WASHINGTON — Georgetown University professors offer their expertise to journalists seeking interviews on various subjects related to the Republican National Convention held July 15 – July 18, 2024.
To request to schedule an interview, please contact Georgetown’s Office of Communications at media@georgetown.edu.
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American Politics and Political Party Experts
Michele Swers, professor of government
- Areas of expertise: women and politics, congress and congressional elections
- Writing: The Forum, “After Dobbs: The Partisan And Gender Dynamics Of Legislating On Abortion In Congress“ and 2013 University of Chicago Press, “Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate”
- Previously provided expertise on Congressional policymaking and elections and the role of women in politics to media outlets including The NewsHour, Washington Post, CQ Weekly and Politico
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Hans Noel, associate professor of government
- Areas of expertise: political coalitions, political parties and ideology, presidential nominations politics and partisan politics
- Writing: 2013 Cambridge University Press, “Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America” and The New York Times, “There Is a Better Way to Pick a Presidential Nominee”
- Work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics and Perspectives on Politics
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Michael A. Bailey, Colonel William J. Walsh professor of American government in the Department of Government and McCourt School of Public Policy
- Areas of expertise: American politics, data science, public opinion polls, statistics and the Supreme Court
- Writing: 2020 Oxford University Press, “Using Econometrics For Political Science And Public Policy” and American Politics Research, “A Two-Way Street on Iraq: On the Interaction of Citizen Policy Preferences and Presidential Approval“
- Previous work covering trade, Congress, election law and the Supreme Court, methodology and inter-state policy competition has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, World Politics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
- Open to: TV, Radio & Print
International Relations and Foreign Policy Experts
Marc Busch, Karl F. Landegger professor of international business diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
- Areas of expertise: diplomacy, international law and international trade
- Previously served for two terms as a “cleared advisor” on technical trade barriers to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative
- Writing: 2011 Cambridge University Press, “The Politics of International Economic Law”
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Lise Morje Howard, professor of government and foreign service
- Areas of expertise: international relations, war termination, the Russia-Ukraine war, comparative politics, peacekeeping and U.S. foreign policy
- Previously served as Acting Director of UN Affairs for the New York City Commission for the United Nations
- Writing: Foreign Affairs, “The Case for a Security Guarantee for Ukraine” and 2019 Cambridge University Press, “Power in Peacekeeping”
- Fluent in French and Russian, and speaks some Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Spanish, and German
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Daniel Byman, professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of Government
- Areas of expertise: terrorism, counterterrorism, Middle East security, civil and ethnic conflict and international security
- From 2002 to 2004 he served as a Professional Staff Member with the 9/11 Commission and with the Joint 9/11 Inquiry Staff of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees
- Writing: Intelligence and National Security, “US counterterrorism intelligence cooperation with the developing world and its limits”
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Health Policy Experts
Joan C Alker, executive director and co-founder of the Center for Children and Families (CCF), and a research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
- Area of expertise: Children and Youth Policy, Medicaid, State Medicaid and CHIP Programs
- Nationally recognized expert on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and is the lead author of CCF’s annual report on children’s health care coverage trends
- Writing: Health Affairs, “Children’s Health Insurance Coverage: Progress, Problems, And Priorities For 2021 And Beyond“ and Harvard Health Policy Review, “Why the Number of Uninsured Children is Going Up: A Conversation with Professor Joan Alker”
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Edwin Park, research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families
- Areas of expertise: Health policy including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Affordable Care Act, drug pricing and access, and tax policies related to health care.
- Served as the health policy advisor for the National Economic Council at the White House during the Clinton Administration and as a Medicaid professional staff member for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee
- Quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune
- Open to: Radio and Print
Criminal Justice Policy Experts
Andrea Headley, assistant professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy
- Areas of expertise: criminal justice policy, police-community relations, racial equity and the intersection of public administration and management
- Writing: 2021 Public Management Review, “Accountability and Police Use of Force: Interactive Effects Between Minority Representation and Civilian Review Boards” and Public Administration Review, “Bureaucracy, Democracy, and Race: The Limits of Symbolic Representation”
- Research has been published in journals including the Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration, and the Journal of Criminal Justice
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
Safety Experts
John Cohen, adjunct professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
- Area of expertise: law enforcement, policy development, homeland and national security, terrorism and counter-intelligence.
- Currently serves as the Executive Director of the Program for Countering Hybrid Threats at the Center for Internet Security
- Previously served as the Acting Under-Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and Counterterrorism Coordinator for the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Open to: TV, Radio and Print
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