Experts by Expertise: Politics

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11/6/18
James Coleman Battista
Associate Professor of Political Science

Expertise: national, state and legislative politics
Phone: 716-645-8438
Email: jbattist@buffalo.edu
11/4/21
James Campbell
UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Expertise: U.S. politics, political parties, political polarization, campaigns, public opinion, political participation, congressional elections, election forecasting, elections and the economy, presidential approval, electoral systems (including redistricting and ranked choice voting)
Phone: 716-645-8452
Email: jcampbel@buffalo.edu
6/27/22
Shawn J. Donahue

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Expertise: voting rights, redistricting, gerrymandering, state and local politics (including New York State and Buffalo-area politics), campaigns, elections, civil liberties, Constitutional law, election law
Phone: 716-645-8446
Email: shawndon@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yige Dong

Assistant Professor of Sociology, and of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: labor, work, gender and political economy, especially in China; labor and feminist movements in China and in a global context
Phone: 716-645-2417
Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Cecil Foster

Professor of Transnational Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Canadian studies; multiculturalism, politics, race, ethnicity and immigration in Canada
Phone: 716-645-0786
Email: cecilfos@buffalo.edu
12/6/21
Kenneth Joseph

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: computing for social good; societal impacts of social media and online platforms (including in news and politics); inequality and societal divides
Phone: 716-645-0682
Email: kjoseph@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

Assistant Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Africana and American Studies

Expertise: Native American studies; Haudenosaunee history; public history; settler colonialism, including colonial residential/boarding schools; land tenure; Indigenous inclusion in education; emotional labor
Phone: 716-645-0833
Email: alyssamt@buffalo.edu
8/20/18
Ryan Muldoon

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Expertise: social and political philosophy, diversity, international development policy, social norms, behavior change, ethics

Phone: 716-645-0140
Email: rmuldoon@buffalo.edu
8/19/21
Jacob Neiheisel

Associate Professor of Political Science

Expertise: political communication, campaigns, electoral strategy, religion and politics, the U.S. Christian right, voter turnout, voting rights, election administration, electoral reforms, the U.S. presidency

Phone: 716-645-8439
Email: jacobnei@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yotam Ophir

Assistant Professor of Communication

Expertise: misinformation; persuasion; effect of media content on audiences, including in health, science, politics and terrorism

Phone: 716-645-1158
Email: yotamoph@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Kristin Stapleton
Professor of History

Expertise: modern China; U.S.-China relations; Chinese cities; history of the family, socialism and humor in China
Phone: 716-645-5645
Email: kstaple@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Phillips Stevens Jr.
Associate Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: cultural anthropology, religion, spiritualism, cults, superstition, witchcraft, zombies, vampires, curses, rites of passage, populism, nativism, xenophobia
Phone: 716-645-0416
Email: pstevens@buffalo.edu
8/23/21
Gwynn Thomas, PhD

Chair and Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: gender and politics; feminism; global women’s movements, including #MeToo; politics in Latin America
Phone: 716-645-0793
Email: gmthomas@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Barbara Wejnert
Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: spread of democracy since 1800, democratic transitions and sustainability, Eastern European politics and political movements, democracy and inequality in a globalized world
Phone: 716-645-0787
Email: bwejnert@buffalo.edu
5/6/22
Marion Werner

Associate Professor of Geography

Expertise: global trade; agriculture, food, labor rights and trade; agri-business; development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Phone: 716-645-0475
Email: wernerm@buffalo.edu
5/24/21
Antoine Yoshinaka
Associate Professor of Political Science

Expertise: American politics, U.S. political parties, polarization, party switching, legislatures, political lobbying, redistricting

Phone: 716-645-8435
Email: antoiney@buffalo.edu
6/22/22
Yini Zhang

Assistant Professor of Communication

Expertise: social media, political communication, misinformation, online activism, impact of social media on journalism and democracy
Phone: 716-645-0954
Email: yzhang20@buffalo.edu