Experts in Social Issues — Diversity
Ms. Sheena Carey, Internship Coordinator/Lecturer
Diederich College of Communication
Expertise: Research into why and how diverse groups of people can relate effectively despite internal and external barriers; cultural competency and workforce diversity initiatives; organizational development and cultural change; leadership and team effectiveness; work-based and experiential learning.
(414) 288-7026
sheena.carey@marquette.edu
Alison Efford, Associate Professor
History Department
Expertise: History of the Republican Party in Wisconsin up to 1924; Milwaukee history; history of migration, especially German immigration to the U.S.; the U.S. Civil War era; United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Office Phone: (414) 288-7817
alison.efford@marquette.edu
Paul Finkelman, Robert F. Boden Visiting Professor of Law
Law School
Expertise: Race and law; U.S. Constitution (History, 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment), Civil Rights, Immigration, Citizenship; Baseball and law; Slavery, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; Founding fathers (especially Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and John Marshall); History of the Supreme Court; Supreme Court decisions and emerging ethics issues; Issues of slavery, reparations, and diversity; Bubonic plague and pandemics in historical perspective.
Cell Phone: (518) 605-0296
paul.finkelman@yahoo.com
Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan, Teaching Associate Professor of Italian
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Expertise: Italy as a nation and the Italian language; Marginalization of classes of people (notably: women, Jews, Italian Southerners); Exclusionary and marginalization rhetoric and the resistance efforts to it; Italian 19th and 20th centuries products promising modernity.
Media type: Print, TV and radio
giordana.kaftan@marquette.edu