academic Experts

Steven Mailloux

President's Professor Emeritus of RhetoricLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Dominique Halaby

Director, Business Innovation GroupGeorgia Southern University

Dr. Halaby oversees development of Georgia Southern University’s City Center.

Karen Musalo

Professor of Law, International Law Professorship Chair and Director of the Center for Gender & Refugee StudiesUC Hastings College of the Law

Contacts: musalok@uchastings.edu / 415-565-4720 / Office 403-100

Fatimah Tuggar

Artist & Assistant Professor of Contemporary Issues of RepresentationOCAD University

artist working with technology as both medium and subject to address issues of social and environmental justice

Lauren Smart

Clinical Assistant Professor of JournalismLoyola Marymount University

Sally Scholz, PhD

Professor of Philosophy | College of Liberal Arts and SciencesVillanova University

Sally Scholz, PhD, is an expert on solidarity, feminism, just war theory and Catholic Social Teaching.

Nicholas Leadbeater, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of ChemistryUniversity of Connecticut

Dr. Leadbeater specializes in cleaner, greener ways to make molecules.

Dr Virginie Grzelczyk

Professor in International RelationsAston University

Virginie's research focuses on security relationships over the Korean Peninsula, especially North Korea.

Zico Kolter

Associate Professor and Director of Machine LearningCarnegie Mellon University

Zico Kolter researches how to make deep learning algorithms more robust, safer, and understand how data impacts how models function.

E. Eric Gable

Professor of AnthropologyUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Gable is an expert on museum studies, heritage, and the religion and politics of West Africa and of Outer Island Indonesia.