Elections | Expert Topics

Henry Brady

Professor of political science and public policy, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy

Areas of expertise: Elections, politics, government.

Jack Citrin

Professor of political science

Areas of expertise: U.S. politics, public opinion and elections. The Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research conducts research on important long-term issues facing California and the nation.

Steven Fish

Political science professor

Politics in Russia, Central Asia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

Bruce Fuller

Professor of education and public policy in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: education and public policy, diverse forms of schooling such as charter schools, early learning, socialization of Latino children.

Lisa García Bedolla

UC Berkeley's vice provost for graduate studies, dean of the Graduate Division, professor of education

Areas of expertise: Elections, race and politics in the U.S., Latinx politics and community issues/organizing
Spanish-speaking

Areas of expertise: Social psychology; criminal justice, including police "implicit bias" and police reform; political psychology; stereotyping; prejudice and discrimination. Author of "Suspect Race: Causes & Consequences of Racial Profiling" (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Patrick Gonzalez

Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Climate change, forest ecology, wildfire, national parks, ecosystem carbon, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

George Lakoff

Emeritus professor of linguistics and cognitive science, director of the Center for the Neural Mind and Society

lakoff@cogsci.berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: language and conceptual systems, research into metaphorical thought and how thought is embodied.

Gabriel Lenz

Professor, political scientist

glenz@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: voter behavior, elections, democratic accountability

Michael Mark Cohen

Associate Professor of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies

Expert in cultural and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the present. Teaching Areas: US Cultural History from the Civil War to the Present; Work and Labor History; World War II; Race, class and American popular culture; Cultural Studies and Marxist Theory; Drugs and Alcohol in US History

Jane McAlevey

senior policy fellow, Center for Labor Research and Education

An author and scholar of the labor movement, with lengthy experience as an organizer. She is the author of "Raising Expectations and Raising Hell" (Verso Books, 2012); "No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" (Oxford University Press, 2016): and "A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy" (Ecco Press, 2020).