Faculty Experts
Faculty Experts
The George Washington University has leading faculty members available across a wide range of election topics.
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Bethany Hamilton
Bethany Hamilton is Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. The Center leads education, research, and technical assistance efforts to help health organizations in the U.S. leverage legal services as a standard part of the way they respond to social needs.
Danny Hayes
Danny Hayes, professor of political science, is an expert on campaigns and elections who can discuss the current election landscape and provide insights and analysis on current campaign strategies.
John Helveston
John Helveston, assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering, is interested in understanding the factors that shape technological change, with a particular focus on transitioning to more sustainable and energy-saving technologies. Within this broader category, he studies consumer preferences and market demand for new technologies as well as relationships between innovation, industry structure, and technology policy. He has explored these themes in the context of China’s rapidly developing electric vehicle industry. He can discuss the key climate change policies at the forefront of this election cycle and what each candidate would mean for climate policy.
Neil Johnson
Neil Johnson, professor of physics, leads a new initiative in Complexity and Data Science which combines cross-disciplinary fundamental research with data science to attack complex real-world problems. He is an expert on how misinformation and hate speech spreads online and effective mitigation strategies. Johnson recently published new research on bad-actor AI online activity in 2024. The study predicts that daily, bad-actor AI activity is going to escalate by mid-2024, increasing the threat that it could affect election results.
Loren Kajikawa
Loren Kajikawa is chair of the music program at The George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. His main area of research and teaching is American music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special attention to the dynamics of race and politics. Kajikawa’s writings have appeared in American Music, Black Music Research Journal, ECHO: a music-centered journal, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Popular Music and Society, among others. His book Sounding Race in Rap Songs (University of California Press, 2015) explores the relationship between rap music’s backing tracks and racial representation. In addition to his publications, Kajikawa is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Society for American Music (Vol. 12-13) and he currently serves as co-editor of “Tracking Pop,” the University of Michigan Press’s series of books about popular music.
David Karpf
David Karpf is an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. His work focuses on strategic communication practices of political associations in America, with a particular interest in Internet-related strategies. Karpf is the award-winning author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy and Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Both books discuss how digital media is transforming the work of political advocacy and activist organizations. His writing about digital media and politics has been published in a wide range of academic and journalistic outlets.
Carol Lang
Carol Lang is an assistant professor of nursing and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Lang co-leads the George Washington School of Nursing’s Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, which offers registered nurses the opportunity to expand their scope of practice to include the care of individuals, families and groups with psychiatric and mental health needs.
Jeffrey Levi
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 could hamper the United States’ ability to respond to the growing COVID-19 situation. For 10 years, he was executive director of Trust for America’s Health, where he led annual assessments of the preparedness of states and the federal government.
Jon Lewis
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
Peter Loge is the director of GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs. He has nearly 30 years of experience in politics and communications, having served as a deputy to the chief of staff for Sen. Edward Kennedy during the 1995 shutdown, a VP at the US Institute of Peace in 2013, and held senior positions for three members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Loge currently leads the Project on Ethics in Political Communication at the School of Media and Public Affairs and continues to advise advocates and organizations.
Kimberly Morgan
Kimberly Morgan is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her work examines the politics shaping public policies in Western Europe and the United States, with particular interests in immigration and the welfare state.
Billy Mullins
Billy Mullins, is a clinical assistant professor for the B.S.N. program and the Acute & Chronic Care Community at the George Washington University School of Nursing. Mullins is a prominent leader and educator in the profession of nursing. Mullins is an alumnus of GW Nursing, where he earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice in nursing practice class of 2015.