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.

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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Bernard Firestone, Dean, Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Political science, International Relations

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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

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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.

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

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

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

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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)

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

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

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Bob Papper, Director, RTNDA/Hofstra University 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.

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

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

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

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