students Experts

Yusen Zhai

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Yusen Zhai’s research focuses on AI and machine learning and health policy to promote mental health outcomes and suicide prevention.

Nadya Shalamova, Ph.D.

Professor, Program DirectorMilwaukee School of Engineering

Dr. Nadya Shalamova is a professor, program director and expert in user experience (UX).

Mark A. Boyer, Ph.D.

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor EmeritusUniversity of Connecticut

Mark A. Boyer studies environmental policy and global-local linkages. His research focuses on climate adaptation from global to local.

Matthew Brogdon, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Center for Constitutional StudiesUtah Valley University

Brogdon is an expert in American politics, constitutionalism and political philosophy

Robert Parrish Waters

Associate Professor of BiologyUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Parrish Waters’ areas of expertise include neuroscience, physiology, hormone axis function, stress physiology and sensory perception.

Richard Arum

Professor of Education and SociologyUC Irvine

Richard Arum's research is focused on education, social stratification and formal organizations.

Mia Moody, Ph.D.

Professor & Past Department ChairBaylor University

Nationally recognized expert on mass media representations of people of color, women & other underrepresented groups

Elizabeth Diehl

Director | ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Elizabeth Diehl focuses on teaching, research and program delivery of horticultural therapy and therapeutic horticulture.

Alan Furness, DMD

Associate Dean & Associate ProfessorAugusta University

Kathy Roberts Forde

Professor of JournalismUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Kathy Roberts Forde studies the Black freedom struggle and the press, First Amendment, literary journalism and history of book culture.