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