WASHINGTON — Georgetown University professors offer their issue expertise for journalists seeking interviews on a variety of subjects related to the 2024 Presidential Election.
To request to schedule an interview, please contact Georgetown’s Office of Communications at media@georgetown.edu.
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American Politics Experts
Hans Noel, associate professor of government
- Areas of expertise: political coalitions, political parties and ideology, presidential nominations politics and partisan politics
- Writing: The New York Times, “There Is a Better Way to Pick a Presidential Nominee”
- Quoted in articles including Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Voice of America
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Michael A. Bailey, Colonel William J. Walsh professor of American government in the Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy
- Areas of expertise: American politics, data science, public opinion polls, statistics and the Supreme Court
- Writing: 2020 Oxford University Press, “Using Econometrics For Political Science And Public Policy”
- Previous work covering trade, Congress, election law and the Supreme Court, methodology and inter-state policy competition has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Michael Kazin, professor of history
- Areas of expertise: U.S. political and social movements in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Quoted in The Washington Post, NBC News and TIME Magazine and frequent contributor to The New York Times, the New Republic, the Nation and other periodicals and
- Editor-in-chief of the Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
- Writing: 2022 Straus and Giroux, “What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party” and 2011 Knopf, “American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation”
- Research can speak to the impact of debates in presidential elections, the historical backgrounds of political parties and socio-political movements
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Nadia Brown, professor of government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program
- Areas of expertise: political behavior, race and ethnicity politics and gender politics
- Writing: Oxford University Press, Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making, Oxford University Press, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, Routledge Press, Approaching Democracy: American Government in Times of Challenge
- Research lies at the intersection of identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women’s studies
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Michele Swers, professor of government
- Areas of expertise: women and politics, congress and congressional elections
- Writing: The Forum, “After Dobbs: The Partisan And Gender Dynamics Of Legislating On Abortion In Congress” and 2013 University of Chicago Press, “Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate”
- Previously provided expertise on Congressional policymaking and elections and the role of women in politics to media outlets including The NewsHour, Washington Post, CQ Weekly and Politico
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Public Opinion and Polling Experts
Charles Dorison, assistant professor at the McDonough School of Business
- Areas of expertise: conflict resolution, trust, reputation, receptiveness to opposing views, and how strong political views can impact conflict and collaboration in the workplace
- Recent writing: 2022 Journal of Experimental Psychology, “The contingent reputational benefits of selective exposure to partisan information”
- Research focuses on conflict over strongly-held attitudes, especially misperceptions of conflict counterparts and interventions to overcome these misperceptions
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Michael (Mike) Rossetti, adjunct faculty at the McDonough School of Business
- Area of expertise: artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval, cognitive neuroscience, data science, database management, management of information systems, natural language processing (ChatGPT), bots, disinformation and the influence on politics, music recommendation algorithms
- Worked as a polling data analyst for winning U.S. presidential campaign, an analytics director for a Silicon Valley startup, and a tech consultant for the U.S. government
- Recent research: 2023 PLOS ONE, “Bots, Disinformation, and the First Impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump.”
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Thessalia Merivaki, associate teaching professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and an associate research professor at the Massive Data Institute
- Area of expertise: election science, election administration, voter behavior, misinformation and research methods
- Research focuses on the intersection of election science, voter behavior and political communication to understand how accurate – and -false- information flows in the election information ecosystem and how trust-building communication campaigns can help build trust in the integrity of elections
- Co-director of the Election Officials Communications Tracker, a massive data collection and analysis initiative that tracks all state and local election officials’ communication efforts on social media
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Immigration Experts
Sahar Akhtar, associate teaching professor at the McDonough School of Business
- Areas of expertise: any kind of ethical issues — privacy, data, AI, big tech, fast fashion, sweatshops, animal use (for food, research, testing, entertainment, sports, etc.), advertising and marketing, environmental, climate change, immigration, discrimination, disability
- Recent writing: 2024 Oxford Press, “Immigration and Discrimination” and 2022 The University of Chicago Press Journal, “Race Beyond Our Borders: Is Racial and Ethnic Immigration Selection Always Morally Wrong”
- Quoted in The Hill, WalletHub and CNN
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Social Media and Politics Experts
Leticia Bode, professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program and the inaugural research director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute
- Areas of expertise: misinformation, political communication, political behavior, media effects, new media, and social media and the intersection between media, technology, and politics
- Writing: 2020 Brookings Institution Press, “Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign” and 2022 Taylor & Francis, “Political Events in a Partisan Media Ecology: Asymmetric Influence on Candidate Appraisals”
- Research examines the incidental exposure to political information on social media, effects of exposure to political comedy, selective exposure and political engagement in new media, and the changing nature of political socialization given the modern media environment
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
Economy Experts
Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
- Areas of expertise: U.S. labor market and U.S. economy, workforce development, anti-poverty policies, immigration and racial equity
- Previously served as a former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor and was a founding faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
- Expertise has contributed to state and federal policies in a number of policy areas including the First Step Act of 2018, the American Recovery and Reconstruction Act
- Open to: Print, Radio & TV
Legal Experts
Paul Smith, visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center
- Areas of expertise: civil rights, election law and voting rights
- Currently serves as the Senior Vice President at the Campaign Legal Center and has argued in front of the Supreme Court 21 times, including for Lawrence v. Texas and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn
- Recent Writing: 2023 American Bar Association, “The Supreme Court, Gerrymandering, and the Rule of Law”
- Open to: Print, Radio & TV
Neel Sukhatme, Anne Fleming Research Professor of Law
- Areas of expertise: voting rights and economics law
- Co-founder of Free Our Vote, a non-partisan, non-profit organization of data scientists, economists, and legal researchers that seeks to restore voting rights for people with past felony convictions
- Featured in ABC News, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today
- Open to: Print, Radio & TV
Aderson Francois, Anne Fleming Research Professor and director of the Institute for Public Representation Civil Rights Law Clinic
- Areas of expertise: gerrymandering, voting rights and constitutional law
- Previously served as the Lead Agency Reviewer for the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- Testified before Congress on civil rights issues and drafted numerous briefs to the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of California, the Supreme Court of Iowa and Maryland’s highest court
- Open to: Print, Radio & TV
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