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Marie-Louise Mares
Associate professor, communication arts
Expert on children and media, pro-social/educational TV, media use among older adults
Tino Balio
Professor emeritus, communication arts; founding executive director, University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute
Expert on history of American film industry
Ed Churchwell
Professor emeritus, astronomy
Expert on star formation, infrared and radio astronomy, issues of extraterrestrial life
Michael Schatzberg
Professor, political science
Expert on African politics, African international relations and comparative political culture
Jonathan Gray
Professor, media and cultural studies, communication arts
Expert on contemporary television, audiences, comedy and convergence
Adam L. Kern
Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture, Department of Asian Languages & Culture
Specializing in Japanese literature, visual culture, and popular culture, particularly manga (Japanese-styled comics) and haiku.
Jeff Smith
Professor, communication arts
Expert on postwar American cinema, music in film and the Hollywood blacklist
Anja Wanner
Professor, English
Expert on the English language (grammar, standards, genres, academic writing, spelling, language change, language use on the Internet, "Grammar Badgers" website)
Mary Layoun
Emerita Professor, Comparative Literature
Comparative study of modern cultures, literature and politics of Greece, Cyprus, the Middle East, Japan, U.S.
Derek Johnson
Assistant professor, communication arts
Expert on media industries, creative collaboration, and the production of popular culture
Jenell Johnson
Assistant professor, communication arts; faculty affiliate, Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies
Expert on the rhetoric of science, medicine, disability, and the "neuroscientific turn."
Jeremy Morris
Assistant professor, media and cultural studies, communication arts
Expert on the current state of the music industry, digital music technologies, music and the Internet
Emily Callaci
Assistant professor, history
Historian of East Africa in the twentieth century, with a research focus on rural-urban migration.
Matthew Hora
Associate Professor, Adult & Higher Education; Director, Center for Research College-Workforce Transitions
Expert on college-workforce transitions, with focus on internships, "soft" or "21st century skills," and postsecondary teaching from a cultural, historical and learning sciences perspective.
Sarah Marty
Lecturer, Bolz Center for Arts Administration & Program Director, Madison Early Music Festival, Division of the Arts
Arts entrepreneur, arts management educator, performing arts professional, nonprofit arts and cultural leadership, production manager for campus and community events
Vlad Dima
Assistant Professor, French & Italian Department
Expert on West African, French, and Hollywood cinemas.
Thomas (Tom) O'Guinn
Professor, marketing; Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Chair in Marketing Research
Expert on branding, consumer behavior, advertising, social class and consumption, and institutional responses by marketers to social disruption such as wars, recessions, oil spills,
Laura Buyan Dent
Associate Professor of Neurology
Treats movement disorders, works with artists affected by neurological conditions that affect performance
Patrick Rumble
Professor, Department of French and Italian
Expert on modern Italian cinema, culture and society in European context.
Ramzi Fawaz
Assistant Professor of English
I study the relationship between popular culture and radical social movements.
Alex Wiedenhoeft
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany
Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany
Lisa Rand
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
Expert on the past and present of space technology and space junk, history of gender and technology, planetary analogs
William Cox
Research Scientist, Department of Psychology
Expert on stereotyping, prejudice, and implicit bias — how the brain's learning processes perpetuate them, and evidence-based interventions to overcome them
DeVon Wilson
Assistant Dean, College of Letters & Science; Director, Center for Academic Excellence
DeVon worked in the areas of enrollment management, high-impact practices, Federal TRiO Programs, and developing diverse student pipelines.
Craig Werner
Professor emeritus of Afro-American Studies
Expert on African American and American popular music from the 1950s to the present.
Sami Schalk
Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies
Expert on disability, blackness, and gender in contemporary American literature, media and culture
Cody Wenthur
Assistant Professor, Divisions of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Expert on addiction, abused drugs, opioids, naloxone, psychoactive substances, psilocybin, psychedelics, stress and reward learning, vaccine design, drug development, glutamate
James McMaster
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies
Expert on LGBTQ and Asian American politics and cultural production.
Claus Andersen
Paul and Renate Madsen Professor of Scandinavian Studies
Hygge, Scandinavian Culture and Politics, literature, autofiction, Hans Christian Andersen, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Mary Huelsbeck
Assistant Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Expert on the worlds of film, television and theater archives.
Linda Greene
Evjue Bascom Professor, School of Law
Linda Greene. an experienced media commentator, has expertise in civil rights, constitutional law, police deadly force, equality in sport, and the confirmation of federal judges.
Marissa Moorman
Professor, African Cultural Studies
Expert on politics and culture in Southern Africa, Angola especially, and on African media studies.