From economics to health care, faculty experts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can help reporters who are covering the presidential and state elections leading up to North Carolina’s May 6 primary.
Carolina faculty and administrators can share their expertise 24/7 with national TV networks, cable or local TV stations and radio stations for news interviews from UNC’s on-campus news studio. For more information, visit http://uncnews.unc.edu/broadcast-studio.html .
The UNC experts listed below are based in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences unless otherwise noted:
Ferrel Guillory directs the UNC Program on Public Life, which has published an analysis of trends in primary-election voting in North Carolina, available at http://southnow.org/southnow-publications/nc-datanet/DataNet%20April08.pdf . Guillory can help reporters analyze campaign strategies and characterize the electorate in the South for both the presidential and N.C. gubernatorial races. An expert on Southern politics, Guillory spent more than 20 years as a reporter, Washington, D.C. correspondent, editorial page editor and columnist for The News & Observer in Raleigh. He has had articles published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The New Republic and elsewhere. Guillory was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame in 2007. He also is a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an adjunct faculty member in public policy. He can be reached at (919) 962-5936, (919) 782-6798 or guillory@unc.edu. Kyle York, at (919) 966-3323 or skyork@email.unc.edu, can assist with Guillory requests.
Hodding Carter III, available for interviews through May 1, was the voice of the State Department in President Jimmy Carter’s (no relation) administration during the Iran hostage crisis. Hodding Carter worked on two winning national Democratic presidential campaigns: Carter’s, in 1976, and Lyndon Johnson’s, in 1964. He was a delegate to four Democratic national conventions, covered five others as a reporter and commentator and has taught public policy journalism at several universities. Carter has been a political commentator for ABC, CBS, CNN, CBC and BBC and a syndicated op-ed columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Now the University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at UNC, Carter can be reached at (919) 843-3236 or hoddingcarter@unc.edu.
Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., a specialist in health care politics and policy and in issues in American health care reform, can discuss the health care proposals of the three presidential candidates. A Webcast of his recent lecture on the topic is available at http://www.sph.unc.edu/media/webcasts.html?webcast=2008-04-14_foard . Oberlander’s scholarly articles include “Presidential Politics and the Resurgence of Health Care Reform,” published last November in the New England Journal of Medicine, available at http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/21/2101 . He wrote the book “The Political Life of Medicare.” An associate professor of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health and social medicine in the medicine school, he can be reached by contacting Clinton Colmenares at (919) 966-8758, CColmena@unch.unc.edu, or Stephanie Crayton, (919) 966-2860, scrayton@unch.unc.edu. For more information, visit http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/2depts/soclmed/FACULTY&STAFF/Oberlander_profile.html .
Richard H. Kohn, Ph.D., a professor of history and peace, war and defense, specializes in American military policy and strategy and homeland security. He can help reporters analyze the presidential candidates’ proposals on the war in Iraq. Kohn is working on a book, “The President at War: Presidential War Leadership from George Washington to George W. Bush.” He co-directed a research project on whether a gap exists between the military and American society. Kohn has taught at the National War College in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and was chief of Air Force history. He can be reached at (919) 962-9700, (919) 419-0323 or rhkohn@unc.edu. For more information, visit http://history.unc.edu/faculty/kohn.html.
Stanley W. Black, Ph.D., the Georges Lurcy Distinguished Professor of Economics, can discuss the economic proposals of the presidential candidates. He specializes in national and international economics. Black was a staff member for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Johnson administration and a visiting professor for the Federal Reserve Board from 1971 to 1972. He has worked in the Department of State and been a visiting scholar or professor at the Institute of International Economics in Stockholm, Yale University, the Brookings Institution and the International Monetary Fund. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/~swblack/ . Black can be reached at (919) 966-5926 or sblack@unc.edu.
William E. Leuchtenburg (LUCK-tin-berg), Ph.D., one of the nation’s top experts on the U.S. presidency and a professor emeritus of history, commented for national networks during George Bush’s inauguration in 1989 (for PBS), and Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985 (for CBS). Leuchtenburg, whose books include “In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Bill Clinton” and “The FDR Years,” was an expert commentator for C-SPAN during Clinton’s second inauguration in January 1997 and for CBS during Clinton’s first inauguration, with Dan Rather and the late Charles Kuralt. A past president of the American Historical Association, Leuchtenburg can be reached at (919) 967-1257. For help with Leuchtenburg requests, contact Dee Reid at (919) 843-6339 or deereid@unc.edu.
Thomas M. Carsey, Ph.D., a Thomas J. Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, studies and teaches about electoral behavior, political parties, campaign strategies and how the latter are likely to play in the minds of voters. He is a keen observer of how contextual factors such as campaign information, the racial make-up of a place or institutions shape political attitudes and behavior. He has co-written scholarly articles including ‘U.S. Senate Campaigns, Negative Advertising and Voter Mobilization in the 1998 Midterm Election,” published in Electoral Studies; “Party Polarization and Conflict Extension in the American Electorate,” in the American Journal of Political Science; and “Presidential Voting Across the American States,” in American Politics Quarterly. For more information, visit http://www.unc.edu/~carsey/index.htm. Carsey can be reached at (919) 962-1207 or carsey@unc.edu.
James Stimson, Ph.D., who works only with print media, is an expert on public opinion research and partisanship in American politics. Currently he is researching the role of economics in political life. The Raymond Dawson Professor of Political Science, Stimson also studies the relationship of public opinion to representation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has won awards from the American Political Science Association and the Southern Political Science Association, including, from the former, a prize for his book “Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles and Swings.” Stimson can be reached at (919) 962-0428 or jstimson@email.unc.edu. For help with Stimson requests, contact Dee Reid at (919) 843-6339 or deereid@unc.edu.
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