Faculty Directory

Faculty Member	Departments & Centers	Research & Scholarship
Lloyd Ackert Teaching Professor of History 5011 MacAlister lta24@drexel.edu 215.895.0993	Department Department of History Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests History of science & technology, ecology, Russian science
Anthony W. Addison Professor Emeritus; Department of Chemistry Disque Hall, room 418 addisona@drexel.edu 215.895.2646	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Redox; transition metals; chelate design; lanthanides; luminescence; tau-values; metalloprotein; magnetism, electron paramagnetic resonance; electrochemistry.
Ali Afify Assistant Professor PISB 421 aa4686@drexel.edu 215.895.2526	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Insect olfaction; Sensory Neurobiology; Mosquito oviposition; Malaria
Young-Hoon Ahn Associate Professor Disque Hall 506 ya426@drexel.edu	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Chemical Biology; Cysteine Proteomics; Redox Signaling; Glutathione; and Post-translational Modifications.
Stacey E. Ake Director, Health & Medical Humanities Program; Teaching Professor of Philosophy 5055 MacAlister sea29@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests CS Peirce; Walker Percy; Kierkegaard; Existentialism; Bioethics; Semiotics; Biosemiotics
Peter Amato Director, Programs in Philosophy; Teaching Professor of Philosophy 5029 MacAlister Hall peterama@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Ethics; Marxism; Continental Philosophy
David M. Ambrose Associate Department Head; Graduate Adviser; Professor Korman Center 290 dma68@drexel.edu 215.895.6247	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied analysis and scientific computing for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, especially free-surface problems in fluid dynamics
Howard Anton Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Jason S. Aran Associate Department Head; Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 257 jsa33@drexel.edu 215.571.3585	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Julieta Arancio Postdoctoral researcher jca88@drexel.edu	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Open science hardware Distributed manufacturing Design Justice Science and technology democratization Grassroot innovation movements Science and technology Studies (STS)
Loren Argabright Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Dani Arigo Affiliated Faculty arigo@rowan.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Understanding within-person relations between social perceptions; Physical activity engagement among midlife women with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease; Tailoring the social features of digital physical activity interventions to meet the needs of this population
Jan Armon Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall jan.armon@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Valarie Arms Professor Emeritus 5016 MacAlister Hall armsvm@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Rhetoric and Composition
Richard Astro Provost Emeritus; Distinguished Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall astro@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests 20th Century American Fiction, 18th Century British Poetry, Sports and Social Issues
Hasan Ayaz Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems Monell 101 hasan.ayaz@drexel.edu 215.571.3709	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Neuroergonomics, Functional Neuroimaging, Biomedical Signal Processing, Neuroengineering, Functional Near Infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI)
Jesse Ballenger Associate Teaching Professor of Health Administration jfb83@drexel.edu	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests Healthcare, medicine and ethics; aging and neurodegenerative diseases; science and technology studies
Susan E. Bell Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health 3201 Arch Street, 294 susan.bell@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Sociology of health and illness; global and transnational health; reproductive health, rights and justice; experience of illness; narrative; visual sociology
Marirose Benedict Licensed Professional Counselor, WELL Center mb4386@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Joseph Bentz Professor Emeritus PISB 416 bentzj@drexel.edu 215.895.1513	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Biophysics of Cell Membrane Function - Membrane Transport by Multidrug Resistance Proteins, chanisms of Membrane Fusion, Peptide/Protein-Membrane Interactions
Donald Bersoff Professor Emeritus Kline School of Law, Room 271 Donald.Bersoff@drexel.edu 215.571.4819	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Legal and ethical issues in mental health; developmental disabilities and education; ethics and the law
John Bethea Professor PISB 123.04 jrb445@drexel.edu 215.895.2624	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests
Kenneth Bingham Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall kenneth.bingham@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Freshman Writing, Engineering Ethics, Literature of Baseball
Ronald Bishop Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 148 bishoprc@drexel.edu 215.895.1823	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Investigative reporting, sports journalism, journalism history, journalism sourcing patterns, textual narrative and ideological analysis, cultural history of fame, media portrayals of marginalized groups.
Jonah Blasiak Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 275 jdb395@drexel.edu 215.895.6217	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Algebraic Combinatorics, Representation Theory, Complexity Theory
Joan Blumberg Assistant Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 157 jwb28@drexel.edu 215.895.6351	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Publishing, electronic publishing, publishing and communications, publishing and mass-media
Patricia Diane Bobo Assistant Teaching Professor pdb59@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Inspiring – she wants to impart in her students’ the lifelong joy of learning; Committed – she is committed to helping students expand their mathematical foundation; Caring – she wants her students to know that she cares about every single one of them. And she truly believes in the motto, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.”
Valerie Booth Associate Teaching Professor of English 5023 MacAlister vab42@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Literature and Science; Virginia Woolf; Autobiography
Monserrat Bores Martínez Coordinator of the Certificate in Spanish for Healthcare Professionals; Assistant Teaching Professor 101 N. 33rd. Street, 3rd. Floor (Room 320) Philadelphia, PA 19104 mb4238@drexel.edu 215.895.0971	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Language Pedagogy; Second Language Acquisition; Spanish for Specific Purposes; Spanish for Healthcare Professionals; Colonial Latin American Literature; Early Modern Literature
Octavio Borges-Delgado Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish Academic Building octavio.borges-delgado@drexel.edu 215.895.6350	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures, Latino/a studies, migration studies, Latin American diaspora, Critical race theory, Gender and sexuality in a global context
Shyamalendu Bose Professor Emeritus; Department of Physics Disque Hall 915 bose@drexel.edu 215.895.2043	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Nanoscience, high-temperature superconductivity, theory of surfaces and interfaces, disordered systems, electron and X-ray spectroscopies of solids
Robert P. Boyer Professor Tenure Korman Center 276 boyerrp@drexel.edu 215.895.1854	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Functional Analysis, C* Algebras, and the Theory of Group Representations
Valerie Bracchi-Ricard Assistant Research Professor PISB 413 vcb33@drexel.edu 215.571.3785	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Spinal cord injury, Neuroinflammation
Raymond Brebach Professor Emeritus 5016 MacAlister Hall brebach@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Modern British Fiction; The Novel; Textual Studies
Eric Brewe Associate Professor of Physics and Science Education; Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum; CASTLE Disque Hall, #918 eb573@drexel.edu 215.895.2779	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Physics Education Research (PER); Introductory Physics Course Transformation; Social Network Analysis, Social dimensions of learning; Quantitative/Computational methods in PER
Eric Dorn Brose Professor Emeritus broseed@drexel.edu (215) 895-6789	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests German & European history
David S. Brown Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor MacAlister Hall, suite 4020 3250 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 dsb93@drexel.edu 215.895.1891	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Democracy; Economic Development; International Political Economy; Inequality
Robert Brulle Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental policy and politics, critical theory, marine risk, social movements, environmental sociology.
Robert Busby Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Meghan Butryn Professor; Associate Department Head Stratton 286 mlb34@drexel.edu 215.553.7108	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences WELL Center	Research & Teaching Interests Obesity prevention and treatment; Physical activity promotion; Lifestyle modification; Behavioral therapy; Cancer prevention
James Calkins Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests
Fernando Carreon Teaching Professor Korman Center 250 fc382@drexel.edu 215.895.2680	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Jakeya Caruthers Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies jakeya.caruthers@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Black Political Aesthetics; Black Popular Culture, Literature, and Media Representation; Black Feminist Thought; Anti-Carceral Feminism; Art and Visual Culture
Jacques Catudal Associate Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister Hall cat@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics, Epistemology
Dorothy Charbonnier Associate Teaching Professor Stratton 207 dorothy.r.charbonnier@drexel.edu 215.571.4407	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Careers in Psychology, I am Psyched! at Drexel, Creative process, Writing, International education, Research methodology
Evangelia Chrysikou Director, Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences PhD program; Associate Dean for Research; Associate Professor Stratton 324 lilachrysikou@drexel.edu 215.553.7170	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; neural bases of language, memory, and executive functions; neurocognitive processes associated with problem solving and flexible thought; functional neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation in healthy and psychiatric populations (mood and anxiety disorders); translational neuroscience
Patrick Clarke Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 269 pclarke@math.drexel.edu 215.571.3828	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Homological Mirror Symmetry, Landau-Ginzburg Models, Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry
Danielle Kerns Clauss Clinical Psychologist, WELL Center cmh346@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Rebecca A. Clothey Interim Department Head, Global Studies and Modern Languages; Associate Professor of Education Academic Building, 312 Rebecca.A.Clothey@drexel.edu 215.895.5931	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Comparative and international education; Immigration and education; Non-formal schooling; Language and identity
Jessica Cohen Associate Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, 202 jac595@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Family demography
Paula Marantz Cohen Dean of the Pennoni Honors College; Distinguished Professor of English; Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature; Host of The Civil Discourse 5016 MacAlister Hall cohenpm@drexel.edu 215.895.1266	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English and American Literature; Film Studies
Brett Condon Assistant Teaching Professor PISB 221 bmc327@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests STEM Educatiion SEA-PHAGES
Anne Converse Willkomm Associate Dean, Graduate College; Associate Teaching Professor acw334@drexel.edu	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Organizational communication; soft skills; professional development; empathy in the workplace; nonprofits; and leadership
John P. Coppola Adjunct Instructor jpc48@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Rose Corrigan Associate Professor School of Law, Room 265 rose.corrigan@drexel.edu 215.571.4736	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Women and politics, public law, American politics and policy
Karen Cristiano Assistant Department Head of Communication; Teaching Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 166 kc42@drexel.edu 215.895.2374	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Journalism, medical writing, feature writing, copy editing, mass media and society.
Luis Cruz Cruz Associate Professor Disque Hall 912 ccruz@drexel.edu 215.895.2739	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Spiking Neural Networks; Synchronization in the firings of Neuronal Networks; Micro/Minicolumns in the brain; Brain Plasticity; Traveling Waves in Low Dimensional Neuronal Networks; Spatial correlations of neurons in the brain; Confinement effects on the folding of amyloidogenic proteins
Travis Curtice Assistant Professor 3025 MacAlister Hall tbc52@drexel.edu	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Policing; Conflict; Political Economy of Crime; Authoritarian Politics; Research Methods
Edward (Ted) Daeschler Professor; Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 ebd29@drexel.edu 215.299.1133	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Vertebrate Paleontology; History of the Earth; Late Devonian fossil vertebrates; Origin of tetrapods; Fossil collecting; Museum curation
Brian P. Daly Department Head; Associate Professor Stratton 118 brian.daly@drexel.edu 215.571.4252	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests School mental health; Mental health promotion; Socioemotional learning (SEL); Evidence-based practice; Trauma; Risk and resilience; Child and adolescent intervention
David DeMatteo Director, JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology; Professor Stratton 338 David.DeMatteo@drexel.edu 215.553.7107	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Psychopathy, forensic psychology, forensic mental health assessment, testing in forensic assessment contexts, and drug policy research
Kathryn A. Dettmer Adjunct Instructor of French; Adjunct Representitive to Faculty Senate Academic Building, Room 315 kad46@drexel.edu	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Language education; translation; Czech; universal design for teaching
Kathryn Devlin Assistant Research Professor Stratton 123 knd52@drexel.edu	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests NeuroHIV, Aging and neurodegenerative disease, Diagnosis and prognosis, Cognitive heterogeneity, Structural equation modeling, Everyday functioning
Ashley Dickinson Associate Teaching Professor 3401 Market Street, Room 110-E ald393@drexel.edu 215.895.6150	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Corrections, offender rehabilitation, offender classification, risk management, gender and crime
Richardson Dilworth Department Head, Department of Politics; Professor MacAlister, Room 3025 dilworth@drexel.edu 215.895.2471	Department Department of Politics Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests American political development, urban politics, public policy
Lisa DiMaio Coordinator of Multilingual Learner Writing Resources; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall dimaiola@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Multilingual Writers; Writing Center; Tutoring; Critical Discourse Analysis
N. John DiNardo Professor Disque Hall 707 dinardoj@drexel.edu 215.895.2790	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Physics education research, surface physics, condensed matter physics, materials science.
Michelle Dolinski Associate Dean of Graduate Education; Associate Professor Disque Hall, room 913 dolinski@drexel.edu 215.895.6860	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Particle physics; Nuclear physics; Neutrino physics; Neutrinoless double beta decay; Detector R&D
Steve Vásquez Dolph Assistant Teaching Professor Academic Building, 320 sd3366@drexel.edu 215.895.6350	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Early modern cultural production; ecology and representation; history and sociology of science; historical bibliography; politics and poetics of translation
Robert D'Ovidio Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies 3401 Market Street, Room 110-A robert.dovidio@drexel.edu 215.895.1803	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests The intersection of computer technology, crime and the criminal justice system.
Dan Driscoll Coordinator, Writing Curriculum Initiatives; University Writing Program; Teaching Professor of English MacAlister 5030 dwd27@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Genre and Writing Studies; Fiction; Writing in the Disciplines/Writing Across the Curriculum; First-year Writing
Catherine Dubaillou Staff Psychologist, WELL Center csd28@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Laura Duwel Assistant Department Head, Teaching Professor PISB 219 l.duwel@drexel.edu 215.895.2636	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Undergraduate Education
Brenda Dyer Associate Teaching Professor of French; Director of Modern Languages; Contact for Arabic, French, and Italian Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 321 bad24@drexel.edu 215.895.6281	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Language acquisition pedagogy, teaching writing, seventeenth and eighteenth century French literature, women writers, translation.
Mary F.E. Ebeling Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 285 mfe@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology Center for Science, Technology and Society Center for Interdisciplinary Study	Research & Teaching Interests Science and technology studies; critical data studies; algorithmic justice; marketing; data brokers and big data; healthcare privacy; biocapital; medicine; health; knowledge and power in late capital; the production of value and alternatives; anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces and collectives.
Patricia Egbert Assistant Professor egbert@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests English; Writing; Pedagogy; Learning Communities; STEM writing support
Felice Elefant Professor PISB 317 fe22@drexel.edu 215.895.0220	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests My research program is focused on understanding epigenetic mechanisms that govern higher order brain function via chromatin packaging in neurons.
Anne Erickson Assistant Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall ake25@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Brian Erickson Research Assistant Professor Stratton 320 bae25@drexel.edu 215.760.7253	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Closed-loop Brain Stimulation; Electroencephalography EEG; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation TMS; Attention; Signal processing; Network Neuroscience; Cognitive Enhancement
Nomi Eve Director, MFA in Creative Writing; Assistant Professor 5034 MacAlister Building nae28@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Aaron T. Fafarman Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering Center for Automation Technology, 486 fafarman@drexel.edu 215.895.5818	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Nanocrystal synthesis and surface chemistry. Self- and directed-assembly of nanocrystal solids for use as energy conversion materials. Ultra-fast and steady state spectroscopy to study the behavior of electrons in semiconductor nanocrystals.
Daryl L. Falco Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 251 dlf25@drexel.edu 215.895.2592	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Reza Farasat Assistant Teaching Professor Disque Hall 223 3141 Chestnut Street rf485@drexel.edu 215.895.4970	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Modification of polymers for diverse applications; utilizing thermal analysis techniques to study polymeric and non-polymeric materials; nanotechnology; applying Multi-detector Size Exclusion Chromatography for characterization of polymers; creating composites to improve materials’ properties.
Raymond J. Favocci Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 226 rjf23@drexel.edu 215.895.2851	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Frank A. Ferrone Professor Disque Hall, room 922 fferrone@drexel.edu 215.895.2778	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Sickle cell; protein self-assembly theory; molecular crowding; novel optical methods; microscopy; kinetics
Robert Finegan Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall fineganr@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Freshman Writing; Technical and Creative Writing
Leonard Finegold Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics Disque Hall 915 leonard.x.finegold@drexel.edu 215.895.2740	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Brighid Fitzpatrick Research Coordinator, WELL Center blf49@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Biopsychosocial mechanisms that influence the development and maintenance of eating disorders, treatments targeting these mechanisms, and preventative strategies for those at risk for developing pathological eating problems.
Fraser Fleming Professor Disque Hall 306 fraser.f.fleming@drexel.edu 215.895.2644	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Research is focused on rapidly constructing biologically relevant scaffolds as potential pharmaceutical leads. Two complementary research areas comprise most of the research effort: the use of metalated nitriles as potent nucleophiles for hindered bond construction, and the use of metalated isocyanides as precursors to peptide mimics. The research has been primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Joe P. Foley Professor; Department Head Disque Hall 212 jfoley@drexel.edu 215.895.6218	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Separation science and analytical chemistry, with an emphasis on the fundamentals and applications of pressure- or voltage-driven liquid-phase separation techniques including ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis.
Evan Forman Professor Stratton 282 evan.forman@drexel.edu 215.553.7113	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences WELL Center	Research & Teaching Interests Health behavior change, obesity, weight loss; Technological innovations to promote health behavior change; Innovations in cognitive-behavioral treatments; The development and evaluation of acceptance-based interventions for health behavior change; Neurocognition of eating
Richard Forney Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 153 rjf39@drexel.edu 215.571.4334	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Broadcast Journalism Technology; Effects of new technologies on personal and corporate communication skills; Effects of Media on Children and Adolescent learning and behavior
Valerie Fox Teaching Professor of English; Founding Editor, Press 1 5016 MacAlister Hall valerie.fox@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Twentieth Century Drama; Modern and Contemporary American Poetry; Freshman Writing
Alexander Friedlander Associate Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Communication sandy@drexel.edu 215.895.2602	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Rhetorical theory and practice, document design, writing and technology.
Edward Fristrom Co-Director, Certificate Program in Medical Humanities; Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall ecf35@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing Studies; Medical Memoir; Environmental Literature and Rhetoric
Denise Garcia Associate Professor PISB 422 adg82@drexel.edu 215.571.4534	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Jon Gelhaus Curator and Department Chair, Entomology Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Department of Entomology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University jkg78@drexel.edu 215.299.1141	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Taxonomy; Systematics; Entomology; Biodiversity; Water Quality; Museum Collections
Pamela Geller Director, Clinical Training; Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn and Public Health Stratton 280 pg27@drexel.edu 215.553.7117	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Clinical and health psychology; Stressful life events and mental and physical health outcomes particularly in the area of women's reproductive health
Maureen Gibney Teaching Professor Stratton 206 mg65@drexel.edu 215.895.6104	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Ethical issues in clinical and social care; Mental health across the lifespan; Narrative psychology
Tali Gidalevitz Associate Professor PISB 418 Tali.gidalevitz@drexel.edu 215.571.4219	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests My lab aims to understand the mechanisms that maintain healthy protein folding environment in the cell, and how they fail in neurodegenerative diseases and aging. We use genetic and live imaging approaches in a genetically tractable organism, C. elegans, as discovery tools, and apply the findings to mammalian systems.
Robert Gilmore Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics robert.gilmore@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Group theory and its applications to atomic, nuclear, and condensed matter physics; Catastrophe theory, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, quantum mechanics
William Goh Associate Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
David Goldberg Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies; Professor Disque Hall 810 goldberg@drexel.edu 215.895.2715	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Theoretical and computational cosmology, extragalactic astrophysics, gravitational lensing, popular science writing
Jesse Goldman Assistant Teaching Professor Disque 804 jg3845@drexel.edu 215.895.1985	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Neutrinos, Cosmology, Muons, Cosmic Rays
Naomi E. Goldstein Co-director of the JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology; Director of the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab; Professor Stratton 328 neg23@drexel.edu 215.571.4299	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Juvenile justice system reform; using social science research to improve juvenile justice policy and practice; addressing inequality and promoting equity in the justice system; psychology, criminal justice, and law; forensic psychology
Paul Gondek Adjunct Teaching Professor (Psychology), Visiting Research Professor (Chemistry) paul.c.gondek@drexel.edu 908.391.3077	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Social psychology of social issues; team and group dynamics; caregiver/patient interactions; Science of Team Science; PTSD; the impact of culture on social processes
Mary Katherine Gonder Department Head; Director, Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program; Co-Founder, Central African Biodiversity Alliance; Professor PISB 420 mkg62@drexel.edu 215.571.4638	Department Department of Biology Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Genomics, evolutionary processes, tropical biodiversity, conservation science, educational capacity building
Cecilie Goodrich Professor Emeritus PISB 316 Goodricc@drexel.edu 215.895.2626	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Development of simple behaviors after birth in relation to known developmental events in the mouse brain
June K. Gordon Adjunct Instructor jkg29@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Sashi Govier Research Coordinator, WELL Center	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Eating disorder prevention, treatment and recovery.
Darij Grinberg Assistant Professor Korman Center 263 darij.grinberg@drexel.edu 215.895.6264	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Algebraic Combinatorics, Noncommutative Algebra, Symmetric Functions, Hopf Algebras, Enumerative Combinatorics, Invariant Theory
Pavel Grinfeld Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 271 pg77@drexel.edu 215.895.1291	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Application of the Differential Calculus of moving surfaces and Variational Calculus, with heavy emphasis on computation, to problems in Bioengineering, low temperature Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Elasticity
Anatolii Grinshpan Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 228 ag465@drexel.edu 215.895.4979	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Function Theory and Operator Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Potential Theory
Meg K. Guliford Assistant Professor meg.guliford@drexel.edu	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Political violence; Conflict Processes; Foreign Policy; Sports and Politics; Descriptive Research
Yixin Guo Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 270 yixin@math.drexel.edu 215.895.2581	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Biomathematics, Dynamical Systems, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
Susan Gurney Associate Teaching Professor PISB 220 smg366@drexel.edu 215.895.5802	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Evolutionary genetics (humans and equids), stem cell biology, forensic science
Charlotte J. Hagerman Assistant Research Professor 3201 Chestnut St., Room 232 Philadelphia, PA 19104 cjh427@drexel.edu	Department WELL Center	Research & Teaching Interests Obesity; behavioral weight loss treatment; health information avoidance; goal achievement; motivation; self-compassion
Ernest Hakanen Director, Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & Media; Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media; Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology: The Journal of the Media Ecology Association 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 149 eah22@drexel.edu 215.895.1354	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Communication history, media theory, emotions and technology, semiotics
Keunah Han Associate Teaching Professor 5016 MacAlister Hall kh529@drexel.edu 215-895-6819	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests I am interested in researching and supporting international students in terms of cultural adaptation and academic performance in America.
Nathan Hanna Assistant Department Head; Associate Professor of Philosophy 5046 MacAlister Hall nth34@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Punishment; moral responsibility; criminal law
R. Scott Hanson Senior Scholar in Urban History and Material Culture; Drexel University Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships 235 Randell rsh65@drexel.edu 215.895.2463	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests Urban history; Immigration; Religion; Civil Rights; Public History
Richard Haracz Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics haraczrd@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Kirk Heilbrun Professor; Director, Reentry Project 334 Stratton Hall kirk.heilbrun@drexel.edu 215.553.7109	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Forensic mental health assessment; Violence risk assessment; Risk management
Chloe Hessler Research Coordinator, WELL Center cmh346@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Understanding eating disorders, the idea of processed foods as an addictive substance
R. Andrew Hicks Professor; Undergraduate advisor Korman Center 266 rah29@drexel.edu 215.895.2681	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Manifold; Geometric optics; Robotics; Inverse problems; Optical design; Blind spot
Cassandra Hirsch Associate Teaching Professor cjh72@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing fiction and memoir; mentoring students; teaching community-based learning (CBL) courses
Pawel Hitczenko Professor Tenure Korman Center 261 phitczenko@math.drexel.edu 215.895.2622	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Probability Theory and its Applications to Analysis, Combinatorics, Wavelets, and the Analysis of Algorithms
Jonathan Hobratsch Assistant Teaching Professor jeh357@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Lee Hoffman Assistant Teaching Professor Disque Hall 417 lwh28@drexel.edu 215.895.1784	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Interfacial studies on the self-assembly of natural organic materials, Dendrimer/metal nanocomposite design and synthesis hosting metal nanoparticles, surface and interfacial science applications
Christina Hopkins Postdoctoral Research Fellow, WELL Center cmh346@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Acceptance- and mindfulness-based practice; Trauma-informed principles; Digital tools to increase access to psychotherapies
Barbara Hornum Director, Religious Studies Program; Founding Director, Center of Academic Excellence; Associate Professor Emerita Academic Building, 313 hornumbg@drexel.edu 215.895.4904	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Comparative gerontology, planned communities, continuing care communities, retirement, faculty development
Sarah Hosman Assistant Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, 202 ssh72@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Urban sociology, Gentrification, Cultural sociology, Economic Sociology, Narratives of place, Ethnography
Frederick House Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics Disque Hall 623 house@drexel.edu 215.895.2725	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Zhuoran Huang Research Coordinator, WELL Center zh424@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Delivery of evidence-based behavioral interventions through computerized technology to communities, especially children and adolescents
Xiaorui Huang Assistant Professor 3201 Arch St, Suite 210, Room 205 Xiaorui.Huang@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental Sociology; Human Drivers of Climate Change; Global Political Economy; Quantitative Longitudinal Analysis
Christian Hunold Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement; Professor 3021-F MacAlister Hall hunoldc@drexel.edu 215.895.6089	Department Department of Politics Center for Science, Technology and Society Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests Deliberative democracy; Environmental political theory; Human-animal studies; More-than-human city; Multispecies justice; Urban wildlife; Wild horses
Meshagae Hunte-Brown Teaching Professor PISB 221 G meh27@drexel.edu 215.895.2064	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Stream Ecology, Food Webs
Jordan Hyatt Director, Center for Public Policy; Associate Professor 3401 Market Street, Room 110-B jmh498@drexel.edu 215.895.0490	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests Corrections, Re-entry and Community Supervision; Comparative and International Penology; Drug Treatment and Drug Use; Community Violence Reduction; Prison Climate, Oversight and Reform; Financial Sanctions; Scandinavian Correctional Policy; Sentencing; Experimental and Field Research
Monica Ilies Chair, Graduate Senate Committee on Academic Affairs; Teaching Professor Disque Hall 224 mi73@drexel.edu	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Development of student-centered learning-teaching activities; Implementation/evaluation of active learning and evidence-based teaching/pedagogical strategies; Curriculum integrated and applicative content delivery; Structure- and fragment-based drug design guided by drug-target biological evaluation; Structural characteristics and in vivo roles of metalloproteins connected with physiopathology; Spectrometric techniques for structural analysis of small molecules and their supra-molecular assemblies; Biochemistry/molecular biology techniques for protein expression, purification, and immunodetection
Henry Israeli Teaching Professor of English; Director, Drexel Writing Festival; Director, Jewish Studies 5051B, MacAlister Hall hpi22@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Shannon Jacobsen Assistant Professor 3401 Market Street, 110-D shannon.k.jacobsen@drexel.edu 215.895.2472	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Gender, crime, and victimization; Fear of crime and perceptions of risk; Campus crime; Public safety; Communities and crime; Social inequalities; Mixed methods research
Sonali Jain Associate Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, 296 sj952@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests South Asia, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Transnationalism
Alexander Jenkins Assistant Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 162 arj28@drexel.edu 215.571.4332	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Digital games, video games, emotion, morality, online fan communities, emerging media, convergence
Hai-Feng (Frank) Ji Professor; Affiliated faculty member of College of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Disque Hall 211 hj56@drexel.edu 215.895.2562 Lab Phone: 215.571.3648	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Organic and Polymer Chemistry; Drug discovery; Biofilm; Phosphorus-based nanomaterials; Plasma chemistry and it’s medical applications
Kelly Joyce Professor of Sociology 3101 Market Street, 220 kaj68@drexel.edu 215.571.4449	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Political, cultural and organizational dimensions of clinical medicine, social dimensions of technological innovation, and technology, science and aging
Adrienne Juarascio Director, Practicum Training; Assistant Professor Stratton 288 asj32@drexel.edu 215.553.7154	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences WELL Center	Research & Teaching Interests Treatment development and Evaluation for Eating Disorders, Acceptance-based Behavioral Treatments, Using Technology to Augment Behavioral Treatment Approaches
Sunmi Jung Oh Assistant Teaching Professor; Contact for Korean Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 308 sjo35@drexel.edu 215.895.6399	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Teaching Korean as a foreign language; Second Language Acquisition; Community Based Learning
Robert J. Kane Department Head, Professor 3401 Market Street, Room 110-F rjk72@drexel.edu 215.895.2571	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Police authority and accountability, urban ecology and sociology, violence and public health, police strategies and practices
Goran Karapetrov Professor Disque Hall 609 goran@drexel.edu 215.571.4090	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Experimental Solid State Physics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nanoscale Catalysis, Mesoscopic Superconductivity
Nikoo Karbassi Research Coordinator, WELL Center nk853@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Kirsten Kaschock Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall kjk42@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Kristy Kelly Affiliated Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Education One Drexel Plaza, Room 146 kek72@drexel.edu 215.895.2381	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Politics of knowledge, Gender and education, Women and educational leadership, Feminist pedagogies, Gender mainstreaming, Transnational feminisms, Intersectionality, Training and adult education, Gender policy, Race/class/gender/sexuality, Vietnam and Southeast Asia
Alison Kenner Associate Professor 3101 Market Street, Room 222 amk438@drexel.edu 215.895.2463	Department Department of Politics Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Science, technology, and medicine, environmental health, cities and place, feminist theory, medical anthropology, experimental ethnography
Boris L. Kheyfets Adjunct Instructor blk24@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Marlin Killen Teaching Professor; Faculty Coordinator of Online Education in Psychology; Faculty Fellow Stratton 203 Marlin.Killen@drexel.edu 215.895.1068	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Immigrant psychology, authentic assessment and pedagogy, behavioral impacts of educational and institutional policies, mental health issues in the workplace, and the psychology of hope
Nahyun Kim Assistant Professor 3201 Arch, Suite 100, Room 171 nk865@drexel.edu 215-571-3569	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Public Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Advocacy; Crisis Communication; Emotion in Persuasive Communication
Elizabeth Kimball Director, University Writing Program; Assistant Professor Macalister 5033; Korman 103 (Writing Center) ek674@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Rhetorical theory; Writing studies; Engaged learning; Multilingual practice; Community-based learning; Writing program administration
Daniel King Associate Professor; Associate Department Head 509 Disque Hall daniel.king@drexel.edu 215.895.0571	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Active learning pedagogy; Assessment of technology use; Guided inquiry (i.e., POGIL) activities; Incorporation of real-world context
Andrew J. Klimas Assistant Teaching Professor ak4389@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests mathematics
Caitlin Klimas Assistant Teaching Professor ck985@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Francesca Knudsen Research Coordinator, WELL Center fk365@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests The way that mental health and physical health affect one another, especially in the presence of obesity and eating disorders
Emmanuel F. Koku Interim Department Head; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 288 emmanuelkoku@drexel.edu 215.895.6144	Department Department of Sociology Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Social Network Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Mixed Methods; Medical Sociology; Social Epidemiology; Global/Immigrant Health; Globalization, Development and Underdevelopment
Miriam Kotzin Founding Editor, Per Contra; Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall kotzinmn@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests American Literature; Genre Studies; Creative Writing; Communications
Parfait Kouacou Assistant Teaching Professor, Global Studies and Modern Languages Academic Building, 320 pk595@drexel.edu 215.895.6350	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Postcolonial Francophone African Literature, Human Rights Critical Theories, Childhood Studies, Oral Literature
John Kounios Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences PhD program; Professor Stratton 318 jk342@drexel.edu 215.553.7105	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience, focusing on human memory, problem solving, intelligence, and creativity; Specialization in electrophysiological methods (EEG, ERP), and other behavioral and neuroimaging methods (e.g., fMRI)
Hiromi Koyama Instructor; Contact for Japanese Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 315 hiromi.koyama@drexel.edu 215.895.6368	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests
Rachael Kratzer Associate Teaching Professor Disque Hall, Room 904 kratzer@drexel.edu 215.895.6669	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Quasars, Active Galactic Nuclei, Radio Astronomy, Active Learning Techniques
Danielle Kreeger Research Associate Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science PISB 315 dak29@drexel.edu 215.895.1270	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Physiological ecology, ecosystem services and restoration of suspension-feeding bivalves; ecology and restoration of coastal wetlands; climate change
Susanne Kriete Adjunct Instructor sbk54@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Aaron Kucyi Assistant Professor aaron.kucyi@drexel.edu	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Brain networks; Mental health; Spontaneous thought; Attention; Experience sampling; fMRI; Intracranial EEG
Naoko Kurahashi Neilson Associate Professor Disque Hall, 914 naoko@drexel.edu 215.895.2725	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Particle Astrophysics; Neutrino Astronomy; High Energy Physics and Astronomy
Roger Kurtz Department Head, Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall jrk353@drexel.edu 215.895.2446	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Postcolonial and World Literatures, African Literature and Culture, Trauma Theory
David Kutzik Professor Emeritus; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media Stratton 311 kutzikdm@drexel.edu 215.895.2309	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Social and cultural theory; political economy; gerontology; materialisms; semiotic realisms; activity theory; reflection theories; communities of practice and labor theories of culture.
Jeffrey LaComb Assistant Teaching Professor Korman Center 255 jml622@drexel.edu 215.895.6691	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Rare Event Simulation, Dynamical Systems, Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Biology
Erica LaFata Assistant Research Professor es3344@drexel.edu	Department WELL Center Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Clinical utility of food addiction as a unique phenotype of disordered eating, the addictive potentials of ultra-processed foods, overlapping mechanisms implicated in substance-use disorders and eating and weight disorders, assessment of addictive-like eating behaviors, treatment development for eating and weight disorders
Christopher Laincz Affiliated Associate Professor, School of Economics, LeBow College of Business GHall 1018 claincz@drexel.edu 215.895.2503	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Economic development, technological change, growth, industrial organization, macroeconomics and monetary economics
Leo W. Lampone Adjunct Professor lwl22@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Charles E. Lane Professor Disque Hall 911 charles.e.lane@drexel.edu 215.895.1545	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Experimental tests of invariance principles and conservation laws, neutrino oscillations and properties
Donald Larson Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics Disque Hall 623 donlarson@drexel.edu 215.895.2724	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Sally Lawton Assistant Teaching Professor sl3784@drexel.edu	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests American politics; American political development; American constitutional development; Political geography; Urban politics; Racial politics.
Myungwoon Lee Assistant Professor ml3784@drexel.edu	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Neurodegenerative protein aggregation; Membrane associated amyloid fibrils; Molecular structures, dynamics, and intermolecular interactions of biological macro molecules; Solid-state NMR and Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM)
Hyunmin “Min” Lee Director of Undergraduate Programs in Communication; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 164 hl586@drexel.edu 215.571.3567	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Social media effects on organizational relationship and reputation management; media representation of public health issues; health message design effects; communication theory and research methods.
Nancy Raitano Lee Associate Professor Stratton 290 nancy.raitano.lee@drexel.edu 215.895.2937	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Neuropsychological and neuroanatomic correlates of intellectual and developmental disabilities; Language, reading, and executive function in Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; Comorbid autism spectrum disorder symptoms in youth with genetic disorders; Neuroanatomic correlates of individual differences in typical and atypical cognition
Kari Lenhart Assistant Professor PISB 420 kari.f.lenhart@drexel.edu 215.895.6772	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests
Teck Kah Lim Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics Disque Hall 906 limtk@drexel.edu 215.895.2717	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Tatyana Livshultz Associate Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science Assistant Curator of Botany, ANS ANS tl534@drexel.edu 215.299.1051	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Botany; phylogenetic reconstruction; evolution of plant specialized metabolism, plant-insect interactions, and plant functional morphology
Robert Loudon Associate Teaching Professor PISB 221 E rpl25@drexel.edu 215.895.6936	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Rho GTPases, regulation of actin cytoskeleton, regulation of G protein-coupled receptors by receptor kinases and arrestins
Christina Love Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Start Talking Science Disque Hall, 807 love@drexel.edu 215.571.3699	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Astroparticle physics, neutrino physics and astronomy, citizen science, science communication, physics education, outreach
Michael R. Lowe Professor Stratton 284 lowe@drexel.edu 215.553.7116	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Restrained eating; dieting; obesity; eating disorders; weight suppression; set point; hedonic hunger
Jamie Ludwig Assistant Teaching Professor Stratton Hall 414 jll449@drexel.edu 215-895-1861	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests flipped-classroom; chemistry; education
Emily Lufburrow Research Coordinator, WELL Center ehl28@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests The ways in which patient’s can alter their diets and physical activity to combat disease as a treatment unto itself.
John G. Lundberg Professor Emeritus, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science; Curator Emeritus, ANS jgl43@drexel.edu 215.405.5069	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Systematic biology, biodiversity and diversification of fishes, morphology and paleontology
Brent Luvaas Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media Academic Building, 317 bal47@drexel.edu 215.571.3660	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Visual anthropology; photography; social media; global media; digital culture; urban culture; Southeast Asia
Dali Ma Associate Professor of Management, Drexel LeBow College of Business Gerri C. LeBow Hall 645 dm484@drexel.edu 215.895.1733	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests inequality and status hierarchy innovation and entrepreneurship organization theory social networks sociology of China
Michael Machado Operations and Administrative Manager mm572@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Nadia Magnanini Adjunct Professor Academic Building, 3rd Floor nm688@drexel.edu	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests
Stephanie Manasse Assistant Professor; Director, MS and Accelerated BS/MS in Psychology Programs; Director, mPOWER Program (WELL Center); Director, Child and Adolescent Program (WELL Center) Stratton 244 smm522@drexel.edu 215.553.7157	Department WELL Center Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Novel treatments for adolescents and adults with eating disorders; momentary drivers of binge eating; self-regulation; ecological momentary assessment
Stephen Mandell Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall mandelsr@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Freshman Writing; Technical Writing; Speech; American Literature
Celeste Dolores Mann Instructor; Coordinator of Spanish 200-level and Spanish Tutors Academic Building, 315A cdm323@drexel.edu	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy; The life and music of Brazilian composer, Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga; Theater in Spanish and Portuguese; Hispanic and Brazilian Film; Latin American and Iberian Music
Ilana Margolis Adjunct Instructor Academic Building, 3rd Floor im66@drexel.edu 215.895.5931	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Hebrew-language instruction
Natalie Marley Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese; Contact for Japanese Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 315 nnm43@drexel.edu 215.895.2894	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Japanese Linguistics with an emphasis on pedagogy and topics concerning second language acquisition and teaching
Nada Matta Assistant Professor; Director, Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA) Academic Building, 318 nada.matta@drexel.edu 215.895.3787	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Political Economy, Capitalism, Social Movements, Middle East Studies, Gender Studies, Labor Studies, Revolutions
Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza Associate Professor of Spanish; Contact for Spanish Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 316 mm349@drexel.edu 215.895.2171	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Language variation in Spanish, the relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and the United States, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, theater, baroque and contemporary literature.
Julia H. May Director, MS in Professional Communication Program; Director, Graduate PR Certificate Program; Associate Teaching Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 163 julia.may@drexel.edu 215.895.5804	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Political communication, international politics and its news coverage, public opinion, debate in the public sphere, transatlantic relations, war, torture and human rights
Janel McCloskey Co-Director, University Writing Program 116 Korman Center jfp48@drexel.edu 215.895.1799	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Craig P. McClure Teaching Professor Stratton Hall 412 cpm76@drexel.edu 215.571.3197	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Promotion of quantitative literacy in introductory courses; development of guided inquiry activities for introductory chemistry; outreach programs in STEM fields
Richard M. McCourt Professor; Curator of Botany, Director of the Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel, Botany Department rmm45@drexel.edu 215.299.1139	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Molecular systematics; algae; evolution; taxonomy; algal ecology
Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick Assistant Professor A.J. Drexel Autism Institute emh347@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests
Deirdre McMahon Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall deirdre.h.mcmahon@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Stephen L.W. McMillan Department Head; Professor Disque Hall 815 stephen.l.mcmillan@drexel.edu 215.895.2709	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Stellar dynamics, Computations of stellar systems
Amanda McMillan Lequieu Assistant Professor 3201 Arch, Suite 210, Room 204 amanda.mcmillanlequieu@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental sociology, political economy, place and space, rural-urban interface, qualitative and historical methodologies
John Medaglia Assistant Professor 322 Stratton Hall John.D.Medaglia@drexel.edu 215.553.7169	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Applying models and methods developed in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and graph theory to understand and treat brain dysfunction and enhance healthy functioning.
Georgi S. Medvedev Professor Tenure Korman Center 222 medvedev@drexel.edu 215.895.6612	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Neuroscience
Carol Mele Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy 5062 MacAlister Hall carol.anne.mele@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Ethics, Medical Ethics, Critical Reasoning
Marianallet Mendez-Rivera Assistant Teaching Professor 5054 MacAlister Hall mm3595@drexel.edu (215) 895-6854	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Megan Meyer Assistant Teaching Professor Stratton 208 mlm583@drexel.edu 215.571.3928	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Influences on preferred body type; changes in body image, self-esteem, and self-efficacy in females as a function of strength training; Sensation and perception
Harriet Levin Millan Director, Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing; Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall millanhl@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests
Jonson Miller Teaching Professor of History 5015 MacAlister jwm54@drexel.edu 215.895.0994	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests American history, military history, history of engineering and technology
Irvin Miller Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Nicole Miller Research Coordinator, WELL Center nam365@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests How social factors impact the development of negative weight-related behaviors.
Rogelio Miñana Professor of Spanish and Global Studies; Vice Provost for Global Engagement Academic Building, room 304 101 N. 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 rogelio.minana@drexel.edu 215.571.3194	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; youth and community organizations; digital storytelling; civic and global engagement
Cecilia Mondaini Assistant Professor Korman Center 265 cf823@drexel.edu 215.895.6823	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Processes
Franco Montalto Assistant Professor Alumni Engineering Labs Room 273-F fmontalto@coe.drexel.edu 215.895.1385	Department Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests
Danette Morrison Assistant Teaching Professor Stratton 209 dm3353@drexel.edu 215.571.4308	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Social and academic motivation within school context; Social relationships and identity development; Educational attainment of ethnic minorities.
Jill Moses Assistant Director, First-Year Writing Program ; Associate Teaching Professor of English 5045 MacAlister Hall jrm378@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Contemporary Poetry; Feminist literature; Creative Writing
Shari Moskow Professor Korman Center 296 moskow@math.drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied PDEs and numerical analysis, in particular homogenization theory, inverse problems, and related asymptotic and numerical methods
Julie Mostov Professor Emerita	Department Department of Politics Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Explores the politics of national identity, sovereignty, citizenship and gender with a special focus on Southeastern Europe. Her recent work looks at violence, borders, and space and promotes the notion of soft-borders, transnational citizenship, and relational sovereignty.
Stephen Mullin President and Principal, Econsult Solutions; Adjunct Instructor mullin@econsultsolutions.com	Department Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests State and local public finance and policy analyis, taxation policy analysis, economic development, real estate development, business and government strategies
Donna Murasko Professor Emerita donna.murasko@drexel.edu 215.895.1892 Please note: Dr. Murasko no longer accepts graduate students due to her emerita (retired) status.	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Changes in immune response with increasing age, immune response to viruses, CD8 T cell response in virus infections
Brad Nabors Assistant Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 220, Room 297 brad.nabors@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Cultural sociology; Sociology of religion; Social Theory
Russell Neilson Associate Professor Disque Hall 905 russell.g.neilson@drexel.edu 215.895.2729	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Dark matter, Neutrino physics
Amanda NeMoyer Assistant Research Professor Stratton 303 amanda.n.nemoyer@drexel.edu 215.553.7158	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Juvenile justice; Forensic psychology; Program evaluation; Policy and practice reform; Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline; Diverting youth from justice system involvement
Arthur M. Nezu Distinguished University Professor of Psychology; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Community Health and Prevention Stratton 268 amn23@drexel.edu 215.553.7115	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Social problem solving as a moderator/mediator of stress and psychopathology; applications of Emotion-Centered Problem-Solving Therapy; treatment and prevention of depression; treatment and prevention of suicide; behavioral health of U.S. military veterans
Christine Maguth Nezu Professor of Psychology; Professor of Medicine Stratton 278 cn25@drexel.edu 215.553.7112	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Emotion-centered Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) for mood, personality, stress-related disorders; EC-PST as an evidence-based, trans-diagnostic intervention across many clinical problem areas and populations including Veterans/US Service Members, and their families; cinical case formulation; integrative psychotherapy approaches; emotionally-focused interventions and CBT; Departmental concentration areas of cognitive behavioral and clinical health psychology
Christopher T. Nielson Teaching Professor of English 5037 MacAlister Hall cn33@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Shakespeare; Drama; Early Modern Literature; British Renaissance Literature; Medieval Literature; World Literature; Composition Studies
Alexander Nikolaev Associate Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 168 agn24@drexel.edu 215.895.1907	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Public relations, political communication, organizational communication, mass communication, international communications and negotiations, communications theory.
Karen S. Nulton Director, Writing Assessment; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall ksn27@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing assessment; work-integrated-learning (WIL); reflective writing
Michael O'Connor Professor; Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee PISB 318 oconnomp@drexel.edu 215.895.2637	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Physiological ecology; Physiology; Modelling; Allometry.
Oksana P. Odintsova Teaching Professor Korman Center 232 opo23@drexel.edu 215.895.6241	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Sean O'Donnell Professor PISB 324 so356@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Animal behavior, neuroecology, social insects, tropical ecology, thermal physiology
Joel E. Oestreich Professor jeo25@drexel.edu 215.895.6794	Department Department of Politics Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests International organizations, international finance, development, human rights
Santiago Ontañón Affiliated Faculty  santi@cs.drexel.edu	Department WELL Center	Research & Teaching Interests Game AI; Computer Games; Artificial Intelligence; machine learning
Michael Onu Research Coordinator, WELL Center mo654@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Health behavior change, Developing interventions that support individuals living a healthier lifestyle.
Daniel Otte Professor Emeritus, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science; Senior Curator Emeritus, ANS Entomology, ANS do332@drexel.edu 215.299.1188	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Taxonomy and biogeography of Orthoptera, particularly grasshoppers and crickets; origin of species
Gwen Ottinger Associate Professor 3101 Market Street, Room 217 ottinger@drexel.edu 215.571.4823	Department Department of Politics Center for Science, Technology and Society Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental justice; Political theory; Science and technology policy; Data infrastructure; Citizen science; Epistemic innovation
Ni Ou Assistant Teaching Professor; Contact for Chinese Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 315 Ni.Ou@drexel.edu 215.895.6147	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Chinese study abroad
Kevin G. Owens Associate Professor; Chair, Faculty Senate Stratton Hall 415 kevin.owens@drexel.edu 215.895.2621	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; analytical method development; time-of-flight mass spectrometry; analytical instrument development; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization; imaging mass spectrometry; micro-organism identification by mass spectrometry; chemometrics; correlation analysis
Flavia Padovani Associate Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister Hall fp72@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic
Dimitrios Papadopoulos Assistant Teaching Professor Korman Center 256 dp399@drexel.edu 215.895.2683	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Melissa M. Parks Assistant Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 156 mp3697@drexel.edu	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Nonprofit rhetoric; SHER (science, health, environmental, and risk) communication; human-nature relations; critical cultural studies; critical rhetoric; critical pedagogy.
James Eldred Pascoe Assistant Professor jep362@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Functional analysis; complex analysis; noncommutative algebra; matrix analysis
Sharrona Pearl Associate Teaching Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Health Administration, Drexel College of Nursing and Public Health Three Parkway Building, 1601 Cherry Street, Room 775 shp72@drexel.edu	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests Science studies history of science and medicine critical race, gender, and disability studies media studies
Joel Pereira Assistant Teaching Professor Korman Center 260 jp3465@drexel.edu 215.571.3586	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Commutative Algebra
Ronald K. Perline Undergraduate Adviser; Associate Professor Korman Center 294 rperline@math.drexel.edu 215.895.6623	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Symbolic Computation, Differential Geometry, Modeling of Nonlinear Optical Phenomena, Mathematical Physics
Marci A. Perlstadt Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 272 mperlstadt@math.drexel.edu 215.895.0224	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied Mathematics, Computed Tomography, Numerical Analysis of Function Reconstruction, Signal Processing, Combinatorics
Margene L. Petersen Assistant Teaching Professor 5059 MacAlister Hall mlp59@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Multilingual Learners; Mentor; Visual Rhetorical Analysis; Anti-racist Pedagogy; Lowering Affective Filter
Ryan Petrie Associate Professor; Director, Biology Graduate Program PISB 419 3245 Chestnut St Philadelphia, PA 19104 rjp336@drexel.edu 215.895.1476	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Extracellular matrix; cell motility; cytoskeleton; mechanotransduction; cell-matrix interactions; cell biology; intracellular signaling
Brianna Pezzato Adjunct Instructor bcp49@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Megan V. Phifer-Rixey Assistant Professor PISB 320 Mp3754@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Evolution; Genetics; Adaptation; Integrative Biology; Urban; Climate
Amani Piers Clinical Psychologist adp84@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Eating disorders; Health psychology; Project ReLearn
Marilyn Gaye Piety Professor of Philosophy 5032 MacAlister Hall mgpiety@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Kierkegaard; philosophy of religion; ancient philosophy; public philosophy; flash philosophy; social justice; philosophy of sport
Toni Pitock Assistant Teaching Professor of History 5022 MacAlister tfp47@drexel.edu 215.895.2463	Department Department of History Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Atlantic World; Jewish Migration and Diaspora; Economic Culture; Trade Networks; Colonial American History
Maegan Poland Assistant Teaching Professor 5016 MacAlister Hall mcp332@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Creative writing; Fiction; Memoir; First-year writing
Elizabeth Polcha Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities 5049 MacAlister Hall lp949@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Black Atlantic Literature; Digital Humanities; Early American Studies; Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Environmental Studies; History of Science; History of the Book
Douglas V. Porpora Professor of Sociology 3201 Arch Street, 380 porporad@drexel.edu 215.895.2404	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Meaning; Morality; Politics; Religion; Social Justice.
Abioseh Porter Director, Africana Studies; Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall abiosehp@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Comparative Literature; Postcolonial Literatures
Marina Potapova Associate Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science Assistant Curator of Diatoms, ANS Diatom Herbarium, ANS mp895@drexel.edu 215.405.5068	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Taxonomy; Ecology; Biogeography of freshwater and coastal diatoms
Kathleen Powell Assistant Research Professor 3401 Market Street, Suite 110 kathleen.m.powell@drexel.edu	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Juvenile Delinquency & Justice, Crime and the Life Course, Corrections, Punishment, and Inequality, Courts and the Legal Profession, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Policy, Research Methods
Nic John Ramos Assistant Professor of History 5009 MacAlister nfr38@drexel.edu 215.895.1207	Department Department of History Center for Science, Technology and Society Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests African American History; History of Medicine; History of Psychiatry; Urban History; 20^th Century US History; History of Racial Capitalism; History of Sexuality
Rosalind Remer Vice Provost & Executive Director, Drexel University Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships Rosalind.Remer@drexel.edu 215.895.1203	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests History of the Book, Early American economic and business history, Public history, Museum planning, Non-profit management
Rachel Reynolds Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 340, Room 354 rrr28@drexel.edu 215.895.0498	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis; Violence Against Women in Mass Media; Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration; Semiotics including the Textual, the Visual and the Multimodal
Jerome Ricard Assistant Research Professor PISB 413 jjr325@drexel.edu 215.571.3785	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Ephrins; Spinal cord injury; Neuroinflammation; Cell death; Dependence receptors; Pain
Gordon T. Richards Professor; Chair, Faculty Senate Budget, Process, and Development (BP&D) Committee Disque 812 gordon.t.richards@drexel.edu 215.895.2713	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Quasars, active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, galaxy evolution, sky surveys, infrared/X-ray/radio astronomy
Cyndi Rickards Associate Teaching Professor of Criminology & Justice Studies 3401 Market Street, Room 110-I crr46@drexel.edu 215.571.3734	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Community-based learning pedagogy; agents of justice and community health; mass incarceration and community
Adam C. Rickert Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 234 arickert@drexel.edu 215.895.1949	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Devyn Riddle Research Coordinator, WELL Center drr84@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Donald Riggs Teaching Professor of English 5058 MacAlister Hall riggsda@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Wonder; Mystery; Clarity; Relevance; Communication
Jody A. Roberts Research Faculty, Center for Science, Technology & Society; Director, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation jroberts@chemheritage.org 215.873.8281	Department Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Intersections of emerging molecular sciences and public policy and the ways in which tensions brought about between the two get resolved
Diana Robins Professor, Director, AJ Drexel Autism Institute; Department of Community Health & Prevention diana.l.robins@drexel.edu 215.571.3439	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Early detection of autism spectrum disorder, screening for autism spectrum disorder in community settings, social cognition in autism spectrum disorder
Leeland Loew Rogers Assistant Teaching Professor Stratton 204 Leeland.Loew.Rogers@drexel.edu	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Incidental learning; Statistical learning; Attention
Donna Rondolone Associate Teaching Professor donna.l.rondolone@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Arthurian legend, Mythology
Chris Rorres Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Gail D. Rosen Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall gor22@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Law, Communications, Composition
Gerald (Harris) Rosen M.R. Wehr Professor Emeritus of Physics gerald.h.rosen@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
Gary Rosenberg Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science; Pilsbry Chair of Malacology, ANS Malacology, ANS gr347@drexel.edu 215.299.1033	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Malacology Systematic Biology Evolutionary Biology
William Rosenberg Professor 3021-D MacAlister rosenberg@drexel.edu 215.895.1302	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Behavioral politics, public opinion, political communication
Jacob A. Russell Professor PISB 325 jar337@drexel.edu 215.895.1643	Department Department of Biology Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Symbiosis; Ants; Aphids; Genomics; Evolution; Molecular Ecology
Patricia Henry Russell Adjunct Instructor; Teaching Professor Emerita Emeritus phenry@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Susan A. Rutkowsky Assistant Department Head, Teaching Professor Stratton Hall 411 sar@drexel.edu 215.895.1509	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Development of labs and lecture demonstrations for general and organic chemistry courses; Development of evidence-based teaching strategies; Cosmetic chemistry; STEM outreach programs
Rosemary Rys Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 154 rer22@drexel.edu Mobile: 609.471.0311	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Public Relations; Marketing; Event Planning
Doreen Alvarez Saar American Literature Editor, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature; Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall saarda@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Early American Literature; Race and Gender Studies
Sheila F. Sandapen Director of English Programs ; Assistant Teaching Professor 5016 MacAlister Hall sfs34@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Black British; Cultural Studies; Contemporary British; Feminist; Literature; First-Year Writing
Nianli Sang Co-Director of the Cell Imaging Center; Associate Professor PISB 417 nianli.sang@drexel.edu 215.895.6885	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Bases of Major Human Diseases
Jack Santucci Assistant Teaching Professor MacAlister 3025 215.895.2463	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Electoral Systems, Political Parties, American Political Development, Ideal Point Estimation
Tiago Saraiva Department Head; Associate Professor MacAlister Hall, room 5014 tfs37@drexel.edu 215.895.6870	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests History of science; History of technology; Environmental history; Science and technology studies
Valerie Sarris Adjunct Instructor vs487@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Aleister Saunders Executive Vice Provost for Research & Innovation; Professor 104 Left Bank Aleister.Saunders@drexel.edu 215.895.6091	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular/Cellular Biology
Jeremiah Scepaniak Assistant Professor Disque Hall 506 jjs452@drexel.edu 215.895.6660	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Study of first-row transition metal complexes of tetrapodal pentadentate ligands composed of N-heterocyclic carbenes, particularly in relation to small molecule activation and group transfer reactions. Transformation of C-1 substrates (CO, CO¬¬¬¬2) to value added products using first-row transition metals.
Ludo Scheffer Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology; Teaching Professor Stratton 105 lcs22@drexel.edu 215.895.6140	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Meta-cognitive development, writing, and computers; language and literacy development in the early years in the context of family and schooling; Youth-at-risk; Issues in Equity; School/Program/Intervention effectiveness
Eric Scheidly Adjunct Professor Off-campus scheidly@drexel.edu	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Dark matter, Neutrino physics
Simone Schlichting-Artur Teaching Professor of German; Contact for German Study Abroad Course Approvals Academic Building, 3rd Floor, Room 322 schlichs@drexel.edu 215.895.2443	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests International business communication (Germany and the U.S.), public health policy and languages, German post-war history through film and literature, development of writing assessment tools for German minor.
Eric J. Schmutz Professor Tenure Korman Center 264 eschmutz@math.drexel.edu 215.895.1948	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Probabilistic Combinatorics
Alexis Schulman Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science; Director of the Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program Dolan Fellow for Innovation in Water Science, Patrick Center for Environmental Research, ANS Patrick Center 336 as5293@drexel.edu 215.299.1025	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental policy and politics, urban planning, sustainability and resilience transitions, policy implementation, local knowledge and community science
Maria T. Schultheis Vice Provost of Research; Professor 3180 Chestnut Street, Suite 104 schultheis@drexel.edu 215.895.4463	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Neurorehabilitation; Application of technology to psychology; Virtual reality technology; Driving capacity after neurological compromise; Rehabilitation of functional, everyday activities
Jennifer Schwartz Director, Psychological Services Center; Teaching Professor Stratton 266 Jennifer.L.Schwartz@drexel.edu 215.553.7127	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Adult Psychopathology; Evidence-Based Practice; Competency-Based Training; Competency-Based Clinical Supervision
Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner Professor Emeritus; Department of Chemistry Disque Hall 605 rs344@drexel.edu 215.895.2268	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Biophysical chemistry, protein structure and function, intrinsically disordered proteins, structure analysis, vibrational spectroscopy, statistical thermodynamics
Jonathan Seitz Teaching Professor of History; Assistant Department Head 5024 MacAlister jwseitz@drexel.edu 215.895.0996	Department Department of History Center for Science, Technology and Society Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests History of science, Italy, Europe
Manuel Seman-Senderos Assistant Teaching Professor PISB 221 mas952@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Cell Biology Genetics History of Science Synthetic Biology Drug Discovery
Jocelyn A. Sessa Assistant Professor; Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 jsessa@drexel.edu 215.299.1149	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Ocean acidification; Mollusks; Climate change; Paleobiology
Li Sheng Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 274 lsheng@math.drexel.edu 215.895.6613	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Discrete Optimization, Operations Research, Graph Theory and its applications, Biostatistics
Patrick Shields Adjunct Instructor prs49@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Arthur Shostak Professor Emeritus arthurshostak@gmail.com 510.239.4002	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests
Wesley Shumar Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 372 shumarw@drexel.edu 215.895.2060	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests The Commodification of Culture, Consumer Culture and the Production of Value, Entrepreneurship and Craft Culture, Cultural Change in Higher Education, Digital Media and Learning, Learning and Communication
Myrna Shure Professor Emeritus Stratton 219 ms54@drexel.edu 215.553.7120	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Child development; Problem-solving interventions with children; Prevention programs
Diane Sicotte Professor of Sociology 3201 Arch Street, Room 203 dms76@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental Sociology; Environmental inequality and injustice; Political economy of energy and environment; Labor and environment; Plastics in society
Tasneem A. Siddiqui Assistant Professor MacAlister Hall, room 5013 tas434@drexel.edu	Department Department of History Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests The Black Radical Tradition; Land-based struggles; Black social movements; Labor; Black Geographies; Africana spiritual systems; Self-determination
Fred Siegel Teaching Professor of English; Director, First-Year Writing Program 5016 MacAlister Hall siegelf@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Jewish Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Popular Theater; Dramatic Literature, Creative Non-Fiction; Freshman Writing
Chloe Silverman Associate Professor 3101 Market Street, 221 cbs78@drexel.edu 215.571.4650	Department Department of Politics Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests The role of affect in scientific knowledge, how public claims about affect are used to establish authority, and the role of affect as an analytic tool and method in science studies. Productive entanglements between so-called “lay” and “expert” knowledge. Affective dimensions of social movements that have engaged medical authorities and patient groups. Modes through which information about scientific practice—as opposed to scientific findings—is communicated to different publics. How discourse about what science is or ought to be shapes both peopleʼs reception of scientific information and their personal investment in science as a form of knowledge.
Gideon Simpson Associate Professor Korman Center, room 262 grs53@drexel.edu 215.895.1849	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied mathematics; Numerical analysis; Scientific computing; Stochastic simulation
Rachel Sinex Research Coordinator, WELL Center rhs63@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Treatment development and prevention of body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders in adolescent and adult populations
Amy Slaton Professor 5015 MacAlister slatonae@drexel.edu 215.895.2061	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests History of technology, labor, race
Julia Sluzenski Associate Teaching Professor Stratton 205 julia.m.sluzenski@drexel.edu 215.571.4309	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Memory and its neural basis, lifespan development
Ron Smith Instructor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Director, DESLA Summer Program rvs33@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Shorebird Ecology and Conservation; Amphibians of the NJ Pine Barrens; Restoration Ecology; Climate Change – Regional Effects and Education
Kevin Smith Associate Teaching Professor PISB 221 A kps43@drexel.edu 215.571.3469	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Organismal Biology, Ecology, Herpetology, STEM Education
Matthew Ross Smith mrs363@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Writing, Novelist, Middle Grade
Andrew Frederick Smith Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies MacAlister Hall, Rm. 5041 afs52@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Department of English and Philosophy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Environmental Philosophy/Environmental Humanities; Food Justice; Climate Justice; Social and Political Philosophy; Decolonization
Justin Smith Professor Emeritus jsmith@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Karl Sohlberg Associate Professor; Chemistry Graduate Advisor Disque Hall 222 kws24@drexel.edu 215.895.2653	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; materials research; mechanically interlocked macromolecular complexes (MIMAs); surface modeling.
Arun Kumar Soma Research Assistant Professor Disque Hall 907 arunkumar.soma@drexel.edu 215.895.2781	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Neutrino Physics, Dark Matter Physics, Radiation Detectors
Xiaoming Song Associate Professor Tenure Korman Center 273 song@math.drexel.edu 215.895.6998	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Stochastic Calculus, Large Deviation Theory, Theoretical Statistics, Data Network Modeling and Numerical Analysis
Lawrence Souder Teaching Professor Emeritus of Communication ls39@drexel.edu 215.895.2730	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Science and technical writing, communication ethics.
Jonathan E. Spanier Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Affiliated Faculty LeBow 440 spanier@drexel.edu 215.895.2301	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Light-matter interactions in electronic materials, including ferroelectric semiconductors, complex oxide thin film science; laser spectroscopy, including Raman scattering
Mary V. Spiers Professor Emeritus spiersm@drexel.edu	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Clinical neuropsychology and medical psychology; Memory and practical applications for memory disorders in the elderly; Cognitive health of women
Elias Spiliotis Associate Professor; Director, Biology Graduate Programs; Director, Cell Imaging Center PISB 423 ets33@drexel.edu 215.571.3552	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Cell biology, cytoskeleton (microtubules, actin, septins), neuronal and epithelial morphogenesis, spatial regulation of intracellular transport, cell motility and cell division.
James Spotila Professor Emeritus spotiljr@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Physiological ecology, Biophysical Ecology and Conservation Biology
Niharika Sravan Assistant Professor ns3527@drexel.edu	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Machine learning; Astronomical surveys; Dynamic resource allocation; Transients; Multimessenger astronomy
Paakhi Srivastava Assistant Research Professor ps887@drexel.edu	Department WELL Center	Research & Teaching Interests Understanding factors (e.g., body image disturbances) that maintain disordered eating behaviors in real-time and real-world. Learning about how evidence-based treatments address maintenance factors to produce improvements in binge eating spectrum disorders. Development of novel treatments/treatment augmentations to better address maintenance factors and improve clinical outcomes for binge eating spectrum disorders.
Jennifer Stanford Associate Professor, Department of Biology; Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE); Institutional Leader for CIRTL at Drexel PISB 425 jss75@drexel.edu	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests STEM Education; Effective and Inclusive Teaching; Evidence-Based Teaching; Faculty and Future Faculty Pedagogical Development; Experiential Learning; Epigenetics; Learning and Memory
Kathryn Steen Associate Professor 5012 MacAlister Mailbox: 3025 MacAlister steen@drexel.edu 215.895.6615	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests History of technology; comparative industrialization and transnational history, business history
Allan Stegeman Teaching Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 161 stegemal@drexel.edu 215.895.2734	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Communication, technology and mass media, video.
Mark Stehr Professor, Economics; Director, School of Economics Gerri C. LeBow Hall 1021 stehr@drexel.edu 215.895.0554	Department Center for Public Policy	Research & Teaching Interests Applied Econometrics Health Economics
Scott Stein Director, Drexel Publishing Group; Teaching Professor of English 5026 MacAlister Hall sas38@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Creative Writing; Fiction and Novels; Satire and Humor; Publishing; Franz Kafka; Superheroes; Working with Student Interns
Richard Steinberg Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics steinberg@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Search for magnetic monopoles; Neutrino oscillations
Jeanne M. Steuber Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 236 jms77@drexel.edu 215.895.1957	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Donald F. Stevens Professor Emeritus stevens@drexel.edu 215.895.2465	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests Modern Latin American history
C. Clare Strange Assistant Research Professor 3401 Market Street, Suite 110 cs3846@drexel.edu 215.571.4628	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Sentencing; Corrections; Treatment/rehabilitation; Public health
Nelly Taha Assistant Teaching Professor Office: Academic Building, 315 Nelly.Taha@drexel.edu	Department Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages	Research & Teaching Interests Motivation and Curriculum; Technology and Curriculum; Communicative Functions of Code-Switching
Jose Tapia Professor MacAlister 3021-E jat368@drexel.edu 215.895.6762	Department Department of Politics	Research & Teaching Interests Social development, world economy, climate change, macroeconomic effects on health
Scott Tattar Instructor of Communication; Faculty Advisor, Drexel Public Relations Student Society; Communication Department Recruitment Liaison 3201 Arch Street, 159 sdt56@drexel.edu 215.571.3611	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Public Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Reputation Management; Issues/Crisis Management; Business Communication
Eva Thury Associate Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall thury@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Literature, Computer Science
Monica Togna Associate Teaching Professor PISB 221 F mmt73@drexel.edu 215.895.2684	Department Department of Biology	Research & Teaching Interests Organismal Biology (Physiology / Anatomy / Dev Bio), Microbiology
Alexa Tompary Assistant Professor Stratton Hall, Room 306 at3549@drexel.edu	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Neural bases of episodic memory and conceptual knowledge; Systems memory consolidation theories; Functional neuroimaging; Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Olga Trubina Adjunct Instructor oit24@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Somdev Tyagi Associate Department Head for Non-Major Studies, Professor Disque Hall 806 tyagi@drexel.edu 215.895.6956	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Nanobiophysics, Raman spectroscopy, Magnetic materials
Kelly Underman Assistant Professor 3201 Arch Street, 289 kdu24@drexel.edu	Department Department of Sociology Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production
Kristene Unsworth Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society; Assistant Teaching Professor 3401 Market, Suite 110-G kristene.unsworth@drexel.edu 215.895.0277	Department Department of Criminology and Justice Studies Center for Public Policy Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Ethics, information technologies and policy Information justice, ethics of data access and use Policy development that addresses the equitable use of information across society Intersections between information technology, people, and justice
Brigita Urbanc Professor; Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies 3141 Chestnut Street, 12-909, Philadelphia, PA 19104 bu25@drexel.edu 215.895.2726	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Intrinsically disordered proteins; Biophysics of protein folding and self-assembly relevant to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; Protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions; Discrete and all-atom molecular dynamics; Molecular dynamics force field development
Hilde Van den Bulck Department Head; Professor 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 152 hdv26@drexel.edu 215.895.0245	Department Department of Communication	Research & Teaching Interests Political economy of media structures; Media policies for digitized media ecologies; Stakeholders and coalitions in media policies; Digitization, convergence and legacy media; Public (service) media; Methods of media policy analysis; Media culture in a digitized media ecosystem; Media and (collective) identities; Celebrity culture and industry; Celebrity philanthropy and activism; Celebrity and populism; Fandom and anti-fandom
Loÿc Vanderkluysen Associate Professor PISB, Room 322 loyc@drexel.edu 215.571.4673	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Volcano remote sensing and monitoring; Volcanic gases; Igneous petrology and geochemistry; Large Igneous Provinces
Sonia Vaz Borges Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies 5025 MacAlister sonia.vazborges@drexel.edu	Department Department of History Africana Studies Center for Interdisciplinary Study	Research & Teaching Interests Liberation Struggles; African History; History of Education; Militant Research; ‘Walking archives’, memory and imaginaries
David Velinsky Department Head and Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB) 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA The Academy of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA velinsky@drexel.edu 215.299.1147	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Fate and transport of chemical contaminants; Stable isotope and nutrient biogeochemistry; Sediment geochemistry and deposition; Water quality
Jörn Venderbos Assistant Professor Disque Hall, 610 jwv34@drexel.edu 215-895-2714	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Theory of quantum materials: topological Insulators, topological semimetals, materials prediction and design, strongly correlated electron materials, complex electronic ordering phenomena, unconventional superconductors
T.S. Venkataraman Professor Emeritus Department of Physics t.s.venkataraman@drexel.edu	Department	Research & Teaching Interests
K. Shwetketu Virbhadra Instructor Korman Center 259 ksv29@drexel.edu 215.571.4101	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Giacomo Vivanti Associate Professor, AJ Drexel Autism Institute giacomo.vivanti@drexel.edu 215.571.3202	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests The nature of learning difficulties in autism; developing effective programs to address such learning difficulties within community-based settings
Michael S. Vogeley Professor Disque Hall 811 vogeley@drexel.edu 215.895.2710	Department Department of Physics	Research & Teaching Interests Cosmology, Galaxy formation and evolution, Statistical analysis of large data sets, Active galactic nuclei
Jurij Volčič Assistant Professor Korman Center, room 258 jv586@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Real algebraic geometry; noncommutative analysis; invariant and representation theory; skew fields, polynomial optimization.
Kathleen Volk Miller Co-Editor, Painted Bride Quarterly; Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall kvm@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Publishing; Creative Writing; Literary Magazines; Writing and Neuroplasticity; Healing through Writing; Journaling; Personal Essay
Maria Volynsky ESL Coordinator and Associate Director, First Year Writing Program; Associate Teaching Professor 5059 MacAlister Hall mvolynsky@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests TESOL; Linguistic Diversity; Multilingualism; Online Teaching; Social Emotional Learning; Language Acquisition; Assessment
Peter A. Wade Professor Emeritus Disque Hall 503 wadepa@drexel.edu 215.895.2652	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Nitro; cycloaddition; rearrangement; isomerization; nitration
Anthony Wambsgans Associate Teaching Professor Straton Hall 409 anthony.wambsgans@drexel.edu 215.895.1585	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests
Dane Ward Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science PISB 315 dcw33@drexel.edu 215.895.2266	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Urban Ecology, Conservation Biology, Pine Barrens Ecology, Marine Ecology, STEM Diversity & Inclusion, International Education, International STEM Mentorship
Scott Warnock Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education; Professor of English MacAlister Hall, Suite 4020 sjwarnock@drexel.edu 215.895.0377	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Teaching with technology; Online writing instruction; Writing administration; Learning assessment; Faculty development;
Robert Watts Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall wattsra@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy	Research & Teaching Interests Creative Writing; Freshman Writing
Jason D. Weckstein Associate Professor, Associate Curator of Ornithology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Ornithology Department 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19096 jdw342@drexel.edu 215.299.1023	Department Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science	Research & Teaching Interests Phylogenetics; Host-parasite coevolution; Ornithology; Systematic biology; Comparative biology, Biodiversity surveys, Genomics
Richard D. White Assistant Teaching Professor Korman Center 255 rdw35@drexel.edu 215.895.6691	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Vincent Williams Associate Teaching Professor of English 5016 MacAlister Hall avw22@drexel.edu 215.895.5888	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Africana Studies	Research & Teaching Interests
Jet Wimp Professor Emeritus	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Hugo J. Woerdeman Professor Korman Center 272 hjw27@drexel.edu 215.895.6828	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Matrix and Operator Theory; Systems Theory; Signal and Image Processing; Harmonic Analysis; Multivariable Interpolation; Factorization; Quantum Computing.
Ezra C. Wood Associate Professor; Chair of Chemistry Graduate Program Committee Disque Hall, room 507 Ezra.Wood@drexel.edu 215.895.1681	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests Atmospheric Chemistry; Air Pollution; Climate Change; Analytical Instrumentation
J. Douglas Wright Department Head; Professor Korman Center 292 jdoug@math.drexel.edu 215.895.0981	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Partial differential equations, particularly the behavior of nonlinear waves in systems arising in hydrodynamics, optics and cell biology
Jun Xi Associate Teaching Professor Disque Hall 218 jx35@drexel.edu 215.895.2648	Department Department of Chemistry	Research & Teaching Interests QCM; cell adhesion; enzyme; problem-based learning; peer learning
Jingni Xiao Assistant Professor jx342@drexel.edu	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Inverse problems; partial differential equations; scattering theory; nonlocal operators; non-scattering phenomena
Dennis G. Yang Associate Teaching Professor Korman Center 252 gy44@drexel.edu 215.571.3583	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Dynamical Systems, Neurodynamics
Thomas P.-Y. Yu Professor Tenure Korman Center 268 tyu@math.drexel.edu 215.895.2066	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Applied Analysis, Applied Geometry, Multiscale Methods
Jian-Min Yuan Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics Disque Hall 819B yuanjm@drexel.edu 215.895.2722	Department	Research & Teaching Interests Biophysics, protein folding/unfolding, protein aggregation, cellular signaling pathways, stochastic dynamics; chemical physics, reaction dyanmics, nonlinear dynamics, interaction of radiation with matter
Jennifer Yusin Director, Women’s and Gender Studies; Associate Professor 5016 MacAlister Hall jyusin@drexel.edu	Department Department of English and Philosophy Center for Interdisciplinary Study Women's and Gender Studies	Research & Teaching Interests Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Philosophies of Race and Gender, Global Modernisms, LGBTQ+ Studies, Trans Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies, Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literatures, Transatlantic Studies, and the Global South
Robert Zaller Professor Emeritus zallerrm@drexel.edu 215.895.1512	Department Department of History	Research & Teaching Interests English history and early modern European history
Sergio Zefelippo Adjunct Instructor sz32@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Asta Zelenkauskaite Associate Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 165 az358@drexel.edu 215.895.1717	Department Department of Communication Center for Science, Technology and Society	Research & Teaching Interests Social media research; User-generated content analysis; Emergent practices online; Ideological influence; Inauthentic coordinated behaviors online; Misinformation/disinformation online; Mixed methods
Fengqing Zoe Zhang Associate Professor Stratton 316 fengqing.zhang@drexel.edu 215.553.7172	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Multimodal Neuroimaging; Data Mining; Data Integration; Mobile Health; Wearable Computing
Kai Zhao Adjunct Instructor kz367@drexel.edu 215.895.2668	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests
Matthew Ziemke Assistant Teaching Professor Korman Center 260 mjz55@drexel.edu 215.571.3586	Department Department of Mathematics	Research & Teaching Interests Functional Analysis, Operator Algebras, Semigroups, Mathematical Physics
Eric A. Zillmer Professor of Neuropsychology Stratton 221 zillmer@drexel.edu 215.895.1977	Department Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences	Research & Teaching Interests Sports psychology; Sports performance; Psychological assessment; Psychology of terrorists

Lloyd Ackert

Teaching Professor of History
5011 MacAlister
lta24@drexel.edu
215.895.0993

Department

Department of History
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests History of science & technology, ecology, Russian science

Anthony W. Addison

Professor Emeritus; Department of Chemistry
Disque Hall, room 418
addisona@drexel.edu
215.895.2646

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Redox; transition metals; chelate design; lanthanides; luminescence; tau-values; metalloprotein; magnetism, electron paramagnetic resonance; electrochemistry.

Ali Afify

Assistant Professor
PISB 421
aa4686@drexel.edu
215.895.2526

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Insect olfaction; Sensory Neurobiology; Mosquito oviposition; Malaria

Young-Hoon Ahn

Associate Professor
Disque Hall 506
ya426@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Chemical Biology; Cysteine Proteomics; Redox Signaling; Glutathione; and Post-translational Modifications.

Stacey E. Ake

Director, Health & Medical Humanities Program; Teaching Professor of Philosophy
5055 MacAlister
sea29@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

CS Peirce; Walker Percy; Kierkegaard; Existentialism; Bioethics; Semiotics; Biosemiotics

Peter Amato

Director, Programs in Philosophy; Teaching Professor of Philosophy
5029 MacAlister Hall
peterama@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Ethics; Marxism; Continental Philosophy

David M. Ambrose

Associate Department Head; Graduate Adviser; Professor
Korman Center 290
dma68@drexel.edu
215.895.6247

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Applied analysis and scientific computing for nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, especially free-surface problems in fluid dynamics

Howard Anton

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Jason S. Aran

Associate Department Head; Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 257
jsa33@drexel.edu
215.571.3585

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Julieta Arancio

Postdoctoral researcher

jca88@drexel.edu

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Open science hardware
Distributed manufacturing
Design Justice
Science and technology democratization
Grassroot innovation movements
Science and technology Studies (STS)

Loren Argabright

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Dani Arigo

Affiliated Faculty

arigo@rowan.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Understanding within-person relations between social perceptions; Physical activity engagement among midlife women with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease; Tailoring the social features of digital physical activity interventions to meet the needs of this population

Jan Armon

Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
jan.armon@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Valarie Arms

Professor Emeritus
5016 MacAlister Hall
armsvm@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Rhetoric and Composition

Richard Astro

Provost Emeritus; Distinguished Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
astro@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

20th Century American Fiction, 18th Century British Poetry, Sports and Social Issues

Hasan Ayaz

Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Monell 101
hasan.ayaz@drexel.edu
215.571.3709

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Neuroergonomics, Functional Neuroimaging, Biomedical Signal Processing, Neuroengineering, Functional Near Infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI)

Jesse Ballenger

Associate Teaching Professor of Health Administration

jfb83@drexel.edu

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society
Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

Healthcare, medicine and ethics; aging and neurodegenerative diseases; science and technology studies

Susan E. Bell

Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
3201 Arch Street, 294
susan.bell@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Sociology of health and illness; global and transnational health; reproductive health, rights and justice; experience of illness; narrative; visual sociology

Marirose Benedict

Licensed Professional Counselor, WELL Center

mb4386@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Joseph Bentz

Professor Emeritus
PISB 416
bentzj@drexel.edu
215.895.1513

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Biophysics of Cell Membrane Function - Membrane Transport by Multidrug Resistance Proteins, chanisms of Membrane Fusion, Peptide/Protein-Membrane Interactions

Donald Bersoff

Professor Emeritus
Kline School of Law, Room 271
Donald.Bersoff@drexel.edu
215.571.4819

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Legal and ethical issues in mental health; developmental disabilities and education; ethics and the law

John Bethea

Professor
PISB 123.04
jrb445@drexel.edu
215.895.2624

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Kenneth Bingham

Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
kenneth.bingham@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Freshman Writing, Engineering Ethics, Literature of Baseball

Ronald Bishop

Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 148
bishoprc@drexel.edu
215.895.1823

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Investigative reporting, sports journalism, journalism history, journalism sourcing patterns, textual narrative and ideological analysis, cultural history of fame, media portrayals of marginalized groups.

Jonah Blasiak

Associate Professor
Korman Center 275
jdb395@drexel.edu
215.895.6217

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Algebraic Combinatorics, Representation Theory, Complexity Theory

Joan Blumberg

Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 157
jwb28@drexel.edu
215.895.6351

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Publishing, electronic publishing, publishing and communications, publishing and mass-media

Patricia Diane Bobo

Assistant Teaching Professor

pdb59@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Inspiring – she wants to impart in her students’ the lifelong joy of learning; Committed – she is committed to helping students expand their mathematical foundation; Caring – she wants her students to know that she cares about every single one of them. And she truly believes in the motto, “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.”

Valerie Booth

Associate Teaching Professor of English
5023 MacAlister
vab42@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests Literature and Science; Virginia Woolf; Autobiography

Monserrat Bores Martínez

Coordinator of the Certificate in Spanish for Healthcare Professionals; Assistant Teaching Professor
101 N. 33rd. Street, 3rd. Floor (Room 320)
Philadelphia, PA 19104

mb4238@drexel.edu
215.895.0971

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests Language Pedagogy; Second Language Acquisition; Spanish for Specific Purposes; Spanish for Healthcare Professionals; Colonial Latin American Literature; Early Modern Literature

Octavio Borges-Delgado

Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Academic Building
octavio.borges-delgado@drexel.edu
215.895.6350

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Hispanic Caribbean literature and cultures, Latino/a studies, migration studies, Latin American diaspora, Critical race theory, Gender and sexuality in a global context

Shyamalendu Bose

Professor Emeritus; Department of Physics
Disque Hall 915
bose@drexel.edu
215.895.2043

Department

Research & Teaching Interests Nanoscience, high-temperature superconductivity, theory of surfaces and interfaces, disordered systems, electron and X-ray spectroscopies of solids

Robert P. Boyer

Professor
Korman Center 276
boyerrp@drexel.edu
215.895.1854

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Functional Analysis, C* Algebras, and the Theory of Group Representations

Valerie Bracchi-Ricard

Assistant Research Professor
PISB 413
vcb33@drexel.edu
215.571.3785

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Spinal cord injury, Neuroinflammation

Raymond Brebach

Professor Emeritus
5016 MacAlister Hall
brebach@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Modern British Fiction; The Novel; Textual Studies

Eric Brewe

Associate Professor of Physics and Science Education; Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum; CASTLE
Disque Hall, #918
eb573@drexel.edu
215.895.2779

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Physics Education Research (PER); Introductory Physics Course Transformation; Social Network Analysis, Social dimensions of learning; Quantitative/Computational methods in PER

Eric Dorn Brose

Professor Emeritus

broseed@drexel.edu
(215) 895-6789

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

German & European history

David S. Brown

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor
MacAlister Hall, suite 4020
3250 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
dsb93@drexel.edu
215.895.1891

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests

Democracy; Economic Development; International Political Economy; Inequality

Robert Brulle

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental policy and politics, critical theory, marine risk, social movements, environmental sociology.

Robert Busby

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Meghan Butryn

Professor; Associate Department Head
Stratton 286
mlb34@drexel.edu
215.553.7108

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
WELL Center

Research & Teaching Interests

Obesity prevention and treatment; Physical activity promotion; Lifestyle modification; Behavioral therapy; Cancer prevention

James Calkins

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Fernando Carreon

Teaching Professor
Korman Center 250
fc382@drexel.edu
215.895.2680

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Jakeya Caruthers

Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies

jakeya.caruthers@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Black Political Aesthetics; Black Popular Culture, Literature, and Media Representation; Black Feminist Thought; Anti-Carceral Feminism; Art and Visual Culture

Jacques Catudal

Associate Professor of Philosophy
5016 MacAlister Hall
cat@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Ancient Philosophy, Aesthetics, Epistemology

Dorothy Charbonnier

Associate Teaching Professor
Stratton 207
dorothy.r.charbonnier@drexel.edu
215.571.4407

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Careers in Psychology, I am Psyched! at Drexel, Creative process, Writing, International education, Research methodology

Evangelia Chrysikou

Director, Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences PhD program; Associate Dean for Research; Associate Professor
Stratton 324
lilachrysikou@drexel.edu
215.553.7170

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; neural bases of language, memory, and executive functions; neurocognitive processes associated with problem solving and flexible thought; functional neuroimaging and non-invasive brain stimulation in healthy and psychiatric populations (mood and anxiety disorders); translational neuroscience

Patrick Clarke

Associate Professor
Korman Center 269
pclarke@math.drexel.edu
215.571.3828

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Homological Mirror Symmetry, Landau-Ginzburg Models, Algebraic Geometry, Symplectic Geometry

Danielle Kerns Clauss

Clinical Psychologist, WELL Center

cmh346@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Rebecca A. Clothey

Interim Department Head, Global Studies and Modern Languages; Associate Professor of Education
Academic Building, 312
Rebecca.A.Clothey@drexel.edu
215.895.5931

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Comparative and international education; Immigration and education; Non-formal schooling; Language and identity

Jessica Cohen

Associate Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, 202
jac595@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Family demography

Paula Marantz Cohen

Dean of the Pennoni Honors College; Distinguished Professor of English; Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature; Host of The Civil Discourse
5016 MacAlister Hall
cohenpm@drexel.edu
215.895.1266

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English and American Literature; Film Studies

Brett Condon

Assistant Teaching Professor
PISB 221
bmc327@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

STEM Educatiion
SEA-PHAGES

Anne Converse Willkomm

Associate Dean, Graduate College; Associate Teaching Professor

acw334@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Organizational communication; soft skills; professional development; empathy in the workplace; nonprofits; and leadership

John P. Coppola

Adjunct Instructor

jpc48@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Rose Corrigan

Associate Professor
School of Law, Room 265
rose.corrigan@drexel.edu
215.571.4736

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests

Women and politics, public law, American politics and policy

Karen Cristiano

Assistant Department Head of Communication; Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 166
kc42@drexel.edu
215.895.2374

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Journalism, medical writing, feature writing, copy editing, mass media and society.

Luis Cruz Cruz

Associate Professor
Disque Hall 912
ccruz@drexel.edu
215.895.2739

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Spiking Neural Networks; Synchronization in the firings of Neuronal Networks; Micro/Minicolumns in the brain; Brain Plasticity; Traveling Waves in Low Dimensional Neuronal Networks; Spatial correlations of neurons in the brain; Confinement effects on the folding of amyloidogenic proteins

Travis Curtice

Assistant Professor
3025 MacAlister Hall
tbc52@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests

Policing; Conflict; Political Economy of Crime; Authoritarian Politics; Research Methods

Edward (Ted) Daeschler

Professor; Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Zoology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
ebd29@drexel.edu
215.299.1133

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests

Vertebrate Paleontology; History of the Earth; Late Devonian fossil vertebrates; Origin of tetrapods; Fossil collecting; Museum curation

Brian P. Daly

Department Head; Associate Professor
Stratton 118
brian.daly@drexel.edu
215.571.4252

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

School mental health; Mental health promotion; Socioemotional learning (SEL); Evidence-based practice; Trauma; Risk and resilience; Child and adolescent intervention

David DeMatteo

Director, JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology; Professor
Stratton 338
David.DeMatteo@drexel.edu
215.553.7107

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Psychopathy, forensic psychology, forensic mental health assessment, testing in forensic assessment contexts, and drug policy research

Kathryn A. Dettmer

Adjunct Instructor of French; Adjunct Representitive to Faculty Senate
Academic Building, Room 315
kad46@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Language education; translation; Czech; universal design for teaching

Kathryn Devlin

Assistant Research Professor
Stratton 123
knd52@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests NeuroHIV, Aging and neurodegenerative disease, Diagnosis and prognosis, Cognitive heterogeneity, Structural equation modeling, Everyday functioning

Ashley Dickinson

Associate Teaching Professor
3401 Market Street, Room 110-E
ald393@drexel.edu
215.895.6150

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Corrections, offender rehabilitation, offender classification, risk management, gender and crime

Richardson Dilworth

Department Head, Department of Politics; Professor
MacAlister, Room 3025
dilworth@drexel.edu
215.895.2471

Department

Department of Politics
Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests

American political development, urban politics, public policy

Lisa DiMaio

Coordinator of Multilingual Learner Writing Resources; Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
dimaiola@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Multilingual Writers; Writing Center; Tutoring; Critical Discourse Analysis

N. John DiNardo

Professor
Disque Hall 707
dinardoj@drexel.edu
215.895.2790

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Physics education research, surface physics, condensed matter physics, materials science.

Michelle Dolinski

Associate Dean of Graduate Education; Associate Professor
Disque Hall, room 913
dolinski@drexel.edu
215.895.6860

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Particle physics; Nuclear physics; Neutrino physics; Neutrinoless double beta decay; Detector R&D

Steve Vásquez Dolph

Assistant Teaching Professor
Academic Building, 320
sd3366@drexel.edu
215.895.6350

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Early modern cultural production; ecology and representation; history and sociology of science; historical bibliography; politics and poetics of translation

Robert D'Ovidio

Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies
3401 Market Street, Room 110-A
robert.dovidio@drexel.edu
215.895.1803

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

The intersection of computer technology, crime and the criminal justice system.

Dan Driscoll

Coordinator, Writing Curriculum Initiatives; University Writing Program; Teaching Professor of English
MacAlister 5030
dwd27@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Genre and Writing Studies; Fiction; Writing in the Disciplines/Writing Across the Curriculum; First-year Writing

Catherine Dubaillou

Staff Psychologist, WELL Center

csd28@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Laura Duwel

Assistant Department Head, Teaching Professor
PISB 219
l.duwel@drexel.edu
215.895.2636

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Undergraduate Education

Brenda Dyer

Associate Teaching Professor of French; Director of Modern Languages; Contact for Arabic, French, and Italian Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 321
bad24@drexel.edu
215.895.6281

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Language acquisition pedagogy, teaching writing, seventeenth and eighteenth century French literature, women writers, translation.

Mary F.E. Ebeling

Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, 285
mfe@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Center for Interdisciplinary Study

Research & Teaching Interests

Science and technology studies; critical data studies; algorithmic justice; marketing; data brokers and big data; healthcare privacy; biocapital; medicine; health; knowledge and power in late capital; the production of value and alternatives; anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces and collectives.

Patricia Egbert

Assistant Professor

egbert@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

English; Writing; Pedagogy; Learning Communities; STEM writing support

Felice Elefant

Professor
PISB 317
fe22@drexel.edu
215.895.0220

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

My research program is focused on understanding epigenetic mechanisms that govern higher order brain function via chromatin packaging in neurons.

Anne Erickson

Assistant Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
ake25@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Brian Erickson

Research Assistant Professor
Stratton 320
bae25@drexel.edu
215.760.7253

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Closed-loop Brain Stimulation; Electroencephalography EEG; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation TMS; Attention; Signal processing; Network Neuroscience; Cognitive Enhancement

Nomi Eve

Director, MFA in Creative Writing; Assistant Professor
5034 MacAlister Building
nae28@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Aaron T. Fafarman

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Center for Automation Technology, 486
fafarman@drexel.edu
215.895.5818

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Nanocrystal synthesis and surface chemistry. Self- and directed-assembly of nanocrystal solids for use as energy conversion materials. Ultra-fast and steady state spectroscopy to study the behavior of electrons in semiconductor nanocrystals.

Daryl L. Falco

Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 251
dlf25@drexel.edu
215.895.2592

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Reza Farasat

Assistant Teaching Professor
Disque Hall 223
3141 Chestnut Street
rf485@drexel.edu
215.895.4970

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests Modification of polymers for diverse applications; utilizing thermal analysis techniques to study polymeric and non-polymeric materials; nanotechnology; applying Multi-detector Size Exclusion Chromatography for characterization of polymers; creating composites to improve materials’ properties.

Raymond J. Favocci

Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 226
rjf23@drexel.edu
215.895.2851

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Frank A. Ferrone

Professor
Disque Hall, room 922
fferrone@drexel.edu
215.895.2778

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Sickle cell; protein self-assembly theory; molecular crowding; novel optical methods; microscopy; kinetics

Robert Finegan

Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
fineganr@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Freshman Writing; Technical and Creative Writing

Leonard Finegold

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Disque Hall 915
leonard.x.finegold@drexel.edu
215.895.2740

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Brighid Fitzpatrick

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

blf49@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Biopsychosocial mechanisms that influence the development and maintenance of eating disorders, treatments targeting these mechanisms, and preventative strategies for those at risk for developing pathological eating problems.

Fraser Fleming

Professor
Disque Hall 306
fraser.f.fleming@drexel.edu
215.895.2644

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests Research is focused on rapidly constructing biologically relevant scaffolds as potential pharmaceutical leads. Two complementary research areas comprise most of the research effort: the use of metalated nitriles as potent nucleophiles for hindered bond construction, and the use of metalated isocyanides as precursors to peptide mimics. The research has been primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Joe P. Foley

Professor; Department Head
Disque Hall 212
jfoley@drexel.edu
215.895.6218

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Separation science and analytical chemistry, with an emphasis on the fundamentals and applications of pressure- or voltage-driven liquid-phase separation techniques including ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis.

Evan Forman

Professor
Stratton 282
evan.forman@drexel.edu
215.553.7113

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
WELL Center

Research & Teaching Interests

Health behavior change, obesity, weight loss; Technological innovations to promote health behavior change; Innovations in cognitive-behavioral treatments; The development and evaluation of acceptance-based interventions for health behavior change; Neurocognition of eating

Richard Forney

Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 153
rjf39@drexel.edu
215.571.4334

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests Broadcast Journalism Technology; Effects of new technologies on personal and corporate communication skills; Effects of Media on Children and Adolescent learning and behavior

Valerie Fox

Teaching Professor of English; Founding Editor, Press 1
5016 MacAlister Hall
valerie.fox@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Twentieth Century Drama; Modern and Contemporary American Poetry; Freshman Writing

Alexander Friedlander

Associate Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Communication

sandy@drexel.edu
215.895.2602

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Rhetorical theory and practice, document design, writing and technology.

Edward Fristrom

Co-Director, Certificate Program in Medical Humanities; Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
ecf35@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Writing Studies; Medical Memoir; Environmental Literature and Rhetoric

Denise Garcia

Associate Professor
PISB 422
adg82@drexel.edu
215.571.4534

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Jon Gelhaus

Curator and Department Chair, Entomology Department, Academy of Natural Sciences
Department of Entomology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
jkg78@drexel.edu
215.299.1141

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Taxonomy; Systematics; Entomology; Biodiversity; Water Quality; Museum Collections

Pamela Geller

Director, Clinical Training; Associate Professor, Ob/Gyn and Public Health
Stratton 280
pg27@drexel.edu
215.553.7117

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Clinical and health psychology; Stressful life events and mental and physical health outcomes particularly in the area of women's reproductive health

Maureen Gibney

Teaching Professor
Stratton 206
mg65@drexel.edu
215.895.6104

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Ethical issues in clinical and social care; Mental health across the lifespan; Narrative psychology

Tali Gidalevitz

Associate Professor
PISB 418
Tali.gidalevitz@drexel.edu
215.571.4219

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

My lab aims to understand the mechanisms that maintain healthy protein folding environment in the cell, and how they fail in neurodegenerative diseases and aging. We use genetic and live imaging approaches in a genetically tractable organism, C. elegans, as discovery tools, and apply the findings to mammalian systems.

Robert Gilmore

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics

robert.gilmore@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests Group theory and its applications to atomic, nuclear, and condensed matter physics; Catastrophe theory, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, quantum mechanics

William Goh

Associate Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

David Goldberg

Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Studies; Professor
Disque Hall 810
goldberg@drexel.edu
215.895.2715

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Theoretical and computational cosmology, extragalactic astrophysics, gravitational lensing, popular science writing

Jesse Goldman

Assistant Teaching Professor
Disque 804
jg3845@drexel.edu
215.895.1985

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests

Neutrinos, Cosmology, Muons, Cosmic Rays

Naomi E. Goldstein

Co-director of the JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology; Director of the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab; Professor
Stratton 328
neg23@drexel.edu
215.571.4299

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Juvenile justice system reform; using social science research to improve juvenile justice policy and practice; addressing inequality and promoting equity in the justice system; psychology, criminal justice, and law; forensic psychology

Paul Gondek

Adjunct Teaching Professor (Psychology), Visiting Research Professor (Chemistry)

paul.c.gondek@drexel.edu
908.391.3077

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Social psychology of social issues; team and group dynamics; caregiver/patient interactions; Science of Team Science; PTSD; the impact of culture on social processes

Mary Katherine Gonder

Department Head; Director, Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program; Co-Founder, Central African Biodiversity Alliance; Professor
PISB 420
mkg62@drexel.edu
215.571.4638

Department

Department of Biology
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Genomics, evolutionary processes, tropical biodiversity, conservation science, educational capacity building

Cecilie Goodrich

Professor Emeritus
PISB 316
Goodricc@drexel.edu
215.895.2626

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Development of simple behaviors after birth in relation to known developmental events in the mouse brain

June K. Gordon

Adjunct Instructor

jkg29@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Sashi Govier

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Eating disorder prevention, treatment and recovery.

Darij Grinberg

Assistant Professor
Korman Center 263
darij.grinberg@drexel.edu
215.895.6264

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Algebraic Combinatorics, Noncommutative Algebra, Symmetric Functions, Hopf Algebras, Enumerative Combinatorics, Invariant Theory

Pavel Grinfeld

Associate Professor
Korman Center 271
pg77@drexel.edu
215.895.1291

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Application of the Differential Calculus of moving surfaces and Variational Calculus, with heavy emphasis on computation, to problems in Bioengineering, low temperature Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Elasticity

Anatolii Grinshpan

Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 228
ag465@drexel.edu
215.895.4979

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Function Theory and Operator Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Potential Theory

Meg K. Guliford

Assistant Professor

meg.guliford@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests

Political violence; Conflict Processes; Foreign Policy; Sports and Politics; Descriptive Research

Yixin Guo

Associate Professor
Korman Center 270
yixin@math.drexel.edu
215.895.2581

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Biomathematics, Dynamical Systems, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

Susan Gurney

Associate Teaching Professor
PISB 220
smg366@drexel.edu
215.895.5802

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Evolutionary genetics (humans and equids), stem cell biology, forensic science

Charlotte J. Hagerman

Assistant Research Professor

3201 Chestnut St., Room 232
Philadelphia, PA 19104

cjh427@drexel.edu

Department

WELL Center

Research & Teaching Interests

Obesity; behavioral weight loss treatment; health information avoidance; goal achievement; motivation; self-compassion

Ernest Hakanen

Director, Graduate Programs in Communication, Culture & Media; Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media; Editor, Explorations in Media Ecology: The Journal of the Media Ecology Association
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 149
eah22@drexel.edu
215.895.1354

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Communication history, media theory, emotions and technology, semiotics

Keunah Han

Associate Teaching Professor
5016 MacAlister Hall
kh529@drexel.edu
215-895-6819

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

I am interested in researching and supporting international students in terms of cultural adaptation and academic performance in America.

Nathan Hanna

Assistant Department Head; Associate Professor of Philosophy
5046 MacAlister Hall
nth34@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Punishment; moral responsibility; criminal law

R. Scott Hanson

Senior Scholar in Urban History and Material Culture; Drexel University Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships
235 Randell
rsh65@drexel.edu
215.895.2463

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

Urban history; Immigration; Religion; Civil Rights; Public History

Richard Haracz

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics

haraczrd@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Kirk Heilbrun

Professor; Director, Reentry Project
334 Stratton Hall
kirk.heilbrun@drexel.edu
215.553.7109

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Forensic mental health assessment; Violence risk assessment; Risk management

Chloe Hessler

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

cmh346@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Understanding eating disorders, the idea of processed foods as an addictive substance

R. Andrew Hicks

Professor; Undergraduate advisor
Korman Center 266
rah29@drexel.edu
215.895.2681

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Manifold; Geometric optics; Robotics; Inverse problems; Optical design; Blind spot

Cassandra Hirsch

Associate Teaching Professor

cjh72@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Writing fiction and memoir; mentoring students; teaching community-based learning (CBL) courses

Pawel Hitczenko

Professor
Korman Center 261
phitczenko@math.drexel.edu
215.895.2622

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Probability Theory and its Applications to Analysis, Combinatorics, Wavelets, and the Analysis of Algorithms

Jonathan Hobratsch

Assistant Teaching Professor

jeh357@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Lee Hoffman

Assistant Teaching Professor
Disque Hall 417
lwh28@drexel.edu
215.895.1784

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Interfacial studies on the self-assembly of natural organic materials, Dendrimer/metal nanocomposite design and synthesis hosting metal nanoparticles, surface and interfacial science applications

Christina Hopkins

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, WELL Center

cmh346@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Acceptance- and mindfulness-based practice; Trauma-informed principles; Digital tools to increase access to psychotherapies

Barbara Hornum

Director, Religious Studies Program; Founding Director, Center of Academic Excellence; Associate Professor Emerita
Academic Building, 313
hornumbg@drexel.edu
215.895.4904

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Comparative gerontology, planned communities, continuing care communities, retirement, faculty development

Sarah Hosman

Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, 202
ssh72@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests Urban sociology, Gentrification, Cultural sociology, Economic Sociology, Narratives of place, Ethnography

Frederick House

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Disque Hall 623
house@drexel.edu
215.895.2725

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Zhuoran Huang

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

zh424@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Delivery of evidence-based behavioral interventions through computerized technology to communities, especially children and adolescents

Xiaorui Huang

Assistant Professor
3201 Arch St, Suite 210, Room 205
Xiaorui.Huang@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental Sociology; Human Drivers of Climate Change; Global Political Economy; Quantitative Longitudinal Analysis

Christian Hunold

Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement; Professor
3021-F MacAlister Hall
hunoldc@drexel.edu
215.895.6089

Department

Department of Politics
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests Deliberative democracy; Environmental political theory; Human-animal studies; More-than-human city; Multispecies justice; Urban wildlife; Wild horses

Meshagae Hunte-Brown

Teaching Professor
PISB 221 G
meh27@drexel.edu
215.895.2064

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Stream Ecology, Food Webs

Jordan Hyatt

Director, Center for Public Policy; Associate Professor
3401 Market Street, Room 110-B
jmh498@drexel.edu
215.895.0490

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests

Corrections, Re-entry and Community Supervision; Comparative and International Penology; Drug Treatment and Drug Use; Community Violence Reduction; Prison Climate, Oversight and Reform; Financial Sanctions; Scandinavian Correctional Policy; Sentencing; Experimental and Field Research

Monica Ilies

Chair, Graduate Senate Committee on Academic Affairs; Teaching Professor
Disque Hall 224
mi73@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Development of student-centered learning-teaching activities; Implementation/evaluation of active learning and evidence-based teaching/pedagogical strategies; Curriculum integrated and applicative content delivery; Structure- and fragment-based drug design guided by drug-target biological evaluation; Structural characteristics and in vivo roles of metalloproteins connected with physiopathology; Spectrometric techniques for structural analysis of small molecules and their supra-molecular assemblies; Biochemistry/molecular biology techniques for protein expression, purification, and immunodetection

Henry Israeli

Teaching Professor of English; Director, Drexel Writing Festival; Director, Jewish Studies
5051B, MacAlister Hall
hpi22@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Jewish Studies

Research & Teaching Interests Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Shannon Jacobsen

Assistant Professor
3401 Market Street, 110-D

shannon.k.jacobsen@drexel.edu
215.895.2472

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests Gender, crime, and victimization; Fear of crime and perceptions of risk; Campus crime; Public safety; Communities and crime; Social inequalities; Mixed methods research

Sonali Jain

Associate Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, 296
sj952@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests South Asia, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Transnationalism

Alexander Jenkins

Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 162

arj28@drexel.edu
215.571.4332

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests Digital games, video games, emotion, morality, online fan communities, emerging media, convergence

Hai-Feng (Frank) Ji

Professor; Affiliated faculty member of College of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Disque Hall 211
hj56@drexel.edu
215.895.2562
Lab Phone: 215.571.3648

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Organic and Polymer Chemistry; Drug discovery; Biofilm; Phosphorus-based nanomaterials; Plasma chemistry and it’s medical applications

Kelly Joyce

Professor of Sociology
3101 Market Street, 220
kaj68@drexel.edu
215.571.4449

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society
Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Political, cultural and organizational dimensions of clinical medicine, social dimensions of technological innovation, and technology, science and aging

Adrienne Juarascio

Director, Practicum Training; Assistant Professor
Stratton 288
asj32@drexel.edu
215.553.7154

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
WELL Center

Research & Teaching Interests

Treatment development and Evaluation for Eating Disorders, Acceptance-based Behavioral Treatments, Using Technology to Augment Behavioral Treatment Approaches

Sunmi Jung Oh

Assistant Teaching Professor; Contact for Korean Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 308
sjo35@drexel.edu
215.895.6399

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests Teaching Korean as a foreign language; Second Language Acquisition; Community Based Learning

Robert J. Kane

Department Head, Professor
3401 Market Street, Room 110-F
rjk72@drexel.edu
215.895.2571

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Police authority and accountability, urban ecology and sociology, violence and public health, police strategies and practices

Goran Karapetrov

Professor
Disque Hall 609
goran@drexel.edu
215.571.4090

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Experimental Solid State Physics, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Nanoscale Catalysis, Mesoscopic Superconductivity

Nikoo Karbassi

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

nk853@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Kirsten Kaschock

Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
kjk42@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Kristy Kelly

Affiliated
Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Education
One Drexel Plaza, Room 146
kek72@drexel.edu
215.895.2381

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Politics of knowledge, Gender and education, Women and educational leadership, Feminist pedagogies, Gender mainstreaming, Transnational feminisms, Intersectionality, Training and adult education, Gender policy, Race/class/gender/sexuality, Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Alison Kenner

Associate Professor
3101 Market Street, Room 222
amk438@drexel.edu
215.895.2463

Department

Department of Politics
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Science, technology, and medicine, environmental health, cities and place, feminist theory, medical anthropology, experimental ethnography

Boris L. Kheyfets

Adjunct Instructor

blk24@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Marlin Killen

Teaching Professor; Faculty Coordinator of Online Education in Psychology; Faculty Fellow
Stratton 203
Marlin.Killen@drexel.edu
215.895.1068

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Immigrant psychology, authentic assessment and pedagogy, behavioral impacts of educational and institutional policies, mental health issues in the workplace, and the psychology of hope

Nahyun Kim

Assistant Professor
3201 Arch, Suite 100, Room 171

nk865@drexel.edu
215-571-3569

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Public Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Advocacy; Crisis Communication; Emotion in Persuasive Communication

Elizabeth Kimball

Director, University Writing Program; Assistant Professor
Macalister 5033; Korman 103 (Writing Center)
ek674@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests Rhetorical theory; Writing studies; Engaged learning; Multilingual practice; Community-based learning; Writing program administration

Daniel King

Associate Professor; Associate Department Head
509 Disque Hall
daniel.king@drexel.edu
215.895.0571

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests Active learning pedagogy; Assessment of technology use; Guided inquiry (i.e., POGIL) activities; Incorporation of real-world context

Andrew J. Klimas

Assistant Teaching Professor

ak4389@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

mathematics

Caitlin Klimas

Assistant Teaching Professor

ck985@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Francesca Knudsen

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

fk365@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

The way that mental health and physical health affect one another, especially in the presence of obesity and eating disorders

Emmanuel F. Koku

Interim Department Head; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, 288
emmanuelkoku@drexel.edu
215.895.6144

Department

Department of Sociology
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Social Network Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Mixed Methods; Medical Sociology; Social Epidemiology; Global/Immigrant Health; Globalization, Development and Underdevelopment

Miriam Kotzin

Founding Editor, Per Contra; Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
kotzinmn@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

American Literature; Genre Studies; Creative Writing; Communications

Parfait Kouacou

Assistant Teaching Professor, Global Studies and Modern Languages
Academic Building, 320
pk595@drexel.edu
215.895.6350

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Postcolonial Francophone African Literature, Human Rights Critical Theories, Childhood Studies, Oral Literature

John Kounios

Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences PhD program; Professor
Stratton 318
jk342@drexel.edu
215.553.7105

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience, focusing on human memory, problem solving, intelligence, and creativity; Specialization in electrophysiological methods (EEG, ERP), and other behavioral and neuroimaging methods (e.g., fMRI)

Hiromi Koyama

Instructor; Contact for Japanese Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 315
hiromi.koyama@drexel.edu
215.895.6368

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Rachael Kratzer

Associate Teaching Professor
Disque Hall, Room 904
kratzer@drexel.edu
215.895.6669

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Quasars, Active Galactic Nuclei, Radio Astronomy, Active Learning Techniques

Danielle Kreeger

Research Associate Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science
PISB 315
dak29@drexel.edu
215.895.1270

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Physiological ecology, ecosystem services and restoration of suspension-feeding bivalves; ecology and restoration of coastal wetlands; climate change

Susanne Kriete

Adjunct Instructor

sbk54@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Aaron Kucyi

Assistant Professor

aaron.kucyi@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Brain networks; Mental health; Spontaneous thought; Attention; Experience sampling; fMRI; Intracranial EEG

Naoko Kurahashi Neilson

Associate Professor
Disque Hall, 914
naoko@drexel.edu
215.895.2725

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Particle Astrophysics; Neutrino Astronomy; High Energy Physics and Astronomy

Roger Kurtz

Department Head, Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
jrk353@drexel.edu
215.895.2446

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Postcolonial and World Literatures, African Literature and Culture, Trauma Theory

David Kutzik

Professor Emeritus; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
Stratton 311
kutzikdm@drexel.edu
215.895.2309

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Social and cultural theory; political economy; gerontology; materialisms; semiotic realisms; activity theory; reflection theories; communities of practice and labor theories of culture.

Jeffrey LaComb

Assistant Teaching Professor
Korman Center 255
jml622@drexel.edu
215.895.6691

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Rare Event Simulation, Dynamical Systems, Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Biology

Erica LaFata

Assistant Research Professor

es3344@drexel.edu

Department

WELL Center
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Clinical utility of food addiction as a unique phenotype of disordered eating, the addictive potentials of ultra-processed foods, overlapping mechanisms implicated in substance-use disorders and eating and weight disorders, assessment of addictive-like eating behaviors, treatment development for eating and weight disorders

Christopher Laincz

Affiliated
Associate Professor, School of Economics, LeBow College of Business
GHall 1018
claincz@drexel.edu
215.895.2503

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Economic development, technological change, growth, industrial organization, macroeconomics and monetary economics

Leo W. Lampone

Adjunct Professor

lwl22@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Charles E. Lane

Professor
Disque Hall 911
charles.e.lane@drexel.edu
215.895.1545

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Experimental tests of invariance principles and conservation laws, neutrino oscillations and properties

Donald Larson

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Disque Hall 623
donlarson@drexel.edu
215.895.2724

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Sally Lawton

Assistant Teaching Professor

sl3784@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests American politics; American political development; American constitutional development; Political geography; Urban politics; Racial politics.

Myungwoon Lee

Assistant Professor

ml3784@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Neurodegenerative protein aggregation; Membrane associated amyloid fibrils; Molecular structures, dynamics, and intermolecular interactions of biological macro molecules; Solid-state NMR and Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM)

Hyunmin “Min” Lee

Director of Undergraduate Programs in Communication; Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 164
hl586@drexel.edu
215.571.3567

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Social media effects on organizational relationship and reputation management; media representation of public health issues; health message design effects; communication theory and research methods.

Nancy Raitano Lee

Associate Professor
Stratton 290
nancy.raitano.lee@drexel.edu
215.895.2937

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Neuropsychological and neuroanatomic correlates of intellectual and developmental disabilities; Language, reading, and executive function in Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; Comorbid autism spectrum disorder symptoms in youth with genetic disorders; Neuroanatomic correlates of individual differences in typical and atypical cognition

Kari Lenhart

Assistant Professor
PISB 420
kari.f.lenhart@drexel.edu
215.895.6772

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Teck Kah Lim

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Disque Hall 906
limtk@drexel.edu
215.895.2717

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Tatyana Livshultz

Associate Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science
Assistant Curator of Botany, ANS
ANS
tl534@drexel.edu
215.299.1051

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Botany; phylogenetic reconstruction; evolution of plant specialized metabolism, plant-insect interactions, and plant functional morphology

Robert Loudon

Associate Teaching Professor
PISB 221 E
rpl25@drexel.edu
215.895.6936

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Rho GTPases, regulation of actin cytoskeleton, regulation of G protein-coupled receptors by receptor kinases and arrestins

Christina Love

Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Start Talking Science
Disque Hall, 807
love@drexel.edu
215.571.3699

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Astroparticle physics, neutrino physics and astronomy, citizen science, science communication, physics education, outreach

Michael R. Lowe

Professor
Stratton 284
lowe@drexel.edu
215.553.7116

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Restrained eating; dieting; obesity; eating disorders; weight suppression; set point; hedonic hunger

Jamie Ludwig

Assistant Teaching Professor
Stratton Hall 414
jll449@drexel.edu
215-895-1861

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

flipped-classroom; chemistry; education

Emily Lufburrow

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

ehl28@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

The ways in which patient’s can alter their diets and physical activity to combat disease as a treatment unto itself.

John G. Lundberg

Professor Emeritus, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science; Curator Emeritus, ANS

jgl43@drexel.edu
215.405.5069

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Systematic biology, biodiversity and diversification of fishes, morphology and paleontology

Brent Luvaas

Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
Academic Building, 317
bal47@drexel.edu
215.571.3660

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Visual anthropology; photography; social media; global media; digital culture; urban culture; Southeast Asia

Dali Ma

Associate Professor of Management, Drexel LeBow College of Business
Gerri C. LeBow Hall 645
dm484@drexel.edu
215.895.1733

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

inequality and status hierarchy
innovation and entrepreneurship
organization theory
social networks
sociology of China

Michael Machado

Operations and Administrative Manager

mm572@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Nadia Magnanini

Adjunct Professor
Academic Building, 3rd Floor
nm688@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Stephanie Manasse

Assistant Professor; Director, MS and Accelerated BS/MS in Psychology Programs; Director, mPOWER Program (WELL Center); Director, Child and Adolescent Program (WELL Center)
Stratton 244
smm522@drexel.edu
215.553.7157

Department

WELL Center
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Novel treatments for adolescents and adults with eating disorders; momentary drivers of binge eating; self-regulation; ecological momentary assessment

Stephen Mandell

Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
mandelsr@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Freshman Writing; Technical Writing; Speech; American Literature

Celeste Dolores Mann

Instructor; Coordinator of Spanish 200-level and Spanish Tutors
Academic Building, 315A
cdm323@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy; The life and music of Brazilian composer, Francisca “Chiquinha” Gonzaga; Theater in Spanish and Portuguese; Hispanic and Brazilian Film; Latin American and Iberian Music

Ilana Margolis

Adjunct Instructor
Academic Building, 3rd Floor
im66@drexel.edu
215.895.5931

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Jewish Studies

Research & Teaching Interests Hebrew-language instruction

Natalie Marley

Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese; Contact for Japanese Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 315
nnm43@drexel.edu
215.895.2894

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests Japanese Linguistics with an emphasis on pedagogy and topics concerning second language acquisition and teaching

Nada Matta

Assistant Professor; Director, Middle East and North Africa Studies (MENA)
Academic Building, 318
nada.matta@drexel.edu
215.895.3787

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages
Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests Political Economy, Capitalism, Social Movements, Middle East Studies, Gender Studies, Labor Studies, Revolutions

Maria de la luz Matus-Mendoza

Associate Professor of Spanish; Contact for Spanish Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 316
mm349@drexel.edu
215.895.2171

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Language variation in Spanish, the relationship between language variation and mobility (social and geographical) among the Mexican communities in Mexico and the United States, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, theater, baroque and contemporary literature.

Julia H. May

Director, MS in Professional Communication Program; Director, Graduate PR Certificate Program; Associate Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 163
julia.may@drexel.edu
215.895.5804

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests Political communication, international politics and its news coverage, public opinion, debate in the public sphere, transatlantic relations, war, torture and human rights

Janel McCloskey

Co-Director, University Writing Program
116 Korman Center
jfp48@drexel.edu
215.895.1799

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Craig P. McClure

Teaching Professor
Stratton Hall 412
cpm76@drexel.edu
215.571.3197

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests Promotion of quantitative literacy in introductory courses; development of guided inquiry activities for introductory chemistry; outreach programs in STEM fields

Richard M. McCourt

Professor; Curator of Botany, Director of the Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel, Botany Department
rmm45@drexel.edu
215.299.1139

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Molecular systematics; algae; evolution; taxonomy; algal ecology

Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick

Assistant Professor
A.J. Drexel Autism Institute

emh347@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Deirdre McMahon

Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
deirdre.h.mcmahon@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Stephen L.W. McMillan

Department Head; Professor
Disque Hall 815
stephen.l.mcmillan@drexel.edu
215.895.2709

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Stellar dynamics, Computations of stellar systems

Amanda McMillan Lequieu

Assistant Professor
3201 Arch, Suite 210, Room 204
amanda.mcmillanlequieu@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental sociology, political economy, place and space, rural-urban interface, qualitative and historical methodologies

John Medaglia

Assistant Professor
322 Stratton Hall
John.D.Medaglia@drexel.edu
215.553.7169

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Applying models and methods developed in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and graph theory to understand and treat brain dysfunction and enhance healthy functioning.

Georgi S. Medvedev

Professor
Korman Center 222
medvedev@drexel.edu
215.895.6612

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Applied Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Neuroscience

Carol Mele

Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy
5062 MacAlister Hall
carol.anne.mele@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Ethics, Medical Ethics, Critical Reasoning

Marianallet Mendez-Rivera

Assistant Teaching Professor
5054 MacAlister Hall
mm3595@drexel.edu
(215) 895-6854

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Megan Meyer

Assistant Teaching Professor
Stratton 208
mlm583@drexel.edu
215.571.3928

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Influences on preferred body type; changes in body image, self-esteem, and self-efficacy in females as a function of strength training; Sensation and perception

Harriet Levin Millan

Director, Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing; Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
millanhl@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Jonson Miller

Teaching Professor of History
5015 MacAlister
jwm54@drexel.edu
215.895.0994

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

American history, military history, history of engineering and technology

Irvin Miller

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Nicole Miller

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

nam365@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

How social factors impact the development of negative weight-related behaviors.

Rogelio Miñana

Professor of Spanish and Global Studies; Vice Provost for Global Engagement
Academic Building, room 304
101 N. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
rogelio.minana@drexel.edu
215.571.3194

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; youth and community organizations; digital storytelling; civic and global engagement

Cecilia Mondaini

Assistant Professor
Korman Center 265
cf823@drexel.edu
215.895.6823

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Processes

Franco Montalto

Assistant Professor
Alumni Engineering Labs Room 273-F
fmontalto@coe.drexel.edu
215.895.1385

Department

Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests

Danette Morrison

Assistant Teaching Professor
Stratton 209
dm3353@drexel.edu
215.571.4308

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Social and academic motivation within school context; Social relationships and identity development; Educational attainment of ethnic minorities.

Jill Moses

Assistant Director, First-Year Writing Program ; Associate Teaching Professor of English
5045 MacAlister Hall
jrm378@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests Contemporary Poetry; Feminist literature; Creative Writing

Shari Moskow

Professor
Korman Center 296
moskow@math.drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Applied PDEs and numerical analysis, in particular homogenization theory, inverse problems, and related asymptotic and numerical methods

Julie Mostov

Professor Emerita

Department

Department of Politics
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Explores the politics of national identity, sovereignty, citizenship and gender with a special focus on Southeastern Europe. Her recent work looks at violence, borders, and space and promotes the notion of soft-borders, transnational citizenship, and relational sovereignty.

Stephen Mullin

President and Principal, Econsult Solutions; Adjunct Instructor

mullin@econsultsolutions.com

Department

Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests

State and local public finance and policy analyis, taxation policy analysis, economic development, real estate development, business and government strategies

Donna Murasko

Professor Emerita

donna.murasko@drexel.edu
215.895.1892

Please note: Dr. Murasko no longer accepts graduate students due to her emerita (retired) status.

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Changes in immune response with increasing age, immune response to viruses, CD8 T cell response in virus infections

Brad Nabors

Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 220, Room 297
brad.nabors@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests Cultural sociology; Sociology of religion; Social Theory

Russell Neilson

Associate Professor
Disque Hall 905
russell.g.neilson@drexel.edu
215.895.2729

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Dark matter, Neutrino physics

Amanda NeMoyer

Assistant Research Professor
Stratton 303
amanda.n.nemoyer@drexel.edu
215.553.7158

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Juvenile justice; Forensic psychology; Program evaluation; Policy and practice reform; Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline; Diverting youth from justice system involvement

Arthur M. Nezu

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Community Health and Prevention
Stratton 268
amn23@drexel.edu
215.553.7115

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Social problem solving as a moderator/mediator of stress and psychopathology; applications of Emotion-Centered Problem-Solving Therapy; treatment and prevention of depression; treatment and prevention of suicide; behavioral health of U.S. military veterans

Christine Maguth Nezu

Professor of Psychology; Professor of Medicine
Stratton 278
cn25@drexel.edu
215.553.7112

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Emotion-centered Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) for mood, personality, stress-related disorders; EC-PST as an evidence-based, trans-diagnostic intervention across many clinical problem areas and populations including Veterans/US Service Members, and their families; cinical case formulation; integrative psychotherapy approaches; emotionally-focused interventions and CBT; Departmental concentration areas of cognitive behavioral and clinical health psychology

Christopher T. Nielson

Teaching Professor of English
5037 MacAlister Hall
cn33@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Shakespeare; Drama; Early Modern Literature; British Renaissance Literature; Medieval Literature; World Literature; Composition Studies

Alexander Nikolaev

Associate Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 168
agn24@drexel.edu
215.895.1907

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Public relations, political communication, organizational communication, mass communication, international communications and negotiations, communications theory.

Karen S. Nulton

Director, Writing Assessment; Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
ksn27@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Writing assessment; work-integrated-learning (WIL); reflective writing

Michael O'Connor

Professor; Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
PISB 318
oconnomp@drexel.edu
215.895.2637

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Physiological ecology; Physiology; Modelling; Allometry.

Oksana P. Odintsova

Teaching Professor
Korman Center 232
opo23@drexel.edu
215.895.6241

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Sean O'Donnell

Professor
PISB 324
so356@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Animal behavior, neuroecology, social insects, tropical ecology, thermal physiology

Joel E. Oestreich

Professor

jeo25@drexel.edu
215.895.6794

Department

Department of Politics
Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

International organizations, international finance, development, human rights

Santiago Ontañón

Affiliated Faculty

 santi@cs.drexel.edu

Department

WELL Center

Research & Teaching Interests

Game AI; Computer Games; Artificial Intelligence; machine learning

Michael Onu

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

mo654@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Health behavior change, Developing interventions that support individuals living a healthier lifestyle.

Daniel Otte

Professor Emeritus, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science; Senior Curator Emeritus, ANS
Entomology, ANS
do332@drexel.edu
215.299.1188

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Taxonomy and biogeography of Orthoptera, particularly grasshoppers and crickets; origin of species

Gwen Ottinger

Associate Professor
3101 Market Street, Room 217
ottinger@drexel.edu
215.571.4823

Department

Department of Politics
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental justice; Political theory; Science and technology policy; Data infrastructure; Citizen science; Epistemic innovation

Ni Ou

Assistant Teaching Professor; Contact for Chinese Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 315
Ni.Ou@drexel.edu
215.895.6147

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; Chinese study abroad

Kevin G. Owens

Associate Professor; Chair, Faculty Senate
Stratton Hall 415
kevin.owens@drexel.edu
215.895.2621

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry; analytical method development; time-of-flight mass spectrometry; analytical instrument development; matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization; imaging mass spectrometry; micro-organism identification by mass spectrometry; chemometrics; correlation analysis

Flavia Padovani

Associate Professor of Philosophy
5016 MacAlister Hall
fp72@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic

Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Assistant Teaching Professor
Korman Center 256
dp399@drexel.edu
215.895.2683

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Melissa M. Parks

Assistant Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 156
mp3697@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Nonprofit rhetoric; SHER (science, health, environmental, and risk) communication; human-nature relations; critical cultural studies; critical rhetoric; critical pedagogy.

James Eldred Pascoe

Assistant Professor

jep362@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Functional analysis; complex analysis; noncommutative algebra; matrix analysis

Sharrona Pearl

Associate Teaching Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Health Administration, Drexel College of Nursing and Public Health
Three Parkway Building, 1601 Cherry Street, Room 775
shp72@drexel.edu

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society
Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

Science studies
history of science and medicine
critical race, gender, and disability studies
media studies

Joel Pereira

Assistant Teaching Professor
Korman Center 260
jp3465@drexel.edu
215.571.3586

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Commutative Algebra

Ronald K. Perline

Undergraduate Adviser; Associate Professor
Korman Center 294
rperline@math.drexel.edu
215.895.6623

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Symbolic Computation, Differential Geometry, Modeling of Nonlinear Optical Phenomena, Mathematical Physics

Marci A. Perlstadt

Associate Professor
Korman Center 272
mperlstadt@math.drexel.edu
215.895.0224

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Applied Mathematics, Computed Tomography, Numerical Analysis of Function Reconstruction, Signal Processing, Combinatorics

Margene L. Petersen

Assistant Teaching Professor
5059 MacAlister Hall
mlp59@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Multilingual Learners; Mentor; Visual Rhetorical Analysis; Anti-racist Pedagogy; Lowering Affective Filter

Ryan Petrie

Associate Professor; Director, Biology Graduate Program
PISB 419
3245 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104

rjp336@drexel.edu
215.895.1476

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Extracellular matrix; cell motility; cytoskeleton; mechanotransduction; cell-matrix interactions; cell biology; intracellular signaling

Brianna Pezzato

Adjunct Instructor

bcp49@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Megan V. Phifer-Rixey

Assistant Professor
PISB 320
Mp3754@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Evolution; Genetics; Adaptation; Integrative Biology; Urban; Climate

Amani Piers

Clinical Psychologist

adp84@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Eating disorders; Health psychology; Project ReLearn

Marilyn Gaye Piety

Professor of Philosophy
5032 MacAlister Hall
mgpiety@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Kierkegaard; philosophy of religion; ancient philosophy; public philosophy; flash philosophy; social justice; philosophy of sport

Toni Pitock

Assistant Teaching Professor of History
5022 MacAlister
tfp47@drexel.edu
215.895.2463

Department

Department of History
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Jewish Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Atlantic World; Jewish Migration and Diaspora; Economic Culture; Trade Networks; Colonial American History

Maegan Poland

Assistant Teaching Professor
5016 MacAlister Hall
mcp332@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Creative writing; Fiction; Memoir; First-year writing

Elizabeth Polcha

Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities
5049 MacAlister Hall
lp949@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Black Atlantic Literature; Digital Humanities; Early American Studies; Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Environmental Studies; History of Science; History of the Book

Douglas V. Porpora

Professor of Sociology
3201 Arch Street, 380
porporad@drexel.edu
215.895.2404

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Meaning; Morality; Politics; Religion; Social Justice.

Abioseh Porter

Director, Africana Studies; Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
abiosehp@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Comparative Literature; Postcolonial Literatures

Marina Potapova

Associate Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science
Assistant Curator of Diatoms, ANS
Diatom Herbarium, ANS
mp895@drexel.edu
215.405.5068

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Taxonomy; Ecology; Biogeography of freshwater and coastal diatoms

Kathleen Powell

Assistant Research Professor
3401 Market Street, Suite 110
kathleen.m.powell@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Juvenile Delinquency & Justice, Crime and the Life Course, Corrections, Punishment, and Inequality, Courts and the Legal Profession, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Policy, Research Methods

Nic John Ramos

Assistant Professor of History
5009 MacAlister
nfr38@drexel.edu
215.895.1207

Department

Department of History
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

African American History; History of Medicine; History of Psychiatry; Urban History; 20^th Century US History; History of Racial Capitalism; History of Sexuality

Rosalind Remer

Vice Provost & Executive Director, Drexel University Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships

Rosalind.Remer@drexel.edu
215.895.1203

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests History of the Book, Early American economic and business history, Public history, Museum planning, Non-profit management

Rachel Reynolds

Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, Suite 340, Room 354
rrr28@drexel.edu
215.895.0498

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication and Discourse Analysis; Violence Against Women in Mass Media; Political Economy of Migration – Brain Drain, Immigrants and Transnational Immigration; Semiotics including the Textual, the Visual and the Multimodal

Jerome Ricard

Assistant Research Professor
PISB 413
jjr325@drexel.edu
215.571.3785

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Ephrins; Spinal cord injury; Neuroinflammation; Cell death; Dependence receptors; Pain

Gordon T. Richards

Professor; Chair, Faculty Senate Budget, Process, and Development (BP&D) Committee
Disque 812
gordon.t.richards@drexel.edu
215.895.2713

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Quasars, active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, galaxy evolution, sky surveys, infrared/X-ray/radio astronomy

Cyndi Rickards

Associate Teaching Professor of Criminology & Justice Studies
3401 Market Street, Room 110-I
crr46@drexel.edu
215.571.3734

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Community-based learning pedagogy; agents of justice and community health; mass incarceration and community

Adam C. Rickert

Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 234
arickert@drexel.edu
215.895.1949

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Devyn Riddle

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

drr84@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Donald Riggs

Teaching Professor of English
5058 MacAlister Hall
riggsda@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Wonder; Mystery; Clarity; Relevance; Communication

Jody A. Roberts

Research Faculty, Center for Science, Technology & Society; Director, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation

jroberts@chemheritage.org
215.873.8281

Department

Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Intersections of emerging molecular sciences and public policy and the ways in which tensions brought about between the two get resolved

Diana Robins

Professor, Director, AJ Drexel Autism Institute; Department of Community Health & Prevention

diana.l.robins@drexel.edu
215.571.3439

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Early detection of autism spectrum disorder, screening for autism spectrum disorder in community settings, social cognition in autism spectrum disorder

Leeland Loew Rogers

Assistant Teaching Professor
Stratton 204
Leeland.Loew.Rogers@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Incidental learning; Statistical learning; Attention

Donna Rondolone

Associate Teaching Professor

donna.l.rondolone@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Arthurian legend, Mythology

Chris Rorres

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Gail D. Rosen

Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
gor22@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Law, Communications, Composition

Gerald (Harris) Rosen

M.R. Wehr Professor Emeritus of Physics

gerald.h.rosen@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Gary Rosenberg

Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science; Pilsbry Chair of Malacology, ANS
Malacology, ANS
gr347@drexel.edu
215.299.1033

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Malacology Systematic Biology Evolutionary Biology

William Rosenberg

Professor
3021-D MacAlister
rosenberg@drexel.edu
215.895.1302

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests

Behavioral politics, public opinion, political communication

Jacob A. Russell

Professor
PISB 325
jar337@drexel.edu
215.895.1643

Department

Department of Biology
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Symbiosis; Ants; Aphids; Genomics; Evolution; Molecular Ecology

Patricia Henry Russell

Adjunct Instructor; Teaching Professor Emerita

phenry@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Susan A. Rutkowsky

Assistant Department Head, Teaching Professor
Stratton Hall 411
sar@drexel.edu
215.895.1509

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Development of labs and lecture demonstrations for general and organic chemistry courses; Development of evidence-based teaching strategies; Cosmetic chemistry; STEM outreach programs

Rosemary Rys

Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 154
rer22@drexel.edu
Mobile: 609.471.0311

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests Public Relations; Marketing; Event Planning

Doreen Alvarez Saar

American Literature Editor, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature; Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
saarda@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Early American Literature; Race and Gender Studies

Sheila F. Sandapen

Director of English Programs ; Assistant Teaching Professor
5016 MacAlister Hall
sfs34@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Black British; Cultural Studies; Contemporary British; Feminist; Literature; First-Year Writing

Nianli Sang

Co-Director of the Cell Imaging Center; Associate Professor
PISB 417
nianli.sang@drexel.edu
215.895.6885

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Molecular, Cellular and Biochemical Bases of Major Human Diseases

Jack Santucci

Assistant Teaching Professor
MacAlister 3025

215.895.2463

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests Electoral Systems, Political Parties, American Political Development, Ideal Point Estimation

Tiago Saraiva

Department Head; Associate Professor
MacAlister Hall, room 5014
tfs37@drexel.edu
215.895.6870

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

History of science; History of technology; Environmental history; Science and technology studies

Valerie Sarris

Adjunct Instructor

vs487@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Aleister Saunders

Executive Vice Provost for Research & Innovation; Professor
104 Left Bank
Aleister.Saunders@drexel.edu
215.895.6091

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular/Cellular Biology

Jeremiah Scepaniak

Assistant Professor
Disque Hall 506
jjs452@drexel.edu
215.895.6660

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Study of first-row transition metal complexes of tetrapodal pentadentate ligands composed of N-heterocyclic carbenes, particularly in relation to small molecule activation and group transfer reactions.
Transformation of C-1 substrates (CO, CO¬¬¬¬2) to value added products using first-row transition metals.

Ludo Scheffer

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology; Teaching Professor
Stratton 105
lcs22@drexel.edu
215.895.6140

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Meta-cognitive development, writing, and computers; language and literacy development in the early years in the context of family and schooling; Youth-at-risk; Issues in Equity; School/Program/Intervention effectiveness

Eric Scheidly

Adjunct Professor
Off-campus
scheidly@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Dark matter, Neutrino physics

Simone Schlichting-Artur

Teaching Professor of German; Contact for German Study Abroad Course Approvals
Academic Building, 3rd Floor, Room 322
schlichs@drexel.edu
215.895.2443

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

International business communication (Germany and the U.S.), public health policy and languages, German post-war history through film and literature, development of writing assessment tools for German minor.

Eric J. Schmutz

Professor
Korman Center 264
eschmutz@math.drexel.edu
215.895.1948

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Probabilistic Combinatorics

Alexis Schulman

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science; Director of the Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program
Dolan Fellow for Innovation in Water Science, Patrick Center for Environmental Research, ANS
Patrick Center 336
as5293@drexel.edu
215.299.1025

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Environmental policy and politics, urban planning, sustainability and resilience transitions, policy implementation, local knowledge and community science

Maria T. Schultheis

Vice Provost of Research; Professor
3180 Chestnut Street, Suite 104
schultheis@drexel.edu
215.895.4463

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Neurorehabilitation; Application of technology to psychology; Virtual reality technology; Driving capacity after neurological compromise; Rehabilitation of functional, everyday activities

Jennifer Schwartz

Director, Psychological Services Center; Teaching Professor
Stratton 266
Jennifer.L.Schwartz@drexel.edu
215.553.7127

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Adult Psychopathology; Evidence-Based Practice; Competency-Based Training; Competency-Based Clinical Supervision

Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner

Professor Emeritus; Department of Chemistry
Disque Hall 605
rs344@drexel.edu
215.895.2268

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Biophysical chemistry, protein structure and function, intrinsically disordered proteins, structure analysis, vibrational spectroscopy, statistical thermodynamics

Jonathan Seitz

Teaching Professor of History; Assistant Department Head
5024 MacAlister
jwseitz@drexel.edu
215.895.0996

Department

Department of History
Center for Science, Technology and Society
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Jewish Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

History of science, Italy, Europe

Manuel Seman-Senderos

Assistant Teaching Professor
PISB 221
mas952@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

Cell Biology
Genetics
History of Science
Synthetic Biology
Drug Discovery

Jocelyn A. Sessa

Assistant Professor; Assistant Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
jsessa@drexel.edu
215.299.1149

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests

Ocean acidification; Mollusks; Climate change; Paleobiology

Li Sheng

Associate Professor
Korman Center 274
lsheng@math.drexel.edu
215.895.6613

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Discrete Optimization, Operations Research, Graph Theory and its applications, Biostatistics

Patrick Shields

Adjunct Instructor

prs49@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Arthur Shostak

Professor Emeritus

arthurshostak@gmail.com
510.239.4002

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Wesley Shumar

Professor; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, 372
shumarw@drexel.edu
215.895.2060

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

The Commodification of Culture, Consumer Culture and the Production of Value, Entrepreneurship and Craft Culture, Cultural Change in Higher Education, Digital Media and Learning, Learning and Communication

Myrna Shure

Professor Emeritus
Stratton 219
ms54@drexel.edu
215.553.7120

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Child development; Problem-solving interventions with children; Prevention programs

Diane Sicotte

Professor of Sociology
3201 Arch Street, Room 203
dms76@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental Sociology; Environmental inequality and injustice; Political economy of energy and environment; Labor and environment; Plastics in society

Tasneem A. Siddiqui

Assistant Professor
MacAlister Hall, room 5013
tas434@drexel.edu

Department

Department of History
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests The Black Radical Tradition; Land-based struggles; Black social movements; Labor; Black Geographies; Africana spiritual systems; Self-determination

Fred Siegel

Teaching Professor of English; Director, First-Year Writing Program
5016 MacAlister Hall
siegelf@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Jewish Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Popular Theater; Dramatic Literature, Creative Non-Fiction; Freshman Writing

Chloe Silverman

Associate Professor
3101 Market Street, 221
cbs78@drexel.edu
215.571.4650

Department

Department of Politics
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

The role of affect in scientific knowledge, how public claims about affect are used to establish authority, and the role of affect as an analytic tool and method in science studies.
Productive entanglements between so-called “lay” and “expert” knowledge.
Affective dimensions of social movements that have engaged medical authorities and patient groups.
Modes through which information about scientific practice—as opposed to scientific findings—is communicated to different publics.
How discourse about what science is or ought to be shapes both peopleʼs reception of scientific information and their personal investment in science as a form of knowledge.

Gideon Simpson

Associate Professor
Korman Center, room 262
grs53@drexel.edu
215.895.1849

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Applied mathematics; Numerical analysis; Scientific computing; Stochastic simulation

Rachel Sinex

Research Coordinator, WELL Center

rhs63@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Treatment development and prevention of body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders in adolescent and adult populations

Amy Slaton

Professor
5015 MacAlister
slatonae@drexel.edu
215.895.2061

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

History of technology, labor, race

Julia Sluzenski

Associate Teaching Professor
Stratton 205
julia.m.sluzenski@drexel.edu
215.571.4309

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Memory and its neural basis, lifespan development

Ron Smith

Instructor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Director, DESLA Summer Program

rvs33@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Shorebird Ecology and Conservation; Amphibians of the NJ Pine Barrens; Restoration Ecology; Climate Change – Regional Effects and Education

Kevin Smith

Associate Teaching Professor
PISB 221 A
kps43@drexel.edu
215.571.3469

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Organismal Biology, Ecology, Herpetology, STEM Education

Matthew Ross Smith

mrs363@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Writing, Novelist, Middle Grade

Andrew Frederick Smith

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
MacAlister Hall, Rm. 5041
afs52@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Environmental Philosophy/Environmental Humanities; Food Justice; Climate Justice; Social and Political Philosophy; Decolonization

Justin Smith

Professor Emeritus

jsmith@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Karl Sohlberg

Associate Professor; Chemistry Graduate Advisor
Disque Hall 222
kws24@drexel.edu
215.895.2653

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Theoretical chemistry; computational chemistry; materials research; mechanically interlocked macromolecular complexes (MIMAs); surface modeling.

Arun Kumar Soma

Research Assistant Professor
Disque Hall 907
arunkumar.soma@drexel.edu
215.895.2781

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Neutrino Physics, Dark Matter Physics, Radiation Detectors

Xiaoming Song

Associate Professor
Korman Center 273
song@math.drexel.edu
215.895.6998

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Stochastic Calculus, Large Deviation Theory, Theoretical Statistics, Data Network Modeling and Numerical Analysis

Lawrence Souder

Teaching Professor Emeritus of Communication

ls39@drexel.edu
215.895.2730

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Science and technical writing, communication ethics.

Jonathan E. Spanier

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Affiliated Faculty
LeBow 440
spanier@drexel.edu
215.895.2301

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Light-matter interactions in electronic materials, including ferroelectric semiconductors, complex oxide thin film science; laser spectroscopy, including Raman scattering

Mary V. Spiers

Professor Emeritus

spiersm@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests Clinical neuropsychology and medical psychology; Memory and practical applications for memory disorders in the elderly; Cognitive health of women

Elias Spiliotis

Associate Professor; Director, Biology Graduate Programs; Director, Cell Imaging Center
PISB 423
ets33@drexel.edu
215.571.3552

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Cell biology, cytoskeleton (microtubules, actin, septins), neuronal and epithelial morphogenesis, spatial regulation of intracellular transport, cell motility and cell division.

James Spotila

Professor Emeritus

spotiljr@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Physiological ecology, Biophysical Ecology and Conservation Biology

Niharika Sravan

Assistant Professor

ns3527@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests

Machine learning; Astronomical surveys; Dynamic resource allocation; Transients; Multimessenger astronomy

Paakhi Srivastava

Assistant Research Professor

ps887@drexel.edu

Department

WELL Center

Research & Teaching Interests Understanding factors (e.g., body image disturbances) that maintain disordered eating behaviors in real-time and real-world. Learning about how evidence-based treatments address maintenance factors to produce improvements in binge eating spectrum disorders. Development of novel treatments/treatment augmentations to better address maintenance factors and improve clinical outcomes for binge eating spectrum disorders.

Jennifer Stanford

Associate Professor, Department of Biology; Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE); Institutional Leader for CIRTL at Drexel
PISB 425
jss75@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests

STEM Education; Effective and Inclusive Teaching; Evidence-Based Teaching; Faculty and Future Faculty Pedagogical Development; Experiential Learning; Epigenetics; Learning and Memory

Kathryn Steen

Associate Professor
5012 MacAlister
Mailbox: 3025 MacAlister
steen@drexel.edu
215.895.6615

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

History of technology; comparative industrialization and transnational history, business history

Allan Stegeman

Teaching Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 161
stegemal@drexel.edu
215.895.2734

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Communication, technology and mass media, video.

Mark Stehr

Professor, Economics; Director, School of Economics
Gerri C. LeBow Hall 1021
stehr@drexel.edu
215.895.0554

Department

Center for Public Policy

Research & Teaching Interests

Applied Econometrics
Health Economics

Scott Stein

Director, Drexel Publishing Group; Teaching Professor of English
5026 MacAlister Hall
sas38@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Creative Writing; Fiction and Novels; Satire and Humor; Publishing; Franz Kafka; Superheroes; Working with Student Interns

Richard Steinberg

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics

steinberg@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests Search for magnetic monopoles; Neutrino oscillations

Jeanne M. Steuber

Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 236
jms77@drexel.edu
215.895.1957

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Donald F. Stevens

Professor Emeritus

stevens@drexel.edu
215.895.2465

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests

Modern Latin American history

C. Clare Strange

Assistant Research Professor
3401 Market Street, Suite 110
cs3846@drexel.edu
215.571.4628

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Sentencing; Corrections; Treatment/rehabilitation; Public health

Nelly Taha

Assistant Teaching Professor
Office: Academic Building, 315
Nelly.Taha@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages

Research & Teaching Interests

Motivation and Curriculum; Technology and Curriculum; Communicative Functions of Code-Switching

Jose Tapia

Professor
MacAlister 3021-E
jat368@drexel.edu
215.895.6762

Department

Department of Politics

Research & Teaching Interests

Social development, world economy, climate change, macroeconomic effects on health

Scott Tattar

Instructor of Communication; Faculty Advisor, Drexel Public Relations Student Society; Communication Department Recruitment Liaison
3201 Arch Street, 159
sdt56@drexel.edu
215.571.3611

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Public Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility; Reputation Management; Issues/Crisis Management; Business Communication

Eva Thury

Associate Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
thury@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Literature, Computer Science

Monica Togna

Associate Teaching Professor
PISB 221 F
mmt73@drexel.edu
215.895.2684

Department

Department of Biology

Research & Teaching Interests Organismal Biology (Physiology / Anatomy / Dev Bio), Microbiology

Alexa Tompary

Assistant Professor
Stratton Hall, Room 306
at3549@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Neural bases of episodic memory and conceptual knowledge; Systems memory consolidation theories; Functional neuroimaging; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Olga Trubina

Adjunct Instructor

oit24@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Somdev Tyagi

Associate Department Head for Non-Major Studies, Professor
Disque Hall 806
tyagi@drexel.edu
215.895.6956

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Nanobiophysics, Raman spectroscopy, Magnetic materials

Kelly Underman

Assistant Professor
3201 Arch Street, 289
kdu24@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Sociology
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production

Kristene Unsworth

Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society; Assistant Teaching Professor
3401 Market, Suite 110-G
kristene.unsworth@drexel.edu
215.895.0277

Department

Department of Criminology and Justice Studies
Center for Public Policy
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests

Ethics, information technologies and policy
Information justice, ethics of data access and use
Policy development that addresses the equitable use of information across society
Intersections between information technology, people, and justice

Brigita Urbanc

Professor; Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies
3141 Chestnut Street, 12-909,
Philadelphia, PA 19104
bu25@drexel.edu
215.895.2726

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Intrinsically disordered proteins; Biophysics of protein folding and self-assembly relevant to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease; Protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions; Discrete and all-atom molecular dynamics; Molecular dynamics force field development

Hilde Van den Bulck

Department Head; Professor
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 152
hdv26@drexel.edu
215.895.0245

Department

Department of Communication

Research & Teaching Interests

Political economy of media structures; Media policies for digitized media ecologies; Stakeholders and coalitions in media policies; Digitization, convergence and legacy media; Public (service) media; Methods of media policy analysis; Media culture in a digitized media ecosystem; Media and (collective) identities; Celebrity culture and industry; Celebrity philanthropy and activism; Celebrity and populism; Fandom and anti-fandom

Loÿc Vanderkluysen

Associate Professor
PISB, Room 322
loyc@drexel.edu
215.571.4673

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Volcano remote sensing and monitoring; Volcanic gases; Igneous petrology and geochemistry; Large Igneous Provinces

Sonia Vaz Borges

Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
5025 MacAlister
sonia.vazborges@drexel.edu

Department

Department of History
Africana Studies
Center for Interdisciplinary Study

Research & Teaching Interests

Liberation Struggles; African History; History of Education; Militant Research; ‘Walking archives’, memory and imaginaries

David Velinsky

Department Head and Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science
Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB) 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

The Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
velinsky@drexel.edu
215.299.1147

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Fate and transport of chemical contaminants; Stable isotope and nutrient biogeochemistry; Sediment geochemistry and deposition; Water quality

Jörn Venderbos

Assistant Professor
Disque Hall, 610
jwv34@drexel.edu
215-895-2714

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests

Theory of quantum materials: topological Insulators, topological semimetals, materials prediction and design, strongly correlated electron materials, complex electronic ordering phenomena, unconventional superconductors

T.S. Venkataraman

Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics
t.s.venkataraman@drexel.edu

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

K. Shwetketu Virbhadra

Instructor
Korman Center 259
ksv29@drexel.edu
215.571.4101

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Giacomo Vivanti

Associate Professor, AJ Drexel Autism Institute

giacomo.vivanti@drexel.edu
215.571.3202

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests The nature of learning difficulties in autism; developing effective programs to address such learning difficulties within community-based settings

Michael S. Vogeley

Professor
Disque Hall 811
vogeley@drexel.edu
215.895.2710

Department

Department of Physics

Research & Teaching Interests Cosmology, Galaxy formation and evolution, Statistical analysis of large data sets, Active galactic nuclei

Jurij Volčič

Assistant Professor
Korman Center, room 258
jv586@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Real algebraic geometry; noncommutative analysis; invariant and representation theory; skew fields, polynomial optimization.

Kathleen Volk Miller

Co-Editor, Painted Bride Quarterly; Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
kvm@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Publishing; Creative Writing; Literary Magazines; Writing and Neuroplasticity; Healing through Writing; Journaling; Personal Essay

Maria Volynsky

ESL Coordinator and Associate Director, First Year Writing Program; Associate Teaching Professor
5059 MacAlister Hall
mvolynsky@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

TESOL; Linguistic Diversity; Multilingualism; Online Teaching; Social Emotional Learning; Language Acquisition; Assessment

Peter A. Wade

Professor Emeritus
Disque Hall 503
wadepa@drexel.edu
215.895.2652

Department

Research & Teaching Interests

Nitro; cycloaddition; rearrangement; isomerization; nitration

Anthony Wambsgans

Associate Teaching Professor
Straton Hall 409
anthony.wambsgans@drexel.edu
215.895.1585

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Dane Ward

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science
PISB 315
dcw33@drexel.edu
215.895.2266

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Urban Ecology, Conservation Biology, Pine Barrens Ecology, Marine Ecology, STEM Diversity & Inclusion, International Education, International STEM Mentorship

Scott Warnock

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education; Professor of English
MacAlister Hall, Suite 4020
sjwarnock@drexel.edu
215.895.0377

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests Teaching with technology; Online writing instruction; Writing administration; Learning assessment; Faculty development;

Robert Watts

Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
wattsra@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy

Research & Teaching Interests

Creative Writing; Freshman Writing

Jason D. Weckstein

Associate Professor, Associate Curator of Ornithology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Ornithology Department
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19096
jdw342@drexel.edu
215.299.1023

Department

Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science

Research & Teaching Interests Phylogenetics; Host-parasite coevolution; Ornithology; Systematic biology; Comparative biology, Biodiversity surveys, Genomics

Richard D. White

Assistant Teaching Professor
Korman Center 255
rdw35@drexel.edu
215.895.6691

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Vincent Williams

Associate Teaching Professor of English
5016 MacAlister Hall
avw22@drexel.edu
215.895.5888

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Africana Studies

Research & Teaching Interests

Jet Wimp

Professor Emeritus

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Hugo J. Woerdeman

Professor
Korman Center 272
hjw27@drexel.edu
215.895.6828

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Matrix and Operator Theory; Systems Theory; Signal and Image Processing; Harmonic Analysis; Multivariable Interpolation; Factorization; Quantum Computing.

Ezra C. Wood

Associate Professor; Chair of Chemistry Graduate Program Committee
Disque Hall, room 507
Ezra.Wood@drexel.edu
215.895.1681

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

Atmospheric Chemistry; Air Pollution; Climate Change; Analytical Instrumentation

J. Douglas Wright

Department Head; Professor
Korman Center 292
jdoug@math.drexel.edu
215.895.0981

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Partial differential equations, particularly the behavior of nonlinear waves in systems arising in hydrodynamics, optics and cell biology

Jun Xi

Associate Teaching Professor
Disque Hall 218
jx35@drexel.edu
215.895.2648

Department

Department of Chemistry

Research & Teaching Interests

QCM; cell adhesion; enzyme; problem-based learning; peer learning

Jingni Xiao

Assistant Professor

jx342@drexel.edu

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Inverse problems; partial differential equations; scattering theory; nonlocal operators; non-scattering phenomena

Dennis G. Yang

Associate Teaching Professor
Korman Center 252
gy44@drexel.edu
215.571.3583

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Dynamical Systems, Neurodynamics

Thomas P.-Y. Yu

Professor
Korman Center 268
tyu@math.drexel.edu
215.895.2066

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Applied Analysis, Applied Geometry, Multiscale Methods

Jian-Min Yuan

Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics
Disque Hall 819B
yuanjm@drexel.edu
215.895.2722

Department

Research & Teaching Interests Biophysics, protein folding/unfolding, protein aggregation, cellular signaling pathways, stochastic dynamics; chemical physics, reaction dyanmics, nonlinear dynamics, interaction of radiation with matter

Jennifer Yusin

Director, Women’s and Gender Studies; Associate Professor
5016 MacAlister Hall
jyusin@drexel.edu

Department

Department of English and Philosophy
Center for Interdisciplinary Study
Women's and Gender Studies

Research & Teaching Interests Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Philosophies of Race and Gender, Global Modernisms, LGBTQ+ Studies, Trans Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies, Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literatures, Transatlantic Studies, and the Global South

Robert Zaller

Professor Emeritus

zallerrm@drexel.edu
215.895.1512

Department

Department of History

Research & Teaching Interests
English history and early modern European history

Sergio Zefelippo

Adjunct Instructor

sz32@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Asta Zelenkauskaite

Associate Professor of Communication; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media
3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 165
az358@drexel.edu
215.895.1717

Department

Department of Communication
Center for Science, Technology and Society

Research & Teaching Interests Social media research; User-generated content analysis; Emergent practices online; Ideological influence; Inauthentic coordinated behaviors online; Misinformation/disinformation online; Mixed methods

Fengqing Zoe Zhang

Associate Professor
Stratton 316
fengqing.zhang@drexel.edu
215.553.7172

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Multimodal Neuroimaging; Data Mining; Data Integration; Mobile Health; Wearable Computing

Kai Zhao

Adjunct Instructor

kz367@drexel.edu
215.895.2668

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests

Matthew Ziemke

Assistant Teaching Professor
Korman Center 260
mjz55@drexel.edu
215.571.3586

Department

Department of Mathematics

Research & Teaching Interests Functional Analysis, Operator Algebras, Semigroups, Mathematical Physics

Eric A. Zillmer

Professor of Neuropsychology
Stratton 221
zillmer@drexel.edu
215.895.1977

Department

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research & Teaching Interests

Sports psychology; Sports performance; Psychological assessment; Psychology of terrorists

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