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Experts by Topic: Politics & Elections | Health Care | Economy | Energy Policy & Climate Change | Katrina Recovery
Dartmouth College is home to some of the world's leading scholars in their fields, many of whom have significant experience talking to media and the public about their research and professional expertise. In preparation for the Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Dartmouth, we've compiled a list of some of these faculty experts who can make themselves available to reporters working on stories related to their expertise. If you have trouble reaching a faculty member on this list or would like to inquire about an expert not listed here, please contact Genevieve Haas.
Politics & Elections
- Dean Lacy
Professor of Government
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Expertise includes electoral institutions and behavior, public opinion, political parties, Congress and the presidency, democratic theory, and game theory and methodology. Recent research includes the true predictive value of polling, specifically on the issues of the Iraq war and on taxes and spending
- Ron Shaiko
Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Rockefeller Center
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Research includes American politics, Congress, Nonprofit organizations, comparative politics, democratization, social movements, interest groups and lobbying.
- Annelise Orleck
Professor of History
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Expertise include women in politics, the significance of a woman front-runner or woman president, poverty policy (critiques of Edwards and Obama plans), and the changing demographics of the Democratic base.
- Joseph Bafumi
Assistant Professor of Government
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Electoral behavior, ideology, public opinion, the Supreme Court, public policy and representation, and political methodology. Recent research looks at voting patterns that paradoxically show rich states voting Democratic and poor states voting Republican in presidential elections despite evidence that, at the individual level, social scientists traditionally see evidence for richer voters voting Republican.
- Michael Herron
Associate Professor of Government
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Ballot abnormalities and residual votes, government redistribution, ecological inference, and statistical methods. Research addresses the "new model" of elections in which virtually every close election is contested and covered his findings relating to the rules and procedures of voting and statistical analysis as applied to voting anomalies
- Deborah Jordan Brooks
Assistant Professor of Government
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Public opinion, political behavior, campaigns and elections, political psychology, and gender in American politics. Research on negative campaigning and its effect on voter turnout.
Health Care
- Dr. Ira Byock
Professor of Anesthesiology and Community & Family Medicine; Director of Palliative Medicine
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End of life care, palliative care. Expertise on the current state of end-of-life care and the growing need for it as the Baby Boomer generation ages.
- Dr. Elliott Fisher
Professor of Medicine and of Community and Family Medicine
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Oversees the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which provides national and regional information on the performance of the U.S. health care system. Research focuses geographical variations in healthcare spending. His work demonstrating that higher spending regions and health systems do not achieve better outcomes or quality has had a major impact on current thinking about health care and health care reform. He is also a general internist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont where he co-directs the VA Outcomes Group, a research and training program for physicians.
Economy
- Andrew Samwick
Professor of Economics; Director of the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
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Expertise includes economics of retirement and Social Security, pensions, saving, taxation, portfolio choice, and executive compensation. He is the co-author of a set of reform proposals that restore solvency to the Social Security system through the addition of investment-based, personal retirement accounts. He has testified three times before Congressional committees on his research. He is a research associate and co-chair of the working group on Social Security research at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served as a consultant for the Social Security Advisory Board and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on the assumptions and methods they use to make long-term projections. In July 2003, Samwick joined the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, serving for a year as its chief economist.
- Jim Feyrer
Assistant Professor of Economics
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Macroeconomics. Expertise on the long-term implications of the budget deficit, long-term implications of technological change, economic growth in the long run.
Energy Policy & Climate Change
- Lee Lynd
Professor of Engineering
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Research focuses on biomass conversion and energy alternatives. He is the Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder and Director of Mascoma Corporation, a low-carbon cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a research and development laboratory in Lebanon, NH. He also leads an active academic group in the US devoted to biomass conversion, encompassing biotechnology, process engineering and energy and environmental public policy issues. He was the 2007 Winner of the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability, given to inventors whose products or processes are viable and sustainable, and have high potential to improve the quality of life for future generations; and a two-time recipient of the Charles A. Lindbergh Award for his efforts to promote balance between technological progress and preservation of the natural and human environments.
Katrina Recovery
- Quintus Jett
Tuck School of Business Research Associate
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Founder of the NOLA Accelerated Recovery Project (aka Gentilly Project) whose objective is to accelerate neighborhood recovery in New Orleans, based on organizing principles developed during the Howard Dean presidential campaign. The project involves an interactive, online mapping program to identify and color code every address in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans, identify available resources and organizations who can help and distribute those resources where they are most needed. The program was featured in both the New York Times and the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
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