Hot Topic: Politics

See below for a listing of UMD experts on a variety of topics related to politics and the 2020 election. Experts are listed alphabetically by topic. Note: Many of our experts fall under several categories.

Broad Political Topics

David Karol
Associate Professor, American Politics
College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Expertise: Parties, Interest Groups, Political Institutions, American Political Development

Donald F. Kettl
Professor, Public Policy
School of Public Policy
Expertise: Government, Public Management

Stella Rouse
Associate Professor, Government & Politics and Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship
College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Expertise: Legislatures, Millennials in Politics

Business & Economic Policy

Clifford Rossi
Professor of Practice & Executive-in-Residence, Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Busines
Expertise: Economic & Financial Policy Positioning, Market Regulation

David Kass
Clinical Professor, Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Expertise: Economic & Financial Policy, Stock Market Implications, Election Polling & Prediction Methods

David Sicilia
Associate Professor, History
The College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: American Business, Economic, and Technology History since Colonial Times

William Longbrake
Executive-in-Residence, Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Expertise: Economic & Financial Policy Positioning, Finance & Investments, Macroeconomics & Monetary Policy, Risk Management, Housing & Public Policy

Communication & Rhetoric

Elsa Barkley Brown
Associate Professor, Women’s Studies & History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Theories of Collectivity and Citizenship, Political Narrative, African American Political Culture, Black Women’s Arts and Culture, Black Gender Studies

Karen Bradley
Associate Professor and Head of MFA Dance
School of Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
Expertise: Non-verbal Communication, Body Language

Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Professor & Interim Director, Graduate Studies in Interpreting & Translation
The College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Political Rhetoric and Communication

Trevor Parry-Giles
Professor, Communication
The College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Rhetoric & Political Culture, Legal Rhetoric

Cyber & Digital

David Mussington
Director of Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise
School of Public Policy
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Cyber Policy, Military Cybersecurity

Philip Resnick
Professor, Computational Linguistics
College of Arts & Humanities/College of Computer, Mathematical & Natural Sciences
Expertise: React Labs, Machine Translation & Sentiment Analysis, Empirical Linguistics, Clinical Informatics, Computational Psycholinguistics

Timothy Summers
Director of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Engagement
College of Information Studies
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Ethical Hacking, Hacking Elections

V.S. Subrahmanian
Professor, Computer Science & Director, Center for Digital International Government
College of Computer, Mathematical & Natural Sciences
Expertise: Impact of “Twitter Bots” on Elections – Computer generated social media accounts designed to sway public opinion

Demographics

Antoine Banks
Associate Professor, Government & Politics
College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Expertise: Politics & Race, Politics & Emotion, Public Opinion

Christina Hanhardt
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: LGBT & Queer Studies, Social Movements, Politics of Crime & Punishment

Christopher Bonner
Assistant Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: African American History, Black Protest in Early U.S., Radical Politics, Historical Violence

Laurie Frederik
Associate Professor, Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies & Director of Latin American Studies Center
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, African Diaspora, South Africa, Anthropology of Art, Performance Studies, Ethnography, Politics, Nationalism, Subversive Culture, Artistic & Cultural Narrative, Law & Legal Testimony, Art & Politics in Cuba

Robyn Muncy
Associate Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Women’s History, Women in Politics, Social Policy & Progressive Reform Movements

Education

Campbell F. Scribner
Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, Policy and Leadership
College of Education
Expertise: Education as it relates to Politics

Geography & Electoral College

James Gimpel
Professor, Government & Politics
College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Expertise: Political Geography, Electoral College

History & Historical Elections

Christopher Bonner
Assistant Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: African American History, Black Protest in Early U.S., Radical Politics, Historical Violence

David Sicilia
Associate Professor, History
The College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: American Business, Economic, and Technology History since Colonial Times

Judith Hallett

Professor, Graduate Program Director, Classics
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Latin/Roman and Greek Language and Literature, Women, Sexuality and the Family in Classical Antiquity, Classical Tradition in American, Ancient Elections

Julie Green
Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: U.S. Labor & Working Class History, Immigration & Political History, Transnational Approaches to History of the Americans

Michael Ross
Professor, History
The College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: American Constitutional History, 19^th Century History, Civil War Era

Patrick Warfield
Associate Director, Associate Professor, School of Music
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Musicology, American Musical Culture, Historical Campaign Songs, Campaign/Political Music

Robyn Muncy
Associate Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Women’s History, Women in Politics, Social Policy & Progressive Reform Movements

Trevor Parry-Giles
Professor, Communication
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Rhetoric & Political Culture, Legal Rhetoric, History of American Presidential Campaign Rhetoric

Leslie Rowland
Associate Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Slavery, 19^th Century U.S. History, Civil War, Transition from Slavery to Freedom in the U.S. South

Immigration

Julie Green
Professor, History
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: U.S. Labor & Working Class History, Immigration & Political History, Transnational Approaches to History of the Americans

International Affairs & Foreign Relations

Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, Government & Politics
College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Expertise: Foreign Relations with emphasis on the Middle East

Journalism & Media

Tom Bettag
Eleanor Merrill Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Expertise: how media are and should be covering elections, journalism’s importance to democracy

James Carroll
Capital News Service Washington, D.C. Bureau Director
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Expertise: media coverage of presidential and congressional elections, prospects for congress after the election, first 100 days

Lucy Dalglish
Dean
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Expertise: First Amendment rights

Mark Feldstein
Richard Eaton Professor of Broadcast Journalism
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Expertise: presidential debates, candidate issues and scandals, media coverage of the campaigns

Sarah Oates
Professor and Senior Scholar
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Expertise: political communication and democratization

Dana Priest
John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Expertise: presidential candidates and national security issues

Marketing & Advertising

Hank Boyd
Clinical Professor, Marketing
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Expertise: Candidate Branding, Campaign Ads, Messaging, Market Research & Consumer Behavior

Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Professor & Interim Director, Graduate Studies in Interpreting & Translation
The College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Political Rhetoric and Communication, Political Ads

Philosophy

Aidan Lyon
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Prediction Models, Philosophy of Science, Probability & Mathematics, Objective Probability, Evolutionary Theory, Judgment Aggregation, Intelligence Gathering & Analysis

Christopher Morris
Professor & Chair, Philosophy
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Moral & Political Philosophy, Practical Ethics, Legal Theory, Practical Rationality

Eric Pacuit
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Logic, Voting Systems, Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Decision Theory

The Arts

Voter Participation & Polling

David Kass
Clinical Professor, Finance
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Expertise: Economic & Financial Policy, Stock Market Implications, Election Polling & Prediction Methods

Eric Pacuit
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
College of Arts & Humanities
Expertise: Logic, Voting Systems, Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Decision Theory

Michael Hanmer
Associate Professor, Government & Politics, Director of Graduate Studies
College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Expertise: Voting, Voter Participation & Laws

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