Media Experts List

The Providence College Media Experts list has been designed to help members of the media take full advantage of the wealth of expertise PC faculty and staff members offer.

This page is designed to allow you to find experts by keyword searches, by academic department or academic expertise. To use the keyword search function, simply type what you’re looking for into the search box. To use the departmental search, click on any of the links. This will display faculty profiles, which allow you to view areas of expertise, research interests, and recent scholarship.

To arrange for an interview, please contact the Office of Public Affairs, Community and Government Relations: Carolyn Cronin at 401.865.2413 or ccronin2@providence.edu.

The Office of Public Affairs, Community and Government Relations continually updates the database of faculty and staff experts. We invite members of the media to check back periodically for important changes and/or additions.

Carolyn E. Cronin

Associate Director
Media Relations
401.865.2413
ccronin2@providence.edu

Megan Chang

Theatre, Dance, and Film

Assistant Professor of Voice and Diction

  • Accents and Dialects
  • Oral Communication
  • Public Speaking
  • Shakespearean Text
  • The International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Voice and Speech

Dr. Piotr Chelminski

Marketing

Associate Professor

  • Consumer Complaining Behaviors
  • Consumer Information Sharing
  • Country-of-Origin Effects
  • Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior

Dr. Adelaide Clark

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Assistant Professor

  • Air Quality
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Contemporary Chemistry
  • Environmental Analytical Chemistry
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Fate and Transport of Pollutants

Dr. M. Cary Collins

Finance

Michael A. Ruane Endowed Chair and Director for the Business Education Innovation Center

  • Bank Capital and Risk Management
  • Bank Fair Lending & Fair Pricing
  • Broker/Lender Behavior: Mortgages & Autos
  • Entrepreneurial and Start-up Finance
  • Financial Services Firms
  • Risk Management

Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman

Theology

Assistant Professor

  • Jewish-Christian Relations
  • Movement of Renewal in the Catholic Church
  • Parenting and Adoption

Dr. Kathleen Cornely

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Professor

  • Biochemistry
  • Nutritional Biochemistry

Dr. John “Jack” H. Costello

Biology

Professor

  • Environmental Biology
  • Invertebrate Zoology
  • Jellyfish
  • ​Marine Biology

Dr. Paul Crenshaw

Art and Art History

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Art/Art History

  • 17th-century Dutch Art
  • History of the Art Market, Collecting and Museums
  • Interpretive Methods of Art History
  • Italian Renaissance Art
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Rembrandt
  • Renaissance and Baroque Art History
  • Vermeer

Dr. Edmund Dain

Philosophy

Professor

  • History of Analytic Philosophy
  • Philosophical Foundations of Ethics (Meta-ethics)
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Wittgenstein

Dr. Mark DeFanti

Marketing

Associate Professor

  • Brand Portfolio Management
  • Branding
  • Corporate Image and Reputation
  • Corporate Name Changes
  • Fragrance Marketing
  • Luxury Marketing

Dr. Christine Earley

Accountancy

Professor and Interim Dean of School of Business

  • Accounting Education
  • Accounting Ethics
  • Auditing (auditing of fair value, professional skepticism, auditor judgment and decision making, training of auditors)
  • Data and Analytics in Auditing
  • Financial Scandals and Fraud Cases
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act/PCAOB

Dr. Vefa Erginbas

History

Associate Professor

  • Middle East
  • Ottoman and Turkish History
  • Turkish Politics & Society & Culture​

Dr. Matthew Eriksen

Management

Professor

  • Coaching
  • COVID-19
  • Leadership
  • Leadership Development
  • Management Education
  • Team Development

Dr. Teodros Getachew

Finance

Assistant Professor

  • Applications of Dynamic Programming to Operations​
  • Network Optimization

Dr. Paul Gondreau

Theology

Professor

  • ​Theology, morality (specifically sexual morality) and all things related to the Catholic Church

Dr. Catherine Gordon

Music

Professor and Department Chair of Music

  • Baroque Performance Practice
  • French Music of the Seventeenth Century
  • Harpsichord Performance
  • Music of the Seventeenth Century and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Seventeenth-Century French Airs or Songs
  • Vocal Historical Performance

Dr. Matthew Guardino

Political Science

Associate Professor

  • American Politics and Public Policy
  • Economic and Social Welfare Issues
  • News Media and Public Opinion
  • Political Rhetoric

Rev. Joseph J. Guido, O.P.

Psychology

Assistant Professor, Psychologist with the Personal Counseling Center

  • Psychology and religion
  • Psychotherapy
  • Religion and college students
  • Sexual abuse crisis in the Church
  • Spiritual and psychological growth
  • Trauma

Dr. Thomas J. Guilmette

Psychology

Professor

  • Cognitive and behavioral effects of traumatic brain injury and stroke
  • Human Neuropsychology
  • Psychological issues in criminal and civil legal matters
  • Psychological testing and assessment
  • Psychology of aging

Rev. Ken Gumbert, O.P.

Theatre, Dance, and Film

Professor

  • Documentary Films
  • Production

Dr. Robert B. Hackey

Health Sciences

Professor

  • Health Care in the Mass Media
  • Health Care Reform
  • Health Planning/Certificate of Need Regulation
  • Hospital Reimbursement
  • ​Public Opinion and Health Care