MILWAUKEE _ There’s lots of ground to cover in the the 2018 midterm elections, from flipping seats and voter suppression to a high stakes, nationally relevant race for Wisconsin governor. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are available to discuss various dimensions of the 2018 midterm elections and post-election analysis.<\/p>\n
The Media Services team at 51ÁÔÆæ is available to help facilitate interview requests. Please email media-services-team@uwm.edu<\/a> for urgent requests and the first available team member will respond. You can also\u00a0email the faculty experts below directly or call Angela McManaman<\/a> at 414-229-5703 for help reaching them.<\/p>\n The\u00a0experts list is linked from\u00a0the university\u2019s media page, as well.<\/p>\n Kathleen Dolan<\/a><\/strong> Thomas Holbrook<\/strong><\/a> Joseph Rodriguez<\/strong><\/a> Paru Shah<\/strong> Kathleen Dolan<\/a><\/strong> Hong Min Park<\/a><\/strong> Sara Benesh<\/a><\/strong> Cary Gabriel Costello<\/strong><\/a> Hamid Mohtadi<\/a><\/strong> Christopher Cantwell<\/strong><\/a> Richard Grusin<\/a> Shale Horowitz<\/a><\/strong> Gladys Mitchell-Walthour<\/strong> Hamid Mohtadi<\/a><\/strong> Jeffrey Sommers<\/a><\/strong> Natasha Borges Sugiyama<\/a><\/strong> MILWAUKEE _ There’s lots of ground to cover in the the 2018 midterm elections, from flipping seats and voter suppression to a high stakes, nationally relevant race for Wisconsin governor. Experts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are available to discuss various dimensions of the 2018 midterm elections and post-election analysis. The Media Services team at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"section":[],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[],"class_list":["post-64163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"yoast_head":"\nStatewide races and outcomes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nkdolan@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nKathleen Dolan is a distinguished professor of political science who can speak in general terms about the 2018 midterm elections<\/a> and legislative politics. Her research interests include women in politics, and she is the author of When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nholbroot@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nThomas Holbrook is a distinguished professor of political science and the Wilder Crane Professor of Government. He can speak to political behavior, campaigns and elections and state politics, and is author of the 2017 book\u00a0Altered States: Changing Populations, Changing Parties, and the Transformation of the American Political Landscape<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\njoerod@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nHistory Professor Joseph Rodriguez can discuss Latino voting trends, turnout and get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at this important segment of the electorate. He can also discuss why Latinos might be hesitant to vote, including lack of citizenship and fear of deportation.<\/p>\n
\nshahp@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor of Political Science Paru Shah can discuss voter turnout, particularly among voters of color<\/a> in Milwaukee and other urban communities.<\/p>\nCongressional races and outcomes: House and Senate<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nkdolan@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nKathleen Dolan is a distinguished professor of political science who can speak in general terms about the 2018 midterm elections<\/a> and legislative politics. Among her research specialties is the topic of women in politics, and she is the author of When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nHmpark1@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor of Political Science Hong Min Park studies the Congress and can speak in general terms about U.S. House and Senate races, why districts \u201cflip\u201d in midterm elections and related issues.<\/p>\nIssues affecting voter turnout and behavior:
\n<\/strong>LGBT+ identity, Supreme Court, tariffs, trade<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nsbenesh@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nSara Benesh is an associate professor of political science focusing on judicial decision making and the judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court.\u00a0Benesh\u00a0is a regular contributor to Washington University Law’s\u00a0Supreme Court Database<\/a>.\u00a0She can discuss the nomination process for Supreme Court justices, public views<\/a> of the\u00a0court’s historical and\u00a0political\u00a0significance, its recent\u00a0rulings on voting rights and\u00a0gerrymandering and\u00a0redistricting, and how the nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh intersects with the midterm elections.<\/p>\n
\ncostello@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nAssociate Professor of Sociology Cary Gabriel Costello is a gender scholar and director of the LGBT Studies program in 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s College of Letters & Science. Costello can discuss how gender and LGBT issues intersect with the 2018 midterm elections<\/a>. Costello also teaches a sociology course titled \u201cSolving Social Problems,\u201d and he can address the broader issue of political polarization \u2013 why it is rising and why people worry about it.<\/p>\n
\nMohtadi@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nProfessor of Economics Hamid Mohtadi is an expert in development and international economics and can discuss the current effects and potential future outcomes of the Trump administration\u2019s tariff wars<\/a> with China and Europe.<\/p>\nAmerican issues\u00a0during the midterms: e<\/strong>conomics, foreign policy, media, religion and taxes<\/h3>\n
\ncantwelc@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nChristopher Cantwell<\/a> is an historian of American evangelicalism who focuses on politics, in addition to topics like the history of labor and the working class. He has written about Christian Socialism and leftist Christianity around issues of economic inequality and labor activism.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Grusin@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nRichard Grusin is a distinguished professor of English and director of the Center for 21st<\/sup> Century Studies at 51ÁÔÆæ. Grusin\u2019s writings have been translated into more than six languages, and he has taught around the world and appeared at numerous international conferences. In mid-November, he\u2019ll visit UW-Madison to deliver his talk: \u201cThe Trump Show: Terrorism and Total Mediation.\u201d Grusin also can speak about the history and significance of the National Parks Service.<\/p>\n
\nshale@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nProfessor of Political Science Shale Horowitz can discuss U.S.\u00a0relations with China, Russia and the Middle East, along with terrorism, oil prices\u00a0and other factors driving U.S. foreign policy.<\/p>\n
\nmitchelg@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nAssociate professor of public policy and political economy in the department of African & African Diaspora Studies, Gladys Mitchell Walthour can discuss\u00a0Brazilian political identity and how Afro-Brazilians and other Brazilians of color are responding to their country’s incoming right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro. She is the author of The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nMohtadi@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nProfessor of Economics Hamid Mohtadi is an expert in development and international economics and can discuss the current effects and potential future outcomes of the Trump administration\u2019s tariff wars<\/a> with China and Europe.<\/p>\n
\nsommerjw@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nProfessor Jeffrey Sommers is affiliated 51ÁÔÆæ’s departments of African & African Diaspora Studies and Global Studies as well as the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He can discuss how growing economic inequality has affected voting behavior, especially in calls for tax reform. He also can speak to the rise of “fake news” and fake grassroots groups known as “astroturf” organizations.<\/p>\n
\nsugiyamn@uwm.edu<\/a>
\nAn associate professor of political science and director of\u00a0the\u00a0Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Natasha Borges Sugiyama specializes in Brazilian politics. She\u00a0can discuss government programs<\/a> that are popular in Brazil, how they impact Brazilians, and the people and programs that might be affected by funding cuts proposed by Brazil’s incoming right-wing\u00a0president Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"