Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
The Northwestern University Guide to Experts

Welcome to the online version of the Northwestern University Guide to Experts. The Guide is completely searchable. To find an expert, please fill out the search form.

If you do not find an expert in your area of interest, please see the Staff Information list.

49 Experts beginning with "L"

 
Craig L. Lamay
Assistant professor, journalism
Office: 847-491-8727
Email: clamay@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CHILDREN: Television programming
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELEVISION: Children's programming
 
Robert A. Lamb
Professor, biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology; microbiology-immunology
Office: 847-491-5433
Email: ralamb@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
VIRUSES
VIRUSES: Influenza
 
Joseph Lambert
Professor, chemistry
Office: 847-491-5437
Email: jlambert@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CHEMISTRY: Archaeological
CHEMISTRY: Organochemistry
 
Lewis Landsberg, MD
Professor, medicine
Office: 312-503-8186
Email: llandsbe@nmh.org


Areas of expertise:
CARDIOLOGY: Hypertension
 
Chuck Larson
Professor, communication sciences and disorders; otolaryngology
Office: 847-491-2424
Email: clarson@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
SPEECH PATHOLOGY: Neural control of voice
 
Robert Launay
Professor, anthropology
Office: 847-491-4841
Email: rgl201@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
AFRICA: West Africa and Islam
ANTHROPOLOGY: West Africa and Islam
ANTHROPOLOGY: of Religion
ISLAM
 
Gunnbjorg Lavoll, MD
Assistant professor, psychiatry and behavioral sciences; pediatrics
Office: 312-988-7877


Areas of expertise:
PSYCHOLOGY: Adolescent
 
Ariela Lazar
Assistant professor, philosophy
Office: 847-467-6370
Email: a-lazar1@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
PHILOSOPHY: of Psychoanalysis
PHILOSOPHY: of Psychology
 
Chung-Chieh Lee
Professor, electrical and computer engineering
Office: 847-491-7375
Email: cclee@ece.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Networks
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Technology
 
Eunmi Lee
Senior lecturer, African and Asian languages
Office: 847-467-1323
Email: eulee@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
KOREAN LANGUAGE
 
Susan A. Lee
Professor, theater; education and social policy
Office: 847-491-7666
Email: s-lee3@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
DANCE
 
Carol D. Lee
Associate Professor, Education and Social Policy
Office: 847-467-1807
Email: cdlee@northwestern.edud


Areas of expertise:
EDUCATION: Literacy, Urban
 
Donna R. Leff
Professor, journalism
Office: 312-503-0768
Email: d-leff@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ETHICS: Journalistic
JOURNALISM: Science
 
William Leonard
Professor, anthropology
Office: 847-491-4839
Email: w-leonard1@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ANTHROPOLOGY: Human biology
 
Kevin Leonard
University Archivist, Archives
Office: 847-491-3136
Email: kb1767@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
HISTORY: Northwestern
 
Paul Leonardi
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Office: 847-467-1667
Email: leonardi@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BUSINESS: Organizational change
BUSINESS; Global Product Development
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 
di Leonardo, Micaela
Professor, anthropology; gender studies
Office: 847-491-4821
Email: l-di@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
GENDER
WOMEN: Feminism
 
Abraham Lerman
Professor, geological sciences
Office: 847-491-3238
Email: abe@earth.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ENVIRONMENT: Global climate change
ENVIRONMENT: Lakes
GEOLOGY: Lakes
 
Robert E. Lerner
Professor, history
Office: 847-467-1966
Email: rlerner@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
HISTORY: Medieval
RELIGION: Medieval
 
Jon E. Levine
Professor, neurobiology and physiology
Office: 847-491-7180
Email: jlevine@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BIOLOGY: Reproductive
BRAIN: Hormone effects on
ENDOCRINOLOGY: Neuroendocrinology
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY: Estrogen
PHYSIOLOGY: Estrogen and testosterone
 
Robert Levy, MD
Professor, neurological surgery; physiology
Office: 312-695-0708
Email: rml199@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
AIDS: and Nervous system
PAIN: Chronic
SURGERY: Neurosurgery
 
Frederick D. Lewis
Professor, chemistry
Office: 847-491-3441
Email: lewis@chem.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CHEMISTRY: Organic
CHEMISTRY: Photochemistry
 
Elmer Lewis
Professor, mechanical engineering
Office: 847-491-3579
Email: e-lewis@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ENGINEERING: Nuclear system safety
PHYSICS: of Nuclear systems
 
Lawrence Lichty
Professor, radio/television/film
Office: 847-491-2244
Email: lichty@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CHILDREN: Television programming
HISTORY: Broadcast communications
TELEVISION: Cable, network, and radio programming
TELEVISION: Vietnam war, coverage of
 
Jeffrey Lidz
Assistant professor, linguistics
Office: 847-491-8050
Email: jlidz@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CHILDREN: Language development
LANGUAGE: in children
 
Hilarie Lieb
Lecturer, economics
Office: 847-491-8914
Email: hilarie@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ECONOMICS: Discrimination
ECONOMICS: and Gender
GENDER: Equity
 
Jennifer Light
Assistant professor, communication studies
Office: 847-467-7106
Email: light@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
COMMUNICATION: Social dimensions of technology
 
James Lindgren
Professor, law
Office: 312-503-8374
Email: j-lindgren@law.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
LAW: Estates and trusts
LAW: Professional responsibility
 
Robert A. Linsenmeier
Professor, biomedical engineering; neurobiology and physiology
Office: 847-491-3043
Email: r-linsenmeier@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
 
Daniel I. Linzer
Professor, biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology
Office: 847-491-3276
Email: dlinzer@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ENDOCRINOLOGY: Molecular
 
Lawrence Lipking
Professor, English; comparative literary studies
Office: 847-491-7407
Email: llipking@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
LITERATURE: 18th-century
LITERATURE: Comparative
LITERATURE: Romantic and modern
 
Scott D. Lipscomb
Associate professor, music academic studies and composition
Office: 847-467-1682
Email: lipscomb@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
FILM: Music and animation
MUSIC: Cognition
 
Michael J. Liptay, MD
Assistant professor, surgery
Office: 847-570-2655
Email: m-liptay@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
SURGERY: Thoracic
 
Gary Lissner, MD
Assistant professor, ophthalmology
Office: 312-695-8150


Areas of expertise:
OPHTHALMOLOGY: Ophthalmic plastics
 
Wing Kam Liu
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Office: 847-491-7094
Email: w-liu@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
 
Anthony LoSasso
Research associate professor, Institute for Policy Research; lecturer, preventive medicine
Office: 847-467-3167
Email: a-losasso@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
HEALTH CARE: Economics
 
Gershon Y. Locker, MD
Professor, medicine
Office: 847-570-2515
Email: gylocker@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CANCER: Colorectal
CANCER: Gastrointestinal
 
Alicia Loffler
Professor, health industry management
Office: 847-467-1865
Email: a-loffler@kellogg.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BIOTECHNOLOGY
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
 
Jerilyn Logemann
Professor, communication sciences and disorders; otolaryngology
Office: 847-491-2490
Email: j-logemann@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
SPEECH PATHOLOGY: Swallowing disorders
SPEECH PATHOLOGY: Voice disorders
 
Michael Loriaux
Associate professor, political science
Office: 847-491-2632
Email: m-loriaux@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
EUROPE: European Union
FRANCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE: Europe
 
Douglas W. Losordo, M.D.
Professor, Medicine
Office: 312-695-0072
Email: d-losordo@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CARDIOLOGY: Stem Cells
 
Steven Lubet
Professor, law
Office: 312-503-6605
Email: slubet@law.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ETHICS: Legal
 
Deborah J. Lucas
Professor, finance
Office: 847-491-8333
Email: d-lucas@kellogg.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BUSINESS: Corporate finance
BUSINESS: Money markets
ECONOMICS: Finance
 
Roy Lucke
Division manager, Center for Public Safety
Office: 847-491-3469
Email: rlucke@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION
TRAFFIC SAFETY
TRAFFIC SAFETY: Drunk driving
 
Richard M. Lueptow
Professor, mechanical engineering
Office: 847-491-4265
Email: r-lueptow@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING: Fluid mechanics
FUELS, ALTERNATIVE
 
John R. Lurain, MD
Professor, obstetrics and gynecology
Office: 312-926-7365
Email: j-lurain@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
CANCER: Cervical
CANCER: Ovarian
 
Kevin Lynch
Associate professor, mechanical engineering
Office: 847-467-5451
Email: kmlynch@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
ENGINEERING: Robotics
 
Thomas Lys
Professor, accounting and information systems
Office: 847-491-2673
Email: tlys@kellogg.northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
BUSINESS: Financial reporting
BUSINESS: Mergers and acquisitions
BUSINESS: Risk arbitrage
 
Franziska B. Lys
Associate professor, German
Office: 847-491-8298
Email: flys@northwestern.edu


Areas of expertise:
GERMAN LANGUAGE