2024 Election

CU Boulder faculty experts are available to discuss the presidential race, issues both candidates are running on, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, U.S. Supreme Court cases, immigration, misinformation and more leading up to the General Election on Nov. 5.

Email cunews@colorado.edu to request an interview.

Please note: Several faculty experts can speak about multiple topics on this list. If you have a question or inquiry, please email us. Previously recorded interviews may be available to download/use for broadcast and have been listed and linked accordingly.

Election law

Doug Spencer is an expert in election and constitutional law. He can speak about voting processes and several of the legal cases involving former president Donald Trump. Professor Spencer is also an expert on statewide redistricting efforts and manages the website

Political violence and vigilantism

Regina Bateson is an assistant professor in the political science department. She studies and can speak about the following topics: Electability, gender and politics, vigilantism, immigration, asylum policy and Central America.

Immigrationand Indigenous communities

Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram is a professor of constitutional law and immigration law at CU Boulder. He can speak about immigration policy, border enforcement, state and local immigration law and DACA. He also focuses on the constitutional rights of noncitizens and federalism concerns in immigration law.

Christina Stanton is a clinical professor and leads the American Indian Law Clinic at CU Boulder. She can speak about election rights and election discrimination in Indigenous communities—both in Colorado and around the country.

Misinformation and technology

Ethan Poskanzer, assistant professor at the Leeds School of Business, finds that voters view facts as flexible when it comes to political misinformation. His research gauged voters’ reactions to false statements by politicians including former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and showed that many people use moral grounds to justify false statements and aren’t bothered by politicians who misrepresent facts—if the statements align with their personal beliefs.

Sandra Ristovska is an assistant professor of media studies. Her work focuses on how media influence and shape issues around human rights, justice and the law. She can speak about artificial intelligence and deepfakes, such as AI-generated robocalls.

Nathan Schneider is an assistant professor of media studies and director of the Media Economies Design Lab. He researches democratic ownership and governance on the internet. The author of Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (2024), he can speak to the role the internet, its design and its culture have played in the rise of authoritarianism worldwide.

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Job seekers and politics

As political discourse intensifies, new research from Jason Thatcher, professor of organizational leadership at the Leeds School of Business, reveals that posting about hot-button political topics can significantly jeopardize job prospects. “Your political orientation is increasingly viewed as a personality trait by potential employers,” Thatcher warns, emphasizing the need for job seekers to carefully manage their social media presence.

Race and Gender

Jennifer Hois the daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica,whose parents themselves were immigrants from Hong Kong. She is thedirector of the Center for Humanities & the ArtsandProfessor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she specializes in Asian American literary and cultural studies and Critical Race Theory. She can discuss race, racism, multiracial identities, intersectional oppression, and social justice.

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Angie Chuang,an associate professor ofjournalismat the College of Media, Communication and Information can discuss race and gender in politics and how the media covers race and ethnicity.

Biden—Harris news

Celeste Montoya, associate professor of women and gender studies, can discuss how a candidate’s racial, ethnic and gender identity can influence voter perceptions, and the unique challenges that women of color face on the campaign trail.

Trump assassination attempt

Elizabeth Skewes is an associate professor of journalism and media studies, whose research focuses on media sociology, news practices, and the media’s role in electoral politics. She can discuss news coverage surrounding the assassination attempt and subsequent media response.

Ross Taylor, an assistant professor of journalism at the College of Media, Communication and Information and an award-winning photojournalist, can discuss what he views as “the perfect news photo” taken of President Donald Trump immediately following the assassination attempt.