SPOTLITE Team
SPOTLITE Team
Principal Investigators
Cline Center Director
Cline Center Research Scientist
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology
Cline Center Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Staff Leadership Team
Cline Center Senior Research Manager
Cline Center Senior Research Coordinator
Cline Center Senior Software Engineer
Debiasing Assessment and Accountability Committee
Professor of Communication (Illinois)
Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (Univ. of Kentucky)
Associate Professor of Psychology (Illinois)
Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Latina/Latino Studies (Illinois)
Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Univ. of Michigan)
Associate Professor of Political Science (Illinois)
Student Research Team (AY2022-23 and AY2023-24)
*And other student researchers for whom we have not yet received permission to identify.
- Andrea Miller (Principal Investigators Team)
- Michael Schlosser (Principal Investigators Team)
- Dan Shalmon (Research Staff Leadership Team)
- Caitlyn Flaherty (Student Research Team)
- Lauren Gerdes (Student Research Team)
- Salem Isaf (Student Research Team)
- Jing Li (Student Research Team)
- Isa Medina (Student Research Team)
*And other researchers for whom we have not yet received permission to identify.
SPOTLITE is a project of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, which is funded by a combination of campus resources and private gifts. Additional support for sustaining the SPOTLITE project has come from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program, from the Joyce Foundation, from Microsoft, from the Center for Social & Behavioral Science, from the Nerad Student Research Fund, from the David F. Linowes Faculty Fellows Fund, from Paul O'Connor and Karin Dommermuth O'Connor, from the David C. Colby Endowment Fund, and from numerous private donors supporting the Cline Center’s mission.
The SPOTLITE team thanks Fatal Encounters and the Gun Violence Archive for generously sharing their data in support of the SPOTLITE project.
