The University of Chicago Experts Guide
The University of Chicago Experts Guide allows local and national journalists to identify and connect with expert faculty, helping them create more compelling and authoritative stories. To find the ideal expert source for your story, use the search tools on the right-hand side of this page. For all other questions, or to arrange an interview with these or other faculty members, contact the News Office directly at 773-702-8360.
Featured Experts
Robert Pippin
Robert Pippin works on the modern German philosophical tradition (Kant to the present), contemporary continental philosophy in general, moral theory, social and political philosophy, theories of modernity, and various topics in ancient philosophy. In 2001 he received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
Funmi Olopade
Dr. Olopade's research interests are diverse and include: treatment of breast cancer, especially in young or pregnant women; familial cancers; molecular genetics of cancer; cancer risk assessment and chemoprevention; breast cancer and minority populations and disparities in health outcomes. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
Nicholas Epley
Nicholas Epley specializes in social cognition — how people make inferences about other people's thoughts, intentions and capabilities. His experimental research focuses on exactly how people make such inferences, and how accurately they do so. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson, one of the nation's leading experts on race and politics, was the founding director of the University's Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. He is the author of Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies and Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
Rustem Ismagilov
Rustem Ismagilov specializes in understanding and controlling complex chemical and biological systems at critical times and locations using microfluidics, the flow of fluids through channels thinner than a human hair. Ismagilov's work involves components of chemistry, physics, biology and engineering. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
