Faculty Experts
The George Washington University has leading faculty members available across a wide range of election topics.
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Michael Hankinson, assistant professor of political science, researches political behavior, public opinion, state and local politics, public policy, inequality.
Danny Hayes, professor of political science, is an expert on campaigns and elections, focusing on the media, public opinion, and elections.
John Helveston, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering, seeks to understand the factors that shape technological change.
Derek Holliday, assistant professor of political science focuses on political representation in American politics.
Neil Johnson is a professor of physics who leads GW's Complexity and Data Science initiative. He is an expert on how misinformation and hate speech spread online and effective mitigation strategies, and his recent research examines bad-actor AI activity and the threat it poses to elections.
Loren Kajikawa is chair of the music program at GW's Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. His research focuses on American music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special attention to the dynamics of race and politics. His book Sounding Race in Rap Songs examines racial representation in rap.
David Karpf is an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs. His work focuses on the strategic communication of political associations, with particular interest in Internet-related strategies. An award-winning author, he studies how digital media is transforming political advocacy and activism.
Carol Lang is an assistant professor of nursing and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. She co-leads the GW School of Nursing's Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, which trains registered nurses to care for individuals, families and groups with mental health needs.
Jeffrey Levi, a professor of health policy and management, is an expert on how policy decisions such as cuts to public health funding, Medicaid and the public charge rule affect the nation's public health preparedness. He formerly led Trust for America's Health.
Jon Lewis is a research fellow at the GW Program on Extremism. He studies homegrown violent extremism, with a specialization in the evolution of white supremacist and anti-government movements in the U.S. and federal responses to the threat.
Peter Loge is the director of GW's School of Media and Public Affairs, with nearly 30 years of experience in politics and communications. He has served as a deputy to Sen. Edward Kennedy's chief of staff and in senior roles for three members of the U.S. House. He leads the Project on Ethics in Political Communication.
Forrest Maltzman, professor of political science, is an expert on judicial politics, Congress, and American national government.