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Faculty Expert Guide

Colby-Sawyer faculty can share valuable insights about a variety of topics and issues and are available to talk with media. Journalists who wish to speak with a faculty member may contact them directly or email Beth Staples, director of marketing and communications, beth.staples@colby-sawyer.edu.

Eric Boyer, eboyer@colby-sawyer.edu 
Professor 

  • Elections 
  • Ideology and polarization in American politics 
  • Issues regarding politics and/or U.S. foreign policy in Middle East and Africa 
     

Kathleen Farrell, kfarrell@colby-sawyer.edu 
Professor 
David H. Winton Endowed Chair 

  • Culture 
  • Sociology 
  • Sociology of gender and sexualities 
  • Inequality studies (race, class, gender and sexuality) 
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pedagogy 
  • Qualitative research methods 

 

Jon Keenan, jkeenan@colby-sawyer.edu 
Professor 
Sonja C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair of Fine Arts 
Joyce J. Kolligian Distinguished Professor in the Fine and Performing Arts 

  • Studio ceramics 
  • Ceramic history 
  • Glaze technology 
  • Material science 
  • East Asian civilization 
  • Japanese art history 
  • Japanese language and culture 

 

David Lutz, david.lutz@colby-sawyer.edu 
Assistant Professor 

  • Forest ecosystems 
  • Climate change 
  • Carbon offsets and climate mitigation policy 
  • Tropical rainforests 
  • Satellite imagery 
  • Computer vision, AI, and object detection models 
  • Bioacoustics for ecology and conservation 

 

Russell Medbery, rmedbery@colby-sawyer.edu 
Professor 

  • Sport and exercise psychology 
  • Youth sport 
  • Youth sport coaching 
  • Coaching education and coach development 
  • Motor development 
  • Mental skills training in performance 

 

Mikaela Scozzafava, mikaela.scozzafava@colby-sawyer.edu 
Assistant Professor 

  • Social factors related to adolescent development and well-being 
  • How adolescents perceive peer and romantic relationships, and how their communities impact the perceptions  
  • Associations between county-level socioeconomic resources and child abuse trends 

     

Alexis Speck Glennon, alexis.glennon@colby-sawyer.edu 
Adjunct faculty 

  • Mental health 
  • Trauma 
  • Social media and mental health 
  • Tech justice 
  • Clinical Social Work 
     

Kate Turcotte, kate.turcotte@colby-sawyer.edu 
Professor 
Sonja C. and William H. Davidow Endowed Chair 

  • Poverty in the U.S.; conditions maintaining poverty, including housing challenges 
  • Social construction of disaster (natural, human-caused, transport); response to disaster 
  • Mental health and adults, specifically: 
  • Prenatal mental health, such as mood disorders (depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis) 
  • Mental health treatment, including: 
  • Exposure and response prevention 
  • EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) 
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy 
  • Mental health and the life course 
  • Mental health and social position (race, gender identity, sexual orientation) 
  • Social construction of mental health disorders and diagnoses 
  • Domestic violence; family violence 
     

Mark Vrooman, mark.vrooman@colby-sawyer.edu 
Assistant Professor 

  • Business/workplace people issues  
  • HR management, risk management, leadership