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MSU Denver has more than 200 knowledgeable faculty experts who can address a variety of local, national and international news topics and current events.
Search below by topic, faculty expert or keyword to identify sources who can provide important insight and perspective for your stories.
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1-10 of 10 results
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Andrea Borrego
Chair
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Expertise:
- Fatal police-citizen encounters
- Policing
- Tasers/CEDs
- Incarceration
- Prisons/jails
- Body worn cameras
- Intimate partner violence/domestic violence
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David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Professor
Political Science
Expertise:
- Native American issues
- Law
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Fiction
- Literature
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Devon Wright
Assistant Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Expertise:
- Black social movements
- Conservative right-wing social movements
- White supremacist ideology and racist rhetoric in conservative right-wing media organizations, the politics of Hip-Hop culture
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JaLisa Williams
Lecturer
Social Work
Expertise:
- Mindfulness based interventions for race based trauma
- Black generational healing
- Yoga
- Social justice
- Radical pedagogies
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Jessica Ritter
Professor
Social Work
Expertise:
- Child welfare
- Child abuse and neglect
- Children’s rights
- Political activism
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Katherine Miller
Affiliate Professor/Victim Services Coordinator
Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy
Expertise:
- Women’s rights
- Interpersonal violence (relationship/domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking)
- Human trafficking
- Violence against women
- Victim blaming
- Feminism
- White privilege and white supremacy
- Psychological trauma
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Katia Campbell
Chair
Communication Studies
Expertise:
- Freedom of speech (related to communication studies and democracy)
- Diversity studies
- Equity and inclusion in academia and K-12
- Rhetoric/persuasion
- Dialogue and civic engagement
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Michael Benitez
Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Expertise:
- Leadership and identity development, intersectionality
- Race and ethnicity
- Knowledge production
- Critical and inclusive pedagogy/practice
- Multicultural education
- Quality, diversity and inclusion in higher education
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Ramon Del Castillo
Retired Professor
Chicana/o Studies
Expertise:
- Latino public policy issues and concerns
- Diversity in American society
- Chicana/o studies
- Latino youth leadership development
- Poetry
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Sheldon Steinhauser
Associate Professor Emeritus
Sociology and Anthropology
Expertise:
- Aging issues
- Aging population
- Social issues of aging
- Transgenerational communications
- Life expectancy and societal impact
- Diversity
- Civil rights
- Aging workplace
- Elderly in the workplace
- Retirement
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