University of Vermont (UVM) experts are available to provide national election commentary to journalists before, during, and after the 2024 election on a range of hot topics, including:
- Talking to kids about the election
- Polls—and how well they perform
- Election laws and procedures
- Presidential power and accountability
- Violence and elections
- How polarization affects mental health
- How media is covering the election
- The role of religion
- The political parties
- Campaign finance
- General election issues
UVM students, faculty and staff are also:
- Leading the first national effort to coordinate student election journalism.
- Studying the effects of political polarization on youth mental health.
- Tracking voting in Vermont with an interactive online map.
- Hosting a UVM Center for Community News election watch/reporting event with student journalists.
- Helping eligible UVM students, faculty, and staff to register to vote.
- Reporting on the election in partnership with Vermont news outlets and serving as vote entry operators for the Associated Press.
UVM Election experts
Alex Garlick
UVM Political Science Dept.
Email: Alex.Garlick@uvm.edu
Twitter/X: @Garlicksauce
- National election issues
- Congressional elections and implications for Vermont
- Polls—and how well they perform
Christina Barsky
Community Development and Applied Economics
Email: Christina.Barsky@UVM.edu
- Election science: administration, law, implementation, process, poll workers
- Election violence and public perception
- Candidate and issue campaigns
Thomas Sullivan
UVM Political Science Dept.
Email: Thomas.Sullivan@uvm.edu
- US President: power, responsibility, and accountability
- Constitutional law and history
- Federal courts, criminal law, civic procedure
Steven Schlozman
UVM Larner College of Medicine
Email: Steven.Schlozman@uvm.edu
- How to talk to children about elections
- Political polarization and mental health
- Strategies for dealing with election anxiety
Christopher Brooks
UVM Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Email: christopher.brooks@uvm.edu
- Environment
- Election's impacts on environment policy and agencies
Jonathan “Doc” Bradley
UVM Political Science Dept.
Email: Jonathan.Bradley@uvm.edu
- Religion in U.S. politics
- American energy policy
Anthony “Jack” Gierzynski
UVM Political Science Dept.
Email: Contact via basil.waugh@uvm.edu
- General election issues
- Election procedures/rules
- Media, entertainment and politics
- Political parties
- Campaign finance
Alec Ewald
UVM Political Science Dept.
Email: Alec.Ewald@uvm.edu
- Constitutional law and American politics
- Criminal justice and voting rights
UVM Election Story Ideas
First national effort to coordinate student election journalism
UVM’s Center for Community News (CCN) is leading the first national effort to coordinate election coverage by student journalists across the U.S. Hundreds of students from 145 U.S. colleges in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, South, West, and Pacific Northwest are participating. CCN is collecting many of their election stories on its national election hub page. More about this story.
CCN student journalists are also tracking mail-in voting in Vermont. The interactive online map is updated daily in the final week before election day. More about this story.
On election day, CCN student journalists will provide live ongoing coverage from across Vermont, including voter testimonials from Chittenden County polling locations. This coverage is free and available to local news outlets at any time on the Community News Service site.
Election Day event: Media are invited to UVM CCN’s election watch event Nov. 5 any time between 3-6 pm ET at 120 Delahanty Hall on UVM’s campus. Student journalists will be watching early election coverage on TVs and filing election day stories with faculty and staff editors in partnership with Vermont community news outlets. More details on the election day event. (Contact Meg Little Reilly to attend.)
Contact: Meg Reily Little, UVM’s Center for Community News: Meg.Little-Reilly@uvm.edu
How political polarization affects our mental health
UVM researchers are leading a national study on how America’s political climate is impacting youth mental health.
Contact: Steven Schlozman, UVM Larner College of Medicine, Steven.Schlozman@uvm.edu
UVM Civic Engagement helps campus with voter education
UVM Student Life’s Civic Engagement team helps all eligible UVM students, faculty, and staff to register to vote, regardless of political beliefs or affiliation.
Contact: Aimee Alexander, Assistant Director, UVM Civic Engagement, aimee.alexander@uvm.edu.