Experts List

Political Science

National Politics

Alan Abramowitz, PhD, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science Emeritus, is a widely cited expert on national politics, polling, and elections. His expertise includes election forecasting models, party realignment in the US, congressional elections, and the effects of political campaigns on the electorate.

Law

Taxation and Democracy

Alex Zhang, JD, PhD, is an associate professor of law at Emory University Law School. Zhang's research centers on taxation and democracy. His scholarship aims to strengthen the discursive, institutional, and constitutional infrastructure that will foster tax-policy outcomes which better cohere with democracy and egalitarianism.

Political Science

Elections, Georgia Elections

Religion

AI and spirituality, Black Religious Experience, Sacred Art and Icons

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones, PhD is an assistant professor of theology and Africana studies at Emory’s Candler School of Theology. A constructive theologian and scholar of Black religion, she specializes in Mariology, Black feminist and womanist thought, and theological anthropology.

Winship Cancer Institute, School of Medicine, Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Anant Madabhushi, PhD, is a globally recognized leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for health care and leads the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute. With a focus on using AI to improve outcomes for patients with cancer and other diseases, Dr. Madabhushi plays a critical role in integrating AI into clinical practice by addressing health disparities and advancing precision medicine. His work has earned widespread recognition making him a key figure in reshaping modern health care.

Political Science

Elections

Andra Gillespie, PhD, associate professor of political science, specializes in political mobilization and race as well as competition among minority groups. Her research focuses on the political leadership of the post–civil rights generation. A frequent commentator for news media, her experience as a pollster and consultant has helped shape her research into what works today in minority politics as new leadership emerges.

Additional expertise: Political participation, Political mobilization and race, Political leadership of the post-civil rights generation, Interminority group competition, Evangelical politics

Chemistry

Organic Chemistry

Annette Neuman, PhD, is an associate professor of chemistry at Oxford College at Emory University. She has expertise in medicinal chemistry; specifically how new drugs and medicines work in the body. She is also an expert on anti-viral drugs, developing methods for new chemical reactions, and organic chemistry.

Epidemiology

Vaccines, Enteric Viruses

Benjamin Lopman, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, with a secondary appointment in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health and Hubert Department of Global Health. He conducts global and domestic research on the epidemiology of diarrheal disease. He also works extensively on the epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Political Science

Presidential and Congressional Elections

Bernard Fraga, PhD, associate professor of political science, specializes in the impact of race and ethnicity in American elections, with a particular focus on minority voter turnout and office seeking. He has conducted statistical analysis of historical and contemporary data on voter registration records and election results. He also conducts research on election law and electoral institutions in the US and has served as an expert consultant on multiple cases dealing with election law and voting rights.

Additional expertise: Racial and ethnic politics, Election laws and voting rights, Voter turnout and voter mobilization

Nursing

Headache and Migraine

Calli Leighann Cook, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, is an associate clinical professor at the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a nurse practitioner at the Emory Brain Health Center, specializing in migraine, brain health, headaches, neuroscience, and chronic pain. Cook is a leading expert in headache and migraine management.

Environmental Health

Chemical and Environmental Exposures

Carmen Marsit, PhD, is Rollins Distinguished Professor and Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research Strategy at the Rollins School of Public Health. His research is focused broadly on understanding the molecular mechanisms responsible for mediating the impact of the environment in human disease, utilizing laboratory studies of a variety of molecular alterations through –omics technologies. His research has been applied to studies of cancer, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and common and rare conditions of childhood, including obesity, growth, and behavioral disorders. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in children's environmental health and environmental impacts on the placenta.

Economics

Impact of the Economy on Elections

Caroline Fohlin, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Economics and an expert in economic, financial and business history, banking and financial markets, venture capital and innovation, and corporate finance and governance.

Additional expertise: Historical perspectives on the connections between the economy and the rise of authoritarianism

Nursing

Nursing Ethics

Chelsea O. P. Hagopian, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and serves as Executive Director for the Georgia Nursing Workforce Center, which focuses on using data and community building to tell and actively shape the story of nursing in Georgia.

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Chris A. Rees, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. He is an expert in developing novel ways of identifying children at risk for, and developing methods to reduce, mortality in low- and middle-income countries, elucidating research priority gaps, and improving issues around research collaboration in global health.

History

Asian American History

Chris Suh, PhD, is an associate professor in Emory University’s department of History. He specializes in US diplomatic history and Asian American history, with a focus on how US-East Asia relations shapes US immigration policy.

Additional expertise: US in the World; Asian American History; Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity; the Progressive Era