WASHINGTON — Georgetown University professors offer their issue expertise for journalists seeking interviews on a variety of subjects related to the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action.
To request to schedule an interview, please contact Georgetown’s Office of Communications at media@georgetown.edu.
Nadia E. Brown is a Professor of Government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women’s politics and holds a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Dr. Brown’s research interests lie broadly in identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women’s studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity.
Expertise: Intersectionality of Race and Gender, Political Behavior, Representation, Race and Ethnicity Politics, and Gender Politics
Anthony P. Carnevale currently serves as Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce at the McCourt School of Public Policy. Previously, Dr. Carnevale served as Vice President for Public Leadership at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). While at ETS, Dr. Carnevale was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the White House Commission on Technology and Adult Education.
Expertise: Race-Conscious Affirmative Action Report from the Center on Education and the Workforce
Corey D. Fields is the Associate Professor and Idol Family Term Chair In the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research explores the role of identity – at both the individual and collective level – in structuring social life, and contributes to the ongoing analysis of the relationship between identity, experience, and culture. His work draws on a cultural perspective – across a range of methodological approaches – that emphasizes the role of meaning and recognizes that identities are enacted in specific social contexts.
Expertise: Race and Politics, African American Studies, Culture and Politics, Sociology
Mushtaq Gunja is Chief of Staff and Vice President at the American Council on Education and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. Professor Gunja previously served as Assistant Dean in JD Programs at Georgetown Law. Prior to joining Georgetown, Professor Gunja served as the Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary at the United States Department of Education. As Chief of Staff, he provided strategic advice to the Under Secretary in the development and implementation of policies across higher education, including improving access and affordability, highlighting promising practices to foster completion, encouraging increased innovation, improving the borrower experience for students with federal loans, and ensuring fair treatment for all students of higher education.
Expertise: Higher Education and Criminal Justice
Harry J. Holzer is the John LaFarge Jr. SJ Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University’ McCourt School of Public Policy, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings, and an Institute Fellow at the American Institute for Research in Washington DC. He is a former Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor and a former Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He was a founding faculty director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. He is a research fellow at IZA (The Institute for Labor Economics). He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and of the Stanford Institute on Poverty and Inequality.
Expertise: Minority Employment Difficulties and Affirmative Action
Richard Kahlenberg is a nonresident scholar at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. The author or editor of 18 books, he has been called “the intellectual father of the economic integration movement” in K–12 schooling and “arguably the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions.” He is also an authority on housing segregation, teachers’ unions, charter schools, community colleges, and labor organizing.
Expertise: Class-based Affirmative Action
Frederick Lawrence is a Distinguished Lecturer at the Georgetown Law Center, and has previously served as president of Brandeis University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Visiting Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. An accomplished scholar, teacher and attorney, Lawrence is one of the nation’s leading experts on civil rights, free expression and bias crimes.Lawrence has published widely and lectured internationally. He is the author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law (Harvard University Press 1999), examining bias-motivated violence and the laws governing how such violence is punished in the United States.
Expertise: Education Law, Criminal Law and Procedure
Robin Lenhardt is the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute. She joined the Georgetown faculty after many years at Fordham University School of Law, where she was the Founder and Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Law & Justice. Professor Lenhardt entered academia after completing the Future Law Professor fellowship at Georgetown Law. Professor Lenhardt teaches constitutional law, family law, and advanced seminars on issues of race, equality, and structural racial inequality (among other subjects).
Expertise: Civil Rights and Discrimination, Constitutional Law, Family Law
Sherally Munshi is a professor of law at Georgetown Law. She earned her JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Literature from Columbia University. Before coming to Georgetown, she was a Perkins / LAPA Fellow at Princeton University. Her areas of scholarly interests include property law, immigration law, and critical legal theory. Her writing has appeared in the Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and Harper’s. Prior to teaching, she worked as a legal associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP, in New York.
Expertise: Asian American Legal Studies, Property Law, Immigration Law and Critical Legal Theory
Ella Washington is an organizational psychologist who finds inspiration through the intersection of business, diversity and leadership. Her research examines conditions of workplace cultures that best support inclusion, diversity and equity while also contributing to employee’s individual development. As a member of the management faculty at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Dr. Washington prides herself on helping to develop and equip tomorrow’s business leaders with skills to be high-performing inclusive managers.
Expertise: Business, Workplace culture, DEI, Strengths-based leadership and team development, Bias in the workplace, Developing human capital
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