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Mark Abkowitz
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expert in enterprise risk management, hazardous materials transportation, and impacts of extreme weather on infrastructure adaptation.
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Samar Ali
Research Professor of Political Science and Law
Expert in the intersection of conflict mediation, national security, economic development and human rights.
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Hiba Baroud
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expert in risk, reliability and resilience of critical infrastructure against climate change and natural disasters, particularly flooding.
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Jeffrey Bennett
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Medical humanities expert who specializes in health, citizenship, LGBT/queer studies, cultural studies and rhetorical theory and criticism.
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Sophie Bjork-James
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Anthropology
Expert on the U.S.-based religious right and the white nationalist movement, particularly online communities.
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Audrey Bowden
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expert in light-based tools for applications to medicine and biology, including early detection, diagnosis and therapy.
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Michael Burcham
Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship
Expert in the business of healthcare and entrepreneurial development.
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Erin Calipari
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Expert in the neuroscience of mental illness and addiction, including gender differences.
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Janey Camp
Research Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expert on climate change and interactions of nature and infrastructure.
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Ken Catania
Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences
Expert on sensory systems' impact on animal behavior, particularly naked mole rats, star-nosed moles, cockroaches and eels.
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Amanda Clayton
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Expert in gender and politics, with a focus on the impact of women legislators and candidates and public perception of women leaders.
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Ellen Clayton
Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Law; Professor of Health Policy
World-renowned medical ethicist working at the intersection of law, medicine and public health, with a focus on genetics.
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Josh Clinton
Abby and Jon Winkelried Professor of Political Science
Polling expert who uses statistical methods to explain political processes. Co-directs the Vanderbilt Poll.
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Bruce Compas
Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Professor of Pediatrics, Co-Director of Clinical Psychology Training, and Director of Psychology at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
An expert on how stress affects the physical and mental health of children and families, and the power of coping and preventative measures.
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Daniel Cornfield
Professor of Sociology
Expert in the American labor movement, the creative class, and work and occupation issues generally.
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Larisa DeSantis
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Studies mammal teeth and bones to determine how they responded to ancient climate change and reasons why they went extinct.
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William Doyle
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education
An expert on how geography affects higher education attainment and the state of the financial aid system in America.
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Lisa Fazio
Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development
Expert on how people process true and false information, and how to mitigate the effects of reading and sharing false information.
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Andrew Finch
Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Human and Organizational Development; Core Faculty, Human Development Counseling
An expert who specializes in recovery high schools, substance use disorders, teen addiction and school counseling.
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Brian Fitzpatrick
Professor of Law
Expert on class action litigation, federal courts, judicial selection, constitutional law and the Supreme Court.
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Douglas Fuchs
Professor of Special Education and Nicholas Hobbs Chair of Special Education and Human Development and Professor Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt University Medical School
Special education expert on interventions for children with learning disabilities and behavior disorders.
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John Geer
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Arts and Science
National expert in political campaigns, political advertising and public opinion. Co-directs the Vanderbilt Poll.
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Jonathan Gilligan
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Expert on the impact of human behavior and public policy on climate, with a focus on how small changes add up to make big differences.
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Kelly Goldsmith
Professor of Marketing
Expert in marketing, market research, and consumer behavior focusing on the impact of scarcity and sales on shoppers' mindsets.
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Jason Grissom
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education
An expert in K-12 leadership and policy and the impacts of school and district leaders on teacher and student outcomes.
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T.S. Harvey
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Expert in cross-cultural doctor-patient interactions, public health communications, disaster relief and crisis management.
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Kelly Haws
Anne Marie and Thomas B. Walker, Jr. Professor of Marketing
Expert in food consumption choices, dieting, financial decision making, and self-control in consumption.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel
Associate Professor of Psychology
Neuroscientist and international expert in how brain size and structure affect cognition and longevity in animals.
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Joni Hersch
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics
Expert in employment discrimination, focusing particularly on women, minorities and immigrants.
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Jonathan Hiskey
Associate Chair of Political Science
Expert on Latin American politics and Latin American migration.
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James Hudnut-Beumler
Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History
Expert in the history of religion in the American South.
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Kathryn L. Humphreys
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development
A clinical psychologist with expertise in infant mental health.
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Sarah Igo
Andrew Jackson Chair in American History; Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Sociology; Director, American Studies Program
Expert in the history of American privacy, social security, big data, survey data and the public sphere.
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Owen Jones
Glenn M. Weaver, M.D. and Mary Ellen Weaver Chair in Law, Brain, and Behavior
Expert in the intersection of law and behavioral biology.
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Nicole M. Joseph
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education Teaching and Learning
An expert in the barriers that Black women and girls face in the STEM field and STEM classroom.
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John Koch
Senior Lecturer and Director of Debate
Expert in debate, including argumentation analysis, persuasive techniques and rhetorical theory.
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Paul Kramer
Associate Professor of History
Expert in modern U. S. history, with an emphasis on transnational histories, American social thought and the politics of inequality.
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Jane Landers
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History
Expert on digital archives and the history of Colonial Latin America, slavery, early American black history.
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David Lewis
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science
Expert in federal bureaucracy, including agency performance, agency oversight and the political appointment process.
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David Lubinski
Professor of Psychology and Human Development; Co-Director, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY); Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development
An expert who co-leads the foremost longitudinal study of gifted individuals in the world.
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Jonathan M. Metzl
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society
World-renowned expert on gun violence and mental illness, white identity politics and race and health.
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Robert Mikos
Professor of Law
Expert in federalism and drug law, including marijuana legalization.
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Rich Milner
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
Expert on urban education and teacher education, centering on equity and diversity.
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Bruce Morrill
Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies
A Roman Catholic Priest and Jesuit whose scholarship focuses on liturgy and sacraments and political theologies.
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Maury Nation
Associate Professor, Core Faculty, Human Development Counseling
An expert in restorative justice, suspensions, equity for students of color and restorative discipline practices.
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Mariann Piano
Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing
Expert in substance abuse and cardiac disease, particularly binge drinking by young adults.
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Cynthia Reinhart-King
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering expert whose research focuses on reducing cancer metastasis and artery hardening.
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Renã Robinson
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow
Expert in racial disparities in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's triggers in peripheral organs. Advocate for inclusive research design.
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Antonis Rokas
Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences
Expert on patterns of evolution, with a focus on the earliest forms of life.
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Norbert Ross
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Expert in child centered anthropology, including children and violence.
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