New panel series explores the 2024 election—and what's at stake.

 

What’s at stake in the 2024 Presidential Election, both at home and abroad?

This October, we’re bringing together leading political experts and scholars for a three-part panel series exploring key topics shaping this pivotal election, including voting behavior, domestic policy, and the global implications of U.S. foreign policy.

This program is the result of a partnership with The Academy of Political Science, and is is also supported by the Urban and Social Policy Program and Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is limited.

Voting in the 2024 Presidential Election

10/02, 2:00–3:30 PM ET

  • Robert S. Erikson is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, specializing in American political behavior, elections, quantitative methodology, and statistics.

  • Donald P. Green is the Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His research interests span a wide array of topics: voting behavior, partisanship, media effects, campaign finance, hate crime, and research methods.

  • Christina M. Greer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University (Lincoln Center campus). Her research and teaching focus on American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, campaigns and elections, and public opinion.

The 2024 Presidential Election and Domestic Policy: What’s at Stake?

10/09, 2:00–3:30 PM ET

  • Ester R. Fuchs is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and the Director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She serves as Director of WhosOnTheBallot.org, an online voter engagement initiative for New York City. She served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2001 to 2005.

  • Alexis Grenell is the co-founder of Pythia, where she leads innovative issue campaigns for workers rights’, gender equality, climate policy, and small “d” democracy. Alexis is also a columnist for The Nation where she frequently writes about gender, politics and power among other issues. Her work has also appeared in the New York Daily News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsday, the New York Post, El Diario, and City & State. In 2015, she earned her Masters in Public Administration from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

  • Basil Smikle Jr. is a Professor of Practice and Director of the M.S. program in nonprofit management in the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. As an MSNBC Political Analyst, he regularly shares his insights on national media outlets. With 20 years in higher education and 30 years devoted to public service, his insights span a broad spectrum of contemporary issues including, civic engagement, nonprofit advocacy and communications, electoral politics and education policy.  He lectures at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Teachers College at Columbia University. 

  • Moderated by Robert Y. Shapiro, who is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the President of The Academy of Political Science and Editor of its journal, Political Science Quarterly.  He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods.

The World at Large: Foreign Policy in the 2024 Election
10/16, 2:00–3:30 PM ET

 
 

  • Gideon Rose is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, and an affiliate of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the Mary and David Boies distinguished fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the former editor of Foreign Affairs.

  • Evan D. McCormick is Director of Research at Incite Institute at Columbia University. McCormick was an Associate Research Scholar on the Obama Presidency Oral History, for which he focused on the Obama administration’s foreign policies and the Obama presidency in a global context.

Incite Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute at Columbia University. We produce knowledge for public action. We do so by joining with people and organizations within and outside the university to rethink our understanding of what knowledge is, how it’s created, and how it can be used.

The Academy of Political Science, founded in 1880, promotes nonpartisan, scholarly analysis of political, social, and economic issues by sponsoring conferences and producing publications. Published continually since 1886, the Academy’s journal, Political Science Quarterly, is edited for both specialists and informed readers with a keen interest in government, politics, and international affairs

The Institute of Global Politics convenes leading scholars and practitioners to foster civil discourse and create evidence-based policy strategies for real-world impact. We are also committed to training the next generation of leaders, providing opportunities for Columbia students to build the skills needed to address complex policy challenges. Our work focuses on five key areas of impact: geopolitical stability, democratic resilience, climate and sustainable development, inclusive prosperity and macroeconomic performance, and technology and innovation

The Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs provides students with the content knowledge, critical thinking and analytic skills needed for a successful career in urban and/or social policy, while offering students the flexibility to specialize in policy focus areas that fit their own unique academic and professional interests.

 
Michael Falco