LSU Racial Equality Experts Available to Speak to Media


    UPDATED 07/1/2020
    BATON ROUGE – LSU has a number of experts available to discuss topics related to race, Black history, experience and identity, police brutality, media and more. Please check here as this list will be updated.

    To schedule interviews, contact 225-978-8277/eballa1@lsu.edu or 510-816-8161/asatake@lsu.edu.

     

    Jinx Broussard, LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Professor and Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor
    Areas of Expertise: The Black press, representations of racial and ethnic minorities, media history, alternative media, crisis communication, public relations strategies and tactics and the civil rights movement.
    jinxy@lsu.edu

    Cassandra Chaney, LSU Child & Family Studies professor 
    Areas of Expertise: She wrote Police Use of Excessive Force against African Americans: Historical Antecedents and Community Perceptions. Her research examines the narratives of single, dating, cohabitating and married Blacks, as well as how religion and spirituality support these families, both historically and today.
    cchaney@lsu.edu

    Stephen Finley, LSU Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies and African & African American Studies associate professor
    Areas of Expertise: African American religion, race and religion, critical whiteness studies, whiteness and religion.
    scfinley@lsu.edu

    Gaines Foster, LSU Foundation Professor of History
    Areas of Expertise: History of the South, race relations and the continuing battle over the memory of the Civil War
    hyfost@lsu.edu

    Tina M. Harris, LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Douglas L. Manship Sr.-Dori Maynard Race, Media and Cultural Literacy Endowed Chair 
    Areas of Expertise: An internationally renowned interracial communication scholar with particular interests in race, media representations and racial social justice.
    tharris4@lsu.edu


    Herman O. Kelly, Jr., LSU African & African American Studies and School of Education adjunct instructor and community pastor
    Areas of Expertise: Racism, community engagement and integration. Editor of the anthology, Black Rhetorical Traditions in the Civil Rights Movement: Voices of Struggle and Strength.
    225-936-6278
    hkelly1@lsu.edu

    Lori Martin, LSU Department of Sociology and LSU Department of African and African American Studies professor
    Areas of Expertise: Persistent racism and economic disparities and how historic inequality has led to Black people being at greater risk of negative impacts during crises such as the pandemic. She is also an expert in race and ethnicity relations, demography, racial wealth inequality, asset poverty, race and sports and African American history, experience and identity.
    lorim@lsu.edu

    Bryan McCann, LSU Department of Communication Studies assistant professor in rhetoric and cultural studies
    Areas of Expertise: Race, racism and criminal justice; crime and public culture; social movements; whiteness and white privilege; primary and general election debates; and how campaigns structure arguments.
    504-330-8166
    bryanm@lsu.edu

    Roland Mitchell, LSU College of Human Sciences & Education dean and the E.B. "Ted" Robert Endowed Professor in the School of Education
    Areas of Expertise: History of U.S. higher education; the experiences of underrepresented populations in post-secondary education; school-to-prison-pipeline issues; and university to community outreach/relational issues.
    rwmitch@lsu.edu

    Meghan Sanders, LSU Manship School of Mass Communication associate professor and Media Effects Lab director
    Areas of Expertise: Media and psychology, focusing on the psychological effects of mass media as they pertain to psychological processes and effects of racial stereotyping
    msand@lsu.edu

     



    Contact Alison Satake
    LSU Media Relations
    510-816-8161
    asatake@lsu.edu

     

    Ernie Ballard
    LSU Media Relations
    225-978-8277
    eballa1@lsu.edu