The Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) Speaker and Expert Guide is a tool to help local and national journalists create more compelling stories by identifying and connecting with University faculty members. In addition, the guide helps churches and program chairmen of civic and educational organizations to find interesting and informed speakers.
When using this guide, please keep in mind that faculty are on campus according to an academic calendar; you’re not likely to find them during Christmas or spring breaks, for example (check the university calendar for additional information). In addition, students and classes are uppermost in the minds of faculty members, and they may not be immediately available.
To arrange an interview with one of the experts and for general information about PBA, please feel free to contact me directly:
Becky Peeling, APR
Asst. V.P. for University Relations & Marketing
Phone:
A
Adolescents: Emery Twoey
Adult education: Emery Twoey
African American religious history: Terriel Byrd
Allied health professional: Seena Haines
American foreign policy: John Calhoun
American government: John Calhoun
Apologetics: Paul Copan
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Bats: Maurice Thomas
Biblical multiculturalism and racial reconciliation: Terriel Byrd
Biblical studies: Bernard Cueto, Karelynne Ayayo, Nathan Lane, Paul Copan, Preben Vang, Randy Richards, Victor Copan
- Old Testament: Nathan Lane, Preben Vang, Randy Richards
- Psalms: Nathan Lane
- New Testament: Bernard Cueto, Karelynne Ayayo, Preben Vang, Randy Richards, Victor Copan
- Jesus: Randy Richards
- Paul: Randy Richards, Victor Copan
- Communicating Christ in a postmodern culture: Paul Copan
Biology: Maurice Thomas, Peggy VanArman, Ray Waldner
- Ecology: Ray Waldner, Peggy VanArman
- Fish: Ray Waldner
- Mammalian: Maurice Thomas
- Marine: Peggy VanArman, Ray Waldner
- Tropical rain forest: Maurice Thomas
British literature: Susan Jones
Business: Joe Eassa Jr.
- Finance: Joe Eassa Jr.
- Management: Joe Eassa Jr., Linda Ellington
- Marketing: Ed Langlois
- Planning: Joe Eassa Jr.
- Quantitative methods: David Compton
- Research: Ed Langlois
- Retailing: Ed Langlois
- Strategy: Joe Eassa Jr.
C
Church and urbanization issues: Terriel Byrd
Church ministry and leadership: Jonathan Grenz, Preben Vang, Randy Richards, Terriel Byrd
Communication: Charles Lester, Tom St. Antoine
- Corporate: Wes Jamison
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Stephanie Bennett
- Interpersonal communication: Stephanie Bennett
- Jacques Ellul: Stephanie Bennett
- Mass media, political communication, rhetoric: Charles Lester
- Neil Postman: Stephanie Bennett
- Risk and crisis : Wes Jamison
- Silence: Stephanie Bennett
- Technology: Stephanie Bennett
- Speech: Tom St. Antoine
C.S. Lewis: Samuel Joeckel
D
Diabetes: Day ScottDrug Delivery System: Adwoa Nornoo
E
Earth Science: Donald Lovejoy
Ecology: Tom Chesnes
Economics: Cora Barnhart, Linda Raeder
Endocrinology: Seena Haines
Education: Emery Twoey
- Adult: Emery Twoey
- Elementary: Dona Thornton
English: Kathleen Anderson, Samuel Joeckel, Susan Jones, Beate Rodewald
Estuaries: Tom Chesnes
Ethics: Paul Copan
Evangelism: Paul Copan, Gerald Wright
F
Family Medicine: Curt Carlson
Film: Alex Wainer
Fishing: Maurice Thomas, Ray Waldner
Florida literature: Susan Jones
Food and agriculture politics: Wes Jamison
Foreign languages: Cybele Seeds
Forensic Toxicology: Wagdy Wahba (Board Certified)
France language and culture studies: Cybele Seeds
French Revolution: Fred Hembree
G
General medications/ patient safety: Day Scott
Geology: Donald Lovejoy
Grant Application: Charles Lee
H
Herbal/Complementary alternative medicine: Dana Brown
History
- American, Antebellum South, Civil War: Wes Borucki
- American, Cold War, Culture Wars, Terrorism: Roger Chapman
- French Revolution, Modern European: Fred Hembree, Cybele Seeds
- History/political science: Fred Hembree, Linda Raeder
- Public History (Museums, Archives, Monuments, Oral History): Roger Chapman
Home schooling: Beth Hallquist, Donald McCulloch
Humanities: Wes Borucki, Linda Raeder
Hypertension/Heart Failure: Marile Santamarina
I
Immunization/Vaccines: Elias Chahine
Infectious Diseases: Elias Chahine
Islam: Paul Copan, Gerald Wright
J
Jane Austen: Kathleen Anderson, Susan Jones
Jazz: Roget Pontbriand
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Language: Maria Perez-Rivera
Latin America (culture and literature): Maria Perez-Rivera
Leadership: Craig Domeck, Linda Ellington, Jim Laub
Literature, Victorian: Kathleen Anderson
M
Management: Jim Laub
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in America: Terriel Byrd
Mass Spectrometry: Jim Mitroka
Media
- Ecology: Stephanie Bennett
Film: Alex Wainer
Medication therapy management: Seena Haines
Medieval and Renaissance literature: Susan Jones
Men's Health: Dana Brown
Meteorology: Donald Lovejoy
Ministry leadership and practice: Jonathan Grenz, Preben Vang, Randy Richards, Terriel Byrd
Missions/cross-cultural ministry: Gerald Wright
Music
- Arranger: Roget Pontbriand
- Composition: Tim Thompson, Roget Pontbriand
- Commercial: Tim Thompson, Roget Pontbriand
- Instrumental: Marlene Woodward-Cooper
- New media/ intermedia: Tim Thompson
- Pedagogy: Tim Thompson
- Piano: Marlene Woodward-Cooper
- Popular: Roget Pontbriand
- Technology: Tim Thompson
- Theory: Tim Thompson
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): Thomas Robertson
O
Oceanography/earth science: Donald Lovejoy
Organizational
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Parkinson's: Day Scott
Parties and elections: John Calhoun
Pharmacy: Seena Haines
Pharmacology: Lunawati Bennett
Philosophy: Paul Copan
Political science
- Central America: John Calhoun
- Church and State: Roger Chapman
- Developing nations: John Calhoun
- Eastern Europe: John Calhoun
- Mexico: John Calhoun
- Radical Movements: Roger Chapman
- Political Parties: Roger Chapman
- Russia: John Calhoun, Roger Chapman
Political science/history: Fred Hembree
Political theory: Linda Raeder
Popular culture: Alex Wainer
Preaching: Bernard Cueto, Terriel Byrd
Psychology: Billy Lewter, Donald McCulloch, Henry Virkler
- Abnormal: Henry Virkler
- Adjustment issues: Donald McCulloch
- Biological: David Compton
- Clinical: Donald McCulloch
- Counseling: Judith Casey, Billy Lewter, Henry Virkler
- Disability issues: Donald McCulloch
- General: Judith Casey, Billy Lewter
- Religion and psychology: Donald McCulloch
- Testing: Henry Virkler
Psychopharmacology: Devon-Anne Sherwood
Psychosocial Determinants of Health: Jamie Fairclough
Public Relations: Wes Jamison, Charles Lester
- Relationship management: Stephanie Bennett
Public opinion: John Calhoun
R
Religion and culture: Terriel Byrd, Paul Copan
Religion and race: Terriel Byrd
Research: David Compton
Resilience in leaders: Craig Domeck
S
Science and religion: Tom Chesnes
Shakespeare: Susan Jones
Sociology: Billy Lewter
Spain (literature and culture): Maria Perez-Rivera
Spanish Pharmacy: Marile Santamarina
Speech/communications: Tom St. Antoine
Spiritual formation: Victor Copan
Stress and Health: Jamie Fairclough
Sustainability: Tom Chesnes
T
Theology: Paul Copan, Preben Vang
V
Victorian literature: Kathleen Anderson
Virus-related Medical Microbiology: Jonathan Coffman
W
Women's studies: Kathleen Anderson, Cybele Seeds
Y
Youth ministry/student ministries: Jonathan Grenz