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Lawrence Levy

Associate Vice President and Executive Dean of the National Center for SurburbanHofstra University

Dean Levy works close with Hofstra’s academic community to shape an innovative agenda for suburban study

Usha Rackliffe

Professor in the Practice of Accounting; Academic Director for Master in ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Antonio Barrenechea

ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington

Antonio Barrenechea is a scholar and teacher of literature of the Americas and cinema.

Deborah O'Dell

Professor of BiologyUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. O'Dell performs research into how bees use magnetic fields to orient themselves.

Aaron Kupchik

Professor, Sociology and Criminal JusticeUniversity of Delaware

Professor Kupchik studies school policing, school punishment, and racial inequality.

Jack Downey

John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Professor of Religion and ClassicsUniversity of Rochester

Downey studies self-immolation as reistance, forms of protest, Roman Catholicism

Robert Taylor, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of HistoryFlorida Tech

Dr. Taylor's research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century America, the American South, U.S. military history, and 20th-century Europe.

Julie Byrne

Professor and Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic StudiesHofstra University

The Professor and Monsignor Thomas Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies at Hofstra University

Mark Lukasiewicz

Dean, The Lawrence Herbert School of CommunicationHofstra University

Dean Lukasiewicz is a veteran producer, journalist, and media executive. Before joining Hofstra, he was SVP of specials at NBC News.

Colin Rafferty

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington

His research has taken him to the mountains of central Vietnam, the concentration camps of WWII, and the house of Rutherford B. Hayes.