Faculty at the University of Baltimore are available to offer their expertise on a wide range of topics. This alphabetical list is a sampling of the research, presentations and scholarly activities in which they are currently engaged. Click on the subject area to view what's available, and find out what UBalt faculty members have to offer within these topics.
If you would like to learn more about our faculty experts and their scholarly interests, or get in touch with them in re their expertise, contact the Office of Advancement and External Relations at OAER@ubalt.edu.
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Accounting
Phillip Korb, associate professor of accounting, Merrick School of Business:
Income taxesMikhail Pevzner, professor of accounting, Merrick School of Business:
auditing and financial reporting, capital markets -
Administrative Law
Arnold Rochvarg, professor emeritus, School of Law:
Maryland administrative law -
Anti-Trust Law
Robert Lande, professor, School of Law:
Consumer protection from anti-trust, cartels, major anti-trust cases, mergers, collusion -
Baltimore History
Joshua Clark Davis, associate professor of history:
Urban history, social movements, policing
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Capital Punishment
John Bessler, professor, School of Law:
Capital punishment, human rights, civil procedure, contracts, lawyering skillsJ. Amy Dillard, associate professor, School of Law:
Sanity and competency in criminal trials, capital punishment -
Children and Technology
Greg Walsh, associate professor, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies: Children and technology, design thinking, interaction design
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Civil Procedure
John Bessler, professor, School of Law:
Capital punishment, human rights, civil procedure, contracts, lawyering skills
Gilda Daniels, assistant professor, School of Law:
Civil rights, civil procedureKim Wehle, professor, School of Law:
Civil procedure, structural and technological innovations in government, federal courts -
Communications
Julie B. Simon, professor, Klein Family School of Communications Design:
Digital communication, photography, video -
Community Development
Jaime Alison Lee, assistant professor and director of the Community Development Clinic, School of Law:
Affordable housing, non-profit organizations, small businessesSeema Iyer, associate director, Jacob France Institute, research associate professor, Merrick School of Business:
Data as basis for community change, real estate markets, Baltimore neighborhoods -
Computers, Computing, Gaming, the Internet
Aaron Oldenburg, assistant professor, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies:
Game design, interactive art, scripting, 3D graphics, video editingSujan Shrestha,
associate professor
Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies:
Game design, interactive media -
Conflict
Ivan Sascha Sheehan, assistant professor, School of Public and International Affairs:
International conflict management, terrorism, cross-cultural/religious/ethnic conflict -
The Constitution and Constitutional Law
José Anderson, professor, School of Law:
Constitutional criminal procedure
J. Amy Dillard, assistant professor, School of Law:
Constitutional criminal procedure
Garrett Epps, professor emeritus, School of Law:
Constitutional law, freedom of religion, fallacies about the Constitution
Michael Meyerson, professor, School of Law:
Freedom of religion, freedom of speech
Kim Wehle, professor, School of Law:
Civil procedure, structural and technological innovations in government, federal courts -
Corrections
Andrea Cantora, associate professor, School of Criminal Justice:
Incarceration, prison reentry, and urban crime preventionJeffrey Ian Ross, professor, School of Criminal Justice:
Supermax prison systems, imprisonment methodologies outside the United States, life after prison, coping with incarceration -
Criminal Justice and Criminal Law
José Anderson, professor, School of Law:
Criminal law, litigation process
J. Amy Dillard, assistant professor, School of Law,
Constitutional criminal procedure, sanity and competency in criminal trials, Virginia criminal lawDavid Jaros, professor, School of Law; director, Center for Criminal Justice Reform:
Criminal procedure, evidence, criminal lawJeffrey Ian Ross, professor, School of Criminal Justice:
Law enforcement's response to crime, media coverage of crime, police culture, incarceration, effective punishmentRenita L. Seabrook, associate professor, School of Criminal Justice:
Offender rehabilitation, probation and parole, criminological theoryRonald Weich, professor and dean of the School of Law:
Criminal justice, sentencing law -
Design
Greg Walsh, associate professor, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies:
Children and technology, design thinking, interaction design -
Diversity
Regina Bento, professor of management, Merrick School of Business:
Diversity, prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination (race, gender, ethnicity, physical appearance, age, etc.)Ting Zhang, assistant professor of finance and economics, Merrick School of Business:
Age, race, culture, industry diversity in workforce and entrepreneurship -
Economics, Human Capital
Robert Lande, professor, School of Law:
Economics and the law, mergers
Alan Lyles, professor, School of Public and International Affairs and School of Health and Human Services:
Pharmaceutical economicsJoel Morse, professor, Merrick School of Business:
Investments, volatilityTing Zhang, assistant professor of finance and economics, Merrick School of Business: Employment, business dynamics, entrepreneurship, education and employment, human capital and entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship
William Hubbard, assistant professor, School of Law:
Copyright law, patents, property law, trademark law, trade secretsDavid Lingelbach, associate professor of entrepreneurship, Merrick School of Business:
Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, Russia, oligarchyVen Sriram, professor of marketing, Merrick School of Business:
Entrepreneurship in emerging global marketsJ.C. Weiss, executive in residence, Merrick School of Business: Social entrepreneurship, venture capital
Ting Zhang , assistant professor of finance and economics, Merrick School of Business: Aging and entrepreneurship, boomer entrepreneurship, post-retirement entrepreneurship
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Environment, Environmental Law, Human Ecology, Sustainability
Stanley Kemp, associate professor, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies: Environmental science, human ecology, Baltimore's Jones Falls, ecosystems, environmental outcomes, practicing sustainability in an urban environment
Wolf Pecher, associate professor, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies: Marine estuarine environmental sciences, human ecology, Baltimore's Jones Falls, ecosystems, environmental outcomes, practicing sustainability in an urban environment -
Ethics
Steven Scalet, professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies:
Business ethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, ethics and economics
Mortimer Sellers, professor, School of Law; director, Center for International and Comparative Law: Professional ethics -
Families and Family Law
Daniel Hatcher, professor, School of Law:
Child welfare, foster care policy and practices, child support
Odeana Neal, associate professor, School of Law:
Juvenile justice, children and the law, race and the law, sexual orientation and the law
Heather Pfeifer, associate professor, School of Criminal Justice
Juvenile delinquency and relevant policy, child victimization, drug courts -
Feminism and the Law
Michele Gilman, professor, School of Law; co-director, Center on Applied Feminism:
Feminist legal theory and its application in legal practice and policy, welfare, housing, social justice
Margaret Johnson, associate professor, School of Law; co-director, Center on Applied Feminism:
Feminist legal theory, domestic violence -
Finance
David Lingelbach, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, Merrick School of Business:
International finance, venture capital, Russian finance, oligarchyJoel Morse, professor, Merrick School of Business:
Corporate finance, volatility, derivatives -
Forensic Studies
Charles Tumosa, professor of practice, School of Criminal Justice:
Applied forensics, crime scene investigation
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Geography
Ting Zhang, assistant professor of finance and economics, Merrick School of Business:
Space in economics, regional development, spatial econometrics, transportation and job access, commuting analysis
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Geriatrics
Carol Molinari, associate professor, College of Public Affairs:
Continuum of community-based and institutional aging care for diverse (culturally, ethnically, racially and sexual orientation) senior populations
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Government and Governing
Ronald Weich, professor and dean of the School of Law:
Federal legislative process
John Willis, executive in residence, School of Public and International Affairs:
Effective state and local government, government as a profession, history of Maryland governors -
Graphic Design
Megan Rhee, lecturer, Klein Family School of Communications Design
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Health and Health Care
Gregory Dolin, associate professor, School of Law; co-director, Center for Medicine and Law:
Medical and legal issues for healthcare practitioners
Daniel Hatcher, associate professor, School of Law:
Medicaid and issues impacting low-income families and the uninsured
Alan Lyles, professor, School of Public and International Affairs and School of Health and Human Services:
Pharmaceutical economics, health policy, managing drug supplies, distance education and professional practice communities, lifestyle consequences for health
Carol Molinari, associate professor, College of Public Affairs:
Disparities in healthcareChristine S. Spencer, dean, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences:
Health policy, health insurance, health economics, healthcare quality, disparities in healthcare, access to healthcare -
History
Joshua Clark Davis, associate professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies:
Urban history, social movements, policingNicole Hudgins, professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies:
History of modern Europe, history of photography
Michael Meyerson, professor, School of Law:
American legal history, freedom of religion, freedom of speech
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Information Systems, Technology Management
Anil Aggarwal, professor of information systems, Merrick School of Business:
cloud computing, management of information systemsRajesh Mirani, associate professor, Merrick School of Business: Business-IT alignment, project performance in public sector IT initiatives, hospital adoption and outcomes of electronic health records, IT offshoring governance and management
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Intellectual Property
William Hubbard, assistant professor, School of Law:
Copyright law, patents, property law, trademark law, trade secrets -
International Relations, International Law, Foreign Policy
Mortimer Sellers, professor, School of Law; director, Center for International and Comparative Law:
International law, Roman law, comparative law, jurisprudence
Ivan Sascha Sheehan, assistant professor, School of Public and International Affairs:
Global terrorism, international conflict management, U.S. foreign policy -
Labor Law
Michael Hayes, associate professor, School of Law:
Collective bargaining, employment discrimination, employment law -
Law Enforcement
Jeffrey Ian Ross, professor, School of Criminal Justice:
Police tactics and law enforcement strategies, law enforcement leadership, community policing, high-tech law enforcement (drones, surveillance) -
Law and Philosophy
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Management
Regina Bento, professor of management, Merrick School of Business:
Innovations in management education -
Marketing and Markets
Ven Sriram, professor of marketing, Merrick School of Business:
Entrepreneurship in emerging global markets -
Mathematics
Haitham Alkhateeb, professor of mathematics, Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies:
Math education, post-secondary teaching of math, mathematics research -
Media and Pop Culture
Julie B. Simon, professor, Klein Family School of Communications Design:
Digital communication, photography, video -
Politics
Roger Hartley, dean, College of Public Affairs:
Polling, political races, campaign messagingArnold Rochvarg, professor emeritus, School of Law:
The Watergate scandal
Steven Scalet, professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies:
Political philosophy
Ronald Weich, professor and dean of the School of Law:
Federal legislative process
John Willis, executive in residence, School of Public and International Affairs:
Maryland politics, history of Maryland governors -
Poverty
Daniel Hatcher, associate professor, School of Law:
Poverty law, including welfare policy, consumer law, housing, landlord-tenant disputes, administrative advocacy, privatization of government agency functions that serve the poor
Laura Wilson-Gentry, professor, School of Public and International Affairs:
Poverty policy, welfare reform, the working poor -
Psychology
Sally Farley, assistant professor, Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences:
Comparative psychology, social psychology, group dynamics, interpersonal relationships, statistics, nonverbal behavior
Courtney E. Gasser, associate professor, Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences; director, M.S. in Applied Psychology, Counseling Psychology Concentration program:
Vocational pyschology, career counseling, psychotherapy services
Thomas Mitchell, associate professor, Division of Applied Behavioral Sciences:
Industrial/organizational psychology, personality tests
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Publishing and Book Design
Betsy Boyd, assistant professor, Klein Family School of Communications Design
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Real Estate
Seema Iyer, associate director, Jacob France Institute, research associate professor, Merrick School of Business:
Data as basis for community change, real estate markets, Baltimore neighborhoods -
Sports Law
Dionne Koller, associate professor and director of the Center for Sport and the Law, School of Law:
Title IX, doping in sports, due process for athletes -
Taxes
Fred Brown, associate professor, School of Law:
Business organizations, corporate taxation, foreign taxation, fundamentals of federal income taxation, international taxation
Phillip Korb, professor of accounting, Merrick School of Business:
Income taxes
Walter D. Schwidetzky, professor, School of Law:
Federal income tax, business taxation -
Terrorism
Jeffrey Ross, professor, School of Criminal Justice:
Political crime, surveillance techniques, state-sanctioned violence, human rights violations
Ivan Sascha Sheehan, assistant professor, School of Public and International Affairs:
Global terrorism, counterterrorism, international conflict management, counterterrorism -
Victimhood
Debra L. Stanley, professor amd director, School of Criminal Justice, director of the Roper Victim Assistance Academy of Maryland:
Victimology, domestic violence, substance abuse and crime, violence prevention and program evaluation -
Voting and Elections
Gilda Daniels, assistant professor, School of Law:
Voting rights, election law
John Willis, executive in residence, School of Public and International Affairs:
Voting in Maryland, election judge training, election coverage, voting rights, presidential elections, Help America Vote Act, election reformsWelfare
Ting Zhang , assistant professor of finance and economics, Merrick School of Business:
SNAP and TANF recipients’ employment and earnings, poverty and job access -
Writing
Betsy Boyd, assistant professor, director, Klein Family School of Communications Design:
Storytelling, public readings, publishingD. Watkins, lecturer, Klein Family School of Communications Design:
Memoir, writing essays, publishing