LSU Experts Available to Speak about Russian Invasion of Ukraine

February 24, 2022

BATON ROUGE – LSU faculty experts are available for media interviews about topics surrounding the Ukraine-Russia Crisis, such as:

What is happening in Ukraine and how will it affect the U.S. and Louisiana, specifically?
What will this mean for U.S. gas prices and cybersecurity?
What does this mean militarily?
Why now? What has been leading up to the aggression from Russia both in the region and globally?

LSU researchers available to speak on the Ukraine-Russia Crisis include:

Joseph Clare, Professor of Political Science
Contact: 225-578-2551 / jclare@lsu.edu
Areas of expertise: International conflict, the linkage between domestic politics and foreign policy, strategic bargaining and US foreign policy.

David Dismukes, Executive Director and Professor of LSU Center for Energy Studies
Contact: 225-578-4343 / dismukes@lsu.edu
Areas of expertise: Economic, statistical and public policy issues in energy and regulated industries.

Alexander Mikaberidze, Professor of History and Social Science
Contact: 318-795-2415 / alexander.mikaberidze@lsus.edu
Areas of expertise: Early modern history of Russia/Soviet Union and France as well as diplomatic history of Europe and the Middle East.

Golden Richard, Professor of Computer Science
Contact: 225-578-2624/ goldenrichard1@lsu.edu
Areas of expertise: Digital forensics, memory forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, operating systems, vulnerability analysis and exploit development.

Daniel Tirone, Professor of Political Science
Contact: 225-578-2531 / dtiron@lsu.edu
Areas of expertise: Examination of how various types of foreign assistance influences economic growth, and civil conflicts.

Meredith Veldman, Professor of History
Contact: 225-578-4413 / hyveld@lsu.edu
Areas of expertise: The fall of communism, end of the Cold War and making of a new Europe.

Check back as this list will continue to be updated with more LSU experts.

To schedule interviews contact:

Ernie Ballard
225-578-5685
eballa1@lsu.edu

Alison Satake
510-816-8161
astake@lsu.edu

Abbi Rocha Laymoun
817-938-6102
abbirocha@lsu.edu