Clinical Director of the Dietetic Internship Program in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences

Expertise: fad diets (keto, carb-free), debunking nutrition myths, oncology nutrition, geriatric nutrition, supplements
Phone: 716-829-5652
Email: dsmeyer@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Native American studies; Haudenosaunee history; public history; settler colonialism, including colonial residential/boarding schools; land tenure; Indigenous inclusion in education; emotional labor
Phone: 716-645-0833
Email: alyssamt@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yotam Ophir

Assistant Professor of Communication

Expertise: misinformation; persuasion; effect of media content on audiences, including in health, science, politics and terrorism

Phone: 716-645-1158
Email: yotamoph@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Elizabeth Otto
Professor of Art History
Expertise: the Bauhaus, history of photography, European and American Art, visual culture, theories of montage, gender issues, art and religion

Phone: 716-645-5334
Email: eotto@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
Margaret Rhee

Assistant Professor of Media Study

Expertise: digital storytelling; participatory art; new media, ethnic, cultural, Asian American, queer and feminist studies
Phone: 716-645-0923
Email: mrhee@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Adam Rome

Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Expertise: environmental movement in the U.S., environmental history, Earth Day, sustainable business, suburban sprawl
Phone: 716-645-8665
Email: adamrome@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
Kristin Stapleton
Professor of History

Expertise: modern China; U.S.-China relations; Chinese cities; history of the family, socialism and humor in China
Phone: 716-645-5645
Email: kstaple@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Phillips Stevens Jr.
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: cultural anthropology, religion, spiritualism, cults, superstition, witchcraft, zombies, vampires, curses, rites of passage, populism, nativism, xenophobia
Phone: 716-645-0416
Email: pstevens@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Despina Stratigakos

Professor of Architecture

Expertise: diversity in architecture; gender and modernity in European cities; German architecture; Nazi propaganda and architecture

Phone: 716-829-3486
Email: dms58@buffalo.edu
5/14/22
Henry-Louis Taylor Jr.
Director of the Center for Urban Studies
Expertise: urban development, housing, gentrification, underdeveloped neighborhoods, shrinking cities, race and class, U.S.-Cuba relations

Phone: 716-829-5458
Email: htaylor@buffalo.edu
9/13/21
Sama Waham

Assistant Professor of Media Study

Expertise: filmmaking; cinematography; narrative, documentary, experimental and hybrid films; storytelling
Phone: 716-645-0954
Email: swaham@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Lillian S. Williams

Associate Professor of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: U.S. social and urban history; African American history in the U.S. and Western New York; women’s history
Phone: 716-645-0798
Email: lsw4@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Kari J. Winter
Professor of American Studies
Expertise: gender, feminism, race, class, slavery, politics of food, literature
Phone: 716-645-0827
Email: kwinter2@buffalo.edu