Experts from Rutgers University in Newark can comment on issues facing the Obama administration
Experts at Rutgers University in Newark from a variety of fields are available to comment on the multiple issues facing the nation as the U.S. government begins its transition to new leadership.
Congress
MARY SEGERS, professor of political science, can comment extensively on virtually all aspects of American politics. Widely quoted on issues concerning religion and politics and women in politics, Segers’ nearly 50 essays and books include, Piety, Politics and Pluralism: Religion, The Courts, and the 2000 Election (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); and A Wall of Separation? Debating the Role of Religion in American Public Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
Contact: office 973-353-1324 (direct) or leave message with Department Administrator Beth Freda 973-353-5105, home 908-522-1573, or email msegers88@hotmail.com
Economy (domestic)
FARROKH K. LANGDANA, professor of finance and economics, is director of the Rutgers Executive MBA Program. He is available to comment on a wide range of economic issues. The author of many publications on macroeconomics, his most recent book in the area is Macroeconomic Policy: Demystifying Monetary and Fiscal Policy (Springer, 2002).
Contact: office 973-353-5620 or email langdana@rutgers.edu
Economy (global)
KEVIN KOLBEN, professor of supply chain management and marketing sciences, is a lawyer who writes and teaches on international labor rights, human rights, international trade law, and India. He has worked extensively in South and Southeast Asia on issues of labor rights and labor law, and consults to various labor and human rights organizations.
Contact: office 973-353-1648 or email kkolben@business.rutgers.edu
CARLOS SEIGLIE, professor of economics, has expertise in topics as diverse as Cuban economic reform, defense economics, the growth of market-oriented economies in Russia and Eastern Europe, and Latin American economic practices and development. Seiglie has consulted with the Defense Department on Latin American politics and economics and lectures extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Contact: home 201-567-0676, cell 201-394-5180, or email seiglie@rutgers.edu
Education
SHERRI-ANN P. BUTTERFIELD, associate professor of sociology, specializes in race and ethnicity, immigration, urban education, identity development and culture, and urban sociology. Currently she is this year’s faculty fellow in the Chancellor’s Office.
Contact: office 973-353-5541 or email sbutter@andromeda.rutgers.edu
ALAN R. SADOVNIK, professor of education, sociology and public affairs, specializes in the sociology of education, urban educational reform and improvement, and the history of progressive education. He is associate director of the Institute on Education Law and Policy and coordinator of the Urban Educational Policy Track in “Ph.D. in Urban Systems,” a program designed to prepare students to develop research-based knowledge in urban systems.
Contact: office 973-353-3532 or email sadovnik@andromeda.rutgers.edu
PAUL TRACTENBERG, professor of law, specializes in public education law and policy. He is a frequent lecturer, consultant and adviser to many national, regional, and state organizations and agencies. Tractenberg is involved in a number of landmark constitutional cases about public education, especially Abbott v. Burke, which arguably is the most important New Jersey state court decision of the 20th century.
Contact: office 973-353-5433 or email tractnbg@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Energy
ELENA GALOPPINI, professor of chemistry, serves as principal investigator on the Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team, a collaborative initiative created to study more efficient methods of converting solar power into new energy sources.
Contact: office 732-445-5643 or email aviitzha@rutcor.rutgers.edu
Environment
STUART DEUTSCH, dean of the School of Law-Newark, can discuss a variety of environmental law issues. He has served as chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and on boards of directors of several environmental organizations.
Contact: office 973-353-5551 or email sdeutsch@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Federal Tax Policy
JOSHUA BLANK, assistant professor of law, specializes in federal income taxation and has authored several scholarly articles and treatise chapters on the subject.
Contact: office 973-353-3098 or email jblank@kinoy.rutgers.edu
CYNTHIA BLUM, professor law, specializes in federal income taxation and tax policy. She is the co-director of the Federal Tax Law Clinic, which she helped to establish in 1995.
Contact: office 973-353-5045
JAY SOLED, professor of accounting, business ethics and information systems, specializes in corporate, individual, partnership, international and transfer taxation. A widely quoted tax expert, he currently serves as the director of the Master of Accounting in Taxation Program.
Contact: office 973-353-1727, home 973-328-1869, or email jaysoled@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Foreign Relations
SUSAN LISA CARRUTHERS, associate professor of history, can discuss a variety of issues relating to U.S. foreign relations. Topics of particular interest include imperialism as well as media and war.
Contact: office (973) 353-5410 or email scarruth@andromeda.rutgers.edu
SIMON F. REICH, director of the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University in Newark, is an expert on many foreign policy issues. His wide-ranging research interests include: protection of civilians in conflict; immigration policy; the integration of minorities in Europe and the U.S.; and multinational corporate behavior.
Contact: office (973) 353-3286 or email reichs@andromeda.rutgers.edu
“Green” Jobs
GENE SLOWINSKI, director of the Rutgers University Technical Assistance Program, has spent nearly 20 years conducting research on the economic development opportunities of strategic alliances, de-manufacturing, and the Internet. His articles can be found in Economic Development Quarterly, Business Horizons, and Research and Technology Management.
Contact: office 973-353-5891 or email slowinsk@newark.rutgers.edu
Healthcare
GERI DICKINSON, assistant professor of nursing, is an expert on healthcare issues and is in the forefront of seeking solutions to the complex problems of the healthcare delivery system in the United States. She also has particular expertise on issues affecting women’s health.
Contact: 973-353-1307, x 615 or email dickson@nightingale.rutgers.edu
MAHMUD HASSAN, professor of finance and economics, is an expert in healthcare economics, healthcare finance, and healthcare policy. His research articles have been published in Journal of Health Economics, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), Health Affairs, and International Journal of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Marketing.
Contact: office 973-353-5386, home 732-254-8477, and email hassanm@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Housing Crisis
MARA SIDNEY, associate professor of political science, can discuss public policy, race and ethnicity, urban politics, housing discrimination, and affordable housing. Sidney also studies political struggles to advance racial equality, and the political role that nonprofit and community-based advocacy organizations play in them.
Contact: office 973-353-5787, home 201-341-7741, or e-mail msidney@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Media
ROBERT SNYDER, associate professor of journalism and media studies, can provide sharp insight into media coverage and “spin.” Snyder has an extensive record as both a working journalist and a media analyst. He has worked in newspapers, magazines and television, including as editor of Media Studies Journal – a quarterly dedicated to analysis of the news media by journalists, scholars and informed commentators.
Contact: office 973-353-5119 (x33), home 212-861-9880, or email rwsnyder@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Stock Market
DAN WEAVER, associate professor of finance and economics, can discuss issues relating to stock market regulation and oversight as well as public disclosure. He has served as a consultant to the American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, Stockholm Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, and the Securities Industry Association.
Contact: office 732-445-5644 or email daniel_weaver@business.rutgers.edu
Supreme Court
FRANK ASKIN, professor of law, is founder and director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, which under his almost four-decade leadership has established numerous important legal precedents in civil rights and international human rights cases.
Contact: office 973-353-3239, cell 973-519-0235, or faskin@kinoy.rutgers.edu
Terrorism/Guantanamo Detainees
LEONARD A. COLE, adjunct professor of political science, is an expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine. His recent books include Terror: How Israel Has Coped and What America Can Learn and Essentials of Terror Medicine.
Contact: Office of Communications 973-353-5262 or occ@andromeda.rutgers.edu
U.S. Constitution
BERNARD BELL, professor of law, teaches legislation, administrative law, constitutional law, and law and mass communications. He is a member of the Governing Council of the American Bar Association section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and vice-chair of the section’s Constitutional Law and Separation of Powers Committee.
Contact: office 973-353-5464 or e-mail bbell@kinoy.rutgers.edu
LISA HULL, professor of political science, specializes in United States constitutional interpretation, United States civil rights and liberties policies, administrative law, American government, and ethnic and migration studies. She is chair of the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University in Newark.
Contact: office 973-353-1324, home 973-376-6648, or e-mail eahull@andromeda.rutgers.edu or eahull47@hotmail.com
