Cornell College Faculty Experts
The Cornell College faculty experts can provide insight and analysis on a number of topics that they’ve researched, taught, and examined for years.
Education
Jill Heinrich
Expert topic areas:
- Poverty in education
- Separation of church and state in American public education
- Masculinity studies
- Religious literacy in Italy, Great Britain, and Ireland
Fine arts
Scott Olinger
Expert topic areas:
Theatre and live entertainment design and technology
Sciences
Rhawn Denniston
Expert topic areas:
- Environmental science
- Climate change
- Past behaviors of El Niño
- Monsoons
- Hurricanes
Niloofar Kamran
Expert topic areas:
- Space technologies
- Space tourism
- Space debris
- Spacecraft dynamics and control
- Engineering education
Joshua Otten
Expert topic areas:
- Threatened/endangered species
- Wildlife research
- Conservation
- Habitat management
- Ecology
Catherine Volle
Expert topic areas:
- Antibiotic resistance
- New methods of controlling bacterial growth in biofilms
- Women in STEM
- Historically excluded groups in STEM
Emily Walsh
Expert topic areas:
- Plate tectonics
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Mountain formation
- Mineralogy
- Rocks
Social sciences
Erin Davis
Expert topic areas:
- Gender identity/expression/inequality
- Identity issues
- Sexualities
- Legal issues surrounding gender
- Transgender issues
- Feminist and queer theory
Jonathon Dreeze
Expert topic areas:
- Soviet and Russian history
- European, diplomatic, and military history
- Modern-day Russia
- Communist Party propaganda in the Soviet Union
Megan Goldberg
Expert topic areas:
- American politics
- Campaigns and elections
- Polling and public opinion
Todd Knoop
Expert topic areas:
- Financial economics
- Business cycles
- Macroeconomics (growth, business cycles)
- Unemployment
- Fiscal policy
- Monetary policy
- International trade policy
- Inflation
Steve Neese
Expert topic areas:
- Cognitive and behavioral neuroscience
- Traumatic brain injury
- Learning and memory
- Cognitive aging
- Hormonal impacts on learning and memory
- Dietary impacts on learning and memory
Additional faculty experts
Christi Johnson
Associate Professor of KinesiologyExpert topic areas: Sport and exercise psychology, performance enhancement psychology, lifetime fitness and wellness, exercise and health among older adults
Chris Hoklotubbe
Assistant Professor of ClassicsExpert topic areas: New Testament, origins of Christianity and its development, intersection of Christianity with politics, ethics, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Craig Teague
Professor of ChemistryExpert topic areas: New materials for carbon dioxide capture, nanoscience, surface chemistry, ionic liquids, physical and computational chemistry, guided inquiry learning and development of guided inquiry labs, physical chemistry curriculum revision