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
Brian Johns
Expert topic areas:
- Mechanical engineering
- Industrial engineering
- Surgical simulation
Jai Shanata
Expert topic areas:
- Medicinal chemistry (especially how food and drugs interact)
- Chemical biology
- Single-molecule electrophysiology
- Physical organic chemistry and molecular recognition
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
Megan Goldberg
Expert topic areas:
- American politics
- Campaigns and elections
- Polling and public opinion
Christopher Hagan
Expert topic areas:
- Suicide
- Non-suicidal self-injury
- Murder-suicide
- Mass shootings
- Mental health
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
Assistant 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 ReligionExpert topic areas: New Testament, origins of Christianity and its development, intersection of Christianity with politics, ethics, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
Marty Condon
Professor of BiologyExpert topic areas: Evolutionary ecology and tropical biology
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