For Journalists

Expert in campaign and election law

William and Virginia Karnes Research Professor of Law

• (312) 503-7344
• mkang@northwestern.edu

• Election law
• Voting rights and redistricting
• Campaign finance
• Judicial elections

*Only available for interviews with print/online outlets

Expert on democratic norms and procedures

Professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

• joshua.kleinfeld@northwestern.edu

• Threats to democracy
• Partisanship and party politics

Expert on corruption and obstruction

Clinical Professor of Law

• (312) 503-1482
• j-sorensen@law.northwestern.edu

• Public corruption
• Obstruction of justice
• Criminal law
• Health and human rights

Expert on constitutional law

Harold Washington Professor of Law

• (312) 503-1468
• daniel.rodriguez@law.northwestern.edu

• Administrative law
• Local government law
• Statutory interpretation
• Federal and state constitutional law
• Law-business-technology interface

Expert on presidential politics

Adjunct lecturer in journalism

• michael.conway@northwestern.edu

• Presidential politics
• Ethics and law

Expert on the politics of Joe Biden

Associate professor of history

• (847) 467-0872
• brett.gadsden@northwestern.edu

• American history
• Black political and social history
• Segregation, inequality and racial discrimination
• Politics of Joe Biden

Expert on presidential politics

Adjunct lecturer in journalism

• michael.conway@northwestern.edu

• Presidential politics
• Ethics and law

Expert on American politics

Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Director, Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy

• Alvin.Tillery@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• Racial and ethnic politics/ Black Lives Matter
• Media and politics
• Public opinion
• Political communication and political participation

Expert on politics affecting minority populations

Associate Professor of Instruction, Political Science

• (847) 467-0706
• j-dominguez@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• Urban politics
• Latino politics
• Chicago politics
• Immigration
• Race and ethnicity

Expert on constitutional law

Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

• (312) 503-8545
• m-redish@law.northwestern.edu

• Federal jurisdiction
• Civil procedure
• Freedom of expression
• Constitutional law

Expert on constitutional law

Harold Washington Professor of Law

• (312) 503-1468
• daniel.rodriguez@law.northwestern.edu

• Administrative law
• Local government law
• Statutory interpretation
• Federal and state constitutional law
• Law-business-technology interface

Expert on partisan conflict in American politics

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

• (847) 467-1147
• l-harbridge@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• U.S. Congress and Congressional elections
• Political parties and partisan conflict
• Public opinion
• Political communication

Expert on corruption and obstruction

Clinical Professor of Law

• (312) 503-1482
• j-sorensen@law.northwestern.edu

• Public corruption
• Obstruction of justice
• Criminal law
• Health and human rights

Expert on Native American history and politics

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research

• (847) 467-4821
• doug.kiel@northwestern.edu

• Can discuss historic appointment of Deb Haaland, the first woman and first Indigenous Secretary of the Interior
• Native American history and politics
• Indigeneity
• Settler Colonialism
• 20th century Indigenous studies

Expert on partisan conflict in American politics

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

• (847) 467-1147
• l-harbridge@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• U.S. Congress and Congressional elections
• Political parties and partisan conflict
• Public opinion
• Political communication

Expert on partisan dynamics among voters

Professor of Psychology and of Management and Organizations

• finkel@northwestern.edu

• Political sectarianism
• Author of a study finding that negative feelings for an opposing party outweigh positive feelings for one's own party

Expert on polarization and public opinion formation

Associate professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics

• dmabrams@northwestern.edu

• Worked on the first quantitative model that captures how politicized environments affect U.S. political opinion formation and evolution
• Framework breaks opinion change into perceptions and reactions, investigating biases such as tribalism and 'media bubbles'
• Model could simulate interventions to explore how to impact polarization and foster unity

Expert on democratic norms and procedures

Professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

• joshua.kleinfeld@northwestern.edu

• Threats to democracy
• Partisanship and party politics

Expert on American politics

Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Director, Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy

• Alvin.Tillery@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• Racial and ethnic politics/ Black Lives Matter
• Media and politics
• Public opinion
• Political communication and political participation

Expert on the politics of Joe Biden

Associate professor of history

• (847) 467-0872
• brett.gadsden@northwestern.edu

• American history
• Black political and social history
• Segregation, inequality and racial discrimination
• Politics of Joe Biden

Expert on first ladies, particularly Michelle Obama

Professor of Journalism

• slevin@northwestern.edu

• Politics and political messaging
• "Post-Truth Politics"
• The role of media in Donald Trump's presidency
• The Obamas, especially Michelle Obama

Expert on relationships between presidents and journalists

Associate Professor

• (847) 467-2450
• j-marshall@northwestern.edu

• Relationship between presidents and journalists, especially in times of crisis
• Author of "Watergate's Legacy and the Press: The investigative Impulse" (Northwestern University Press, 2011)
• Media history

Expert on presidential politics

Adjunct lecturer in journalism

• michael.conway@northwestern.edu

• Presidential politics
• Ethics and law

Expert on U.S. political history

Associate professor of history

• (847) 467-3979
• m-allen1@northwestern.edu

• Modern U.S. history 
• 20th century U.S. political and diplomatic history 
• Presidential politics 

Expert on corruption and obstruction

Clinical Professor of Law

• (312) 503-1482
• j-sorensen@law.northwestern.edu

• Public corruption
• Obstruction of justice
• Criminal law
• Health and human rights

Expert on the psychology of Donald J. Trump

The Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology
Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Department of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
School of Education and Social Policy

• (847) 491-4174
• dmca@northwestern.edu

• Author, “The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning” (Oxford University Press, March 2020)
• Adult personality
• Life stories and culture

Expert on the role of media in the Trump White House

Professor of Journalism

• slevin@northwestern.edu

• Politics and political messaging
• "Post-Truth Politics"
• The role of media in Donald Trump's presidency
• The Obamas, especially Michelle Obama

Expert on American politics

Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Director, Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy

• Alvin.Tillery@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• Racial and ethnic politics/ Black Lives Matter
• Media and politics
• Public opinion
• Political communication and political participation

Expert on infectious diseases and global pandemics

Executive Director, Institute for Global Health
Director, Center for Global Communicable Diseases
John Philip Phair Professor of Infectious Diseases

• (312) 503-9000
• r-murphy@northwestern.edu
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• Studies the physical symptoms of COVID-19, how diseases spread and the public health response
• Can discuss how this pandemic compares to previous disease outbreaks

Expert on medical ethics and public health policy

Professor of Pediatrics
Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Director, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Attending Physician in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

• (312) 227-4800
• k-michelson@northwestern.edu
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• Medical ethics surrounding vaccine distribution and other public health measures

Expert in infectious disease modeling

Assistant professor of epidemiology at Feinberg

• (312) 503-1895
• jgerardin@northwestern.edu

• Works on predictive models for the COVID-19 outbreak, helping to inform public health response
• Previously she served as the malaria lead at the Institute for Disease Modeling in Seattle, working on models to treat, prevent and eliminate malaria across diverse endemic settings

Expert on health information bias

Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis & Communication; director of Northwestern's Center for Communication and Public Policy

• erik.nisbet@northwestern.edu

• How strongly held partisan, national, religious or ethnic identities bias the processing of information and messaging, and the consequences for policy attitudes and behavior
• Causes and consequences of online information-seeking and expression in authoritarian or non-democratic contexts
• How macro contextual factors interact with individual differences or behaviors to explain heterogeneity in communication processes and outcomes
• Governance and elections
• International security
• Public policy in the areas of science, technology and environmental policy
• Communication strategies
• Public opinion

Expert on social aspects of health behavior

Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Co-Director, The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN)

• (847) 467-0516
• hector@northwestern.edu
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• Social aspects of health promotion and prevention 
• Public health policy 
• Medical social sciences 

Expert on public opinion of COVID-19 impact and response

Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and associate director of Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research

• druckman@northwestern.edu

• Leads the "COVID States Project," an ongoing public opinion survey around COVID-19 issues including vaccination and institutional response

Expert on public opinion of COVID-19 impact and response

Assistant Professor of Sociology

• redbird@northwestern.edu

• Leads the daily “COVID-19 Social Change Survey”
• Studies public opinions, behaviors and attitudes related to the COVID-19 pandemic

Expert on the impact of economic stimulus plans

Assistant Professor of Finance

• (847) 467-5249
• s-baker@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Published study on how individuals spent first COVID-19 stimulus checks
• Studies economic bailouts and Wall Street accountability
• Researches the effects of policy uncertainty on financial markets and growth

Expert on pandemic economic response strategies

Clinical professor of finance at Kellogg

• (847) 467-4563
• phillip-braun@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Economic bailouts and stimulus plans
• Loan forgiveness
• Wall Street accountability
• Foreign trade policy and pandemic impact on global markets

Expert on the recession's impact on young workers

Assistant professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Social Policy; fellow at the Institute for Policy Research

• schwandt@northwestern.edu

• Impact of the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on young workers
• Labor market entry
• Recessions
• Health inequality and life expectancy

Expert on international relations

Professor of Political Science

• (847) 491-4847
• ianhurd@northwestern.edu

• How nations' pandemic response impacts their standing on the world stage

Expert on contemporary social movements

Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Director, Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy

• Alvin.Tillery@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• Racial and ethnic politics/ Black Lives Matter
• Media and politics
• Public opinion
• Political communication and political participation

Expert on demographic inequality

Assistant professor of sociology

• (847) 491-2697
• c-percheski@northwestern.edu

• Demographic trends in social inequality, health, employment and family dynamics

Expert on history of racial discrimination

Associate professor of history

• (847) 467-0872
• brett.gadsden@northwestern.edu

• American history
• Black political and social history
• Segregation, inequality and racial discrimination
• Politics of Joe Biden

Expert on historic and COVID-19 health disparities

Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine
Magerstadt Professor
Professor of Medical Social Sciences
Associate Director, Northwestern Medicine’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

• (312) 695-0829
• cyancy@nm.org

• History and impact of health disparities, particularly on the African American community
• COVID-19's impact on minority populations

Expert on civil rights and health disparities

Daniel H. Renberg Chair of social justice in reporting (with an emphasis on issues relevant to the LGBTQ community) and an assistant professor of journalism

• steven.thrasher@northwestern.edu

• Civil rights relating to race, LGBTQ, disability, gender and economic classes
• Civil rights and activist history, specifically Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street
• Impact of HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, COVID-19 and the opioids crisis
• Addiction and drug policy, access to medicine, and social access to healthcare
• Representations in media, both news and fictional

Expert on climate change and sustainable energy

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

• (847) 467-2257
• brad@earth.northwestern.edu

• Climate change
• Ocean acidification
• Climate policy
• Sustainable energy

Expert on human impact on climate

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Principal Investigator, Climate Change Research Group

• (847) 467-6185
• daniel.horton@northwestern.edu

• Link between climate change and extreme weather
• Electric vehicles
• Human adaptation to climate change

Expert on environmental impacts of emerging technologies

Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE)

• (847) 467-6285
• jennifer.dunn1@northwestern.edu

• Biofuels, bioproducts and batteries
• Fuels and chemicals made from waste
• Plastic pollution

Expert on water pollution, scarcity and drought

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of Northwestern Center for Water Research

• (847) 491-9902
• a-packman@northwestern.edu

• COVID-19 in wastewater
• Urban water management and flooding
• Waterborne disease transmission

Expert on polar climate and ice melt

Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

• (847) 467-2268
• axford@northwestern.edu

• Greenland's glaciers and ice sheet
• Rising global sea levels

Expert on the carbon cycle

Professor of civil and environmental engineering and of Earth and planetary sciences

• (847) 491-8790
• n-blair@northwestern.edu

• Human impact on the carbon cycle
• Agriculture and deforestation
• Natural methane production

Expert on economic policy

James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance; faculty director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative

• (847) 467-1840
• eberly@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Former Chief Economist at the U.S. Treasury, leading analysis of U.S. and global economies and financial markets and developing policy recommendations on micro and macroeconomic issues
• Studies household consumption and portfolio choices, and their impact on the macroeconomy

Expert on fiscal policy

Executive director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative; visiting associate professor at Kellogg

• benjamin.harris@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Fiscal policy
• Bailouts and Wall Street accountability
• Tax, budget and retirement security
• Former chief economist and economic adviser to the Vice President of the United States

Expert on economic impact of policy

Professor of Economics

• (847) 467-4757
• seema@northwestern.edu

• Political economy
• Labor markets
• Policies aimed at closing economic gender gaps
• Economics of environmental conservation and climate change
• Global development

Expert on pandemic economic response strategies

Clinical professor of finance at Kellogg

• (847) 467-4563
• phillip-braun@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Economic bailouts and stimulus plans
• Loan forgiveness
• Wall Street accountability
• Foreign trade policy and pandemic impact on global markets

Expert on the impact of economic stimulus plans

Assistant Professor of Finance

• (847) 467-5249
• s-baker@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Published study on how individuals spent first COVID-19 stimulus checks
• Studies economic bailouts and Wall Street accountability
• Researches the effects of policy uncertainty on financial markets and growth

Expert on the recession's impact on young workers

Assistant professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Social Policy; fellow at the Institute for Policy Research

• schwandt@northwestern.edu

• Impact of the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on young workers
• Labor market entry
• Recessions
• Health inequality and life expectancy

Expert on the economic impact of government regulations

IBM Professor of Regulation & Competitive Practices

• (847) 467-6505
• d-besanko@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Economics of regulation
• Intersection of competitive strategy and public policy
• Theory of the firm

Expert on social welfare policy

Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy
Director, Institute for Policy Research

• (847) 491-3884
• dws@northwestern.edu

• Food insecurity and rising inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Importance of the social safety net in times of crisis

Expert on income inequality

Elinor and H. Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management; professor of strategy at Kellogg

• (847) 467-6598
• t-hubbard@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Causes and economic impact of income inequality

Expert on census methods

Assistant professor of sociology

• (847) 491-2697
• c-percheski@northwestern.edu

• Census methods and impact
• Demographic voting trends
• Demographic trends in social inequality, health, employment and family dynamics

Expert on Russian-American relations

Associate Research Professor, Institute for Policy Research
Senior Lecturer, School of Communication

• olga.kamenchuck@northwestern.edu

• Expert in Russian-American relations, opinion polling, public diplomacy and national security
• Former director of international research and communications for the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), the largest research and polling organization in the former Soviet Union
• Former co-director of the Eurasian Security and Governance Program at the Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies
• Co-principal investigator on the Comparative National Elections Project for Russian, Ukrainian and Serbian electoral studies

Expert on international relations

Professor of Political Science

• (847) 491-4847
• ianhurd@northwestern.edu

• How nations' pandemic response impacts their standing on the world stage
• Law and politics of the United Nations and other international organizations, including public policy
• Politics of legitimacy and how it is created, used, and contested in international relations
• Legal authority and political controversies of the world’s most important international institutions

Expert on healthcare economics

Associate Professor of Strategy

• (847) 491-2509
• c-garthwaite@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Healthcare policy, including the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid
• Public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Ethical drug and vaccine pricing

Expert on healthcare economics

Associate Professor of Strategy

• (847) 467-7511
• amanda.starc@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Medicare
• Consumer behavior in health insurance exchanges

Expert on Medicaid expansion

Professor of Finance

• (847) 491-8337
• dmatsa@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Published study on lessons learned from Maine's 2017 Medicaid expansion referendum

Expert on social access to healthcare

Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice Reporting; assistant professor of journalism; core faculty member of the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing

• steven.thrasher@northwestern.edu

• Impact of HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, COVID-19 and the opioids crisis
• Drug policy, access to medicine, and social access to healthcare
• Civil rights relating to race, LGBTQ, disability, gender and economic classes
• Civil rights and activist history, specifically Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street
• Representations of police in fiction

Expert on the legality of the Affordable Care Act

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law

• (312) 503-8431
• akoppelman@law.northwestern.edu

• Health care policy/Affordable Care Act 
• Constitutional law 
• First Amendment rights 

Expert on immigration law

Founding Director, Deportation Research Clinic, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Professor, Political Science Department
Legal Studies, Faculty Advisory Committee

• (847) 457-2093
• jacqueline-stevens@northwestern.edu

• Deportation and immigration law 
• Citizenship law and history 
• Sovereignty and the rule of law 

Expert on politics affecting minority populations

Associate Professor of Instruction, Political Science

• (847) 467-0706
• j-dominguez@northwestern.edu

• American politics
• Urban politics
• Latino politics
• Chicago politics
• Immigration
• Race and ethnicity

Expert on Latino politics

Associate professor of history

• g-cadava@northwestern.edu

• The Latino vote
• Latinos and the Republican party
• Immigration
• U.S.-Mexico borderlands
• Watergate
• The 2016 presidential election
• Author of "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump"

Expert on economics of immigration

Associate Professor of Accounting Information & Management

• (847) 467-4508
• d-aobdia@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Role of high-skilled immigration, culture and tools in organizations
• Economic impact of government regulation

Expert on immigration policy

Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Faculty Affiliate, Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship
Kellogg School of Management
Fellow, Workforce Science Project
Pritzker School of Law

• (847) 467-0921
• j-spenkuch@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Immigration policy