race Experts

Robert Winsor, Ph.D.

Professor of Marketing, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Tim Slack

ProfessorLouisiana State University

Dr. Slack's is an expert on social, economic, and demographic change with a special focus on rural people and places.

Blake McGee, PhD, MPH, RN

Associate ProfessorAugusta University, College of Nursing

Blake McGee studies the impacts of federal and state policy choices on economically or socially marginalized people.

Pamela Gilbert

ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Pamela Gilbert’s current work focuses on the history of the body, medicine and literature in the 19th century.

Kevin Smiley

Assistant ProfessorLouisiana State University

Dr. Smiley is an environmental and urban sociologist who specializes in disaster research.

Sara I. Villalta

Assistant Professor of SociologyLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Roger B. Fillingim

Professor | DirectorUniversity of Florida

Roger B. Fillingim maintains an active research program investigating individual differences in pain.

Aaron Kupchik

Professor, Sociology and Criminal JusticeUniversity of Delaware

Professor Kupchik studies school policing, school punishment, and racial inequality.

Priscilla Leiva

Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Latina/o StudiesLoyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Michael Mendez

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public PolicyUC Irvine

Michael Mendez has experience in the public and private sectors, where he consulted and actively engaged in the policymaking process.