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Debate 2012 - October 16, 2012

A Guide to the Presidential Debate and Pride, Politics & Policy Education and Event Series

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Experts

For more information about Âé¶¹´«Ã½’s faculty experts, go to /experts or contact University Relations at 516-463-6818.

Politics/Presidential Campaigns/Government

Meena Bose, Peter S. Kalikow Endowed
Chair in Presidential Studies, Director, Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency; Lecturer for Washington Center at Democratic and Republican national conventions
Expertise: the American presidency, leadership and politics, presidential elections, presidential history, foreign policy.


Evan Cornog, Dean, School of Communication
Expertise: presidential politics, media, politics and the press, NYC history


Philip Dalton, Chair, Speech Communication, Rhetoric and Performance Studies
Expertise: Political communication, campaign rhetoric, public argument, debating


Michael D’Innocenzo, Harry H. Wachtel Distinguished Teaching Professor for the Study of Nonviolent Social Change
Expertise: Civic engagement, citizen/student activism, Civil Rights movement


Carolyn Dudek, Associate professor of political science; Director, European Studies program
Expertise: Presidential primaries and elections, European and Latin American politics (Fluent in Spanish)


Carolyn Eisenberg, Professor of History
Expertise: Iraq war; Guantanamo Bay; history of presidential elections


Leslie Feldman, Professor of Political Science
Expertise: American politics; the presidency; presidential elections.


Bernard Firestone, Dean, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Political science, International Relations


David Green, Professor of Political Science
Led student trip to New Hampshire ahead of that state’s primaries.
Expertise: American politics, international relations, European politics and integration, EU, foreign policy


Richard Himelfarb, Professor of Political Science
Attended Republican National Convention; led student trip to New Hampshire leading up to that state’s primaries.
Expertise: Presidential politics; Affordable Health Care Act; Social Security.


Corinne Kyriacou, Program Director, Master of Public Health Program
Expertise: Health care policy; Affordable Health Care Act


Lawrence Levy, Executive Dean, National Center for Suburban Studies
Expertise: Presidential election and suburban issues and voters; New York state and Long Island politics.


Gregory Maney, Chair, Department of Sociology; Co-Director, Center for Civic Engagement; Director, Irish Studies Program
Expertise: Immigration issues, population studies, Irish Studies


Mario Murillo, Chair, Department or Radio, Television and Film, Co-Director, Center for Civic Engagement
Expertise: radio journalism, Latin American media and community radio (Spanish)


Stefanie Nanes, Associate Professor of Political Science
Expertise: Middle East politics, women and gender in the Middle East


Christopher Niedt, Academic Director, National Center for Suburban Studies
Expertise: Suburbia, housing issues, mortgage crisis


Bob Papper, Director, RTNDA/Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Annual Survey on the State of Local Television and Radio News; Chair, Journalism, Media Studies, Public Relations
Expertise: Media coverage of the presidential campaign; future of the media industry.


Rosanna Perotti, Chair, Political Science Department
Expertise: Political parties and the voter; voter preferences; campaign finance; the presidential nomination process, Congress


David Powell, Director, LGBT Studies Program
Expertise: same-sex marriage, LGBT issues


Shawn Thelen, Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business
Expertise: Political marketing (Russian proficient; basic Mandarin)


Daniel Varisco, Professor of Anthropology,
Director, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies Program
Expertise: Islam in the Middle East, Yemen, Somalia

Business and Economics

Herman Berliner, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor
Expertise: Economic issues; economics of education.


Barry Berman, Walter H. Miller Distinguished Professor of Marketing and International Business
Expertise: China; Chinese marketing and products; retail management.


Robert Campbell, Associate Professor of Finance
Expertise: The mortgage crisis and the presidential campaign; real estate.


Gregory DeFreitas, Director, Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy
Expertise: Job and pay trends; economics of immigration; earnings inequality; youth unemployment.


Joel Evans, RMI Distinguished Professor of Business
Expertise: Marketing trends; consumer trends; retail; online retail; big box companies; ethics in marketing.


Robert Guttmann, Professor of Economics
Expertise: Monetary economics; public finance; international economics; economic integration in the European Union.


Patrick Socci, Dean, Frank G. Zarb School of Business
Expertise: Telecommunications, Finance


Anoop Rai, Professor of Finance, Director, Center for International Financial Services and Markets
Expertise: Risk management, Dodd-Frank Bill, Wall Street reforms, international investment


Andrew Spieler, Associate Professor of Finance
Expertise: Real estate, mortgages, corporate governance.


Legal Issues

Janet Dolgin, Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law, Co-Director, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Bioethics Center
Expertise: Stem cell research; medical ethics; health care law.


Eric Freedman, Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law
Expertise: Constitutional law; history; civil and criminal procedure and strategy; death penalty;
First Amendment and other civil liberties issues; Guantanamo Bay detainees.


Monroe Freedman, Professor of Law
Expertise: Legal ethics


Leon Friedman, Joseph Kushner Distinguished Professor of Civil Liberties Law
Expertise: Copyright law; civil rights; civil procedure; criminal procedure; Constitutional law; First Amendment


Daniel J.H. Greenwood, Professor of Law
Expertise: Economic crisis, recession, depression, financial markets,, mergers and acquisitions, brokerage houses, banks, mortgages, foreclosures, securities laws


Joanna Grossman, Professor of Law
Expertise: Same-sex marriage; sexual harassment; sex discrimination; family law.


James Sample, Associate Professor of Law
Expertise: Voting rights, campaign finance, government