Experts

Areas of expertise: African and African American History, African politics. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning and high-performance digital system architecture design. Asari has published or written with graduate students and colleagues more than 590 research articles, including 96 peer-reviewed journal papers. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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). Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: history of American aviation, especially U.S. airports; American urban history, history of American city planning, contemporary American history. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: cybersecurity, forensics and the dark web. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: human posture and gait, fall prevention in elderly adults and design of assistive devices. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: business and economic forecasting. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him..

Areas of expertise: sustainable manufacturing process, energy efficiency, design for environment, life cycle assessment, end-of-life management, sustainable energy infrastructure design, energy/environmental policy design. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: disability and employment discrimination, statutory interpretation and civil procedure. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Dalton's expertise is in nutrition, culinary medicine and weight management. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: Russian history. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: marketing, social influence, retail trends, sales education, sales negotiations. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: job trends and the job outlook. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: buyer behavior, branding, consumer-brand relationships, social media, communications, marketing analysis. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. Ensalaco is fluent in Spanish.

Areas of expertise: business operations, including supply chains; and railways, including derailments. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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." Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her. 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: criminal procedure, the death penalty, civil liberties and criminal law. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: supply chain management, interface between operations management and product development, principles of procurement. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: anger, aggression and emotions in the workplace; work stress, and organizational politics and justice. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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 fFellow 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: earthquakes. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Dr. Nabaneh has substant Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: the roles values and ethics play in environmental science, policy and management; processes to facilitate public participation in research and decision-making that address our pressing sustainability challenges; ethical questions arising in food systems research, including an ongoing study of ecological citizenship and environmental governance in Rust Belt urban agriculture.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Area's of expertise: Constitutional law and comparative law with a focus on the intersection between constitutional law, democracy, and private law, be it torts, contracts, property, or the law of remedies. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. He frequently also serves as a resource on 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 English, French, German, Swiss-German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Latin and Greek. He ministers in Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian in the ethnic churches of Dayton. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him. To contact Fr. Roten, email mediarelations@udayton.edu.

Areas of expertise: 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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: cybersecurity and criminal and terrorist use of information technology. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: issues of state power within our federal system; the extraterritoriality principle, which prohibits states from regulation conduct beyond their borders; constitutional limitations on a state's choice of law and personal jurisdiction; criminal and civil procedure, and contracts. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: community lawyering, federal Indian law and tribal court jurisprudence, civil procedure and federal jurisdiction. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: death penalty, grand juries and criminal law. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: economic analysis, program evaluation and market research; especially for the regional economy as it relates to jobs, education, health and housing. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

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. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: government contracting, technology transfer and commercialization of federal technologies; U.S. Department of Defense technology transfer, commercialization and intellectual property processes; and government ethics including gifts from non-federal entities and conflicts of interest. She oversees the University of Dayton School of Law's government contracting and procurement master's degree and certificate program.

Areas of expertise: visual rhetoric, religious rhetoric, the rhetoric of tourism and the rhetoric of fundamentalism and the Amish. Trollinger is the author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia. She also wrote Righting America at the Creation Museum with husband, Bill, who is a University of Dayton history professor. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: American evangelicalism and fundamentalism, creationism, the religious "nones," and the Ku Klux Klan. He wrote Righting America at the Creation Museum: Young Earth Creationism and the Culture Wars with his wife, Susan, who is a University of Dayton English professor. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

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?" Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: Webber's research interests include 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 completed sponsored research projects for the Edinburgh Group and the International Federation of Accountants and has contributed several articles to The Conversation. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.

Areas of expertise: gas prices. Wilkens, who once worked for Shell Oil, taught an introduction to petroleum engineering graduate course. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing him.

Areas of expertise: impacts of climate change, particularly on coastal and inland flooding; and extreme precipitation and flooding hazards. Click here to see the media outlets quoting or interviewing her.