2024 Election
CU Boulder faculty experts are available to discuss the Republican and Democratic candidates, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, U.S. Supreme Court cases, immigration, misinformation and more leading up to the General Election on Nov. 5.
Email cunews@colorado.edu to request an interview.
Please note: Several faculty experts can speak about multiple topics on this list. If you have a question or inquiry, please email us.
Biden—Harris news
Celeste Montoya, associate professor of women and gender studies, can discuss how a candidate’s racial, ethnic and gender identity can influence voter perceptions, and the unique challenges that women of color face on the campaign trail.
Race and Gender
Jennifer Hois the daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica,whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong. She is thedirector of the Center for Humanities & the ArtsandProfessor of Ethnic Studies at the 鶹Ƶ, where she specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and Critical Race Theory. She can discuss race, racism, multiracial identities, intersectional oppression, and social justice.
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Angie Chuang,an associate professor ofjournalismat the College of Media, Communication and Information can discuss race and gender in politics and how the media covers race and ethnicity.
Trump assassination attempt
Elizabeth Skewes is an associate professor of journalism and media studies, whose research focuses on media sociology, news practices, and the media’s role in electoral politics. She can discuss news coverage surrounding the assassination attempt and subsequent media response.
Ross Taylor, an assistant professor of journalism at the College of Media, Communication and Information and an award-winning photojournalist, can discuss what he views as “the perfect news photo” taken of President Donald Trump immediately following the assassination attempt.
Supreme Court andelections
Doug Spencer is an expert in election and constitutional law. He can speak about the ongoing cases involving former president Donald Trump, particularly Trump v. Anderson (Colorado ballot/14th Amendment) and the federal election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Professor Spencer is also an expert on statewide redistricting efforts and manages the website “All about Redistricting.”
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Political violence and vigilantism
Regina Bateson is an assistant professor in the political science department. She studies and can speak about the following topics: Electability, gender and politics, vigilantism, immigration, asylum policy and Central America.
Immigrationand Indigenous communities
Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram is a professor of constitutional law and immigration law at CU Boulder. He can speak about immigration policy, border enforcement, state and local immigration law, the constitutional rights of noncitizens and DACA.
Christina Stanton is a clinical professor and leads the American Indian Law Clinic at CU Boulder. She can speak about election rights and election discrimination in Indigenous communities—both in Colorado and around the country.
- Learn more: American Indian Law Clinic
Misinformation and technology
Ethan Poskanzer is an assistant professor at the Leeds School of Business. His current research focuses on misinformation and voters—including how voters differentiate between the concepts of “factual” and “true” based on how it aligns with their political beliefs.
Sandra Ristovska is an assistant professor of media studies. Her work focuses on how media influence and shape issues around human rights, justice and the law. She can speak about artificial intelligence and deepfakes, such as AI-generated robocalls.
Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies and director of the Media Economies Design Lab. He researches democratic ownership and governance on the internet. The author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (2024), he can speak to the role the internet, its design and its culture have played in the rise of authoritarianism worldwide.
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