Experts at Empire State College

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Benke, Meg
Dean, Center for Distance Learning
Saratoga Springs, NY

• Distance and online education
• Quality and outcomes of online education

Chukhlomin, Valeri
Academic Coordinator, Business, Management and Economics
Saratoga Springs, NY

• Cross-cultural management
• distance and online learning
• international political economy
• international education
• marketing of higher education
• Russian economy

Fernandez, Nadine
Associate Professor, Area Coordinator, Gender and Family Studies
Syracuse

• Contemporary Cuba (particularly race and gender issues, and social impact of tourism)

Flynn, Bernard
Professor of philosophy
New York City, NY

• Political philosophy
• Phenomenology
• History of Philosophy

Giordano, Justin A.
Professor
New York City, NY

• Law and Public Policy;
• Legal Analysis and its application to current, historic, contemporary, and related legal issues.
• Music and Entertainment Industry

Grunfeld, A. Tom
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
New York City, NY

• Modern East Asian History (China, Vietnam, Japan)
• U.S. History
• Foreign Relations of the United States
• Media

Hollis, Susan
Professor
Rochester, NY

• Ancient history
• Women’s history (Ancient)
• Ancient Near East history (Egypt and Israel)
• Bible in its ancient Near Eastern context
• Egyptology (history, religion, mythology, literature)
• Women’s Studies (particularly related to religion, folklore, and history)
• Ancient literature (comparative)
• Folklore-Folklife
• Folktales (especially ancient)
• Epics
• Mythology (especially ancient)
• Ancient religions
• Hebrew Bible (women in the Bible)
• World religions

Marikyan, Gohar
Assistant Professor
New York City, NY

• Computer programming
• Database administration
• Issues in mathematics
• Armenian Church
• Non-governmental organizations
• Soviet Union

Ouderkirk, Wayne
Professor, Saratoga Unit Coordinator
Saratoga Springs, NY

• Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
• Environmental issues
• Wilderness preservation and restoration
• General philosophy

Rabino, Isaac
SUNY Distinguished Professor
New York City, NY

• Ethics in Genetics
• What scientists think of stem cell research, bio-engineered foods, cloning and other ethical issues in science

Raiten-D'Antonio, Toni
Mentor
Hauppauge

• Relationships
• Parenting
• Mental Health
• Counseling
• Psychotherapy
• Crisis Intervention
• Trauma
• Post-traumatic Stress
• Women's Issues
• Media and Society

Rastogi, Lokesh
Visiting Assistant Professor
Cheektowaga, NY

• Globalization strategies
• Strategic management
• Human resource Management issues
• Total quality management
• Economics (micro economics, macro economics, health economics, environmental economics)
• International business
• Comparative world economies
• Global marketing, principles of marketing
• Transnational management
• Managerial excellence through diversity
• Managing change
• Business law
• Legal environment of business
• Business ethics
• Other world civilizations - Indian subcontinent
• Indian culture and society

Reifowitz, Ian
Assistant professor
Old Westbury, NY

• Nationalism, ethnicity and identity
• New media/Internet/blogs
• Pluralism in America
• Race relations
• U.S. politics
• Arab-Israeli conflict

Shaw, Julia Penn
Assistant Professor/Academic Coordinator, Human Development and Social Science Research
Center for Distance Learning

• Distance and online education
• Distance and online learning
• Quality and outcomes of online education
• Semiotics
• Developmental Learning
• Development and Learning Across the Lifespan

Tatzel, Miriam
Professor of Psychology
Nanuet

• Consumer Psychology
• Consumer Well-Being
• Money and Materialism Consumer Typology
• Positive Psychology

Zencey, Eric
Visiting Associate Professor of Historical and Political Studies, Contributing Editor, North American Review
Saratoga Springs, NY

• Ecological sustainability
• The theory and practice of sustainable enterprise
• Alternative measures of sustainable economic well-being
• Ecological foundations of political systems
• Energy futures and peak oil
• Environmental History
• Historical fiction
• Social, political and ecological implications of thermodynamics