Faculty, Staff Experts
These experts are available for on-air interviews. Uplink capabilities are provided by SIU Carbondale’s public television station, WSIU. To make arrangements, please contact Pete Rosenbery, Assistant Director, Communications and Marketing, at 618-453-1439 or via e-mail, prosen@siu.edu
Agriculture
Wanki Moon
Professor, School of Agricultural Sciences
Expertise: Global agricultural trade, global food system, political economy of international agricultural trade negotiations, WTO trade talks
Email: wmoon@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-6741
Charles Ruffner
Professor, School of Agricultural Sciences
Expertise: Forest fires, natural resource management, forest measurements, dendrochronology (tree rings), ecological restoration
Email: ruffner@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-7469
Anthropology
Mark Wagner
Professor, School of Anthropology, Political Science & Sociology
Expertise: Archaeology, Southern Illinois History
Email: mjwagner@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-5055
Business
Steven Karau
Gregory A. Lee professor, School of Management and Marketing, College of Business
Expertise: Human resources and organizational behavior issues, including motivation, team performance, ethical issues in management, gender leadership differences and personality.
Email: skarau@business.siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-7890
Curriculum and Instruction
Peter Fadde
Professor, School of Education
Expertise: Research on training "intuitive" expertise. Consult with Major League Baseball and college baseball teams on training the perceptual component of batting, aka, Pitch Recognition. Applications of sports research to military, law enforcement, emergency response.
Email: fadde@siu.edu
Phone: 765-427-5977
Debate/Communications
Todd Graham
Director, School of Communication Studies
Expertise: Political debate analysis, effective argument preparation and style
Email: tgraham@siu.edu
Phone: 314-495-7278
Embedded Systems
Spyros Tragoudas
Director, School of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering and director of Center for Embedded Systems
Expertise: Automation and embedded systems with emphasis on temporal verification and validation, delay testing, and timing analysis.
Email: trag@siu.edu
Phone: 618-536-2364
Geology
Harvey Henson
Associate Professor, School of Education
Expertise: Earthquake and Geohazard Education and Outreach, STEM Education, Science Assessment, Applied Geophysics, Ground-penetrating Radar, Trail of Tears.
Email: henson@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-4214
Health Education
Tina Colson
Senior lecturer, School of Human Sciences
Expertise: Planning and design of recreational facilities, facilitating therapeutic and inclusive programs for people with disabilities, training and development of leisure services employees and factors affecting employee retention.
Email: tcolson@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-1860 or 618-453-2777
Immigration Law
Cindy G. Buys
Professor, SIU School of Law
Expertise: Immigration law, International law.
Email: cbuys@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-8743
Linguistics
Jeffrey Punske
Associate Professor, School of Languages & Linguistics
Expertise: Constructed & Invented Languages, Teaching Linguistics, Games and Pedagogy, Linguistics and Space Exploration, Language Policy.
Email: punske@siu.edu
Phone: 618-536-3385
Mathematics
Wesley Calvert
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Expertise: Data Science and Analytics; Logic and Computing; STEM Education
E-mail: wcalvert@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-6582; 618-534-8457
Medicine
Jacob Ribbing
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Physician Assistant Program, Doctor of Medical Science
Expertise: Physician Assistant Profession (clinical practice, leadership, advocacy, etc.), Physician Assistant Education, Entry Level and Doctorate Level, Rural Health Care, Access to care for rural / under-served communities, Medical Practice in FQHCs (Federally Qualified Health Centers), Opioid Crisis, Opioid Dependence Treatment, and related (clinician focused or community focused)
Email: jacob.ribbing@siu.edu
Phone: (618) 697-3868
Laurie Ryznyk
Professor, FCM - Physician Assistant Program - SMC
Expertise: Human Trafficking, Problem-Based Learning
Email: lryznyk@siu.edu
Phone: 618-559-2713
Kristen Schloemann
Physician Assistant Program SIU School of Medicine
Expertise: Cardiology, Heart failure, Heart attacks, Cholesterol, Blood pressure, Cardiovascular risk reduction
Email: lschloemann54@siumed.edu
Phone: (618) 889-1791
Music
Edward Benyas
Professor, School of Music
Expertise: Orchestral Music, Classical Music, Fundraising and Marketing for not-for-profit organizations, Oboe, Operas of Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, Transcriptions for wind instruments, American art music, Chamber music
Email: benyas@siu.edu
Phone: 312-560-2094
Paul Simon Public Policy Institute
John Shaw
Director
Expertise: Illinois Politics, National Politics, Statesmanship, Leadership
Email: john.shaw@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-4009
John Jackson
Visiting Professor
Expertise: Illinois Politics, Government and Public Policy, Public opinion and political parties, especially presidential selection, primaries, and national conventions. State and local government, generically, as well as Illinois and Southern Illinois.
Email: jsjacson@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-3106
Politics
J. Tobin Grant
Interim Director, School of Anthropology, Political Science & Sociology
Expertise: Religion and politics, First Amendment issues, campaign finance
Email: grant@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-3167
Religion
Darren Sherkat
School of Anthropology, Political Science & Sociology
Expertise: American religion, religion and politics, religion and family/sexuality, religion and ethnicity, public opinion
Email: sherkat@siu.edu
Science
Matt McCarroll
Director, Fermentation Science Institute
Expertise: Research concentrates on the application of analytical chemistry to solve complex chemical problems with an emphasis in the area of molecular spectroscopy. He also directs collaborative efforts in researching the arts of brewers, vintners and distillers for tomorrow’s industry.
Email: mmccarroll@chem.siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-7508
Transportation
Michael B. Behrman
Adjunct Associate, School of Automotive
Expertise: General automotive industry; for more specific experts, can find some among instructors.
Email: mbehr@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-4024
Samuel Pavel
Associate Professor, School of Aviation
Expertise: General Aviation, Air Traffic Control
Email: spavel@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-7269
Michael F. Robertson
Professor, School of Aviation
Expertise: Safety-related issues, accidents and human factors issues
Phone: 618-925-3589 (cell)
Email: mrobertson@siu.edu
Jose R. Ruiz
Professor, School of Aviation
Expertise: Aviation safety, aviation education, aviation career development, aviation management, and general aviation
Phone: 618-453-8898
Email: jruiz@siu.edu