Charles Zech, PhD
Professor Emeritus | Villanova School of Business · Villanova University
Charles Zech, PhD, is an expert on Catholic Church finance and management.
Business Church Management and Finance
Massimo Faggioli, PhD
Professor of Theology and Religious Studies | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences · Villanova University
Massimo Faggioli, PhD, is an expert on the history and administrative inner workings of the Catholic Church and of the papacy.
Pope Francis Religion Catholicism and World/European Politics Historical Theology and Ecclesiology American Catholicism
Timothy Matovina
Chair, Department of Theology · University of Notre Dame
Timothy Matovina works in the area of theology and culture, with specialization in U.S. Catholic and U.S. Latino theology and religion.
Catholic Church Latino Theology Catholic History in the American Southwest Mexico's Guadalupe Tradition
José I. Badenes, S.J., Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures - Spanish · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Gender and Sexuality Theology and literature Hispanic modernismo Federico Garcia Lorca Comparative Literature
Jacqueline Murray
3M National Teaching Fellow / Professor of History · University of Guelph
Expert in the history of contemporary sex and gender. An award winning professor and expert on how to improve teaching and student success.
Medieval and Early Modern History Women and Gender Studies Pedagogy in Higher Education Student Learning Outcomes
Christopher Kaczor
Professor of Philosophy and Director, Ethics Program · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Bioethics Ethics Positive Psychology & Spirituality Catholic Church
Kathleen Grimes, PhD
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences · Villanova University
Kathleen Grimes, PhD, is an expert on Christian ethics and their bearing on racism, white supremacy, sex, gender, and the environment.
Theology Religion Environmental Ethics Sexual Ethics Racism, White Supremacy and the Catholic Church
Jacek Lubecki
Associate Professor, Political Science and International Studies · Georgia Southern University
Jacek Lubecki is an expert in Polish and European military history.
Global Political Economy Counter-Insurgency Middle East Polish Politics and History East-Central Europe
Colin Rafferty
Associate Professor · University 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.
History Rutherford B. Hayes Creative Writing World War 2 Monuments and Memorials
Nicole Bouvier-Brown
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry · Loyola Marymount University
Seaver College of Science and Engineering
Climate Literacy Environmental Justice Biogenic VOCs Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Atmospheric Chemistry
Francis Beckwith, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Associate Director of Graduate Studies · Baylor University
Dr. Beckwith is a nationally recognized author and speaker in the areas of philosophy, ethics & church-state issues
Faith Law Church and State Issues Philosophical and Theological Ethics Ethics & Values
Margarita R. Ochoa
Associate Professor of History · Loyola Marymount University
Department of History, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Social Justice and Equal Rights Latin America Race and Ethnicity Women and Gender Indigenous/Ethnohistory
Michael Moreland, JD, PhD
University Professor of Law and Religion; Director, Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy | Charles Widger School of Law · Villanova University
Michael Moreland, JD, PhD, is an expert in the areas of law and religion, free speech, constitutional law and bioethics.
Supreme Court Nomination Process Supreme Court Law and Religion Constitutional Law First Amendment
Allyson Poska
Professor, History and American Studies · University of Mary Washington
Professor of History and Program Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies
Spanish History Latin American History Colonialism International Studies Transatlantic Migration
Renee Alexander Craft, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, and the Curriculum in Global Studies, College of Arts and Sciences · UNC at Chapel Hill
Analyzes use of black diaspora performance to build community, argue for rights of citizenship & map differential blackness in the Americas.
Digital Humanities Black Diaspora Performance Carnival traditions in Panama Black Speculative Fiction Critical Ethnography
Luis Ricardo Fraga
Director, Institute for Latino Studies; Acting Chair, Department of Political Science · University of Notre Dame
Luis Ricardo Fraga specializes in race, education, ethnicity, and Latino politics, as well as immigration, urban and voting rights policy.
Latino Politics Politics of Race Politics of Ethnicity Urban Politics Educational Policy
Dr Islam Issa
Reader in Literature and History · Birmingham City University
His work has focused primarily on the modern-day reception of Renaissance and Early Modern English literature in global contexts.
Middle East Cultural History Literature Milton Shakespeare Cultural History
Julie Byrne
Professor of Religion · Hofstra University
The Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman Chair in Catholic Studies at Hofstra University
Religion and Popular Culture Religion and Sports Pope Francis Independent Catholics Roman Catholics
Louis A. Pérez, Ph.D.
J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History. Director, Institute for the Study of the Americas, College of Arts and Sciences · UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. Pérez’s principal research interests center on the 19th and 20th century Caribbean, with a research emphasis on Cuba.
Cuba Cuban Revolution Caribbean Studies Latin American Culture
Charles Keith
Assistant Professor of History · Michigan State University
Charles Keith is an expert on Southeast Asia and the cultural, political and religious aspects of historical and modern Vietnam.
Southeast Asia Vietnam