Election 2024 Press Kit

Politics, institutions and public policy expert

Associate Professor, Political Science and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

• tabitha.bonilla@northwestern.edu

• Campaign promises  
• Political messaging 
• Political representation 
• Voting behavior 

Urban politics, race, ethnic and Latino and Chicago politics expert

Associate Professor of Instruction, Political Science

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

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

Campaign and elections expert

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

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

• American politics
• Impact of rising political violence
• Political parties and partisan conflict
• Congressional elections
• Primary elections

Politics, institutions and public policy expert

Assistant Professor, Political Science and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

• mary.mcgrath@northwestern.edu

• Political decision making and behavior 
• Climate change opinion formation 
• Partisanship and polarization 
   

Law, public advocacy and First Amendment expert

Senior Lecturer, Pritzker School of Law

• (312) 503-2651
• j-desanto@law.northwestern.edu

• Campaign messaging 
• Debates 
• Speeches 

Campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting and judicial elections expert

Class of 1940 Professor of Law

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

• Election Law 
• Business Associations 
• Voting Rights and Redistricting 
• Campaign Finance 
• Judicial Elections 

Constitutional law and international law expert

George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law

• (312) 503-3235
• j-mcginnis@law.northwestern.edu

• Constitutional Law 
• International Law 
• Antitrust Law 
• International Trade 
• Technology Law 

Social media and intergroup attitudes expert

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management

• william.brady@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Researches how human psychology and digital social contexts interact to shape emotions and intergroup attitudes 

Relationships and American politics expert

Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management

• finkel@northwestern.edu

• Relationship psychology 
• Political polarization/identity 

Race, gender, public institutions and political behavior expert

Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy

• (847) 491-5001
• sally.nuamah@northwestern.edu

• Feminist and gender studies
• Race, ethnicity and politics
• Education policy
• Political behavior

Behavioral research expert

Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management

• jacob.teeny@kellogg.northwestern.edu

• Political partisanship and attitudes toward fraught issues
• Dialogues between opposing sides and what makes them contentious/cooperative
• Political advertising and word of mouth on consumer psychology

Elections and campaigns, voter behavior and misinformation expert

Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication and director of The Center for Communication and Public Policy

• (607) 280-7030
• erik.nisbet@northwestern.edu

• Public persuasion and opinion 
• Political communication 
• Co-principal investigator, Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) 

Misinformation and fake news expert

Professor of psychology and of learning sciences
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

• (847) 467-1871
• rapp@northwestern.edu

• Fake news and media literacy
• Processing inaccurate information
• Source credibility
• Narrative and expository comprehension
• Data visualization
• Persuasion

Misinformation and fake news expert

Associate Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication

• nathan.walter@northwestern.edu

• Misinformation and “fake” news 
• Role of emotion of voters in campaigns 
• Power of strategic storytelling in campaigns 

Presidential and party politics expert

Associate professor of history

• 847-491-7172
• m-allen1@northwestern.edu

• The realignment of U.S. party politics since WWII
• 20th century U.S. political and diplomatic history 
• Presidential politics 

Expert on the modern white power movement

Associate Professor of History

• (847) 491-3406
• belew@northwestern.edu

• American history of the present
• White power movement
• History of violence
• Paramilitary organizations

Belew’s first book “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” established her as the foremost historian of the modern white power movement. 

Expert on American history since 1900

William Smith Mason Professor of American History

• 847-491-4963
• kevin.boyle@northwestern.edu

• The history of the DNC in Chicago 
• Economic and labor history 
• The Civil Rights Movement 
• Political extremism in the early 20th century 

His most recent book is "The Shattering: America in the 1960s," a narrative history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still. 

TV news, conservative media and political movements expert

Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication

• heather.hendershot@northwestern.edu

• Political conventions (latest book "When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America")
• Broadcast media (mainstream and conservative) 
• Political culture