UBC experts on the U.S. presidential election

The U.S. will elect its next president on Tuesday. UBC experts are available to comment.

(She/Her/Hers)

President’s Excellence Chair in Global Migration, Dept. of Political Science, Dept. of Sociology

Email: i.bloemraad@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English, French

Expertise:

  • immigration
  • asylum
  • border control
  • citizenship policy/politics
  • voting among immigrant-origin Americans

*unavailable Oct. 29-Nov. 4, Nov. 13-17

(She/Her/Hers)

Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning

Email: holly.caggiano@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • U.S. climate policy
  • energy transitions politics

*unavailable Thursday morning

Professor, Dept. of Political Science

phone: 604-822-3129

mobile: 604-786-0992

Email: max.cameron@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • state of U.S. democracy
  • U.S. and Latin America

*unavailable Tuesday mornings

(She/Her/Hers)

Professor, Dept. of Political Science

Phone: 514-668-4576

Email: terri.givens@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • race
  • gender
  • politics
  • elections
  • radical right
  • United States
  • African-American issues

* Dr. Givens will be available only for remote interviews from the GMT+2 time zone. She will participate in an online post-election panel discussion to be presented Nov. 7 by alumni UBC and UBC Faculty of Arts.

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Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science

Email: stewart.prest@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • political institutions
  • democracy
  • Canadian foreign policy
  • international relations
Professor, Dept. of Political Science

phone: 604-822-2230

Email: quirk@politics.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • U.S. politics
  • Congress
  • presidency
  • U.S. elections
Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry

phone: 604-822-1958

Email: isochting@psych.ubc.ca

Interview languages: Danish, English

Expertise:

  • how to manage election stress and anxiety
  • common mental health problems
Dr. Chris Tenove
Research Associate and Instructor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Email: cjtenove@mail.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • effects of social media, online harassment and generative AI on elections

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Associate Professor, Dept. of History, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

phone: 617-905-2321

Email: heidi.tworek@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • effects of social media, online harassment and generative AI on elections