Graduate Student Workshops
Graduate student affiliates and their coauthors share projects for discussion.
Workshop days take place on one Friday each semester.
See agendas for previous workshops below.
For details about upcoming workshop days, apply to become an affiliate.
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Spring Workshop, March 14th, 2025
“Examining Perceptions of Conversational Agents’ Political Ideology” by Alia ElKattan (Politics)
“Evaluating Interventions to Improve Voter Registration in the 2024 US Election” by Katherine Mason (Psychology)
“Social Movements and Ethnic Identity Formation: Measuring the Effects of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests” by Conor McCutcheon (Sociology)
“Outgroup Opposition: The Role of Counter-Introjection in Shaping Political Beliefs” by Kayley Okst (Psychology)
“Model Minority/Forever Foreigner: How Stereotypes Influence the Racial Classification of Ambigiously Asian Faces" by Jocelyn Drummond (Sociology)
“Books in US Prisons" by Dilia Zwart and Eric Reeves (Sociology)
“Becoming a Bureaucrat: Socialization after Affirmative Action in India” by Meghna Yadav
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Spring Workshop, May 9th, 2024
“Deep, Broad, and Asymmetric Politicization: Trends of Ideological Politicization in U.S. Media Discourse, 1980-2020” by Terrence Chen (Sociology)
“Citizen Reactions to Religious Nationalist Rhetoric in India” by Rajeshwari Majumdar (Politics)
“Understanding White Identity Management in a Changing America” by Eric Shuman (Psychology) (co-authored with Eran Halperin and Eric Knowles)
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Fall Workshop, December 1st, 2023
“Black Lives Do Matter: Shifts in Racial Attitudes Explain Increased Demand for Redistribution" by Kristin Vilbig (Sociology)
“Women’s Movements, Identity, and Appeals: How to Motivate Participation?” by Julieta Valenzuela Correa (Politics)
“Are Conservative Minority Group Advocates at a Persuasion Advantage? Perceptions and Stereotypes of Racially Diverse Conservative Activists” by Michelle Lee (Psychology)
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Spring Workshop, May 12th, 2023
“A National Reckoning: How Dominant Groups Learn from their Troubled Histories,” by Mark Williamson (Politics)
“The Impact of Variations in Ethnoracial Pairings and Gender Congruence on Support for Interracial Unions in the U.S ” (Research Design proposal) by Safa Salim (Sociology)
“Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp,” by Rajeshwari Majumdar (Politics)
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Fall Workshop, December 2nd, 2022
“Who Can(not) be Chinese and Why? The Construction of Symbolic Boundaries Against Immigrants in Online Chinese Discourse” by Xinyi Zhang (Sociology)
“Explicit Ethnic Rhetoric in African Politics” by Jimmy Graham (Politics)
“Multiple Panethnicity: Igbos in Tokyo” (Research Design proposal) by Nnamdi Jogwe (Sociology)
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Spring Workshop, May 6th, 2022
“The Future of Latinos’ Policy Attitudes Amid the Rising Diversity in the United States” (Research Design proposal) by Melissa Vega (Psychology) (coauthored with Eric Knowles and Jaime Napier)
“Mobilizing to Influence Public Historical Narratives: Evidence from the Early 20th Century U.S. South” by Roxanne Rahnama (Politics)
“The Political Legacy of Violent Inter-Group Contact” by Giacomo Lemoli (Politics) (co-authored with Gloria Gennaro)
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Fall Workshop, December 10th, 2021
“Perceptions of White Allies’ (Ulterior) Motives in Racially Diverse Political Coalitions” by Michelle Lee (Psychology) (coauthored with Maureen Craig)
“Can Arts Change Political Perceptions?” (Pre-analysis plan) by Sorana Acris (Steinhardt) (co-authored with Elisabeth King)
“Comparing Mass and Elite Trends in Polarization, Sorting, and Dimensional Alignment” by Stuart Perrett (Sociology)
“Top-down identity politics in a globalized world: Elite cues, identity and their effects on protectionism” by Felipe Balcazar (Politics)