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Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Communication Studies
  • Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies

• Fields of Study

  • American Government and Politics
  • Political Psychology
  • Race, Ethnicity and Politics
  • Methods

• Education

  • University of California - Los Angeles, Ph.D. (Political Science)
  • Brown University, A.B. (Political Science)

• Awards

  • As the Twig is Bent: Continuities in American Racial Politics (with David O. Sears, 6 of 8 chapters completed, presented at conferences)

• Grants

  • NSF Grant, "Collaborative Research: The Measurement and Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Science" (with Kosuke Imai, 2009-2011)
  • NIH Grant, "Genetics and Stigma: The Role of the Mass Media" (with Jo Phelan, 2006)

• Presentations

  • The End of Racial Priming? (with Matthew Vandenbroek, International Society of Political Psychology, 2011)
  • More Than a Feeling: Scapegoats Versus Happy Accountability (with Eric Groenendyk and Ted Brader, MPSA, 2011)
  • The Racial Divide on Immigration Opinion: Why African Americans Are Less Threatened by Immigrants (with Ted Brader, Timothy J. Ryan, and Ashley E. Jardina, APSA, 2010)

• Recent Courses

  • Racial Politics in the U.S.
  • Media Theory Seminar in the Social Science Traditions
  • Political Communication

• Selected Publications:

• Articles

  • (2012) Emotional Substrates of Racial Attitudes, American Journal of Political Science
  • (2012) The Impact of Economic and Cultural Cues on Support for Immigration in Canada and the US, Canadian Journal of Political Science
  • (2011) The Sword's Other Edge: Perceptions of Discrimination and Racial Policy Opinion after Obama, Public Opinion Quarterly