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
Tom Smith
Tom W. Smith is an internationally recognized expert in survey research specializing in the study of social change and survey methodology. Since 1980 he has been a co-principal investigator of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences and director of its General Social Survey (GSS). (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
David Galenson
David Galenson is an economic historian. He is author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity, Painting Outside The Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art (2001) and Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America (1986). His most recent work examines the economics of creativity. (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)
Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt is one of the nation's leading micro-economists and has done pioneering and influential work on natural experiments in economics. He is also the co-author of the popular economics work Freakonomics, and he writes a popular blog on nytimes.com which is based on the book. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)
Wu Hung
Wu Hung specializes in early Chinese art, from the earliest years to the Cultural Revolution. His special research interests include relationships between visual forms (architecture, bronze vessels, pictorial carvings and murals, etc.) and ritual, social memory and political discourses. (Bio and Citations | Arrange an Interview)