Expert Directory
APU’s faculty and staff members specialize in several areas and are available to work with the media. The expert directory lists more than 70 APU faculty and staff experts. The database provides the expert's area of expertise, educational background, position at APU, and contact information.
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Featured Experts
Daniel Palm, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science
Global Politics
With areas of expertise in international relations, comparative politics, and foreign policy, Daniel C. Palm, Ph.D, views politics, and the upcoming election, through a global perspective. Much of Palm’s research and writing cover political problems in developing nations, terrorism, American political thought, and civil and religious liberties. He is contributing editor of On Faith and Free Government and co-author of A Nation Under God? The ACLU and Religion in American Politics.
Jennifer Walsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science
Promoting Informed Political Dialog
As an associate professor of political science, Jennifer Walsh, Ph.D., hopes to see members of the college and scholarly community engage in informed political discussion leading up to the November general election. This fall, Walsh coordinated a series of campus events including lectures, group discussions, and debate viewings promoting dialog about the American political system. Her expertise lies in American government and U.S. political institutions, including Congress, the presidency, the federal judiciary, constitutional law, and state and local politics. Her book, Three Strikes Laws, examines the crime policy and historical development of the Three Strikes sentencing movement, prosecutorial decision-making, and the implementation of public policy at all levels of government.
James Willis, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor, Department of Communication Studies
The Media Effect
In his most recent book, The Media Effect: How the News Influences Politics and Government, James Willis, Ph.D., provides insight on the role news media plays on decision making in American government.
He explores the role of traditional and non-traditional news media as made in the highest levels of American government. Willis also examines how the news media has historically influenced American government since Revolutionary days, how governments have fared with the media in other countries, what media research has to say about media effects, what past presidents have felt about their relationship with the media, and how the media influences decision making and conducting war.
Willis has authored or co-authored 10 books on journalism and the news media and is a veteran newspaper reporter and editor with newspapers such as The Dallas Morning News.
To contact the featured experts, please call Allison Oster, public relations manager, at (626) 815-4518, or email aoster@apu.edu.
