At UB, you'll find world-class research faculty to collaborate and learn with. Explore our faculty who are advancing the research landscape as experts in their fields.
The College faculty members listed on this page are identified by University Communications as indiviudals who provide expert opinions and analysis on topics in the news.
Canadian studies; multiculturalism, politics, race, ethnicity and immigration in Canada
Native American studies,
Native American thought, Haudenosaunee/Iroquois history, U.S. Indian Policy since 1871, American Indian activism
U.S. social and urban history; African American history in the U.S. and Western New York; women’s history
Black diaspora cultural and postcolonial studies, Canadian studies, queer theory, and gender studies
Drawing, consumption and mass production, mundane objects, modern life, Love Canal and other toxic sites, environmental art, feminist art, power, public art
The Bauhaus, history of photography, European and American Art, visual culture, theories of montage, gender issues, art and religion
Medical humanities, death and dying, feminism, sexism, sexual violence, Caribbean literature
Mountaineering deaths, climbing technology, consumerism, material culture, garbage, culture of waste
Popular culture, cultural studies, celebrity, crime, manhood, the monstrous, contemporary British and American fiction, American literary and cultural treatments of the city
Labor, work, gender and political economy, especially in China; labor and feminist movements in China and in a global context
Gender and politics; feminism; global women’s movements, including #MeToo; politics in Latin America
Disability history; disability, race, gender, class and sexuality; intersectionality; ableism; African American history; history of slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War
Gender and sexuality in sports, homophobia in sports, women’s history, feminist theory, history of chronic illness, history of mental illness
Civil War era, Confederate flag and monuments, history of race, slavery, Southern history, racial violence
Opioid epidemic; history of prescription drugs, street drugs and psychoactives; drug policy and wars; drugs and pop culture; addiction; drugs and social inequalities of race and gender
History of Chinese medicine, food and spices; history of epidemics; history of the senses; comparative historical perspectives in medicine
African history; the Atlantic World; colonialism; gender in West Africa; history of slavery and emancipation; Boko Haram
Modern China; U.S.-China relations; Chinese cities; history of the family, socialism and humor in China
Civil rights, African American history, race and cities, urban history, gender, sexuality
Game studies; trans, queer and feminist studies; narrative; storytelling; social justice and inclusion in video games and new media; games pedagogy
Digital storytelling; participatory art; new media, ethnic, cultural, Asian American, queer and feminist studies
Filmmaking; cinematography; narrative, documentary, experimental and hybrid films; storytelling
Early modern culture, Baroque literature, horror and fantasy, new media and culture, AI and the humanities
Plant evolutionary biology; evolution of carnivorous plants; genomes of Amborella, avocado, birch, coffee and gardenia; comparative genomics; junk DNA
Science of thirst; science of food, water and salt intake; ingestive/eating behaviors
Human and primate evolution, ancient humans (including Neanderthals and Denisovans), anthropological genomics
Neurons, axonal transport, biology of neurodegenerative diseases
Fish ecology (especially in rivers and lakes), genomics, evolutionary biology, invasive species, climate change, Great Lakes
Evolutionary biology, evolution of polar bears, hybridization of polar bears and brown bears, genomics
Evolutionary developmental biology; genetics; genomics; mammoths; evolution of mammalian pregnancy and cancer
Yeast, genomics, genetics, gene expression, chromosomes, DNA, RNA, chromatin, sirtuins
Plant natural products, medicinal plants, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering
Chemicals of emerging concern; industrial pollution; wastewater treatment; environmental impact of "forever chemicals" (PFAS, PCBs, PBDEs, pesticides, etc.); environmental antibiotic resistance; Great Lakes pollution
Chemical biology, lipids, cellular aging, cellular senescence, cell death (apoptosis and necroptosis), omics approaches to research
Chemistry, chemical reactions, chemical crystallography, photochemistry, nanomaterials, synchrotron light sources, science of snowflakes
Analytical chemistry, separation science, liquid chromatography, diversity in STEM, mentoring students of color
Molecular self-assembly, photochemistry, fluorescence, phosphorescence, batteries, alternative energy
Surface and analytical chemistry; Environmental chemistry and public policy; Surface chemistry of polymer controlled release technologies; Polymer reaction kinetics
Electrochemistry, waste conversion, transforming greenhouse gases into useful products, chemistry of CO2, plastics
Superconductors, high-pressure chemistry, crystals, materials science, materials discovery, computational chemistry
Speech, language and memory; word retrieval; anomia, including in aphasia, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
Tinnitus, hearing, noise-induced hearing loss, hyperacusis, central auditory system
Climate change, sea level rise, glaciers, ice sheets, Greenland Ice Sheet, Arctic environmental change
Climate change, sea level rise, Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctic ice loss, glaciers, using satellite data and laser altimetry to measure the Earth
Rocks and minerals, the geology of Mars and the Moon, lava flows, science education and outreach
Volcanology, volcanoes on Mars and Venus, the search for water on Mars, volcanism on the moon, deep-sea eruptions, basaltic lava flows
Climate change, ice sheet modeling, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, glaciers, sea level rise
Climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica, Great Lakes ice cover
Climate change, Arctic ice sheets, precipitation, lake effect snow, sea level rise, monsoons
Volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, disaster preparedness, supervolcanoes, volcanoes in the western U.S.
Mathematical properties of waves, solitons, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, general questions about mathematics
Brain activity, brain networks, network neuroscience
Intrinsically disordered proteins, protein droplets, membrane-less organelles, single-molecule biophysics
Physics in everyday life, condensed matter physics, high-temperature superconductors, graphene, optics
Condensed matter physics, quantum physics, superconductors, semiconductors
Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles
Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model
Astronomy, cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmic microwave background, dark matter, dark energy, solar eclipses, public outreach in science
Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles
Particle physics, particle detectors
Wave behavior, granular systems, quasi-equilibrium, nonequilibrium and chaotic phenomena, collisions, shock mitigation, sociophysics
Cosmology, gravity, black holes, particle physics, exotic physics, origins of the universe, extra dimensions
Magnetism, spintronics, nanomaterials, materials science, materials for solar energy harvesting
Social psychology, social connections, sense of self, the need to belong, comfort food
Subtypes of aggression and victimization, developmental psychopathology, media effects on children, peer relationships, applied developmental psychology
Self, self-esteem, motivation, interpersonal processes
Singing accuracy, relationship between music and language, cognitive bases of music performance, psychology of music
Empathy, human generosity, stress, caregiving
Stress and coping; the self; motivation; psychophisiology
Taste science, feeding, food choice, bitterness
Prejudice, discrimination, stigma, social identity, student adjustment and success, international students
Biological anthropology, primate evolution, primate conservation, slow lorises
Cultural anthropology, religion, spiritualism, cults, superstition, witchcraft, zombies, vampires, curses, rites of passage, populism, nativism, xenophobia
Human and primate evolution; human skeleton; morphological evolution; biological anthropology
Persuasion, power of narrative, storytelling, online friendships, trust and deception online
Media psychology, morality, media effects, children and media, media and radicalization
Misinformation; persuasion; effect of media content on audiences, including in health, science, politics and terrorism
Communication strategies for health promotion and social change; entertainment-education; communication technology; social networks; digital media literacy; health interventions
Science, health, environmental and risk communication
Social media, political communication, misinformation, online activism, impact of social media on journalism and democracy
Labor economics; health insurance mandates; age discrimination; older workers; AI and the future of work
Climate change and sustainable development; resilient infrastructure; power outages due to extreme events; sustainability education; community resilience
Coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans
Environmental movement in the U.S., environmental history, Earth Day, sustainable business, suburban sprawl
Democracy since 1800, democratic transitions and sustainability, Eastern European politics, democracy and inequality in a globalized world
Zika virus, dengue fever, chikungunya, mosquito-borne illness, disease transmission, epidemiology
Economic impact of immigration; economic impact of international trade; urban economies; international trade
Climate change, dust and dust storms, weather, atmospheric science, precipitation, monsoons, lake effect snow
Corporate responsibility, social and environmental activism, diamond trade, gentrification
GIScience, spatial analysis, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, big data
Dynamic migration modeling; Demographic forecasting; Mathematical modeling
Global trade; agriculture, food, labor rights and trade; agri-business; development in Latin America and the Caribbean
GIScience, human mobility, spatial statistics (including in relation to public health, air pollution and the environment)
Morphology, syntax, evolution of languages, endangered languages, language documentation, multilingualism
Social and political philosophy, diversity, international development policy, social norms, behavior change, ethics
U.S. politics; political parties, polarization and participation; campaigns, public opinion, congressional elections, election forecasting, elections and the economy, presidential approval, electoral systems
National, state and legislative politics; formal modeling; quantatative methods
Voting rights, redistricting, gerrymandering, state and local politics (including New York State and Buffalo-area politics), campaigns, elections, civil liberties, Constitutional law, election law
Politics of European nations, the European Union, immigration and trade in Europe, the US, and globally, public support for presidents and governments around the world
International conflict, US military deployments and basing, great power competition, foreign military training, foreign military aid, civil-military relations, and aerial bombing
Political communication, campaigns, electoral strategy, religion and politics, the U.S. Christian right, voter turnout, voting rights, election administration, electoral reforms, the U.S. presidency
American politics, U.S. political parties, polarization, party switching, legislatures, political lobbying, redistricting
Urban sociology, segregation, race, immigration, U.S. Census
Labor movements, gig economy, job security, coerced labor, pay for college athletes, minimum wage, workfare