Experts

Featured Experts

• Journalism

  

  Maureen E. Boyle

  Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies, Journalism Program Director

  Maureen Boyle is a veteran crime reporter with several decades of experience in local news. Throughout her career, she has covered stories ranging from presidential hopefuls in New Hampshire to serial killers, crime and courts in Massachusetts. In addition to work as a journalist, Boyle has also authored several true crime books.

• Sport Management

  

  Annemarie Farrell

  Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Sport Management

  Annemarie Farrell's primary research and teaching area centers on sport marketing, sales, and sport consumer behavior, with a keen interest in classroom pedagogical strategies regarding sales skill development. Additionally, she is a frequent guest speaker on topics of coaching pedagogy and program development.

• Critical Cybersecurity

  

  Anwar Mhajne

  Associate Professor of Political Science & International Studies

  Anwar Mhajne is a political scientist specializing in international relations and comparative politics with a focus on gender, religion, and Middle Eastern politics. Her research focuses on how Islamic beliefs and institutions in the Middle East structure Muslim women’s political understandings, agencies, and opportunities at local, national, and international levels.

• Political Science

  

  Anna Ohanyan

  Professor of Political Science, Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations

  Anna Ohanyan's research focuses on the regional dimensions of armed conflicts, particularly those taking place in Eastern Europe. Her scholarship also explores how fractured regions perpetuate ongoing armed conflict, nourish authoritarianism and state weakness.

• Civil War and Reconstruction

  

  John C. Rodrigue

  Professor of History, Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor of History

  John Rodrigue's teaching and research focus on nineteenth-century United States history and Southern history, in particular the Civil War and Reconstruction era, and slavery and emancipation. His scholarship has been recognized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History.

• Asian American Studies

  

  Stanley I. Thangaraj

  James E. Hayden Chair for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Social Justice, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology

  Stanley Thangaraj leads the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice, an interdisciplinary hub that examines how race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference are infused in structures of power. His scholarship focuses on the ways in which race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class and citizenship shape the experiences of immigrant and refugee communities in the U.S. South.