Election experts from DePaul University available to discuss midterms

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CHICAGO — As voters head to the polls in less than a month to decide elected positions at the national, state and local levels, DePaul University faculty experts are available to provide insight and commentary. Their expertise includes political advertising, polling, the Latinx vote, immigration, voter behavior, campaign finance, and more. Experts include:

Driehaus College of Business | bnewman@depaul.edu

Newman is a professor in the Department of Marketing. His most recent book, “The Marketing Revolution in Politics: What Recent U.S. Presidential Elections Can Teach Us About Effective Marketing,” highlights the infrastructure changes in the U.S. political system and puts forward the model followed by Donald Trump to win the 2016 presidential election. He can comment on how polls, advertising strategy, micro-targeting and Big Data now drive politics and elections in the U.S.

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences | xperez2@depaul.edu

A faculty member in DePaul’s Department of Criminology, Perez can discuss the Latinx vote, the misconception of Latinos(as) as being a monolith, the criminalization of immigrants, undocumented immigrants and migrants, immigration as a political wedge issue, interactions between police and minority communities, prison education, and mass incarceration.

School of Continuing and Professional Studies | rsautter@depaul.edu​

Sautter is author of “Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Conventions 1860-1996” and two other books on presidential conventions and elections. He has co-written and co-produced scores of radio and television political ads for candidates running for office — from mayor to Congress — across the nation since the 1990s. Sautter also served two terms on the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Advisory Board. He can speak about both national and local races.

As the chair of DePaul’s Department of International Studies, Sharma can speak to refugees and asylum seekers as an important topic in the elections; the forcible transportation of asylum seekers to different states; the treatment of people at the southern border; Afghan refugees; and humanitarian parole.

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences | wsteger@depaul.edu​

Author of “A Citizen’s Guide to Presidential Nominations: The Competition for Leadership,” Steger can speak on House, Senate and Gubernatorial elections, political parties, populism, polls, election forecasting, media coverage of campaigns, voting behavior and campaign finance.

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