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Areas of expertise: how people construct meaning in their lives and foster personal growth, personality, human development. His book, The Transformative Self: Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life (2021, Oxford University Press), explains how people create a meaningful self-identity in their life stories that helps cultivate personal growth in the directions of happiness, love and wisdom for the self and others. 

Areas of expertise: hate crimes, white supremacy, anti-government movements, political extremism, domestic terrorism, exotic animals in the United States (zoos, sanctuaries, private ownership), and activism with an emphasis on protests. Becker attended and photographed more than 100 protests in 2020 as part of his research (See his photos here). 

Areas of expertise: history of American aviation, especially U.S. airports; American urban history, history of American city planning, contemporary American history. 

Areas of expertise: cybersecurity, forensics and the dark web.

Areas of expertise: human posture and gait, fall prevention in elderly adults and design of assistive devices. 

Areas of expertise: sustainable manufacturing processes, energy efficiency, design for environment, sustainable energy infrastructure design, energy/environmental policy design.

Areas of expertise: disability and employment discrimination, statutory interpretation and civil procedure.

Areas of expertise: immigration and human rights law, including representation of detained immigrants, immigrant children, immigrant survivors of violent crime and human trafficking victims. She also oversees the School of Law's immigration law clinic.

Areas of expertise: nutrition, culinary medicine and weight management. 

Areas of expertise: marketing, social influence, retail trends, sales education and sales negotiations.

Areas of expertise: job trends and the job outlook. 

Areas of expertise: buyer behavior, branding, consumer-brand relationships, social media, communications and marketing analysis. 

Areas of expertise: terrorism, political violence, human rights, dictators, human trafficking, immigration and Latin America. He is the author of the book Middle Eastern Terrorism: From Black September to September 11. Ensalaco is fluent in Spanish.

Areas of expertise: business operations, including supply chains; and railways, including derailments.

Hall is an author of Managing the Psychological Impact of Medical Trauma: A Guide for Mental Health and Health Care Professionals. He is also a partner at Hawthorne Integrative LLC, a health care consulting and clinical counseling firm, where he counsels adults with depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD and divorce-related concerns.

Areas of expertise: migration in the Americas; myths and facts about immigrants in the U.S., particularly undocumented immigrants from Central and Latin America; violence in Central America that fosters an increase in asylum seekers, how U.S. policies towards El Salvador affect migration patterns; Central American youth gangs, particularly MS-13 and policies to control their activities and movement in El Salvador and in the U.S.; anti-immigrant rhetoric and discourse by politicians in electoral campaigns; forms of immigration status and the history of laws covering immigrants, temporary workers, refugees and asylum seekers; and the history of the "sanctuary movement." She is fluent in Spanish.

Areas of expertise: climate change impact on glaciers in Himalaya and broader High Mountain Asia, New Zealand, Alaska and Andes; modeling of snow and glacier melt runoff; and natural hazards, including landslides floods and debris flows. 

Areas of expertise: gender and international relations, the politics of human rights, human security, and international law and organization. Her book, Gender, Human Security and the UN: Security Language as a Political Framework for Women (Routledge, 2009) examines the organizational dynamics of women's activism in the United Nations system, and how women have come to embrace and have been impacted by the security discourse in their work for rights and equality. Her current research centers on the deployment and impact of female military and police personnel in UN peacekeeping missions. 

Areas of expertise: criminal procedure, the death penalty, civil liberties and criminal law.

Areas of expertise: supply chain management, interface between operations management and product development and principles of procurement. Please email the Office of News and Communications at mediarelations@udayton.edu to contact him.

Areas of expertise: laws regarding roadside memorials, Internet use (especially social media), white separatism and supremacy, social movements, and corporate and white-collar crime.

Areas of expertise: anger, aggression and emotions in the workplace; work stress, and organizational politics and justice. 

Areas of expertise: Leske's areas of expertise are environmental law (including air and water pollution, the Clean Air Act, climate change and land use), civil procedure, administrative law, constitutional law, U.S. Supreme Court practice and appellate advocacy. Before academia, Leske served as an assistant attorney general of Vermont, where he focused primarily on national air pollution and global warming cases. His work also included arguing Vermont Supreme Court appeals in land-use cases and environmental enforcement actions. He also served as a U.S. Supreme Court fellow for the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C., where he helped prepare state attorneys for upcoming oral arguments, edited Supreme Court briefs and prepared an Amicus Brief in a pending case. 

Areas of expertise: sustainability, energy and the environment. McCall is among five authors of an essay to in the journal Energy Research & Social Science that cautions current levels of worldwide economic growth, energy use and resource consumption will overshoot Earth's finite limits. The essay - "Modernity is Incompatible with Planetary Limits: Developing a PLAN for the Future" - also announces the establishment of a network of scholars and researchers to promote the understanding of planetary limits, envision scenarios for humanity to thrive within planetary limits, better educate college students about these challenges, and advise government officials and communities in developing effective responses.

Areas of expertise: earthquakes. 

Areas of expertise: Her expertise spans international human rights law and monitoring mechanisms; human rights in Africa, gender equality and women’s rights, and democratization in Africa. 

Areas of expertise: race and ethnicities, white privilege, sociology of sexualities. She is an author of Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage. 

Areas of expertise: human rights and civil liberties, foreign policy and global politics, and social movements. He is the author of The Mass Appeal of Human Rights.

Areas of expertise: international law, including how China engages with it; polar law, including China’s role in the polar regions; trade law, including tariffs; U.S.-China relations; law of the sea, including maritime boundaries and entitlements; international environmental law issues, climate change, indigenous human rights, and international dispute resolution.

Area's of expertise: Constitutional law and comparative law with a focus on the intersection among constitutional law, democracy and private law; be it torts, contracts, property or the law of remedies. 

Areas of expertise: how faith and the Catholic Church intersect in different cultures, especially how cultures see the birth of Christ and express their perspectives in Nativities; canonization; and apparitions. A former student of Pope Benedict XVI, Roten served on a Vatican-appointed commission about Mary in the 1990s. Swiss by birth, Roten speaks nine languages. To contact Fr. Roten, email mediarelations@udayton.edu.

Areas of expertise: religious liberty and legal issues in education. Russo has been an author or co-author of more than 325 articles in peer-reviewed journals; an author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 73 books; and has more than 1,100 publications focusing on issues in education law. He is widely sought as a guest speaker on related topics and has delivered talks in 29 countries on six continents. He also edits two journals and serves on more than a dozen editorial boards.

Areas of expertise: Cuba, Latin America, Caribbean. Santamarina. Juan has been traveling to Cuba and studying and writing about the history of the island for nearly two decades. He has published broadly on the topic of Cuban history and also has been a writer for three documentary films on Cuba, including Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion (2006). Fluent in Spanish. 

Areas of expertise: commercial and government contracts; local, state and defense procurement, international trade and tariffs. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Schoeni was a U.S. Air Force judge advocate (2004-25), where he served as a trial and appellate litigator, worked extensively in security cooperation especially in Latin America, and specialized in government procurement law. He also directs the law school’s Program in Law and Technology.

Areas of expertise: community lawyering, federal Indian law and tribal court jurisprudence, civil procedure and federal jurisdiction.

Areas of expertise: how listeria, a bacterium that can contaminate food and cause potentially fatal infections, senses and responds to changes in oxygen and acids in its host environment, and how those conditions affect its ability to cause disease in people.

Areas of expertise: human trafficking, human rights, global security, nationalism and identity politics, politics of rural and marginalized people, and social movements. Talbott served as a member of the Ohio Attorney General's Human Trafficking Commission and is a credentialed Not For Sale Campaign citizen investigator of human trafficking. 

Areas of expertise: public economics, urban economics, labor economics, economic impacts of economic development incentives. She's been featured on The Academic Minute to "Does incentive spending really take from the rich and give to the poor?" 

Areas of expertise: tax whistleblowing, nonprofit fraud, small- and medium-sized accounting practices, tax compliance and corporate law. She has published in law and accounting journals, including Virginia Tax Review, Administrative Law Review, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, The CPA Journal, The ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research, The ATA Journal of Legal Tax Research, Research in Accounting Regulation and the Journal of Taxation. Webber also has contributed several articles to The Conversation. 

Areas of expertise: gas prices. Wilkens, who once worked for Shell Oil, taught an introduction to petroleum engineering graduate course. 

Areas of expertise: impacts of climate change, particularly on coastal and inland flooding; and extreme precipitation and flooding hazards.