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

Dr. Eric L. Hirsch

Sociology and Anthropology

Professor

  • Homelessness
  • Social Movements
  • Sociology of Disaster
  • Urban Sociology

Dr. Jeffrey T. Hoag

Mathematics and Computer Science

Associate Professor

  • Functional Differential Equations
  • Second Order Non-Linear Difference Equations

Dr. Daniel R. Horne

Marketing

Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty and Curriculum for School of Business

  • Consumer Payments (including credit, debit, and gift cards; mobile payments; other prepaid products)
  • Gift Selection & Purchase
  • Secondary: Consumer Privacy, Employee Motivation and Incentives

Dr. William E. Hudson

Political Science

Professor

  • Liberal Arts Honors
  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy

Dr. Jennifer G. Illuzzi

History

Associate Professor

  • ​Modern European History (particularly Germany and Italy, 19th and 20th century)
  • Romani (Gypsies), particularly in western Europe (19th century – contemporary issues)

Dr. Jonathan Jackson Jr.

Finance

Associate Professor

  • Inventory & Capacity Management
  • Sourcing & Procurement
  • Sports Analytics
  • Supply Chain

Dr. Ronald Jelinek

Marketing

Professor

  • Business Ethics
  • ​Business-to-Business Marketing
  • Free Markets/Capitalism
  • Sales
  • Technology in Marketing/Selling

Dr. Deborah Johnson

Art and Art History

Professor of Art /Art History

  • African American Artists
  • Holocaust and Looted Art Work
  • International Modern and Contemporary Art and Culture (20th/21st centuries)
  • Museum Studies
  • Public Art and Policy
  • Women in the Arts
  • Women's and Gender Studies
  • Women's History​

Dr. Jeffrey Johnson

History

Professor and Director of Graduate History

  • Labor History
  • The American West
  • The Progressive Era

Dr. Leo H. Kahane

Economics

Professor, Department Chair of Economics, and Michael Ruane Endowed Chair of Economics

  • Applied Econometrics
  • International Trade
  • Public Funding of Stadiums
  • Sports Economics
  • Sports Labor Relations

Dr. Arati Kale

Finance

Assistant Professor

  • Behavioral Finance
  • Equity/Asset Valuation
  • Finance
  • Financial Modelling
  • International Finance
  • Investments
  • Managerial Finance
  • Market Anomalies
  • Markets and Institutions

Dr. James F. Keating

Theology

Associate Professor and Program Director of the Humanities

  • Historical Jesus
  • Papacy

Dr. Sandra T. Keating

Theology

Associate Professor

  • Christian-Muslim Relations​

Dr. Patrick T. Kelly

Accountancy

Professor and Director of Ethics in Business Education

  • ​Casino Gambling
  • Ethics Education
  • Problem Gambling
  • Public Interest Accounting Issues
  • Sports Betting
  • Workplace Fraud

Brian J. Lamoureux, Esq.

Management

Assistant Professor of Practice in Management

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Business Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Law
  • Legal issues relating to digital and social media
  • Social and Digital Media

Dr. Christopher Laperle

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Associate Professor

  • Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Quantum Mechanics

Dr. MaryJane Lenon

Economics

Associate Professor

  • Financial and Business Cycle Issues
  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Macroeconomics

Dr. Ian Christopher Levy

Theology

Professor

  • Ecclesiology
  • Historical Theology/Church History
  • History of the Interpretation of the Bible
  • Medieval Theology
  • Reformation Theology
  • Sacraments

Dr. Gregory Lu Light

Finance

Professor

  • Mathematical Relationships and/or Structure​

Dr. Chris Limnios

Economics

Associate Professor

  • Central banking
  • Financial economics
  • International Finance
  • Monetary Policy

Dr. Nicholas Longo

Global Studies

Professor, Co-Director, Dialogue, Inclusion and Democracy Lab

  • Campus-Community Organizing
  • Civic Education
  • Civil Discourse