Experts Guide for the Media
Expert
Area of Expertise
Michael O. Emerson
Professor and head of sociology
- Biblical studies
- Black history
- Civil rights
- Education reform
- Race
- Race and ethnic relations
- Racial inequality
- Racial politics
- Racial violence
- Religion morality and politics
- Social inequality
- Social justice
- Urban history
- City planning
- Community development
- Community economic development
- Data collection
- Demand forecasting
- Demographics
- Economics
- Environmental justice and equity
- Geography
- Housing
- Low-income populations
- Neighborhood change
- Population change
- Public administration
- Regional planning
- Urban design
- Urban planning
- Urban policy
Barbara Ransby
Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and History; LAS Distinguished Professor; Director, Social Justice Initiative at UIC
Stevan Weine
Professor of psychiatry, director of global medicine and director of the Center for Global Health