Experts Directory

Fisher faculty and staff lend their expertise to current affairs issues and pop culture topics.

If you’re a member of the press interested in interviewing a Fisher faculty or staff member, contact Melissa Greco Lopes, assistant director of marketing and communications, at mgrecolopes@sjf.edu or (585) 385-8190.

Arts and Entertainment

Melissa Jadlos

  • Libraries
  • Information literacy
  • Copyright leadership

Mark Rice

  • History of American photography
  • Rhetoric of American exceptionalism
  • American culture

Jeremy Sarachan

  • Social media
  • Online identity
  • Memes and viral videos
  • New media economics
  • Design and usability (including mobile apps)
  • Children and online communities
  • Autism in the media

Todd M. Sodano

  • Prime-time television
  • Broadcast/cable/internet television programming
  • Post-9/11 television
  • Popular film and television
  • Sports and television
  • Video production
Business

Tim Franz

  • Groups and teams
  • Work motivation
  • Social behavior
  • Applied research methods (employee surveys)

David Kunsch

  • Strategy
  • Corporate governance
  • Executive compensation
  • Boards
  • Activist shareholders
  • ESG
  • Decision-making
  • Negotiations

Hugh Lambert

  • Accounting
  • Business valuation
  • Business succession planning
  • Estate planning and estate taxes
  • Financial statement fraud and financial scams
  • Equity markets and stock valuation
  • Stock options
  • Buy-sell agreement

Yi Liu

  • Financial Wellness and Well-being
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Financial Literacy
  • Personal Finance
  • Retirement Planning
  • Investment Strategies

Hemant Sashittal

  • Marketing
  • Branding
  • Social media marketing
  • Technology management
  • Product innovation
  • Strategic marketing
  • Strategy implementation
Education

Michelle Erklenz-Watts

  • Professional development
  • Teacher certification exams
  • Information literacy
  • Student engagement in learning
  • Classroom management
  • Diversity in education
Health

Vivek S. Dave

  • Pharmaceutics
  • Pharmaceutical dosage forms

Rachel A. Jordan

  • Sexual behaviors
  • Domestic violence perpetrators
  • Human sexuality
  • Assessment/evaluation/treatment of sexual offenders

Ramil Sapinoro

  • Vaccines
  • Fish oil supplements

Charlene M. Smith

  • Patient safety
  • Nursing education
  • Nursing professional development
  • Online distance learning
  • Educational technology
  • Program/project management
  • Professional communication
Higher Education

Melissa Jadlos

  • Libraries
  • Information literacy
  • Copyright
  • Leadership

Jose Perales

  • Enrollment management
  • Admissions
  • Financial aid
  • Intercollegiate athletics

Dave Roberts

  • Admissions
  • College search
  • Financial aid
  • Freshman student transition
  • Intercollegiate athletics
Life and Culture

David Baronov

  • Globalization
  • Corporate crime
  • Race relations
  • Poverty
  • Social and economic inequality
  • U.S. union movement
  • Social research methods
  • Social theory

Mark Rice

  • History of American photography
  • Rhetoric of American exceptionalism
  • American culture

Jeremy Sarachan

  • Social media
  • Online identity
  • Memes and viral videos
  • New media economics
  • Design and usability (including mobile apps)
  • Children and online communities
  • Autism in the media

Todd M. Sodano

  • Prime-time television
  • Broadcast/cable/internet television programming
  • Post-9/11 television
  • Popular film and television
  • Sports and television
  • Video production

Carolyn Vacca

  • Rochester history
  • New York State history
  • Museums
  • Historical societies
Politics

Sebastien Lazardeux

  • Politics in Europe
  • Far-right and neo-Nazi movements and parties

Mark Rice

  • History of American photography
  • Rhetoric of American exceptionalism
  • American culture
Science

Gregory Cunningham

  • Animal behavior
  • Animal anatomy and physiology
  • Human anatomy and physiology
  • Zoology
  • Birds (penguins, songbirds, flamingoes, raptors, and nocturnal birds)
  • Conservation

Fernando Ontiveros

  • Immunology
  • Infectious disease
  • Nanotechnology
  • Bioethics
  • Microfluidics
Sports

Katherine Burakowski

  • Organizational behavior of sport organizations
  • College athletics
  • Coaches’ organizational commitment
Technology

Fernando Ontiveros

  • Immunology
  • Infectious disease
  • Nanotechnology
  • Bioethics
  • Microfluidics

Jeremy Sarachan

  • Social media
  • Online identity
  • Memes and viral videos
  • New media economics
  • Design and usability (including mobile apps)
  • Children and online communities
  • Autism in the media