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Faculty Experts

Collage of faculty talking and teaching

These members of the faculty and other members of the community are knowledgeable in various disciplines and can provide expert commentary on a wide range of issues in the news. Please contact the  Communications Office if you would like to reach them.

Faculty Experts Spotlight

Faculty Experts Spotlight

Race, class & inequality
Prisons & carceral policy
Urban sociology & public policy
Black political thought & culture
Stratification & class mobility

Nina Johnson, Sociology and Anthropology and Black Studies

Nina Johnson

Shame & shaming
Moral emotions & psychology
Ethics
Social/political philosophy

Krista Thomason, Philosphy

Krista Thomason

Behavioral economics
Decision-making
Public policy
Experimental economics
Public economics

Syon Bhanot, Economics

Syon Bhanot

Fields of Expertise

SwatTalk Shorts: David Harrison on Endangered Languages

Environmental linguist K. David Harrison describes his field work documenting endangered languages for the Talking Dictionary.

SwatTalk Shorts: Allison Dorsey on American History and the Pursuit of Freedom

Historian Allison Dorsey on the pursuit and struggle for freedom throughout American history.