Experts

Politics and Elections

Russell Crandall

  • Professor of Latin American Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • U.S. war on drugs
  • Andean politics
  • Hemispheric politics, economics, and security
  • U.S.-Latin American relations, contemporary and historical
  • American Foreign Policy
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Melody Crowder-Meyer

  • Associate Professor of Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • American Politics
  • Women In Politics
  • Local Politics
  • Candidate Emergence
  • Race and Ethnicity in Politics
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Ken Menkhaus

  • Professor of Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
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Andrew O'Geen

  • Associate Professor of Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • U.S. Politics, Supreme Court
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Shelley Rigger

  • Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty | Brown Professor of Asian Politics

shrigger@davidson.edu

704-894-2505

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Susan Roberts

  • Professor of Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • U.S. and N.C. politics
  • Reproductive rights
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World Regions

Katherine Bersch

  • Frontis W. Johnston Associate Professor of Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative Politics and Policy
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Executive policymaking
  • Public Administration
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Britta Crandall

  • Associate Professor of the Practice in Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • International Political Economy
  • Latin America
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Russell Crandall

  • Professor of Latin American Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • U.S. war on drugs
  • Andean politics
  • Hemispheric politics, economics, and security
  • U.S.-Latin American relations, contemporary and historical
  • American Foreign Policy
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Scott Denham

  • Dana Professor of German Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Germany
  • Holocaust
  • Literary Translation
  • Twentieth-Century German Literature and Culture
  • Literary and Cultural Theory
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Amanda Ewington

  • Chair & Professor of Russian Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Russian Literature
  • Russia & the West
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Women Writers
  • Voltaire
  • Translation Studies
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Ken Menkhaus

  • Professor of Political Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Africa
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Shelley Rigger

  • Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty | Brown Professor of Asian Politics

shrigger@davidson.edu

704-894-2505

Chambers 1283/Preyer 111

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Music, Arts & Culture

Ann Fox

  • Professor of English

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Disability Studies in Drama and Art
  • Modern and Contemporary Drama
  • Visual and Cultural Studies
  • Graphic Medicine
  • American Studies

anfox@davidson.edu

704-894-2012

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Neil Lerner

  • Professor of Music

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • History of film music, television music, and video game music
  • Music in science fiction and horror films
  • Music and disability studies

nelerner@davidson.edu

704-894-2850

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Sports

Tim Chartier

  • Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Data Analytics
  • Sports Analytics, Ranking
  • Numerical Linear Algebra
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Geology

Brad Johnson

  • Professor of Environmental Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Geomorphology and Soil Development
  • Human Impacts on Landscapes
  • Landslides
  • Suburban Streams
  • Landscape evolution
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History

Michael Guasco

  • Professor of History

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Colonial America
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Rose Stremlau

  • Associate Professor of History

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Native Americans in the South
  • History and Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Life Sciences

Karen Bernd

  • Professor of Biology

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Cell Biology
  • Effect of Environmental Toxicants on Lung Cells
  • Waterpipe Tobacco Smoke
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Mark Smith

  • Wayne M. & Carolyn A. Watson Professor of Psychology

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Addiction
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Family

Gayle Kaufman

  • Chair & Nancy and Erwin Maddrey Professor of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Gender Equality
  • LGBTQ+ Relationships
  • Work and Family

gakaufman@davidson.edu

704-894-2485

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Laura Sockol

  • Associate Professor of Psychology

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Anxiety & depression related to pregnancy
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Business & Economics

Shyam Gouri Suresh

  • Program Director of South Asian Studies | James W. Cannon Professor of Economics

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • International Trade
  • International Migration
  • Macroeconomics
  • Simulation Modeling
  • Economics and Ethics
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John Kello

  • Professor of Psychology Emeritus

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Meetings
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Fred Smith

  • Professor of Economics

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • Urban Economics
  • American Economic History
  • Sports Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Economics Education
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Education

Chris Marsicano

  • Assistant Professor of Educational Studies

Primary Areas of Expertise

  • College affordability
  • Educational Policy
  • Public Policy Analysis and Management
  • Higher Education Finance and Policy
  • Lobbying and Interest Groups
  • Politics of Education
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