U.S./Foreign Politics and Policy

Business/Economics

National Security/Terrorism/War

Energy/Environmental

Health Care

Education

Other Domestic/Social Policy Issues


U.S./Foreign Politics and Policy

American politics:
David Rohde, professor of political science. Specializes in campaigns and elections, and legislative politics. (919) 452-6092; rohde@duke.edu.

Congress:
Michael Munger, professor and chair of political science. Specializes in congressional-presidential elections. Libertarian candidate for NC governor in 2008. (919) 660-4301; munger@duke.edu.

Congress, environmental law and policy:
Christopher H. Schroeder, professor of law and public policy studies, director of the Program in Public Law. As acting assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at Department of Justice, provided legal advice to attorney general, executive office of the president, other agencies. Constitutional, administrative, and environmental law/regulation. (919) 613-7096; christopher.schroeder@duke.edu.

Election law:
Guy-Uriel Charles, visiting professor of law. Specializes in constitutional law, civil procedure, election law, law and politics, and race. Was member of the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting and the Century Foundation Working Group on Election Reform. (919)613-7191; charles@law.duke.edu.

Foreign policy:
Joseph Grieco, professor of political science. Areas of expertise include international relations, international political economy and problems of international conflict. Author of Cooperation Among Nations: Europe, America, and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade. (919) 660-4315; grieco@duke.edu.

Ole Holsti, emeritus professor of political science. Specialties are international politics and foreign policy decision-making, including the nature and impact of public opinion on foreign policy, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Author of three books and numerous articles on public opinion. (919) 660-4348; holsti@duke.edu.

Middle East:
Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy studies and political science. Specializes in conflict prevention and peacekeeping, international security, issues of force and diplomacy. Served as foreign policy adviser to Clinton-Gore administration and Gore-Lieberman campaign. Member of Presidential Task Force on Preventing Regional Instability from Iran's Nuclear Programs. (919) 613-9208; bwj7@duke.edu.

Racial and urban politics:
Paula D. McClain, professor of political science. Specializes in civil rights, affirmative action and racial and urban politics. Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute at Duke. (919) 616-8864; pmcclain@duke.edu.

Risk analysis:
Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of law, environmental policy, public policy. President of Society for Risk Analysis (www.sra.org). Global climate change policy, economic incentives such as cap-and-trade systems, benefit-cost analysis in regulation, comparing risk regulation in U.S. & Europe. (919) 613-7054; wiener@law.duke.edu.

Southern politics, race:
Kerry L. Haynie, professor of political science. Specializes in state politics, Southern politics, race and poverty issues. (919) 452-7877; klhaynie@duke.edu.

Supreme Court, federal courts:
Neil Siegel, associate professor of law and political science. Constitutional law, federal courts, public law and economics, and criminal law. Prior to coming to Duke, clerked with Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (919) 613-7157; siegel@law.duke.edu.

Taxes:
Richard Schmalbeck, professor of law. Briefly served as special assistant to the associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, then practiced law with a Washington, D.C., firm specializing in federal tax law. Focuses on federal taxation and law and economics. (919) 613-7078; schmalbeck@law.duke.edu.

Business/Economics

Business ethics:
Wayne Norman, professor of ethics. His work in business ethics includes critical evaluations of conflicts of interest, corporate governance, corporate scandals, codes of ethics, transparency, privacy issues, corporate culture, crisis and reputation management. (919) 660-3033; wayne.norman@duke.edu.

Sim Sitkin, professor of management, founding faculty director of the Fuqua School of Business' Center on Leadership and Ethics. Specializes in how leadership and control systems affect an organization's capability to change and innovate, and its effect on risk taking, accountability, trust, learning from failure and innovation. (919) 660-7946; sim.sitkin@duke.edu.

Finance/Wall Street:
Campbell Harvey, professor of international business, editor of the Journal of Finance. Specializes in financial markets, global risk management, portfolio management; has been a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (919) 660-7768; cam.harvey@duke.edu.

Financial market regulation:
James Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law. Specializes in corporate and securities law. Has published extensively in the areas of market regulation and corporate governance and has testified before the U.S. House and Senate on inside trading and market reform issues. Widely quoted after Enron bankruptcy and other corporate accounting scandals. (919) 613-7056; cox@law.duke.edu.

Connel Fullenkamp, associate professor of economics. Specializes in financial market development and regulation. (919) 660-1843; cfullenk@econ.duke.edu.

Management and Leadership:
Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, assistant professor of management. Specializes in race and gender in leadership and management. (919) 660-8021; arosette@duke.edu.

Monetary policy:
John Coleman, professor of economics. Specializes in monetary policy, employment, the optimal method and rate of taxation, the adoption of technology in countries of different stages of development, economic motivations for ethnic conflict. (919) 660-7962; coleman@duke.edu.

Outsourcing/Offshoring:
Arie Lewin, professor of sociology and business administration. Specializes in the evolution of new organization forms and management of strategy and organization change in times of increasing disorder; leads a cross-national research consortium involving a study of strategic re-orientations and organization restructurings; international competitiveness. (919) 660-7832; ayl3@duke.edu.

Philanthropic giving:
Edward Skloot, professor of the practice of public policy. He is also director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society. Specializes in philanthropy, nonprofit funding, and service issues. (919) 613-7432; es100@duke.edu.


National Security/Terrorism/War

Military law and national security:
Scott Silliman, executive director of Duke's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security and professor of the practice of law. Former judge advocate and colonel in Air Force. Specializes in national security law, international humanitarian law, military law, law of armed conflict. Has testified before Congress on using military commissions to try suspected terrorists. (919) 613-7138; silliman@law.duke.edu.

National security and foreign relations law:
Curtis Bradley, professor of law. In 2004, served as counselor on international law in U.S. State Department's Legal Adviser's Office. Expertise includes international law and U.S. foreign policy law, presidential signing statements, and the Military Commissions Act. (919) 613-7000; cbradley@law.duke.edu.

National security and terrorism:
David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, based at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. Specializes in terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, national security policy. Served as Democratic staff director of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security. (919) 613-9279; schanzer@duke.edu.

War, civil-military relations:
Peter Feaver, professor of political science and public policy. Author of several books on civil-military relations. Served as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council from 2005-2007. Can discuss military and veterans roles in domestic politics; relationship between war, presidential rhetoric and public opinion; president as Commander-in-Chief. (919) 660-4331; pfeaver@duke.edu.

Christopher Gelpi, assistant professor of political science. Primary interests are the sources of international militarized conflict and strategies for international conflict resolution. Involved in research projects that focus on the American civil-military relations and the use of force, the role of norms in crisis bargaining and the influence of democracy on the use of force. (919) 660-4318; gelpi@duke.edu.

Energy/Environmental

Climate change:
William L. Chameides, dean, Nicholas School of the Environment. Specializes in climate science and policy. Member of National Academy of Sciences. Former chief scientist for Environmental Defense Fund. (919)613-8004; bill.chameides@duke.edu.

Brian C. Murray, director for economic analysis, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Specializes in economics of climate change and carbon offsets. Co-author of "Mitigation Beyond the Cap," policy brief series. (919) 613-8725; bcmurray@duke.edu

Richard Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics. Specializes in economics of climate change policy, energy policy, energy technologies. (919) 681-8865; richard.newell@duke.edu.

Lydia Olander, senior associate director for ecosystem services, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Specializes in carbon offsets and ecosystem services. Co-author of "Mitigation Beyond the Cap," policy brief series. (919) 613-8713, lydia.olander@duke.edu

Jim E. Salzman, Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy. Specializes in environmental law pertaining to climate change and energy. (919) 613-7185; salzman@law.duke.edu.

Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of law, environmental policy and public policy. Specializes in global climate change policy, risk-risk tradeoffs and economic incentives. Served in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations, working on U.S. and international environmental policy. (919) 613-7054; wiener@law.duke.edu.

Deforestation:
Alex Pfaff, professor of public policy studies. Specializes in environmental and natural resource economics, with research in areas of deforestation. (919) 613-9240; alex.pfaff@duke.edu.

Energy policy:
Richard Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics. Specializes in economics of climate change policy, energy policy, energy technologies. (919) 681-8865; richard.newell@duke.edu.

Dalia Patino Echeverri, Gendell Assistant Professor of Energy Systems and Public Policy. Specializes in energy policy analysis, especially risk management and decision-making under uncertainty. (919) 613-7461; dp52@duke.edu.

Tim Profeta, director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Specializes in climate and energy legislation and policy; served as senior environmental counsel to Sen. Lieberman; (919) 613-8709; tim.profeta@duke.edu.

Marine conservation/Endangered species:
Larry B. Crowder, Stephen Toth Professor of Marine Biology. Specializes in the international marine conservation, especially endangered species/fisheries conflicts. (252) 504-7637; lcrowder@duke.edu

Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology. Specializes in endangered species conservation and extinctions, habitat loss, conservation laws and policies. (919) 613-8141; stuartpimm@me.com.

Andrew J. Read, Rachel Carson Associate Professor of Marine Conservation Biology. Specializes in conversation of whales, dolphins and other marine mammals. (252) 504-7590; aread@duke.edu

Ocean and Coastal Policy:
Michael K. Orbach, professor of the practice of marine affairs and policy. Specializes in law of the ocean. Coastal and marine management and policy. Served as adviser to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission. (252) 504-7606; mko@duke.edu

Orrin H. Pilkey, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology. Specializes in beach nourishment and erosion, impact of hurricanes on coastal ecosystems and communities, sustainable coastal development. (919) 684-4238; opilkey@duke.edu

Raphael Sagarin, associate director for ocean and coastal policy, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Specializes in marine environmental policy. (919) 613-8738; rafe.sagarin@duke.edu

Offshore Drilling:
Lincoln F. Pratson, associate professor of sedimentary geology. Specializes in the role of sedimentary processes in the origin and timing of deep-sea oil and gas reservoirs along continental margins. (919) 681-8077; lincoln.pratson@duke.edu.

Health Care

Genomics:
Robert Cook-Deegan, professor of public policy studies and director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy. Specializes in ethics and policy of genomics, genetic testing and intellectual property in life sciences. (919) 668-0793; bob.cd@duke.edu.

Health inequalities:
Sherman A. James, professor of public policy studies. President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Specializes in the social determinants of racial and ethnic health inequalities and community-based and public policy interventions. (919) 613-7338; sjames@duke.edu.

Health economics/policy:
Kevin Schulman, director of Fuqua School of Business' Health Sector Management Program, professor of medicine. Specializes in economic evaluation in clinical research; health services research and policy, including access to care; bioethics; and medical decision making. (919) 668-8101; kevin.schulman@duke.edu.

Frank A. Sloan, professor of health policy and management, and economics. Specializes in U.S. healthy policy, long-term care, medical malpractice and vaccine delivery. (919) 613-9358; fsloan@duke.edu.

Don Taylor, professor of public policy studies, community and family medicine, and nursing. Specializes in aging (dementia and Alzheimer's), hospice care, preventative care and comparative health policy. (919) 613-9357; detaylor@duke.edu.

Education

Higher education:
Charles Clotfelter, professor of public policy studies, economics and law. Specializes in school desegregation, higher education and other education issues. (919) 613-7361; charles.clotfelter@duke.edu.

School accountability:
Helen Ladd, professor of public policy studies and economics. Specializes in charter schools, school-based accountability, market-based reforms, parental choice and competition, teacher quality, student achievement. (919) 613-7352; helen.ladd@duke.edu.

Student achievement:
Harris Cooper, professor of psychology, Program in Education. Researches the value of homework, making the most of summer school, the value of after-school programs, and the impact of school calendars and calendar variations on students and their families. (919) 660-3167; cooperh@duke.edu.

Jacob L. Vigdor, professor of public policy studies and economics. Specializes in student achievement, and racial and ethnic segregation. (919) 613-9226; jacob.vigdor@duke.edu.


Other Domestic/Social Policy Issues

Arts funding:
Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts and professor of music. Available to discuss federal support for the arts in the next administration. (919) 684-0539; scott.lindroth@duke.edu.

Kimerly Rorschach, director of Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Can comment on arts education in schools, direct federal funding for the arts and National Endowment for the Arts, artist-museum partnership act. (919) 684-8420; kim.rorschach@duke.edu.

Gender issues:
Rachel F. Seidman, director of Duke's program on History, Public Policy and Social Change. Specializes in women's leadership, and the role of historical analysis in public policy debates. (919) 613-7305; rachel.f.seidman@duke.edu.

Robyn Wiegman, professor of women's studies and literature. Specializes in reproductive choice, civil rights, race and gender. (919) 684-5683; rwiegman@duke.edu.

Ara Wilson, professor of women's studies and cultural anthropology, director of sexuality studies. Specializes in gay issues, gender, social dimensions of the economic crisis. (919) 684-9179; ara.wilson@duke.edu.

Immigration:
Noah Pickus, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and associate research professor of public policy studies. Writes on issues of immigration, citizenship and national identity, and has advised the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Smith-Richardson Foundation and others. (919) 660-3033; pickus@duke.edu.

Jacob L. Vigdor, professor of public policy studies and economics. Specializes in immigrant segregation in housing, the labor market and the economy. (919) 613-9226; jacob.vigdor@duke.edu.

Income disparity:
Philip Cook, professor of public policy studies, economics and sociology. Specializes in income inequality, societal impact of top salaries in entertainment and sports. (301) 405-3494; (919) 260-4338; pcook@duke.edu.

Media issues:
James T. Hamilton, professor public policy studies. Specializes in media policy. (919) 613-7358; jayth@pps.duke.edu.

Kenneth Rogerson, professor of public policy. Specializes in international relations, international communications, media policy, Internet politics and policy. (919) 613-7387; rogerson@duke.edu.

Susan Tifft, professor of the practice of journalism, and public policy studies. She is a former national writer for TIME Magazine. Specializes in media ethics and public policy reporting. (617) 497-4596 (office); (617) 549-9690 (cell); susantifft@aol.com.

Muslim Americans:
Jen'nan Ghazal Read, associate professor of sociology and global health. Expert on Muslim American political assimilation, Muslim Americans and the 2008 presidential election, and ethnicity and religion. (949) 266-4249; jennan.read@duke.edu.

Poverty:
David Brady, associate professor of sociology. Specializes in poverty and inequality, work and labor, social policy. brady@soc.duke.edu.

Anna Gassman-Pines, professor of public policy studies. Specializes in low-wage work, and the effects of welfare policy on child and maternal well-being in low-income families. (919) 613-7301; agassman.pines@duke.edu.

Christina Gibson-Davis, professor of public policy studies and psychology. Specializes in analysis of anti-poverty programs, and the health and well-being of families and children. (919) 613-7364; cgibson@duke.edu.

Racial issues:
William A. Darity, professor of public policy, African and African American studies, and economics. Specializes in education policy, reparations and racial inequality. (919) 613-7336; william.darity@duke.edu.

Karla FC Holloway, professor of English. Specializes in health disparities, medical ethics, and race issues. (919) 684-8993; karla.holloway@duke.edu.