Search Result For: Society & Culture
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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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Daniel Cornfield
Professor of Sociology
Expert in the American labor movement, the creative class, and work and occupation issues generally.
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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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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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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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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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Jonathan Hiskey
Associate Chair of Political Science
Expert on Latin American politics and Latin American migration.
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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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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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John Koch
Senior Lecturer and Director of Debate
Expert in debate, including argumentation analysis, persuasive techniques and rhetorical theory.
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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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Karla McKanders
Clinical Professor of Law
Expert in refugee and immigration Law. Runs Vanderbilt's Immigration Practice Clinic.
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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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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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Thomas Schwartz
Distinguished Professor of History
Historian of U.S. foreign policy, international relations and U.S. presidencies.
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Robert Talisse
W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy; Chair of the Philosophy Department
Expert in contemporary political philosophy, with a focus in democratic theory and political epistemology.
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Emilie Townes
Dean of the Divinity School; E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society
An expert in Christian ethics, womanist theology and womanist perspectives on health care, economic justice, poetry and literary theory.
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