Faculty Experts
Contact Diana Costello, director of communications, at dcostello@iona.edu, or (914) 633-2688 or (914) 629-8379, for assistance with coordinating faculty interviews.
Computer Science
Paolina Centonze, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Cyber Security Program Coordinator
- Expertise: Cyber Security, Language-based Security, Mobile Computing
- Email: pcentonze@iona.edu
Finance, Business Economics & Legal Studies
Matthew Carey, MBA
Director of Center for Financial Markets Studies and the LaPenta-Lynch Trading Floor
- Expertise: Financial Markets, Fixed Income Securities, Global Interest Rates and Flows
- Email: mcarey@iona.edu
Media & Strategic Communication
Tony Kelso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Department Chair
- Expertise: Political Campaigns, Political Propaganda, Advertising & Religion, Politics and Popular Culture
- Email: akelso@iona.edu
Political Science
Jeanne Zaino, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
- Expertise: Public Sector, Government, Media & Entertainment
- Email: jzaino@iona.edu
Psychology
Colleen Jacobson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Department Chair
- Expertise: Epidemiology, phenomenology, classification, and treatment of self-injurious and suicidal behaviors among adolescents and young adults.
- Email: cjacobson@iona.edu
Religious Studies
Elena Procario-Foley, Ph.D.
Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Director, Core Curriculum
- Expertise: Catholic Theology, Jewish-Catholic Relations, Vatican II, Feminist Theology, Antisemitism, Anti-Judaism, and the Holocaust.
- Email: EProcariofoley@iona.edu