With just two weeks before the American election, the election machine is in full stride. Carleton University experts are available to discuss the candidates and the election race overall.

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If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to reach out directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.

Aaron Ettinger
Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University

Email: Aaron.Ettinger@carleton.ca

Ettinger specializes in international relations and United States foreign policy. His current research focuses on continuity and change in U.S. foreign policy since 2001 and its implications for world order. His recently published work covers a range of issues including U.S. and Canadian foreign policy, the private military industry and international relations.

For more on Ettinger, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/aaron-ettinger-1

Fen Hampson
Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

Email: FenHampson@cunet.carleton.ca

Hampson is co-chair of the Expert Group on Canada-US relations.  His research interests include Canadian foreign policy, internet governance, international organization, international negotiation, conflict resolution and analysis. He is a frequent commentator and contributor in the national and international media.

For more on Hampson, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/fen-hampson

Melissa Haussman
Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University

Email: melissa.haussman@carleton.ca

Haussman, an American, teaches United States and comparative North American political science. She is a former legislative aide in the Massachusetts Legislature, elected town meeting member in Massachusetts and has worked on various U.S. election campaigns. She has published six books on comparative political institutions and policy in the U.S. and other countries and will be publishing a textbook on American politics with Stephen Brooks and Don Abelson.

Haussman regularly speaks to the media on topics related to American elections and politics.

For more information on Haussman visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/melissa-haussman

Philip Kaisary
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies and Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University

Email: philip.kaisary@carleton.ca

Kaisary recently published an article in Lacuna magazine titled, They’re eating the pets”: The deep history behind Trump’s racist, anti-Haitian lies. In the piece, he comments on Trump’s false claim, made in last month’s US presidential debate, and repeated in the days and weeks since, that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio have been eating the town’s pets.

Kaisary is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the world, and addresses the intersections of law, politics, and culture.

For more on Kaisary, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/philip-kaisary

Stephen Saideman
Paterson Chair in International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

Email: stephen.saideman@carleton.ca

Saideman is available to discuss the election’s possible impact on foreign affairs and defence policy, including NATO. His research interests focus on the causes and consequences of intervention in intra-state conflicts. His current research deals with the role of legislatures in democratic civil-military relations. He teaches courses on contemporary international security, civil-military relations, and United States foreign, and defence policy.

For more on Saideman, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/stephen-saideman

Brian Schmidt
Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University

Email: brianschmidt@cunet.carleton.ca

Schmidt’s research and teaching interests are in international relations theory, American foreign policy, and disciplinary history. His book The Political Discourse of Anarchy, which received the Choice 1998 Outstanding Academic Book Award, examines the history of International Relations from the mid-1800s to the outbreak of World War Two. He continues to pursue research on the history of the field and has published numerous articles on the historiography of International Relations. At Carleton, Schmidt teaches courses on international relations theory, the causes of war, the United Nations, and American foreign policy.

For more on Schmidt, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/brian-schmidt-1

Elliot Tepper
Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University

Email: e_tepper@carleton.ca

Tepper is a professor of comparative politics and international relations. He regularly provides media commentary at home and abroad on a wide range of topics, providing context and deep background to the news stories of the day. Tepper’s areas of expertise include American politics, diversity issues in Canada, geopolitics, immigration and multiculturalism.

For more on Tepper, visit https://experts.carleton.ca/elliot-tepper

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