A venue for junior americanist scholars to share their research.
Continental Breakfast
“Estimating Ideology for U.S. House of Representative Primary Candidates: Word Embeddings and Campaign Websites”
Author: Colin Case, UNC Chapel Hill, crcase@live.unc.edu
Discussant: Jacob Montgomery, Washington University in St. Louis, jacob.montgomery@wustl.edu
“Running Towards Rankings: Ranked Choice Voting’s Impact on Candidate Entry and Descriptive Representation”
Author: Jonathan Colner, University of California - Davis, jpcolner@ucdavis.edu
Discussant: Jack Santucci, Drexel University, jack.santucci@gmail.com
“Why the Mass Public Values Each Other’s Policy Preferences”
Author: Nicholas Dias, University of Pennsylvania, niccdias@sas.upenn.edu
Discussant: Jennifer Wolak, Michigan State University, wolakjen@msu.edu
Break
“Dilemmas of Accommodation: Diversity and Congregational Involvement in Politics”
Author: Jasmine English, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jenglish@mit.edu
Discussant: Kathy Cramer, University of Wisconsin, kathy.cramer@wisc.edu
“Barriers to Housing Production: A Case Study of Oregon”
Author: Mary Follo, University of Oregon, mfollo@uoregon.edu
Discussant: Stan Oklobzija, UC Riverside, stano@ucr.edu
“How vaccine coverage inequality and vaccine mandates change Americans’ attitudes toward vaccines on Twitter”
Author: Pei-Hsun Hsieh, Stony Brook University, pei-hsun.hsieh@stonybrook.edu
Discussant: Matt Motta, Boston University, mmotta@bu.edu
Lunch and Professional Development Session
“Why do companies act virtuously? A field experiment to understand the motivations behind corporate social responsibility”
Author: Max Kagan, UC Berkeley, max_kagan@berkeley.edu
Discussant: TBD
“Political Communication in the streaming oriented platform, Twitch”
Author: Sangyeon Kim, Pennsylvania State University, szk922@psu.edu
Discussant: Tiago Ventura, New York University, tav5082@nyu.edu
“Representation as Reparations? Understanding White Democrats’ Support for Black Political Candidates”
Author: Anna Mikkelborg, UC Berkeley, anna.mikkelborg@berkeley.edu
Discussant: Eric Juenke, Michigan State University, juenke@msu.edu
Break
“Developing the Pipeline: How Women’s Organizations Support Women Candidates”
Author: Sara Morell, University of Michigan, shmorell@umich.edu Discussant: Kris Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh, kanthak@pitt.edu
“How Presidents Persuade: Facts, Feelings, and the Language of Presidential Power”
Author: Benjamin S. Noble, Washington University in St. Louis, bsnoble@wustl.edu
Discussant: Jonathan Klingner, University of Mississippi, jklingle@olemiss.edu
Networking Dinner Off-site