Claremont McKenna College faculty members are available for expert comment across a wide range of issues related to the conventions and campaign. For additional assistance, contact the Office of Public Affairs & Communications at (909) 621-8099, after hours (909) 232-2009.
THE CAMPAIGN AS POLITICAL WARFARE; CAMPAIGNS & PUBLIC POLICY
Jack Pitney Professor of Government (Ph.D., Yale University)
Areas of expertise: American politics, Bush Administration, California politics, the presidency, United States Congress; author, The Art of Political Warfare.
Contact: (909) 323-0239; jpitney@claremontmckenna.edu
Mark Blitz Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Former associate director, U.S. Information Agency;. Areas of expertise: U.S. foreign relations, international education, public policy.
Contact: (909) 607-3232; mark.blitz@claremontmckenna.edu
Ken Miller Assistant Professor of Government (J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D., UC Berkeley)
Areas of expertise: law and politics; trend toward direct democracy/ballot initiatives; author, The Populist Legacy: Initiatives and the Undermining of Representative Government.
Contact: (909) 607-2811; kmiller@claremontmckenna.edu
Fred Lynch Associate Professor of Government (Ph.D., UC Riverside). Areas of expertise: health care; affirmative action and workplace diversity policies; immigration; impact of baby boomers on political process. Author: The Diversity Machine. Contact: (909) 607-3799; flynch@claremontmckenna.edu
HOW THE WORLD SEES US: FOREIGN POLICY, SECURITY AND U.S. ELECTIONS
Edward Haley: W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of International Strategic Studies (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University); Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; currently writing Strategies of Dominance: U.S. Strategies Since the End of the Cold War. Areas of expertise: U.S. policy toward Iraq, the Gulf, and Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
Contact: (909) 621-3983 or 909/607-3803; edward.haley@claremontmckenna.edu
Paul Kapur Assistant Professor of Government (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Areas of expertise: terrorism; nuclear proliferation & international nuclear policy, South Asia security, military intervention.
Contact: (909) 607-3382; paul.kapur@claremontmckenna.edu
IS IT STILL "THE ECONOMY, STUPID"?
Gregory Hess Russell S. Bock Professor of Public Economics and Taxation (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
Member, Shadow Open Market Committee; textbook author. Areas of expertise: public finance, economics and politics, international finance, Federal Reserve.
Contact: (909) 607-3686; gregory.hess@claremontmckenna.edu
WHAT CANDIDATES SAY vs. WHAT THEY MEAN: NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Ronald Riggio Kravis Professor of Leadership & Organizational Psych. (Ph.D., University of California, Riverside); Director, Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College; textbook author.
Areas of expertise: Charismatic leadership, non-verbal communication.
Contact: (909) 607-2992; ronald.riggio@claremontmckenna.edu
UNDERSTANDING TODAY BY LOOKING BACK: 20th CENTURY U.S.POLITICAL HISTORY
Diana Selig Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
Area of expertise: 20th century American history; women and politics; historical comparisons on emergence of ballot initiatives and history of social welfare legislation.
Contact: (909) 607-3396; diana.selig@claremontmckenna.edu