Faculty Subject Matter Experts
Dartmouth faculty and administrator subject matter experts are available to comment on a variety of topics and current events. For additional help, contact the Office of Communications at 603-646-3661 or media.relations@dartmouth.edu.
Marvin Chochotte: slavery, revolutions, freedom, political violence against Black African descendants in the Americas, Haiti.
Jesse W. Shipley: new media and society, popular culture and politics, sovereignty, African politics
Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song: medical and psychological anthropology, marginalized populations, health equity in rural health New England
Jesse Casana: archaeology of the Middle East, cultural sites in Syria
Sienna Radha Craig: medical and cultural anthropology, South and East Asia (Nepal, greater Himalaya, Tibetan areas of China)
Jeremy DeSilva: human evolution, Australopithecus, bipedalism, primate locomotion, foot functional anatomy, birth evolution
Nathaniel J. Dominy: human and nonhuman primate foraging ecology, sensory ecology and evolution, tropical plant-animal interactions
Mary Coffey: U.S. and Latin American art and culture, Mexican muralism
Dennis Charles Washburn: Japanese literature, culture and film; Japanese translation
Matthew Ayres: insect ecology, bark beetles, emerald ash borer, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), mosquitoes, forest ecology, seasonal cycles, invasive-species ecology, climate change and pests
Celia Chen: ecology and evolutionary biology, especially mercury and other metal contaminants in aquatic food webs
Kathryn L. Cottingham: ecology, and public and environmental health, such as the dynamics of lake plankton and arsenic
Mary Lou Guerinot: molecular and cellular biology, especially metal uptake in crop plants
Caitlin Hicks Pries: ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil ecology and climate change
C. Robertson McClung: circadian rhythms, photorespiration, plant molecular genetics
Ivan Aprahamian: molecular switches and machines, fluorophores, sensors
Chenfeng Ke: smart 3D printing materials, polymer materials design, supramolecular chemistry, porous polymers for storage and separations
Katherine A. Mirica: chemical sensors, portable devices, nanomaterials, adhesives, smart materials
Paul Christesen: Ancient Sparta, Greek athletics, Greek history and historiography, history of the Olympics
Julie Hruby: archaeological fingerprints, ancient craft production, ancient gender and class structures
Roberta Stewart: history of slavery, Roman history, ancient religion
Lindsay Whaley: endangered languages, linguistics
Adina Roskies: cognitive neuroimaging with PET and fMRI, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, neuroethics
Andrew Campbell: ubiquitous computing, including using smartphones to improve people’s physical, emotional and mental health
David F. Kotz: mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology, security and privacy, wireless networks
Wojciech Jarosz: computer graphics, film and video animation
SouYoung Jin: video understanding, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal learning, cognitive science
Sarah Masud Preum: human-AI interaction, computational health, data science, natural language processing, conversational assistants, deep learning
Temiloluwa Prioleau: data science for health, mobile/wearable technology for healthcare
Soroush Vosoughi: expert on ethical AI; AI and society; large language models; generative AI; natural language processing; computational social science
Yujun Yan: machine learning, graph/data mining, graph neural networks, interpretable machine learning, program understanding and synthesis
Yaoqing Yang: machine learning, 3D point clouds, statistical physics, loss landscape, neural-network weight analysis, information theory, coded computing
Mary Flanagan: digital humanities, games and psychology, human values in design
Robert Hawley: Antarctica, Greenland, ice sheets, glaciers, snow, geophysics
Meredith Kelly: climate change, glacial geologic studies, geomorphology
Erich Osterberg: paleoclimatology, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, snow and ice chemistry
Marisa Palucis: water on Earth and Mars, climate change on Earth and other planets
Patricia Anderson: childhood obesity and economics, unemployment insurance, food insecurity
Douglas Irwin: U.S. trade policy, the WTO, the Great Depression
Andrew Levin: The Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, monetary policy
Ethan Lewis: immigration, how immigration benefits U.S.-born workers, technological change, U.S. public education
Bruce Sacerdote: child and youth outcomes, peer effects, determinants of college-going
Andrew Samwick: retirement and Social Security
Christopher Snyder: industrial organization, microeconomic theory, law and economics, economics of developing vaccines
Douglas O. Staiger: economics of education, health economics, labor economics
Charles Wheelan: public policy, accessible economics, accessible statistics
Jonathan Zinman: household finance, consumer choice, behavioral economics and psychology
Eric Zitzewitz: financial markets, investments, elections, forecasting
Alexis Abramson: building energy efficiency; sustainable energy technology; data analytics applied to energy applications
Tillman Gerngross: protein engineering; metabolic engineering; protein expression
Weiyang (Fiona) Li: energy materials; energy storage and conversion devices; batteries, fuel cells, and clean/renewable energy; electric car batteries
Lee Rybeck Lynd: use of nonedible plants to produce energy, microbial cellulose utilization
Geoffrey Parker: energy economics, policy, strategy, innovation, market structure & performance
Donald Perovich: sea ice geophysics; the interaction of sunlight with ice and snow; the Arctic system and climate change
Jason T. Stauth: power electronics that interface between solar panels, the grid, and devices that use energy; power electronics and electromechanical energy conversion
Charles R. Sullivan: power electronics that interface between solar panels, the grid, and devices that use energy; energy efficiency and renewable energy
Colleen Glenney Boggs: literature and culture of the American Civil War, cultural impact of federal military draft, relation between nation and symbols, 19th century literature and culture
Donald E. Pease: Theodor Seuss Geisel (“Dr Seuss”), 19th century American literature, literary theory, American cultural studies
Melody Brown Burkins: Arctic science policy and diplomacy; global science and diplomacy, including sustainability, inclusion and gender equality initiatives
Andrew Friedland: forest biogeochemistry, soil science, ecosystem science, energy and the environment
Ross Virginia: ecosystem ecology, soil biogeochemical cycling, climate change in polar systems, Arctic policy, environmental law
Jodie Mack: animation, animation history, avant-garde cinema
Mary R. Desjardins: film, television and radio history; print culture and the media; feminist theory and feminist filmmaking; gender and the media
Jeffrey Ruoff: documentary videomaking, documentary ethnographic film history, film festivals
Mark J. Williams: history and theory of film television, romantic comedy, the western, U.S. television history, moving image archives
Paul David Young: American naturalist film and early cinema, intermedia relationship between cinema, video and comics; Frank Miller; Alfred Hitchcock films
Faith E. Beasley: 17th and 18th century French literature and culture, women writers of the early modern period
Nancy Canepa: early modern Italian literature and culture, fairy tales
Lawrence D. Kritzman: French intellectual and cultural history
Luis F. Alvarez León: economic geography, geographic information, geospatial technologies, self-driving cars and geospatial data, critical GIS, information policy, digital economy
Jonathan Chipman: geographic information systems (GIS), applied spatial analysis, cartography and geovisualization
Susanne Freidberg: cultural geographies of food, corporate food supply chains
Francis Magilligan: global water resources, human impacts on watersheds, flood hydrology
Justin S. Mankin: climate impacts on people and ecosystems, extreme weather and climate, climate modeling, drought and ecohydrology
Jonathan Winter: climate variability and change, climate impacts on water resources and agriculture, global climate model projections, hydroclimate
Richard Wright: immigration, migration, racialization, mixed-race studies
Lisa V. Adams: healthcare and COVID-19
Elliott Fisher: geography/U.S. mapping of the COVID-19 pandemic
Feng Fu: mathematical biology, applied math, infectious diseases, cancer, evolutionary theory
Anne N. Sosin: global health, health equity in rural health New England
Elizabeth A. Talbot: infectious and tropical diseases, global health and outbreak investigation and control
Joseph Bafumi: polling numbers, public opinion, and America’s polarization
Deborah Jordan Brooks: public opinion regarding female candidates, media and advertising in American politics
Stephen Brooks: international relations theory, international security, U.S. foreign policy, unipolarity and U.S. security
John Michael Carey: constitutions, elections, legislatures, Latin American politics, new democracies
Mia Costa: political representation, gender, voter mobilization
Linda Fowler: N.H. presidential primary, female candidates, Congress, interest groups, campaign ethics
Dean Lacy: electoral institutions and behavior, public opinion, political parties, Congress and the presidency, democratic theory, game theory and methodology
Jennifer Lind: Japan, U.S.-Korea relations and East Asian affairs
Russell Muirhead: political parties and ideology, democracy and politics
Nicholas Miller: nuclear proliferation, international security, U.S. foreign policy
Herschel Nachlis: Health policy and politics, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), vaccine regulation, public policy
Brendan Nyhan: political misperceptions and conspiracy theories, political scandal and corruption, myths about flu vaccines, fake news
Benjamin A. Valentino: political violence, genocide, foreign policy
William C. Wohlforth: international relations theory, international security, U.S. foreign policy, unipolarity and U.S. security, Cold War and its end
Sarah Crockett: wilderness medicine, rural and low-resource health care, telemedicine, disaster response, global health, trauma
Elliott Fisher: health system performance, Affordable Care Act, geography/U.S. mapping of the COVID-19 pandemic
Saeed Hassanpour: biomedical informatics, machine learning, AI for healthcare, medical imaging, digital pathology
Robert Bonner: American civil war, history of Emancipation
Leslie Butler: 19th century American history, American thought and culture, Victorian America
Matthew F. Delmont: African-American history, U.S. history, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, television, popular culture, media
Cecilia Gaposchkin: medieval cultural history, French history, saints and sanctity, history of liberal arts
Udi Greenberg: modern European thought, modern European politics, religion and secularism, sexuality and gender
Stefan J. Link: economic history, historical political economy, intellectual history of capitalism, history of Fordism
Darrin McMahon: French Revolution, European Enlightenment, intellectual and cultural history, history of genius, history of happiness
Edward Miller: The U.S. and the world, modern Vietnamese history, the Vietnam War
Jennifer M. Miller: international history, U.S. and the world, the Cold War, World War II in the Pacific, U.S.-Japanese relations, U.S.-East Asian relations, history of capitalism
Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality
David C. Petruccelli: modern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the history of international organizations, the history of policing (mostly international policing), the history of international law, the global war on drugs, the history of prostitution and sex trafficking
Lisa Baldez: comparative politics, Latin American politics, women and gender in the U.S. and Latin America, human rights treaties
Jorge Cuéllar: Central American politics, race, culture, migration, social movements, U.S. and Central America
Peter DeShazo: U.S. foreign policy in Latin America; Latin American history, government and security
Feng Fu: mathematical biology, applied math, infectious diseases, cancer, evolutionary theory
Dan Rockmore: complex systems, network analysis, machine learning, cultural evolution
Peter Winkler: mathematical puzzles
Michael Casey: sound and music computing; music perception, cognition, and neuroscience, machine learning for audio and music
Steve Swayne: art music from 1700 to the present day, opera, American musical theater
N. Bruce Duthu: American Indians and the law, tribal sovereignty and political relations
Susan Brison: philosophy of law, feminist ethics, gender-based violence
Marcelo Gleiser: theoretical physics, especially cosmology, high-energy physics, complexity theory, astrobiology
Ryan Hickox: black holes, cosmic evolution of galaxies, large-scale structure of the Universe, neutron stars
Robyn Millan: space physics, X-rays produced in association with lightning, Earth’s radiation belts
Lorenza Viola: quantum theory, open quantum systems and irreversibility, quantum information and computation, quantum statistical mechanics
Brad Duchaine: social perception, face perception/prosopagnosia, neuropsychology, cognitive genetics
Jay Hull: psychology, social psychology, self-awareness, depression, behavioral deviance
Caroline Robertson: sensory perception and cognition in autism, Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative, early detection of autism
Kyle Smith: neuroscience, learning and memory, reward and motivation, emotion, addiction, habits
Thalia Wheatley: social psychology, especially human social intelligence
Susan Ackerman: religion of ancient Israel, religion of Israel’s neighbors (Mesopotamia, Egypt and Canaan)
Zahra Ayubi: Islam, Islam in America, gender in Islam, women and Islam, Muslim feminism, Islamic ethics, Islamic biomedical ethics
Randall Balmer: American religious history, evangelicalism in the U.S.
Susanna Heschel: Judaism, Nazi Germany, Jewish feminism, Abraham Geiger, Jewish views of Islam
Devin Singh: history of Christian thought, philosophy of religion, social ethics, religion and economics, sociology of markets and money, religion and politics, race and coloniality
John L. Campbell: economic, political and comparative sociology; comparative political economy, 2008 financial crisis
Marc Dixon: sociology of work and labor, collective behavior and social movements, political sociology
Jason Houle: sociology of mental health, student loan debt, household debt, foreclosure crisis
Sunmin Kim: race, immigration, minority politics, public opinion, policy preferences of Asian Americans, historical sociology
Janice McCabe: gender, education, childhood and adolescence, friendships, race and ethnic inequality, sexuality
Kristin E. Smith: gender inequality, employment and earnings, and work and family policy
Emily Walton: race and place; residential experiences and health among multiple racial and ethnic groups, segregation, ethnic neighborhoods
Monica White Ndounou: theater, film and media studies, with an emphasis in African American and by extension related African diasporic influences