Topic: Coronavirus
The Notre Dame scholars below are available to comment on issues related to coronavirus. For coronavirus updates and information from the University click here.
- Science and health
- Economy
- Misinformation, fake news and censorship
- Communications strategies
- Supply chain risks and disruptions
- Cultural implications
- 2020 Olympics
- Clinician Burn Out
Science and health

Brian Baker
Immunology; Virology ; Vaccines; Biochemistry
574-631-9810
brian-baker@nd.edu

Catherine Bolten
Development anthropology; youth; structural violence; poverty; education; food security; Ebola; ethnoprimatology (human and non-human primate interactions)
574-631-5099
cbolten@nd.edu

Bernard Nahlen
Global health; Impact of disease; Disease spread
574-631-7773
bnahlen@nd.edu

Alex Perkins
Infectious disease dynamics; Epidemiology; Vector ecology; Evolutionary ecology; Spatial Dynamics; Theoretical ecology; Mathematical biology
574-631-7179
taperkins@nd.edu
Economy

Rüdiger Bachmann
Macroeconomics; Monetary and fiscal policy ; Labor markets ; Economics and international relationships (Europe, with particular focus on Germany)
(574) 631-0380
rbachman@nd.edu

Christiane Baumeister
Macroeconomics; Oil industry; Fracking
574-631-8450
cbaumeis@nd.edu

Jeffrey Bergstrand
International trade and regional economic integration; Foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises; Macroeconomics; U.s. economy
574-631-6761
Bergstrand.1@nd.edu

Daniel Graff
Contemporary labor issues; Gender, race, and labor; Labor history; Economic history; History of capitalism; Just wage; Race and ethnicity
574-631-5845
dgraff@nd.edu

Richard Sheehan
Economics of Sports; Monetary Policy; Applied Econometrics
574-631-5212
Richard.G.Sheehan.1@nd.edu

Eric Sims
Macroeconomics; Federal Reserve; monetary and fiscal policies; business cycles
574-631-6309
esims1@nd.edu
Misinformation, fake news and censorship

Michel Hockx
Censorship ; The Internet and Internet culture in China; Modern Chinese language and culture
574-631-4415
mhockx@nd.edu

Karrie Koesel
Religion and politics; Democracy and dictatorship; Political education; Contemporary Chinese and Russian politics
574-631-0829
kkoesel1@nd.edu

Walter Scheirer
Image forensics; Computer vision; Machine learning; Biometrics
574-631-2436
walter.scheirer@nd.edu
Communications strategies
Back to topSupply chain risks and disruptions

Joshua Specht
History of meat in the U.S.; History of food; History of American Business / capitalism; Environmental history; Settlement of American West
jspecht@nd.edu

Kaitlin Wowak
Product recalls; Supply chain risks and disruptions; Supply chain knowledge; Strategic supply chain management
574-631-6685
katie.wowak@nd.edu
Cultural implications

Catherine Bolten
Development anthropology; youth; structural violence; poverty; education; food security; Ebola; ethnoprimatology (human and non-human primate interactions)
574-631-5099
cbolten@nd.edu

Korey Garibaldi
Twentieth-century U.S. history; Multiculturalism, civic behavior and democracy; History of integration in the U.S. and western Europe; History of the book and American print culture; Corporate publishing and media businesses
574-631-1254
kgaribal@nd.edu

Michel Hockx
Censorship ; The Internet and Internet culture in China; Modern Chinese language and culture
574-631-4415
mhockx@nd.edu

Eileen Hunt Botting
History of Political Thought: Enlightenment; American; Feminist ; Liberal ; International Political Thought; ; Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern political thought; Political Theory; Comparative Political Theory
574-631-5051
ehunt@nd.edu